Sentence examples for controlled mayhem from inspiring English sources

Dessert is controlled mayhem.

Controlled mayhem reigns, briefly.

It was meant to be fun: 'Let's drop a little acid and go nuts.' It was controlled mayhem".

It remained raucous as fans gyrated to live music ranging from hip-hop to country, but it could have been characterized as controlled mayhem.

He had given a radio interview earlier in the day, warning that the shah's overthrow by Muslim clerics would lead not to social improvement and democracy but to theocracy, intolerance and clerically controlled mayhem.

The scene inside was one of barely controlled mayhem, with the 15,000-square-foot dance floor packed with a crowd that was mainly straight and 18 to 25. T-shirts, roomy pants and sneakers were all that passed for a dress code.

The only factor that has controlled complete mayhem in Iraq has been strong and ruthless dictators.... Michael Schiller, Beachwood, Ohio: I think you are using the wrong model for understanding the future of Iraq and why the current U.S. strategy of staying the course is not a good idea.

Obama has never made it clear how the vast populations outraged and perhaps radicalized by such remote-control mayhem might figure into his calculations about American security.

Besson shrewdly manages to use the teetering uncertainty of the moment to toss the film into an even higher gear of out-of-control mayhem as hit men arrive to attack De Niro and Co.

Community support officers should be drafted in to control the mayhem.

For years, Colombia's drug-fueled conflict raged, with Marxist rebels and right-wing paramilitaries gaining ground and growing ever more violent as the United States spent billions trying to control the mayhem.