WordNet
adv. in the direction opposite to the direction the wind is blowing; "they flew upwind" [syn: upwind, into the wind] [ant: downwind]
Wikipedia
Against the Wind is the eleventh studio album by American rock singer Bob Seger and his third with The Silver Bullet Band. It was released in 1980 (see 1980 in music). It is Seger's only number-one album to date, spending six weeks at the top of the Billboard Top LPs chart, knocking Pink Floyd's massive-selling The Wall from the top spot. The album also earned two Grammy Awards.
Against the Wind may refer to:
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Against the Wind (album), a 1980 album by Bob Seger
- "Against the Wind" (Bob Seger song)
- "Against the Wind" (Máire Brennan song), 1991
- Against the Wind (film), a 1948 Ealing Studios World War II film
- Controvento, an Italian film from 2000 which is known as Against the Wind in English
- Against the Wind (miniseries), a 1978 Australian television mini-series
- "Against the Wind", an episode of 2011 animated Italian-German TV series Mia and Me
Against the Wind is a 1978 Australian television mini-series. It is a historical drama portraying both the British rule of Ireland, and the development of New South Wales and Australia.
Jon English won the Logie Award in 1979 for "Best New Talent" for his role in the miniseries as "Jonathan Garrett".
It was the first major Australian TV production to be broadcast in the United States.
"Against the Wind" is a song by Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band from the 1980 album Against the Wind. "Against the Wind" is the highest ranking single from the album, peaking at #5. Glenn Frey of the Eagles sang background vocals on this song.
According to Timothy White, a writer for Rolling Stone, "'Against the Wind' is about trying to move ahead, keeping your sanity and integrity at the same time."
In 1981, "Against the Wind" also won the Grammy award for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal.
"Against the Wind" is Máire Brennan's first solo single, taken from her 1992 album Máire. Two covers were made available, one with a sand pattern and the title of the single, the other with a photograph by Tim Jarvis, of Máire and three dancers, superimposed on the sand pattern. A promotional video directed by the Douglas Brothers was made to accompany the single.
The song also appears on Moya Brennan's 2005 live album Óró - A Live Session and on 2008's Heart Strings.
Against the Wind is a black-and-white British film directed by Charles Crichton and produced by Michael Balcon, released through Ealing Studios in 1948. Against the Wind is a World War II sabotage/resistance drama set in occupied Belgium, starring Robert Beatty, Jack Warner and Simone Signoret (in her first English-language film role).
"Against the Wind" is a song by Welsh singer Bonnie Tyler from her 1991 eighth studio album Bitterblue. It was written by Dieter Bohlen, who produced the song with Luis Rodríguez. The song was released by Hansa Records in 1991 as the second single, after the title track of the album. The song is a soft pop ballad with the lyrics depicting Tyler asking a lover not to break her heart.
"Against the Wind" was a commercial success in Europe, entering the Top 40 in Germany and Austria.
Usage examples of "against the wind".
He was stone, water, a dying field, a bird struggling against the wind, a king wounded and despairing on the beach below Wind Plain, vesta, wraiths, and a thousand fragile mysteries, shy witches, speaking pigs, and solitary towers that he had to find room for within his mind.
I saw then those magnificent birds, the disposition of whose long feathers obliges them to fly against the wind.
Evans yielded to the boy's suggestion, and walked in at the door which the maid held with difficulty against the wind.
Gregorin and Marcolin rode knee-to-knee, trying to hold their cloaks against the wind and speaking in low tones about the men ahead, about their fears the men might fight.
More exciting to a Mai seaman than the hydrofoil's silhouette was the fact that it moved at impossible speed and against the wind, not to mention without sails.
He was leaning against the wind-smoothed stones and staring morosely at the distant mountains whose names he had never bothered to discover.
It seemed to take forever to beat her way against the wind down the streets she usually traveled in a half hour or less.
I had to throw my weight upon the door to close it against the wind.