All 7 Uses of
chaos
in
Catch-22
- Aarfy would puff reflectively on his pipe throughout the whole chaotic clash, gazing with unruffled curiosity at the war through McWatt's window as though it were a remote disturbance that could not affect him.†
Chpt 5
- The unfrosted light bulb overhead was swinging crazily on its loose wire, and the jumbled black shadows kept swirling and bobbing chaotically, so that the entire tent seemed to be reeling.†
Chpt 12
- 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.†
Chpt 14 *
- Yossarian let the girl drag him through the lovely Roman spring night for almost a mile until they reached a chaotic bus depot honking with horns, blazing with red and yellow lights and echoing with the snarling vituperations of unshaven bus drivers pouring loathsome, hair-raising curses out at each other, at their passengers and at the strolling, unconcerned knots of pedestrians clogging their paths, who ignored them until they were bumped by the buses and began shouting curses back.†
Chpt 16
- The ward was in a chaotic uproar.†
Chpt 27
- The ward had turned into chaos.†
Chpt 34
- Whoosh! went the air out of him, and he sank down on his side with a shrill and ululating cry, doubled up over his knees in chaotic agony and retching for breath.†
Chpt 38
Definition:
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(chaos) a state of extreme confusion and disorder