No one in Italy has ever said or thought that in the event of a bouleversement in the Adriatic and the Balkans there should be denied to.    From Wordnik.com.  [New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 3, June, 1915 April-September, 1915] Reference

Inspired by this veritable bouleversement, H. Feigl impudently defined philoso - phy as “the disease of which it should be the cure.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

But that the moons of Uranus are contrariwise to those of the other planets, Sir JOHN HERSCHEL has indubitably established; so that the author at any rate upon this point has sustained a bouleversement.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Expository Outline of the "Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation" With a Notice of the Author's "Explanations:" A Sequel to the Vestiges] Reference

Perhaps it is because some of the bouleversement is directed at precisely what I represented in office: liberal economic policies, market reforms in welfare and public services, and engagement and intervention abroad.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tony Blair Takes on the World] Reference

It conveyed exquisitely the notion of the bouleversement de tous les sens: that state of neurasthenic excitement in which images whirled chaotically before the inward eye, impressing on the seer an overwhelming sense of their vividness and spiritual truth (Castle 159).    From Wordnik.com.  [Smoke and Mirrors: Internalizing the Magic Lantern show in _Vilette_] Reference

Imperial politics that the bouleversement has been most complete.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Open Secret of Ireland] Reference

What about bouleversement -- that's a word in the dictionary that my gardener, say, doesn't use all that much.    From Wordnik.com.  [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference

For the second time in his life Amory had had a complete bouleversement and was hurrying into line with his generation.    From Wordnik.com.  [This Side of Paradise] Reference

It is impossible to convey to you an adequate idea of the bouleversement which has taken place in our religious relations.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Eclipse of Faith Or, A Visit To A Religious Sceptic] Reference

For the bouleversement in itself was not only natural and inevitable, but had been long actually anticipated as a circumstance to be expected whenever I should arrive at that exact.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque. In Two Volumes. Vol. II] Reference

Could he assist in turning upside down the actual state of things, he trusted to his individual force of character to find himself among the uppermost in the general bouleversement.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Parisians — Complete] Reference

The two hundred boys, not old enough to comprehend this sudden bouleversement of sentiment, did not immediately desist from sticking out their tongues: whereupon they were dismissed with a box on the ear.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beauty and the Beast, and Tales of Home] Reference

It is needless to dwell upon the chagrin of Honora's maternal grandfather, Howard Allison Esquire, over this turn of affairs, this unexpected bouleversement, as he spoke of it in private to his friends in his Parisian club.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Modern Chronicle — Volume 01] Reference

His real, true passion for Zoe opens his eyes to the littleness of all the motives which have held him, and you will see all the misery and shame and self-contempt he reaps, and the bouleversement he has sustained works him up to the point of decision.    From Wordnik.com.  [Selections from the Letters of Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury to Jane Welsh Carlyle] Reference

My dress was entirely different from that in which he had seen me at the time of my bouleversement; my height and manner were altered, and I always began to jest on trifling topics, for I was frightened at the thought of a disclosure after what had passed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recollections of a Southern matron,] Reference

Somewhere, deep down in him, he supposed there might be a source, a well of English waters, which some explosion in his nature might cause to flood him entirely, but such an idea was purely hypothetical; he did not, in fact, look forward to such a bouleversement as being a possible contingency.    From Wordnik.com.  [Michael] Reference

La terre cuite (f) terracotta; le bouleversement (m) = upheaval; le bordel (m) = brothel (second meaning: shambles, disarray); shon-tee-yay (chantier) = a place where great disorder reigns.    From Wordnik.com.  [French Word-A-Day:] Reference

La terre cuite (f) terracotta; le bouleversement (m) = upheaval; le bordel (m) = brothel (second meaning: shambles, disarray) ; shon-tee-yay (chantier) = a place where great disorder reigns.    From Wordnik.com.  [French Word-A-Day:] Reference

So an Anglopron for bouleversement?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference

"boulevardier" is bouleversement.    From Wordnik.com.  [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference