Because windiness is hard to predict, the electricity made here is worth less.

Of course, the trademark windiness, which the country experienced during the 1988 and 1992 Democratic conventions, made an occasional reappearance.

The windiness of the rhetoric here bespeaks the substancelessness of the argument.

Which effect is more prominent depends on the cyclist and the windiness and steepness of the course.

Kyustendil valley is characterized by low windiness, spring being the most windy season and autumn the most quiet.

The safety factor is essentially a measure of the "windiness" of the magnetic fields in a reactor.

But the characters, although acted with flashy intensity, remain mouthpieces of a Shavian windiness.

Lasting only 14 minutes or so, President Bush's Inaugural Address set no records for windiness.

Snap, crackle, pop and almost no windiness; the results were the thing, without much intercession by correspondents, interpreting them for the audience.

This tram route is notable for its windiness and the traverse through Royal Park for some distance.

He knew already the empty windiness of its threats, but he was careful of the mainsheet blocks, and walked around the traveller instead of over it.

Here, a thermocline develops but where the limiting dimensions lie is influenced by the sunniness and windiness of the site and the murkiness of the water.

THESE achievements counteract, with considerable success, the tendency toward overwriting and windiness that periodically afflicts "Alnilam."

Angry travelers get "pretty passionate," in the opinion of Denise Harvill, director of consumer relations at United, but this passion should not evidence itself in windiness or hyperbole.

They came out on a small, knoll-like prominence of land that looked down on a slash through the woods where the Central Maine Power lines twinkled in the day's cool windiness.

A house made of soft material may weather more force than one built of sturdier stuff, at least if you're battling an earthquake rather than the windiness of the Big, Bad Wolf.

It is informative but slightly exasperating, thanks to overall windiness and many minor irrelevancies (like the news of Mr. O'Donnell's gaining and losing weight during various stages of the trial).

Windiness threatens; it could prevail (sometimes it does) but for the array of windmill vanes she sets up - tiny human quirks, stubbornnesses and reversals - that put the wind to inventive fictional use.

Though Semaradrid's scowl deepened every time he looked at Ailil and Anaiyella-he did not like them remaining close to Rand, especially his countrywoman-so perhaps his sourness had more root than Weiramon's windiness.

And while his erudition can't be faulted, he's also prone to windiness, repetition and such lofty hectoring that there were several occasions when this reader found his mind turning wistfully to less didactic, even darker things.

The boredom I am talking about was not the impatience of a child who wants to play instead of working (even though, naturally, I liked to play) nor the windiness of a mind which listens for five minutes, goes woolgathering, and then listens again.

Whereas his last novel, "The Old Gringo," worked a series of dazzling improvisations on a straightforward story (the life and death of Ambrose Bierce), the nearly infinite possibilities afforded by Christopher's stream-of-consciousness narrative lead, in this case, not to inventiveness but to windiness and pretension.