Both Uses of
turmoil
in
Fast Food Nation
- The turmoil of an earlier era has been replaced by a sad and rootless anomie.†
p. 80.1 *turmoil = disorder
- "For a child growing up in the turmoil of [postwar] Berlin ...the Americans were angels," Christa Maerker, a Berlin filmmaker, wrote in an essay on postwar Germany's infatuation with the United States.†
p. 232.1
Definition:
a state of confusion, disturbance, or disorder