Word: disarrayed
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...score, 1957 was a year of retreat and disarray for the West. For Britain and France, the U.S. allies who fill out the world's Big Four, the year's theme was a recessional. Sir Anthony Eden, physically sick and spiritually drained after the fiasco at Suez, resigned as Prime Minister. His successor put out a White Paper proclaiming that Britannia was done with ruling the waves, was thinning out the proud red line of far-flung posts on which the sun never set, and withdrawing to a more realistic stance as a tidier, tighter nuclear power. Guy Mollet...
...Square Root of Wonderful (by Carson McCullers) obviously stems from a writer of talent. But in Square Root the talent seems in hopeless disarray. The author of The Member of the Wedding has written on a variety of themes, in a variety of tones, at a variety of tempos. Possessing sufficient material for several plays, Square Root, for lack of integration, largely comes off no play at all. It makes plain throughout, not least by way of hate, that the square root of wonderful is love. Its parts are not only greater than the whole; they also destroy the whole...
Khrushchev's threats took shrewd ad vantage of a moment which found the U.S.'s Middle East position in temporary disarray. In its attempts to rouse the area to the threat presented by a Communist-dominated Syria, the U.S. had displayed its power too nakedly, set Arab leaders off in a whipped-up frenzy of public denunciation of U.S. interference and pledges of confidence in Syria. As a result the bloc of "reasonable Arabs" - Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq and Saudi Arabia - which the U.S. hoped to solidify had fallen into suspicious disorder. Jordan's King Hussein, plagued...
...succeeded to a somber estate," said London's Tory Daily Mail last January when Harold Macmillan became Britain's Prime Minister. The government left by the ailing Anthony Eden was in disarray, and almost everybody seemed to have reservations about the ability of the 63-year-old publisher with the too-elegant Edwardian manners. He was decried as "a gay amateur," "a political dilettante," "a foppish phrasemaker," or, if praised, praised with fingers crossed. The Tories, seeing their popularity drop in poll after poll, in by-election after by-election, were close to demoralization...
...Pullman compartments, lighted windows, underpasses-such are the meager materials Hopper chooses to make immutable and unforgettable on canvas. Their fascination for him lies in the fact they are manmade, and common-man-made. He finds them appropriate for the expression of human striving in all its loneliness and disarray, as well as its hints and spasms of nobility...