The sonnet is itself a descriptive reenactment of emotional turmoil, beginning in ecstasy and ending in misery.

He was too cool, too controlled: that unnatural stillness was masking a lot of emotional turmoil.

A constitution which gets overwrought by emotional turmoil may find parenthood a tougher road.

This constant feature of human life makes for emotional turmoil rather than tranquillity, for the lover no longer has the solitude to devote to contemplation.

The clock was ticking on the emotional turmoil timebomb.