(n.) The great hall or council chamber of demons or evil spirits.
(n.) An utterly lawless, riotous place or assemblage.
Example Sentences:
(1) I remember him sinking to his knees in tears and the chicken run where I was watching erupted into pandemonium along with everyone else.
(2) Korine gifted Alien to James Franco , who immediately agreed to do it, and the director drove to Panama City to write a draft in the midst of authentic spring-break pandemonium.
(3) Dealing in the shares began on 3 December amid what was described as "pandemonium" on the London Stock Exchange, as share dealers wearing BT hardhats swarmed the floor looking to buy up the stock.
(4) At King's College London, where Jarman was a student, immersive exhibition Pandemonium includes rarely seen Super-8 films and elaborate notebooks, while Tate Modern is screening his final film, Blue.
(5) The decision sparked pandemonium in the court, as lawyers and relatives of people killed during the 2011 uprising began shouting.
(6) She “ revealed the indignities and suffering inflicted on farm animals by industrialised agriculture ”, by apparently just asking to be shown: The farmer switched on the light and there was instant pandemonium within a row of narrow, enclosed crates at one end of the shed.
(7) Apparently when they scored a last-minute equaliser against Chile, it caused such pandemonium at Ayresome Park, the strip lighting in the press box came down."
(8) "There was understandable pandemonium in the morning.
(9) In the conference halls and the streets around them, the summits tend to be sheer pandemonium: activists arrive smeared in green paint or sweating behind furry polar bear suits; peasant women from the Andes in traditional bowler hats sing songs to Mother Earth when their leaders are on camera; celebrities bring their own circus – Robert Redford is expected to come to Paris and Thom Yorke is a conference regular.
(10) 29 min: Play switches to the other end of the field, where a free-kick swung into the Manchester City penalty area by Marco Reus briefly causes pandemonium.
(11) Its reporter said there was “slight pandemonium” and that one person was killed in the rush to get out.
(12) The combination of shrinking habitat and increasing human pandemonium have produced conditions under which the channels … necessary for creature survival are being completely overloaded.
(13) As the pandemonium died down, it became clear that the strangers in black were a Swat team of police officers from the local Habersham County force – they had raided the house on the incorrect assumption that occupants were involved in drugs.
(14) Pandemonium erupted when the not guilty verdict was announced.
(15) How does she survive on a pittance in that pitiless pandemonium?
(16) With pandemonium unfolding all around them, the faces of Tawfiq, Sultan and Sa'dun were lost and forgotten in the crush.
(17) It's a small sample of the estimated 45,000 deployments that occur in the US each year (up from 1,400% from the '80s), but the report reveals a picture of law enforcement as flash-bang assault unit , with hardly an actual suspect in harm's way: pandemonium in a baby's crib; a grandfather of 12 killed by a discharged gun; Swat officers gunning down a mother as she died, child in her arms.
(18) The helicopter triggers pandemonium on the newly formed island village, a cluster of mud houses poking over the surface of the sprawling inland sea in southern Pakistan .
(19) Four Afghan brothers who said they had worked as translators for the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) but had been forced to flee from the Taliban; a nine-year-old Syrian girl called Hadig, her arm decked in loom bands, and 55-year-old Shah Mohamad Tagi, whose face had been badly burnt in a bomb attack on his native home town of Herat, Afghanistan, all told similar stories that underlined the sense of pandemonium.
(20) Key changes made to the executive order mean that similar scenes of pandemonium are much less likely to be witnessed at midnight Thursday.
Riotous
Definition:
(a.) Involving, or engaging in, riot; wanton; unrestrained; luxurious.
(a.) Partaking of the nature of an unlawful assembly or its acts; seditious.
Example Sentences:
(1) Afternoon Delights doesn't have anything approaching a mission statement – it's just two middle-aged men arsing about, frankly – but its gleeful anarchism can be riotously funny: witness the pair as free runners, declaring "war against the urban environment", or their magnificently coiffed Rock'n'Rollers, with the aid of subtitles, showing off their moves on the streets of Ashford, Kent.
(2) Shakespeare's Globe, 30–31 May I, Cinna Tim Crouch's one-man reimaginings of the plays, intended for young audiences, are riotous.
(3) Judging from your recent tweets, you had quite a riotous time at the Radio Times party last night?
(4) This led directly to Briers working with Branagh on many subsequent projects: as a perhaps too likeable Malvolio ("My best part, and I know it," he said) in an otherwise wintry Twelfth Night at the Riverside Studios, Hammersmith, in 1987, and on a world tour with the Renaissance company as a ropey King Lear (the set really was a mass of ropes, the production dubbed "String Lear") and a sagacious, though not riotously funny, Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream.
(5) The first is a normal one; the others are disorderly and riotous, up to the point of foreing the discontinuance of academic activities for several months.
(6) The film is fast-paced and riotous and represents a dire warning about eating Mexican food before attending a wedding dress fitting.
(7) Hip Hop Karaoke every Thursday at The Social, London and at Shipping Forecast, Liverpool, 20 February; Limelight, Belfast, 8 March, hiphopkaraoke.co.uk Rebel Bingo Facebook Twitter Pinterest Once called The Underground Rebel Bingo Club, the riotous night of number yelling and covering yourself in daubers has had to drop the “underground” part of its name, presumably because it’s gone stratospheric.
(8) MySpace was riotous, vulgar and slightly weird – partly because it allowed users to decorate their pages by adding customised HTML code.
(9) Of the 229 people detained as part of Operation Dulcet – the huge drive to bring lawbreakers to justice – 174 have been charged with offences including riotous assembly, affray, unlawful assembly, assault on police and criminal damage.
(10) She is also the muse and favourite collaborator of composers from Gerald Barry to Pierre Boulez , from Henri Dutilleux to Michel van der Aa , and was magnetic as a hysterically imperious crockery-chucking Cecily Cardew in Barry's riotous The Importance of Being Earnest , and as the coloratura coquette she created for his The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant at English National Opera.
(11) The judge ruled that losses claimed did "arise out of the injury to and destruction of the warehouse and injury to, theft of or destruction of property within the warehouse, by persons riotously and tumultuously assembled" within the meaning of the 1886 act.
(12) Comparisons are cruel but Scolari's Chelsea have as yet offered only glimpses of their riotous best at a ground where they had previously proved imperious.
(13) However, hidden Soho gem Boi Box is my top tip, with its small family of drag kings putting on riotous monthly performances at She Bar.
(14) I used to go on holiday with my friend Jessica and her family and, in among riotous games of whist and races on the beach, I remember her, after a tearful row over a packet of biscuits that had been unfairly distributed, slamming the bedroom door and hurling herself on to the bottom bunk.
(15) The time had come for his brand of racy and riotous comedy.
(16) The film had brought him nothing but trouble in its time, but now here it was in its uncut glory and the audience were on their feet giving Russell a riotous standing ovation.
(17) I believe in God, everything I see is part of God, but not in that way.” Still, even during the riotous hedonism of the Studio 54 era, Mas P’s fear of God remained hammered into her.
(18) The famous Scottish Divided Self, our Jekyll and Hyde complex, often simply involves a swing between riotously emphatic tartan cliches and real self-doubt.
(19) Suggestive "slo-mo" shots of young women enjoying the eroticised rituals of one of America's student rites of passage – the riotous spring vacation – may suggest Korine is straying dangerously close to a teen exploitation movie.
(20) The relaxation of censorship encouraged the riotous reproduction of visual satire, from political cartoons to mockery of manners and morals.