bouleversement

[bool^uh-vers-mahn]

noun

French.

1. an overturning; convulsion; turmoil.

Example Sentences

Yes, yes, I know: for a long while now it’s looked as if our main problem was the bizarre demographic bouléversément that’s happened in the past 70 very odd years.

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Arguably, each sweeping away of constitutional authority was necessarily accompanied by a satiric outburst that aimed at a re-evaluation of all values, not just some - no institution could be regarded as beyond censure, no individual above the most extreme criticism; with the foundational myth of the First Republic inextricably bound up with violent revolution, each subsequent bouleversement required, of necessity, its own satiric bombshell.

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In the meantime, gentlemen,' he continued, turning with a grand air to the spectators, who viewed this sudden bouleversement with unbounded surprise, 'let us do what we can.

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It was a real bouleversement, but Josina, supposing that Arthur had saved her father's life at the risk of his own, and had then added to his merit by recovering the lost money, found it natural enough.

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Bouleversement, bōōl-vers-mang, n. an overturning.

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