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  • I had this wild thought that he was the only one in all this chaos who was just like me,   (source)
  • With the countless reporters yelling questions and the other kids looking on from their little huddled groups, it was such a chaotic and stressful scene.   (source)
    chaotic = confused and disordered
  • Chaotic confusion and blackness, after which they find themselves, back in the bedroom, clinging to each other desperately.   (source)
    chaotic = extremely disordered (confusion)
  • The sketch was chaotic.†   (source)
  • There was the chaos of goodbye.†   (source)
  • People were desperately worried that the Taliban would take advantage of the chaos and return to the valley.†   (source)
  • It had caused chaos with people bidding on parts and actually trying to hack off pieces themselves.†   (source)
  • Dad had become interested in chaos theory and was reading Los Alamos Science and the Journal of Statistical Physics.†   (source)
  • And in this chaos, Risa has a sudden realization.†   (source)
  • In the chaos, planes collided, fired on each other, and worse.†   (source)
  • Peeves always loved chaos.†   (source)
  • The water by this time was a chaos of whitecaps that threatened to swamp and capsize his tiny craft.†   (source)
  • The way the bees poured out, rushing up all of a sudden in spirals of chaos and noise, caused me to jump.†   (source)
  • Everyone descended on the table in a chaotic flurry, knocking over glasses and sending forks onto the floor and picking up plates (which did not match, Phoebe pointed out to me) and saying, "That's my plate.†   (source)
  • They'll be thrown into chaos.†   (source)
  • Then there was chaos and introductions.†   (source)
  • This is a Chaotic Era!†   (source)
  • Chaos, terror, but I have another theory.†   (source)
  • Daedalus was waiting amid the chaos of the pier.†   (source)
  • Utter chaos ensued.†   (source)
  • Inside, it's chaos.†   (source)
  • Things must have been chaotic at the time," Lilian replied sadly.†   (source)
  • Everyone was frantically looking for someone; people were crying, praying, hugging each other, or just standing there stupidly, staring numbly as the whole chaotic scene unwound around them.†   (source)
  • Chaos ruled. Thomas ignored all of it. He ran into the hallway, then...†   (source)
  • Chaotic Neutral, sugar.†   (source)
  • Immediately, there was chaos.†   (source)
  • If I set a million meerkats fleeing in terror, the chaos would be indescribable.†   (source)
  • When they were unbalanced, there was chaos.†   (source)
  • The camp was a chaos of smoke and running figures.†   (source)
  • His life descended into a nightmare of drug dependency and chaos, complete with the growing risk of death by overdose.†   (source)
  • Furniture had indeed fallen; the place was a chaos of wrecked clocks and chairs, and in the midst of it the bulk of Tom Hustings lay, fallen on the smaller figure of Abanazer Bolger.†   (source)
  • The Dauntless on that screen are firing at one another, shoving one another, screaming—chaos.†   (source)
  • Sometimes I felt like King Canute, making vain pronouncements in the face of a tide of chaos and creeping devastation.†   (source)
  • Luke peeked around the stairway door, surveying the chaos of dirty pans and crumb-covered plates left in the kitchen.†   (source)
  • But if chaos is a necessary step in the organization of one's universe, then I was well on my way.†   (source)
  • 57 the population becomes chaotic like in the first graph.†   (source)
  • Chaos reigned, to hear the federal judge tell it.†   (source)
  • Imagine the world in chaos.†   (source)
  • So chaos is all just random and unpredictable?†   (source)
  • Sometimes when a Christian Pole wanted to describe a chaotic event, he would say, "It was like a Jewish congregation."†   (source)
  • I loved the house the way you would any new house, because it is populated by your future, the family of children who will fill it with noise and chaos and satisfying busy pleasures.†   (source)
  • The cue ball shot all around the table, creating general chaos.†   (source)
  • They said the attack had been too sudden, too chaotic; that everyone had fled in different directions in total confusion.†   (source)
  • I can still hear the noise and chaos from the onlookers.†   (source)
  • Chaos disturbed her; mayhem was mayhem, even if people were having a good time; bad weather was bad weather, even if no one seemed to mind.†   (source)
  • In our family lore Lahore was magic and Lahore was chaos.†   (source)
  • It was a maddening, chaotic time for Maniac.†   (source)
  • There was instant and total chaos in the back row, the one nearest to the football field, because the portables themselves were starting to break apart and move.†   (source)
  • Life is chaos, gentlemen.†   (source)
  • Grab Nugget in the organized chaos of the safe room, hide out until the all-clear sounds, and then on to the buses.†   (source)
  • During the time I was with him, Phineas created an atmosphere in which I continued now to live, a way of sizing up the world with erratic and entirely personal reservations, letting its rocklike facts sift through and be accepted only a little at a time, only as much as he could assimilate without a sense of chaos and loss.†   (source)
  • I was in His hands. chaos and concern†   (source)
  • Mayhem and destruction were too chaotic for her tastes, and she did not have it in her to be cruel.†   (source)
  • Chaos always smells bad.†   (source)
  • The metal gong beat continuously now and the flute, shrill and powerful, floated on the chaos.†   (source)
  • When Alyss opened her eyes, the room was still in chaos, white pawns and rooks and the occasional knight falling at the hands of the enemy.†   (source)
  • Staying in sight of one another, they trudged through the chaos.†   (source)
  • Because I think to myself, even today, how can the world in all its chaos come up with so many coincidences, so many similarities and exact opposites?†   (source)
  • Before I open the door to the usual chaos, I pat the flag fluttering from the porch.†   (source)
  • The three boys, already numb to the chaos that surrounded them, knew that staying out of trouble was a lot harder than just talking about it.†   (source)
  • You'd think with all these kids it would be chaotic, but Miss Larsen rarely raises her voice.†   (source)
  • After dinner, when the house was at its most chaotic and Miss Peregrine at her most distracted, Emma pretended to head for the sitting room and I for the study.†   (source)
  • Cowell had been raised in poverty and chaos.†   (source)
  • Outside, snow swirled through the castle gates, and the yard was all noise and chaos, but inside the thick stone walls it was still warm and quiet.†   (source)
  • Inside, we're struck by chaos.†   (source)
  • They were sleeping through the chaos.†   (source)
  • They couldn't run or Iko would be trampled in the chaos.†   (source)
  • All else is dreary chaos!†   (source)
  • The last time I was in this place, it was clear that the people who maintained the room weren't prepared for the chaos of all the Selected girls down here.†   (source)
  • According to Robert Stevenson, one of the scientists involved in the meeting, their goal was to keep the field from "degenerating into complete chaos."†   (source)
  • It's utterly impossible for me to build my life on a foundation of chaos, suffering and death.†   (source)
  • Due to all the chaos parading through my head and stomach, I fail to muster a reply.†   (source)
  • The school was now overrun with chaos.†   (source)
  • Chaotic room-service trays; too many cigarettes; lukewarm vodka from duty free.†   (source)
  • Chaos all the time, fighting, and war.†   (source)
  • Hecarried the lamp deeper into the chaos.†   (source)
  • HARRY: No longer chaotic.†   (source)
  • As usual there was chaos in the main thoroughfare.†   (source)
  • CHAOS THEORY†   (source)
  • Please, God, no. But below the tumble of his chaotic thoughts, below the triphammer beat of his heart, he could hear the soft and futile sound of the doorknob being turned to and fro as something locked in tried helplessly to get out, something that wanted to meet him, something that would like to be introduced to his family as the storm shrieked around them and white daylight became black night.†   (source)
  • The chaos in my head cleared for an instant as the lightbulb went on.†   (source)
  • Whenever I was not promoting chaos with Paul and Dave, I spent hundreds of hours sitting in a corner of Michael's famed "Hall of Knowledge," reading books about movies, race cars and airplanes.†   (source)
  • Chaos seems to rule Alagaesia.†   (source)
  • By all accounts, they had grown tired of the insurgents and the chaos they had brought, and wanted them gone.†   (source)
  • Despite the orchestrated chaos of our home, we always ate meals at a certain time, always did homework at a certain time, and always went to bed at a certain time.†   (source)
  • It took less than a month for our household to fall into chaos.†   (source)
  • A chaos erupts.†   (source)
  • He rested his cheek against the rain-spattered canopy and looked down at the chaos.†   (source)
  • One year he was an assistant with the Oakland Raiders, the next he was the head coach of something called the San Jose Apaches in a chaotic semi-pro league soon to implode.†   (source)
  • By this time there was chaos on the mountain.†   (source)
  • With the darkness conies chaos.†   (source)
  • If someone did not take command of the situation soon, the house would be in chaos.†   (source)
  • For the police there were warnings of a different sort—letters from parents, visits from detectives hired by parents—but these were lost in the chaos.†   (source)
  • Her hometown, and the rest of California, the rest of America, seemed like some chaotic mess in the developing world.†   (source)
  • Order blends into chaos, love into hate, ugliness into beauty, law into anarchy, civility into savagery.†   (source)
  • Kendo is to real samurai sword fighting what fencing is to real swashbuckling: an attempt to take a highly disorganized, chaotic, violent, and brutal conflict and turn it into a cute game.†   (source)
  • It often teaches basic job skills such as getting to work on time — to people who can barely read, whose lives have been chaotic or shut off from the mainstream.†   (source)
  • I'd never played with more than a handful of musicians before, so the first few days in orchestra were chaotic.†   (source)
  • Chaos ensued.†   (source)
  • We entered a period of chaos and noise.†   (source)
  • Like a single bird across a storm-cloud sky, a tiny peace winged its way through the chaos inside his body.†   (source)
  • Emerging through chaos unscathed.†   (source)
  • The bookshop was in chaos.†   (source)
  • Despite the chaos, in a strange way those were happy days.†   (source)
  • Others, evidently, showed less concern for Germany or her inhabitants, but were of the opinion that the economic chaos of that country, if not halted, might spread with alarming rapidity to the world at large.†   (source)
  • We got video of the whole chaotic scene, and Jai says it was a "magical moment" that will be one of her favorite memories of our family together.†   (source)
  • The broadcasting schedule was in chaos.†   (source)
  • It was chaos in color.†   (source)
  • In the mornings we'd swim the half mile to the little island in the hay, make love on secret hidden beaches; in the afternoons we'd sit at a bar drinking strong, bitter gin and tonics, watching swarms of beach footballers playing chaotic twenty-five-a-side games on the low-tide sands.†   (source)
  • As I sort the numbers on the screen, making order out of chaos and detecting patterns, my heartbeat evens out.†   (source)
  • It was Shandi's fire, and a small pot hung simmering, boiling potatoes, strangely familiar among the chaos.†   (source)
  • It's chaos and collapse everywhere I look, with dead rats splattered flat on asphalt and the air spiked with drafts of decaying food, urine, vomit and misery.†   (source)
  • Needless disasters, all of them, because the general impression was that the parrot had taken advantage of the chaos to escape through neighboring patios.†   (source)
  • And even as the guards rushed forward in sudden chaos, no one had been able to miss whom they were dragging away.†   (source)
  • No hint of this must ever reach another Great House, else the Landsraad might unite against the Imperial House and there'd be chaos.†   (source)
  • Along with that, chaos and uncertainty reign among the residents, loyalties often divide, and personnel changes occur.†   (source)
  • Its purpose is not to inspire emotionally, but to bring order out of chaos and make the unknown known.†   (source)
  • Complicating the sleep-deprived chaos that was our lives, our new baby had us terribly worried.†   (source)
  • On Scatter Springs Drive the trees had closed the road in so that the sky was little more than an indistinct, drab ribbon overhead, but down here the dramatic expanse of it was visible, chaotic and fierce.†   (source)
  • Evil monsters like these are often referred to as the "forces of chaos."†   (source)
  • Outside the house much was random and chaotic, but inside, perhaps, a degree of order could be built.†   (source)
  • The Ichiriki was in chaos when I arrived.†   (source)
  • The shelling happened in a flash, but it seemed the chaos went on for hours.†   (source)
  • That one I called Chaos.†   (source)
  • For one thing, Peru hadn't used the same drugs during its period of chaotic tb control.†   (source)
  • Their childhood was chaotic, with a mother who was forever leaving them and a father who was virtually an alcoholic.†   (source)
  • But at the time, it was pure chaos.†   (source)
  • Prince Humperdinck made his angry way to the balcony above the Great Hall and stared down at the chaos.†   (source)
  • This deprivation may have involved prolonged or recurrent absence of one or both parents, a chaotic family life in which the parents were unknown, or an outright rejection of the child by one or both parents with the child being raised by others… Evidence of disturbances in affect organization was seen.†   (source)
  • Chaos was a constellation of students, running out of the school and trampling the injured.†   (source)
  • Zohreh or Majid guided the car through incredible traffic jams, compounded by pedestrians willing to gamble their shabby lives and children who darted chaotically across crowded streets.†   (source)
  • Chaos.†   (source)
  • "In the midst of the resulting chaos, turmoil, and disorder," Yutar proclaimed, "it was planned by the accused to set up a Provisional Revolutionary Government to take over the administration and control of the country."†   (source)
  • 'After a pleasant chat with the princesses, all that remains is a leisurely ride back through those chaotic crags whose frightening fiends have sworn to tear any intruder limb from limb and devour him down to his belt buckle.†   (source)
  • Chaos--candy butchers vaulting over counters, workmen staggering out from under tent flaps, roustabouts racing headlong across the lot.†   (source)
  • So much chaos in those days.†   (source)
  • Instead, when he'd met my gaze for a jolting moment, I'd seen life bursting through, chaotic and alluring beneath the shadow of the mask.†   (source)
  • He didn't know, couldn't know, how he or his people would perform in a chaotic situation involving intense fear of an unpleasant death.†   (source)
  • They and their families had fled violence and chaos and found themselves in a society with a completely different set of values and expectations.†   (source)
  • Like her body, the rooms were spilling over, wild, chaotic, out of control.†   (source)
  • Now that Stevie Rae mentioned it, I hadn't really thought much about my future career since the Tracker had thrown my life into complete chaos, but now that I was actually thinking about it I still really wanted to be a veterinarian.†   (source)
  • It's chaos out here right now, Ruby.†   (source)
  • Sometimes I think we are all like that myopic coiner at his press, taking the blind slugs one by one from the tray, all of us bent so jealously at our work, determined that not even chaos be outside of our own making.†   (source)
  • There were thousands out there just like him, we were told, a generation of killers about to hurl the country into deepest chaos.†   (source)
  • An orchestra of chaos, deafening to the ears, jarring the senses.†   (source)
  • The noise of the crowd was nothing compared with this chaos of sound.†   (source)
  • It meant longer chow lines, longer laundry lines, more noise, more intrigue, and more chaos.†   (source)
  • That would mean Sartre and Camus and all those characters were right—all is chaos, life has no meaning.†   (source)
  • Like everything in her life, her cash jar was chaotic.†   (source)
  • And while it provides a sanctuary from the chaos of Congo, the generator still goes off at 10 p. m.--and don't count on a hot shower.†   (source)
  • Chaos and starvation spiked sharply.†   (source)
  • On the bus ride back from the trip on Monday, the driver had to drop me off about five miles away from the school and I had to have Jorge pick me up because the media scene at school was just chaos.†   (source)
  • Good meaning lots of money regardless of the chaos and pain it might cause.†   (source)
  • "It was chaotic," says Tom.†   (source)
  • It was around this time that the Cultural Revolution reached its most chaotic period, from about the middle of 1966.†   (source)
  • At sunrise, the Rajah Bazaar was a scene of organized chaos that Mortenson found thrilling.†   (source)
  • There was a sense of chaos and excitement.†   (source)
  • The Japanese resistance there was far more concentrated than the Marines had been able to detect, and within minutes the churning water was a chaos of blood, bodies, and swamped equipment.†   (source)
  • Without her, our lives would dissolve into chaos.†   (source)
  • He follows us back into the chaos of the front office and asks us to wait a moment while he heads down a hallway to the guidance office with my paperwork.†   (source)
  • In moments the entire Great Hall of Paralon had erupted in chaos.†   (source)
  • Fumi and Eiko are helping the women there and they say the crowding, the noise, the confusion is chaos.†   (source)
  • Then, sweeping a view of the chaos, she rolled her eyes.†   (source)
  • But who was to make this revelation when the sky and sea became indistinguishable and neither any longer was chaos?†   (source)
  • Even though she could no longer rely on her sister-in-law's impeccable skills for ordering the chaos of the big house on the corner, she still paid no attention to domestic matters.†   (source)
  • He woke up blinking with a slight pain in his head and opened his eyes upon a world boiling in chaos in which everything was in proper order.†   (source)
  • Safe in the county seat during the chaos, protected by the emperor's troops, he had studied very hard.†   (source)
  • It was chaos.†   (source)
  • He stands in the middle of the chaos of kids, all grabbing gym bags, changing shirts, flashing Polaroids and hugging some more.†   (source)
  • There was always music or laughter or something lively and chaotic.†   (source)
  • What prevented chaos and a stampede was the sight of Gebrew in his priest's garb.†   (source)
  • An unbroken swarm lifted from the pond and buzzed in chaotic circles, as if confused by the sudden turn of events.†   (source)
  • The chaos inside the country intensified, and the village was raided four times by Cossacks.†   (source)
  • The old house almost shook with a chaotic energy, and after a few minutes Simeon was at peace again.†   (source)
  • Once chaos crept in, any semblance of organized baseball fled the Monterrey team.†   (source)
  • I can function with a high degree of chaos.†   (source)
  • If we're extremely fortunate, that war will only cause decades of chaos, and not tear the Radch apart completely.†   (source)
  • You have looked upon chaos and are not destroyed!†   (source)
  • The only reason the country is not in total chaos at this moment is that most people are too scared to venture out.†   (source)
  • But the surprise for Washington was how much had not been destroyed or carried off, so great had been the chaos and rush of the enemy in the last days.†   (source)
  • Without rules, chaos.†   (source)
  • I woke up to chaos, to sailboats in trees, to shredded houses and ruined lives.†   (source)
  • He was determined to destroy the Sino-British Hong Kong Accords, shutting down the colony, leaving the whole territory in chaos.†   (source)
  • Felicia's hair springs from her head like electric wires, and she swings her arms in great arcs, as if her chaos had a rhythm.†   (source)
  • The journey toward this particular truth was not an ascension toward a glorious light but a descent into darkness, chaos, the maelstrom.†   (source)
  • War is chaotic, but I have done my best to ensure the stories in this book are accurate.†   (source)
  • I understood that the world was nothing: a mechanical chaos of casual, brute enmity on which we stupidly impose our hopes and fears.†   (source)
  • Then she slid off into a panicky, chaotic thought-shape.†   (source)
  • Sounis has pushed Attolia to the brink of a chaotic civil war.†   (source)
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