bouleversement

• “Perhaps it is because some of the bouleversement is directed at precisely what I represented in office: liberal economic policies, market reforms in welfare and public services, and engagement and intervention abroad.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Tony Blair Takes on the World

• “Chaos, disorder, bouleversement, * confusion, scuffle (and even bordel) * are all synonyms to the French word "chantier.”

  French Word-A-Day:

• “It conveyed exquisitely the notion of the bouleversement de tous les sens: that state of neurasthenic excitement in which images whirled chaotically before the inward eye, impressing on the seer an overwhelming sense of their vividness and spiritual truth (Castle 159).”

  Smoke and Mirrors: Internalizing the Magic Lantern show in _Vilette_

• “Chaos, disorder, bouleversement,* confusion, scuffle and even bordel* are all synonyms to the French word "chantier.”

  French Word-A-Day:

• “For the second time in his life Amory had had a complete bouleversement and was hurrying into line with his generation.”

  This Side of Paradise

• “To the world (perhaps I should say, to the opera world) at large, things have been going along relatively smoothly at Bayreuth since the centennial year 1976, when Patrice Chéreau and Pierre Boulez created a sensation by their bouleversement of Der Ring des Niebelungen, and when the former director of the festival, Winifred Wagner, daughter-in-law of Richard, did likewise by celebrating her Nazi past on camera for Hans Jürgen Syberberg.”

  Bayreuth Blues

• “Inspired by this veritable bouleversement, H. Feigl impudently defined philoso - phy as “the disease of which it should be the cure.””

  Dictionary of the History of Ideas

• “Our author is so perplexed by this inconsistency that he first doubts the fact, and next tries to explain it by alleging that "it may be owing to a _bouleversement_ of the primary.”

  An Expository Outline of the "Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation" With a Notice of the Author's "Explanations:" A Sequel to the Vestiges

• “But that the moons of Uranus are contrariwise to those of the other planets, Sir JOHN HERSCHEL has indubitably established; so that the author at any rate upon this point has sustained a bouleversement.”

  An Expository Outline of the "Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation" With a Notice of the Author's "Explanations:" A Sequel to the Vestiges

• “No one in Italy has ever said or thought that in the event of a bouleversement in the Adriatic and the Balkans there should be denied to”

  New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 3, June, 1915 April-September, 1915

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