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disoriented
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The Goldfinch
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- And then everything was so confused I can't give a clear account of it at all until I sat up disoriented on the living room sofa at the sound of something like a door opening.†
p. 61.2
- "Charity work," I said, after a disoriented pause.†
p. 77.7 *
- "Hello there, dear," he said to me—the dear startling, from him, even in my disoriented state.†
p. 79.1
- Everything was lost, I had fallen off the map: the disorientation of being in the wrong apartment, with the wrong family, was wearing me down, so I felt groggy and punch-drunk, weepy almost, like an interrogated prisoner prevented from sleeping for days.†
p. 88.6
- But now he was old enough to help crew—which meant long, stressful, sun-blinded days toiling on deck alongside the bullying Platt: ducking beneath the boom, completely disoriented, doing his best to keep from getting tangled in the lines or knocked overboard as their father shouted orders and rejoiced in the salt spray.†
p. 115.4
- I said, glancing up, disoriented by the vicious new possibility I'd stumbled into.†
p. 130.3
- She was propped in bed with the earbuds to her iPod in, looking blinded and disoriented in the light from the overhead bulb.†
p. 155.2
- She seemed strangely disoriented—something fixed and distracted about the eyes.†
p. 173.7
- I was so disoriented in the glare that when my dad stopped in front of a new silver Lexus and said: "Okay, this is us," I tripped and nearly fell on the curb.†
p. 220.3
- At some disoriented point, I said: "Boris, shut up.†
p. 267.4
- Half in shock, I backed away from the window, so disoriented that I tripped and fell over a sack of garbage.†
p. 270.7
- Private school I said, after a disoriented pause.†
p. 326.1
- Her hair was like a haystack; she appeared completely disoriented and so unsteady it seemed she might topple down the steps.†
p. 349.3
- And, in truth, I wasn't—only so disoriented I felt I might wake up and find I'd been sleeping with a book over my face.†
p. 350.5
- I stared at her, disoriented.†
p. 358.4
- He was wearing a weird, womanish, chunky knit cardigan that came almost to his knees like a bathrobe; he looked ill and disoriented, his sleeve was up, he was rubbing the inside of his forearm with two fingers and then the next thing I knew his knees went sideways and he'd hit the floor, the thermometer skittering out with a glassy noise on the parquet, unbroken.†
p. 581.6
- Boris—happily gobbling—was reminiscing about his first and only attempt to ride a bicycle in the city (wipeout, disaster) and also how much he enjoyed the new herring in Amsterdam, which fortunately wasn't in season since apparently you ate it by holding it up by the tail fin and dangling it down into your mouth, but I was too disoriented by my surroundings to listen very closely and with almost painfully heightened senses I stirred at the potato mess with my fork and felt the strangeness of the city pressing in all around me, smells of tobacco and malt and nutmeg, cafe walls the melancholy brown of an old leather-bound book and then beyond, dark passages and brackish water lapping, low skie†
p. 649.2
- That is to say" —I was too tired, disoriented; two pairs of Dremel-drill eyes, I couldn't think —"if I did it, or someone else not a part of your, um, organization —" Boris let out a shout of laughter.†
p. 651.3
- At last, at some disoriented point—night light burning, half-dreaming, out of it—I broke down and reached for the phone on the nightstand and texted him anyway before I had the chance to think better of it: Where are you?†
p. 704.8
- At first, disoriented from the ticket window, I thought I was hallucinating the voice.†
p. 710.7
Definitions:
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(1)
(disoriented) confused or unsure about location, circumstances, or how to respond
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)