Perhaps the wild, chaotic years of wandering as an exile had bred in him a bitterness beyond common conception.

In a single chaotic year, power passed violently from one to another of four emperors.

Only rarely does he slip back into the improvisational excesses and indecision of his first chaotic year.

"It's going to be a very chaotic, turmoil-ridden 10 years."

Some officials are predicting a chaotic year in county government.

These words would seem prophetic during the chaotic first thirty years in the existence of Ecuador.

After so many chaotic years, Kerry's life is more stable now, and he seems unencumbered by bitterness or anger over what happened to him.

In the chaotic early years of new Russian capitalism, accounting standards here were poorly suited to market economics.

It was the stock market's most chaotic year since World War II.

Nevertheless, the regime continued to function through the chaotic year of 1905, eventually restoring order in the cities, the countryside, and the army.