| 单词 | topsy-turvydom |
| 例句 | "The Sorcerer" is a merry story of sentimental topsy-turvydom. The Secrets of a Savoyard 2012-04-08T02:00:19.727Z Press Opinions The Times.—"It is crammed full of life and beauty ... this delicious, fantastical, amorphous, inspired medley of topsy-turvydom." Comrade Yetta 2012-02-15T03:00:24.213Z It was only a detail in the topsy-turvydom that in one short year had changed a subaltern in a crack English cavalry regiment into an ill-paid drudge in a dry-goods store. The Duke Decides 2011-09-14T02:00:47.307Z This new-born human conditionality calls for a new morality; this new union of equals a new beauty; this new topsy-turvydom a new system of ethics. ?mile Verhaeren 2011-02-26T03:00:52.147Z And then came another turn of the wheel of topsy-turvydom, and all the logic was scattered to the wind. What I Saw in America It was necessary, Miss Tredgold assured the girls, to have topsy-turvydom before the reign of order could begin. Girls of the Forest 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. Raemaekers' Cartoons With Accompanying Notes by Well-known English Writers 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." The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Everybody says it is all topsy-turvydom now in the capital, and that the most extraordinary reports are coming in from the provinces. Indiscreet Letters From Peking Being the Notes of an Eye-Witness, Which Set Forth in Some Detail, from Day to Day, the Real Story of the Siege and Sack of a Distressed Capital in 1900—The Year of Great Tribulation 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. The Opera A Sketch of the Development of Opera. With full Descriptions of all Works in the Modern Repertory. It would be quite a comedy of Irish topsy-turvydom were it not, in fact, such a disastrous tragedy. Ireland Since Parnell This intolerable topsy-turvydom is no exaggeration of the way in which stories cut across each other and sites are imposed on each other in the historic chaos of the Holy City. The New Jerusalem But despite the topsy-turvydom, we were made welcome, and both Phillips and Smith did their best to entertain. Across China on Foot As my old Chinese writer said a week ago, Peking has never been in such a state of topsy-turvydom since the robber who unseated the Ming dynasty rushed in two and a half centuries ago.... Indiscreet Letters From Peking Being the Notes of an Eye-Witness, Which Set Forth in Some Detail, from Day to Day, the Real Story of the Siege and Sack of a Distressed Capital in 1900—The Year of Great Tribulation For the moment Mr. Gilbert turned his back upon topsy-turvydom and Sullivan approached the frontiers of grand opera. The Opera A Sketch of the Development of Opera. With full Descriptions of all Works in the Modern Repertory. 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. Our Stage and Its Critics By "E.F.S." of "The Westminster Gazette" The brilliant services he performed there, in the protection of British and American subjects, are here chiefly interesting as throwing a backward light on the unearthly topsy-turvydom of Turkish rule. The New Jerusalem Old Bartle had already chuckled about topsy-turvydom: did that mean that— The telephone bell rang: Eldrick had not yet reached his house. The Talleyrand Maxim The revolution, if it brought topsy-turvydom in politics, like its great forerunner '89 brought the apogee of song. In the Heart of the Vosges And Other Sketches by a "Devious Traveller" He felt more sentimental than he cared to show, and the topsy-turvydom of the room made him fidgety. Married 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. Demos Not a little perplexed was Cynthia at the topsy-turvydom in which that morning she had found her father's house. The Tavern Knight But wherever trees and towns hang head downwards in a pigmy puddle, the sense of Celestial topsy-turvydom is the same. A Miscellany of Men Their first feeling was that they had come out into eternity, and that eternity was very like topsy-turvydom. Manalive 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. The Man Who Was Thursday, a nightmare But innovations which tend to bring about a kind of social topsy-turvydom, ought only to be undertaken by general consent. The Country Doctor We see a domestic topsy-turvydom in many Japanese sketches. A Miscellany of Men |
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