“But somehow none of them expected that to happen, not after all the confused shouting and general bedlam which had followed those predawn bugle calls.”

“The silence unnerved him, especially after the chaotic bedlam he'd just left, and the sheer stillness sparked a bolt of anxiety to rip through him.”

“It's easy to give up and to accept the bedlam that has become our culture.”

“Soviet dissidents were political heretics, and though they did not burn on the stake, they were sent to bedlams for their sins.”

“Their services were viewed as bedlams of raw emotion, bodily contortions and gibberish.”