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

Broader objective: a revision and coordination of the whole out-of-joint U. S. economy.

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