out-of-joint
Example Sentences
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And yet, one returns to Jacobs not out of nostalgia but from a curiosity to see how this man of prodigious talent, now shorn of the infrastructure of self-enlargement, is faring in a time out-of-joint.
From New York Times • Feb. 10, 2020
And for a few ecstatic moments, theatergoers can pretend that this crazy, out-of-joint universe is their palpable, personal plaything.
From New York Times • Aug. 7, 2019
Even his fiery escape in the plane, under the out-of-joint nose of the Communist Party's First Secretary, first-rate though the sequence is, does not prepare one for the marvels that follow.
From Time Magazine Archive
Broader objective: a revision and coordination of the whole out-of-joint U. S. economy.
From Time Magazine Archive
This was the logical climax of the whole misbegotten day, this whole out-of-joint term at Devon.
From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles
