topsyturvydom

Example Sentences

• "But the young wife has not altogether an enviable position, for by one of those queer topsyturvydoms which occur in Japan, the mother-in-law—who, in the West, is so often the object of cheap satire—is a veritable terror in the Far East to the wife."
• "At last she saw a big river, and the man who had tried to keep her from being carried off was drifting down it — such are the topsyturvydoms of faery glamour — in a cockleshell."
• "In traditions of both East and West, however, wanderlust for topsyturvydom seems to represent an alternative view of the nature of things, and it seems to embody a liberating escape from the status quo."
• "[...] that it would make an oblique reference to the topsyturvydom of his own life as a child in exile in Cologne, and to the appalling topsyturvydom especially of his father's life, that of the former Alderman of Antwerp, who had died there as an exile."
• "There was a topsy-turvydom of values, of trends and ideas—a continually changing stream which Dostoevsky began to explore, not only in its temporary aspects,but also sub specie aeternitatis."
• "That has to be the best review George ever had. Not all critics grasped the nature of this new opera genre, somewhere between burlesque and satire, with a 'topsy-turvydom' so prominent in Gilbert's view of the world."