Nepal and it provides possible ways out of the topsy-turvydom. From Wordnik.com. [Nepal: Polity for Peace] Reference
There must have been something in that topsy-turvydom to take the fancy of that darkly fanciful man. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Father Brown] Reference
John Adams Race, who had hitherto known only miracles of science, never found himself able in after-years to describe the topsy-turvydom of the next few days. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Father Brown] Reference
Old Bartle had already chuckled about topsy-turvydom: did that mean that. From Wordnik.com. [The Talleyrand Maxim] Reference
Miss Tredgold assured the girls, to have topsy-turvydom before the reign of order could begin. From Wordnik.com. [Girls of the Forest] Reference
He felt more sentimental than he cared to show, and the topsy-turvydom of the room made him fidgety. From Wordnik.com. [Married] Reference
And then came another turn of the wheel of topsy-turvydom, and all the logic was scattered to the wind. From Wordnik.com. [What I Saw in America] Reference
But despite the topsy-turvydom, we were made welcome, and both Phillips and Smith did their best to entertain. From Wordnik.com. [Across China on Foot] Reference
S: (n) chaos, pandemonium, bedlam, topsy-turvydom, topsy-turvyness (a state of extreme confusion and disorder). From Wordnik.com. [Addicted To Quack] Reference
The revolution, if it brought topsy-turvydom in politics, like its great forerunner '89 brought the apogee of song. From Wordnik.com. [In the Heart of the Vosges And Other Sketches by a "Devious Traveller"] Reference
For the moment Mr. Gilbert turned his back upon topsy-turvydom and Sullivan approached the frontiers of grand opera. From Wordnik.com. [The Opera A Sketch of the Development of Opera. With full Descriptions of all Works in the Modern Repertory.] Reference
But wherever trees and towns hang head downwards in a pigmy puddle, the sense of Celestial topsy-turvydom is the same. From Wordnik.com. [A Miscellany of Men] Reference
Sullivan's Ruddigore, must have been part of the intentional topsy-turvydom in which those two bright spirits delighted. From Wordnik.com. [The Romance of Names] Reference
But innovations which tend to bring about a kind of social topsy-turvydom, ought only to be undertaken by general consent. From Wordnik.com. [The Country Doctor] Reference
They learn to associate topsy-turvydom with well-being; in fact, they're only truly happy when they're standing on their heads. From Wordnik.com. [Brave New World]
It was, as Mrs.W. said afterward, "like a city perceived in a dream -- all the topsy-turvydom, all the mingling of fantasy and reality.". From Wordnik.com. [The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story] Reference
But this new spiritual dread was a more awful thing than had been the mere spiritual topsy-turvydom symbolised by the paralytic who pursued him. From Wordnik.com. [The Man Who Was Thursday, a nightmare] Reference
But even this has not brought them so low but they wonder at the topsy-turvydom of war that brings them honour where poor Black Mary only got her deserts in gaol. From Wordnik.com. [Raemaekers' Cartoons With Accompanying Notes by Well-known English Writers] Reference
We are living in a Lewis Carroll topsy-turvydom, an environment in which language does not always correspond with reality and where things are not always what they seem to be. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IV No 4] Reference
In a different vein was the burlesque incantation, a masterpiece of musical humour, in which the very essence of Mr. Gilbert's strange topsy-turvydom seems transmuted into sound. From Wordnik.com. [The Opera A Sketch of the Development of Opera. With full Descriptions of all Works in the Modern Repertory.] Reference
It was not only her secret feelings that he called in question, he accused her of actual dishonour as it is defined by the world -- that clumsy world with its topsy-turvydom of moral judgments. From Wordnik.com. [Demos] Reference
Drama has suffered severely from this; indeed, in our theatres we have reached the topsy-turvydom of having the dramatist write for the players instead of having the players act for the dramatist. From Wordnik.com. [Our Stage and Its Critics By "E.F.S." of "The Westminster Gazette"] Reference
For indeed the souls of those peasants must have been sickened with something of the topsy-turvydom felt by too many peasants of our own time under the frightful flying batteries of scientific war. From Wordnik.com. [The New Jerusalem] Reference
I may say in respect to my utterance today, there are only two claims I make, one is that I exhibit throughout the spirit of topsy-turvydom. and the other that I occasionally exhibit lucid intervals of lunacy. From Wordnik.com. [Gilbert and Sullivan] Reference
When she came to the realization, Imogen, starting back, indignant through all her being, promised herself that if he looked down she, at all events, would never lend herself to the preposterous topsy-turvydom by looking up. From Wordnik.com. [A Fountain Sealed] Reference
In the first place, there is the spirit of topsy-turvydom, which is a notable, an outstanding thing in his works and which perhaps started with his Palace of Truth, in which he made the, characters speak the truth willy nilly! '. From Wordnik.com. [Gilbert and Sullivan] Reference
All sorts of liberties are taken, the clock is put forward or back at the command of the general, a great enemy army is created in the twinkling of an eye, day is turned into night and a regular game of topsy-turvydom indulged in. From Wordnik.com. [The Amateur Army] Reference
What a way to end 2009 - the missing RM50 million RMAF jet engines which exposes high-level thievery, government topsy-turvydom and sheer lack of professionalism in defence, police and Attorney-General's Chambers casting long shadow on Najib's GTP. From Wordnik.com. [Planet Malaysia] Reference
Over his forehead his hair waved in what is called a "cow's lick," said to betoken good fortune; and his face, all screwed up as it turned towards the bright light, looked the oddest piece of topsy-turvydom, with not a single feature in its proper place. From Wordnik.com. [Pelle the Conqueror — Volume 01] Reference
The best and last touch to this topsy-turvydom was given when a lady, observing one of these reverend gentlemen who for some reason did not carry this curious coiffure, exclaimed, in a tone of heartrending surprise and distress, "Oh, he's bobbed his hair!". From Wordnik.com. [The New Jerusalem] Reference
In this magic hour of the summer night laws went for nothing, codes were cancelled, and those who were most in touch with the moonlight and the warm June spirit and the topsy-turvydom that reigns when the clock strikes ten, were the true lords and lawmakers. From Wordnik.com. [Dream Days] Reference
A domestic topsy-turvydom in many Japanese sketches. From Wordnik.com. [A Miscellany of Men] Reference
A backward light on the unearthly topsy-turvydom of Turkish rule. From Wordnik.com. [The New Jerusalem] Reference
I shan't be here to see it, but there's too much topsy-turvydom in marriage; I don't want her to pitch up against that. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Forsyte Saga - Complete] Reference
I shan’t be here to see it, but there’s too much topsy-turvydom in marriage; I don’t want her to pitch up against that.”. From Wordnik.com. [Indian Summer of a Forsyte] Reference
But this study will come later, at leisure, when all the tragic topsy-turvydom of to-day is farther behind us, so that it’s possible to examine it with more insight and more impartiality than I can do. From Wordnik.com. [The Brothers Karamazov] Reference
(1882) Mr. Gilbert reached the dizziest height of topsy-turvydom to which he ever climbed, and set Sullivan to solve what was perhaps the most difficult problem of his whole career. From Wordnik.com. [The Opera A Sketch of the Development of Opera. With full Descriptions of all Works in the Modern Repertory.] Reference
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