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  • "Imbalance, disorientation, labored breathing, and massive diarrhea," Harding said.†   (source)
  • August said we couldn't leave them on too long, since the bees had memorized everything about their hive and a change like that could make them disoriented.†   (source)
  • They say that weightlessness can cause disorientation, especially in children, whose sense of direction isn't yet secure.†   (source)
  • After a while he halted, gasping and disoriented.†   (source)
  • This non sequitur disoriented Wang.†   (source)
  • You see, the Jewish refugees had been through terrible times; they were traumatized and disoriented by the loss of their homes and families.†   (source)
  • The boar's severed right tusk fell at my feet, while the disoriented animal charged into the sea.†   (source)
  • In the emergency room, she was shocked by the disoriented man before her.†   (source)
  • He regained consciousness coated in the blood of his fellow soldiers; he was disoriented and unable to move.†   (source)
  • I was too disorientated to work out where I was.†   (source)
  • Sophie felt a new wave of disorientation as she stood in the silence of the ballroom and stared at Robert Langdon.†   (source)
  • "Starving and completely disoriented," he told my mother.†   (source)
  • It was as if his memory loss had stolen a chunk of his language—it was disorienting.†   (source)
  • Disoriented in the total darkness, he fumbled with his hangings, he could hear movements around him, and Seamus Finnigan's voice from the other side of the room: "What's going on?"†   (source)
  • Disorientation Room One.†   (source)
  • She hopes she has not become disoriented.†   (source)
  • It was possible on such a night to become as disoriented as a man without a torch in a cave.†   (source)
  • Normally he would have climbed into his truck and driven the quarter mile, so he walked as if he were disoriented, surprised by the very act of walking.†   (source)
  • Instead, though, she found herself feeling disoriented when Patrick wasn't around, like the sailor who's just landed after months at sea and who still feels the ocean rolling beneath him even when it isn't there.†   (source)
  • Anyway, Dan Needham and my grandmother agreed that it would be better for me to spend the night at 80 Front Street, and so—in addition to the disorientation of waking up the next morning, after very little sleep, and gradually realizing that the dream of my mother being killed by a baseball that Owen Meany hit was not a dream—I faced the further disorientation of not immediately knowing where I was.†   (source)
  • The only thing all the intended disorientation had accomplished was to familiarize her with the building.†   (source)
  • My words came slapping back at me in a disorienting echo.†   (source)
  • Thanks to you children, this machine is disoriented, and I must strike while the iron's hot.†   (source)
  • She stumbles around for a while, disoriented, then charges forward, only to trip and fall to her knees.†   (source)
  • I'm completely blind and disoriented, but I think these might be the same stairs I came down when I first got here.†   (source)
  • I considered hunting through the book for what happened to his daughter, but I was already so disoriented, I decided against it.†   (source)
  • Richie wasn't much bigger than Park, and he was drunk and disoriented.†   (source)
  • Hit 'em with smoke and sonics, then go in while the targets were disoriented.†   (source)
  • It was odd and disorienting to be back at home, and I felt on edge, just like the last time I took leave.†   (source)
  • Disoriented and uncertain, we continued to drift around the Briinnlitz camp for two days.†   (source)
  • "Charity work," I said, after a disoriented pause.†   (source)
  • Phase One: preoccupation; difficulty focusing; dry mouth; perspiration, sweaty palms; dizziness and disorientation.†   (source)
  • What I didn't know at the time was that something pretty significant had happened only a few days after I'd seen her in Room 22—something between Miss Lucy and Tommy that had left him upset and disorientated.†   (source)
  • We picked him up a few hours ago, walking down River Road, disoriented.†   (source)
  • Disoriented and confused, he let his eyes roam over the small room.†   (source)
  • She had been disorientated, of course.†   (source)
  • I understand how disorienting all this must be for you, Mack.†   (source)
  • But I had seen nothing at all, felt nothing but sickness and disorientation.†   (source)
  • Even through the disorientation of fugue state, he now remembered the painful therapy sessions, the long hours in the RNA virus baths, and the surgery.†   (source)
  • I am so disoriented I could never find my way back.†   (source)
  • How I wandered aimlessly about, too disoriented for proper panic, numb with shock and dread.†   (source)
  • I remember one moment drying rice bowls in the kitchen, when all at once I felt so disoriented I had to stop what I was doing to stare for a long while at my hands; for I could scarcely understand that this person drying the bowls was actually me.†   (source)
  • Now he stood stunned and disorientated outside the studio.†   (source)
  • I looked at his concerned, innocent expression and was disoriented again by the force of his gold-colored eyes.†   (source)
  • Instead they were overwhelming, disorienting expeditions, either going to Calcutta, or sightseeing in places they did not belong to and intended never to see again.†   (source)
  • Did they get dizzy, disoriented, nauseated?†   (source)
  • Mental illness was on public display, and in the army of lost souls, Karr saw some of the same anger and disorientation he was seeing in Nathaniel.†   (source)
  • I closed my eyes, felt the disorientation of not being able to see through other eyes that I knew I had once had.†   (source)
  • Scatty took advantage of its disorientation and moved in again, feet and hands striking blows from all angles, further confusing the creature.†   (source)
  • Reece's expression changed—she looked confused, almost disoriented.†   (source)
  • I felt disoriented.†   (source)
  • I was disoriented, as though my world were blurred and leaning to the left, like a photograph snapped from a twisted angle and out of focus.†   (source)
  • For a moment I was disoriented: where was Runaway?†   (source)
  • Two days later, Henrietta awoke terrified, disoriented, wanting to know where she was and what the doctors had been doing to her.†   (source)
  • No. First it was disorienting.†   (source)
  • I felt disoriented.†   (source)
  • In the end, it was probably his general disorientation that did them in.†   (source)
  • He was totally disoriented.†   (source)
  • Very disorienting for our enemy.†   (source)
  • Bleary-eyed and disoriented, they met the IRC caseworker at the airport.†   (source)
  • But when he began to wait for the answer to his first letter, his anguish was complicated by diarrhea and green vomit, he became disoriented and suffered from sudden fainting spells, and his mother was terrified because his condition did not resemble the turmoil of love so much as the devastation of cholera.†   (source)
  • He could not remember if he had lost consciousness, but he was disoriented.†   (source)
  • While the tablet still works, he seems less bewildered by the feeling of disorientation.†   (source)
  • Dan blinked, disoriented.†   (source)
  • Nine climbers reached the summit, but seven of them were caught by a storm on the descent, became disoriented, and spent a night in the open at 19,400 feet, initiating a costly, hazardous rescue by the National Park Service.†   (source)
  • Other girls at Thurmond could pick themselves up after a few minutes, shaking off the nausea and disorientation like the loose grass clinging to their camp uniforms.†   (source)
  • I find the monolithic nature of it disorienting.†   (source)
  • A strangeness gripped me, a sense of psychic disorientation.†   (source)
  • Whatever, I was completely disoriented.†   (source)
  • The system exhibits occasional disorientation, but it moves steadily forward, step by step.†   (source)
  • One cold, dark morning in the middle of winter, Kenny became disoriented while driving.†   (source)
  • Assuming that Adam was either visually disoriented from blood in his mask or mentally disoriented from loss of blood, they yanked on the line and tried to redirect him to the boat.†   (source)
  • Instead of merely lying in bed in a passive state, he became disoriented and angry and refused to take medicine.†   (source)
  • Akku Yadav strutted in, confident and unrepentant, sensing that the women were disoriented in the grand setting of the courtroom.†   (source)
  • I use his disorientation to my advantage and kick him in the side.†   (source)
  • If she wanted to disorient me, it had worked.†   (source)
  • I'd woken up several times disoriented in the prison, and I automatically stifled my first thrash of surprise to prevent my chains from grinding on old bruises, and finally I remembered that there were no chains.†   (source)
  • He is alert to what is happening around him, and he shows no sign of mental confusion or disorientation.†   (source)
  • He seems disoriented, but a moment later he's clearly not.†   (source)
  • Dixon sprang up, not hurt by the fall, but disoriented.†   (source)
  • Even when you do regain consciousness you are in a state of disorientation for days.†   (source)
  • Completely disoriented I tried to catch myself, but all of my reflexes were off.†   (source)
  • I'm wedged a good deal farther between the rolls of canvas than I was when I fell asleep, and I'm disoriented.†   (source)
  • They were disillusioned, disoriented, and not a little resentful.†   (source)
  • St. Clair looks disoriented.†   (source)
  • I was cold in my pajamas and jacket, disoriented, and out of breath by the time the ground beneath my feet got more smooth and stable.†   (source)
  • Disoriented, she had no idea which direction to run.†   (source)
  • Perhaps, I thought, he was as confused and disoriented as I. He made sporadic attempts to help me adjust.†   (source)
  • When Max regained consciousness, he was steeped in a darkness so black that it was disorienting.†   (source)
  • It was disorienting to see suburban Connecticut rushing by, eventually giving way to the highway.†   (source)
  • Nicholas Jenks crawled out of the van, dazed and disoriented.†   (source)
  • At that moment, in the minds of the jurors, and practically everyone else in the courtroom, Seth had been disoriented, dizzy, drowsy, light-headed, and unable to drive so he asked Lettie to do it.†   (source)
  • 0800 on May 8th 1981, she appeared to be disoriented about the facts of the incident and disconcerted as she kept dozing off.†   (source)
  • He stood and began to pace, ignoring a sudden whirl of disorientation.†   (source)
  • Drunk and disoriented, he had abandoned the car and tried to walk back to the safety of the house.†   (source)
  • Cold air slapped me and disoriented my body and mind.†   (source)
  • He wiped his eyes with his sleeve, disoriented by unfamiliar tears, and attributed them to the altitude.†   (source)
  • I pull out of the crowds, suddenly disoriented.†   (source)
  • He looks around, disoriented.†   (source)
  • Disorientation is a better word, I guess.†   (source)
  • A man might find himself disoriented and see things that are not there.†   (source)
  • It was greatly disorienting to be uprooted so suddenly and without explanation.†   (source)
  • ~~~SECTION BREAK~~~ A Close Shave Francisco Aguilar rose the next morning somewhat disoriented.†   (source)
  • Completely disoriented now, she rubbed her eyes clear.†   (source)
  • Celia's hands flutter like disoriented birds.†   (source)
  • Then again, it was a disorienting place — a large, concrete, single-story complex of buildings joined by open-air corridors and crisscrossed by hallways.†   (source)
  • The captain was confused and disoriented as he climbed on board the Bainbridge.†   (source)
  • The attorney Giuliani, disoriented but wise, nodded and tried to turn in bed.†   (source)
  • When Miri opened her eyes she saw feet, dozens of feet, and at first she was so disoriented she didn't know where she was.†   (source)
  • And disoriented, battered by the force of the drop and dizzied by the blast of dust, they were immediately cut down by the waiting dwarves.†   (source)
  • Disoriented, he answered only by shaking his head.†   (source)
  • One day he'd walked by, and there they were — a girl, her parents, an assistant, looking disoriented and somehow ragged around the edges, as though they'd been torn out of a book.†   (source)
  • It was amazing how quickly I became disoriented, my hands stretched out, expecting to find the chenille bedspread, to touch its rough nubby knots, and striking only air.†   (source)
  • Someone was flicking on and off the hall and living room lights, and the effect was maddening and disorienting.†   (source)
  • You're completely disoriented.†   (source)
  • Alan felt feeble, dizzy, disoriented.†   (source)
  • A man deprived of the ability to see and hear becomes disoriented very quickly, sometimes in mere minutes.†   (source)
  • The shouts of cadremen rang through the hall, and the plebes, bovine and disoriented, moved without animation in a blind, stunned herd toward their seats.†   (source)
  • My feeling of disorientation diminished for a time.†   (source)
  • She found herself both warmed and distressed by this callow, transfixed infatuation and could really respond only to the poetry, for besides being, at twenty or so, at least ten years younger than she was, he was also physically unappealing—that is, enormously overweight aside from his grotesquely disoriented eyes.†   (source)
  • When she calls again he has a momentary sense of disorientation, cannot think what room he's sitting in, and so understands that he must have dropped off there, for a minute.†   (source)
  • Disoriented—a feeling new to me and very unpleasant.†   (source)
  • the anesthetic left her completely disoriented
  • Dizziness disoriented me, allowing me only to whisper, "Andromeda."†   (source)
  • Disorientation in full force, I pulled down my sleeves.†   (source)
  • Even as he realized it, the pain overwhelmed him, and he dropped to his knees, disoriented, wheezing.†   (source)
  • Things were always a bit clumsy while I got used to a new segment—it would occasionally drop things, or fire off disorienting impulses, random jolts of fear or nausea.†   (source)
  • He scrambled back up toward the road, but when he emerged from the foliage he had a moment of disorientation.†   (source)
  • It was difficult to make his way in the dark, and somehow he found the noise of the generator disorienting.†   (source)
  • Langdon seemed uncharacteristically disorientated.†   (source)
  • Speaking to a living Illuminatus was disorienting for him ....like speaking to George Washington.†   (source)
  • That was how I felt, disoriented, suspended in confusion, stripped of my compass.†   (source)
  • He was still a little disoriented, but things seemed to be in places they shouldn't be.†   (source)
  • She looked disoriented, twisting her wet handkerchief in her hands.†   (source)
  • She was underwater, so disoriented that she didn't know which way was up.†   (source)
  • When I got to my room, I flung myself into bed, feeling disoriented.†   (source)
  • ...I gasped aloud, now, disoriented by the dark room.†   (source)
  • I blame my disorientation for what happened next.†   (source)
  • Theresa's dreams, when she could remember them, were fragmented and disorienting.†   (source)
  • Then the drowsiness, the frightening disorientation, the incoherent mumbling.†   (source)
  • The kids shepherding them count heads and try to maintain order in the disoriented group.†   (source)
  • Being bodiless was disorienting, uncomfortable, horrifying.†   (source)
  • The more I thought about it, the more disoriented and provoked I became.†   (source)
  • Spinning disoriented somersaults, he groped the sheer walls that enclosed him on all sides.†   (source)
  • I was so shocked to see the Chairman in pain that I felt almost disoriented for a moment.†   (source)
  • Wrapped in silence, I slide my bracelet that reads mentally disoriented around and around my wrist.†   (source)
  • Entering the Distracted Globe was more than a little disorienting.†   (source)
  • At some disoriented point, I said: "Boris, shut up.†   (source)
  • I felt a little disoriented by this smiling white Zimbabwean with the odd accent and strange name.†   (source)
  • Evil ones bring disorientation and a variety of physical and emotional ills.†   (source)
  • But Ender was disoriented before he left Earth's gravity.†   (source)
  • The days of sleep had left him disoriented...and yet his mind felt oddly lucid.†   (source)
  • I was disoriented by the array of unfamiliar goods arrayed about.†   (source)
  • The noise in the house was disorienting, so I took Drew up the mountain.†   (source)
  • All I could think about was Denna waking alone, aching, thirsty, and disoriented.†   (source)
  • Instantly, it folded and twisted in on itself and became a disorientated hermit thrush.†   (source)
  • Sliced and batted by his sabers, they became disorientated.†   (source)
  • The plague arrow did not make me pass out, but its fumes were disorienting.†   (source)
  • THAT FIRST MORNING in their apartment outside Clarkston, they awoke exhausted and disoriented.†   (source)
  • The visions—they're a little disorienting.†   (source)
  • I followed his gaze, disoriented by the spinning, but finally I could see what was bothering him.†   (source)
  • "I'm good," she muttered, though she looked disoriented and bloody.†   (source)
  • Within hours of her call to Crownsville, Deborah became disoriented and had trouble breathing.†   (source)
  • As I thought of the field hand, I felt strangely disoriented.†   (source)
  • Just enough to weaken Sardothien—to make her dizzy and disoriented.†   (source)
  • That's perfectly normal, the postsurgical state is always disorienting.†   (source)
  • His sleep had been heavy and, soggy, and he woke with a terrible feeling of disorientation.†   (source)
  • Axe arrived in one piece, stunned and disoriented.†   (source)
  • The thoughts bounced around inside my skull like a disoriented swarm of bees.†   (source)
  • After weeks of endless openness, he was disoriented by the compression of the space around him.†   (source)
  • After all, disorientation was the entire purpose of this technology.†   (source)
  • Michael shrugged, disoriented, perplexed.†   (source)
  • Huddling in corners, disoriented, crying every hour, not trusting anybody, refusing to do anything.†   (source)
  • That was where the disorientation began.†   (source)
  • Langdon looked up at the towering monuments and felt totally disoriented.†   (source)
  • The Golem stopped, confused and disorientated.†   (source)
  • I glanced, disoriented, at the clock on my dresser.†   (source)
  • Caught in the cross fire are the refugees, unarmed, disoriented, many wounded.†   (source)
  • Maybe the hideous bowling outfits were mirages meant to disorient us.†   (source)
  • Even consuming just a little could cause vivid hallucinations and disorientation.†   (source)
  • She turned her head, looking disorientated and confused.†   (source)
  • She seemed strangely disoriented—something fixed and distracted about the eyes.†   (source)
  • When I woke up, there was no disorientation.†   (source)
  • They must have given her enough to disorient her, but not enough that it would be easy to prove.†   (source)
  • The lights go out and I experience the disorientation of total darkness.†   (source)
  • "Hello there, dear," he said to me—the dear startling, from him, even in my disoriented state.†   (source)
  • With a rising fury of disorientation and rage, Langdon got off the table and stood on shaky legs.†   (source)
  • At best, it caused hallucinations and disorientation.†   (source)
  • Private school I said, after a disoriented pause.†   (source)
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