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
For some time, Americans had seemed able to ignore or nimbly thrust out of mind repeated symptoms of their out-of-joint economy, like alarming new price rises and further drubbings of the greenback abroad.
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
