As played by Clive Owen, Children of Men's Theo Faron is the most bloody-mindedly reluctant of lionhearts amid the grey chaos of refugee camps and suicide kits, just as Jonathan Pryce's Sam Lowry in Brazil only loses his rag after a lifetime of pliant, mousy civil service.

Beyond the window was grey chaos.

Movement in the gray chaos caught his attention.

The past is the present, and if there is no past, the present is without form or meaning, a murky gray chaos.

I saw only wet gray chaos and a swirling motion.

Forward of that, the port pipe room was swirling gray chaos.

They fought on together in an eternity of grey chaos, cold and exhausted and terrified, against the screaming winds above and the hammering waters below.

He reckoned it was better to risk death at sea than to be murdered ashore, and so he took us into a grey chaos of wind, darkness and water.

The colors he perceives are all in his mind, for the gray chaos where he waits has no color, but color is how he sees them.