This upending of their style isn't even radical enough to be bad.

You'd think that, say, the upending of Christianity would utterly change our world.

They seek orderly and gradual change not the sudden upending of the established order.

How do you view the upending of ordinary life in Dry Falls?

It is this passion for upending tradition, more than architecture itself, that keeps Koolhaas engaged.

Britten's delicate music simply cannot bear this lopsided upending of balances.

Chaos and joy implies a real day of misrule, an upending of the social order,societal norms.

Were "Terrors and Experts" nothing but an exercise in the cutesy upending of expectations, it would quickly pall.

On the contrary, the upending of the UK's growth assumptions has made it even less likely that Britain's fiscal numbers will add up.

For some, Moschino's deliberate upending of convention was no more than Italian irreverence carried to comic extremes.

It's very funny in its upending of expectation - most extras are called on to feign joy, after all - but it is thematic as well.

That Mr. Saint Laurent responded, vividly, to the upending of the world in which he lived is indisputable.

Looked at one way, the show is an upending of the standard country-music model, in which the singer must sing because he is tortured by his memories.

Effective revamping of the congeries of rival committees and subcommittees must entail an upending of most lawmakers' personal power bases.

"Oleanna" certainly appears to be an upending of Mamet's universe and all that has been until now, if not sacred, at least consecrated by time and habit.

The Rangers thought there should have been a tripping penalty called on Oates for upending Mathieu Schneider in the left corner on the winning sequence.

In what seems a mischievous upending of expectations, the acoustic instruments imitate sound effects associated with electronic techniques: bleeps, slides, every-which-way splatterings of fast notes.

The Scarlet Knights had not defeated a higher-ranked opponent than UConn since upending No. 16 Temple in December 1997.

She said schools were already struggling with federal mandates to improve test scores and would be hard-pressed to extend the school day to incorporate more recess without upending labor contracts.

It seems clear that without some drastic upending of the museum's financial picture - an angelic intervention from a deep-pocketed benefactor, for example - the place may never become self-sustaining.

Meston relished the upending of cherished Western fiction clichés and felt that few Westerns gave any inkling of how brutal the Old West was in reality.

Feminism: Starstruck is consistently lauded for its mostly female cast, the depth and range of the individual characters, and the upending of gender and sexual stereotypes through the series.

Indeed, there is something of turn-of-the-century France in Mr. Kernis's pedal-induced layers of color, although his subtle upending of metric patterns updates any references to Impressionism.

The set designer, John Lee Beatty, jazzes up the surreal denouement in which the author, in a typical upending of conventional dramatic form, shuffles reality and hallucination to vertigo-inducing effect.

The upending of the complex system that has governed milk production for decades shows that even a long-entrenched interest group like dairy farmers can lose its hold on Congress in a year of rapid change.

One night she had a party, and everything was upended again.

If my own life had not upended over the past few days, I would have been on the side of the police.

Only this time, instead of upending a table, it was a car.

The staff rolled out of his hands and upended itself.

As such, another economic assumption of old has been upended.

Of course, their traditions are not only about to change, but will also be upended.

In many ways, Merrill's long history has been upended by its recent one.

Some states have also question the law, saying it has upended their own efforts and school reform.

Traditional marriage, with its 5,000-year history, has already been upended.

Now the scene is being upended by bigger players, who play hard.

He upended his drink and went for another, not looking particularly concerned.

A large bed had been upended and was resting against the wall.

Each side has a different version of who upended the budget process this year.

And upended the pot over the head of the man who had been her brother.

Meanwhile, technology has upended traditional ideas of what people watch and when.

Most of all, it's about the struggle to figure out who you are when your life is suddenly upended.

I reached back and with my foot upended the vehicle.

Several days later, he upended 30 years of immigration policy on Cuba.

For many who do, the ritual of voting has been upended.

Within a few months, though, the Bush administration's optimistic assumptions had been upended.

Now, however, whatever transition discussions were under way have been upended.

Another boat had upended, spilling its men into the sea.

She shook out a cloth and upended a small box.

I stepped behind Jamie and upended it on his head.

The chaos in Iraq, he said, had upended the old stereotypes.