This threat to disrupt his fifty-fifty plan brought him out of something that was like stupor.
"When Egypt Went Broke"
Holman Day
John Stuyvesant Schuyler and Thomas Cathcart Blake loved their wives; and when a man has loved a woman, and that woman his wife, as these two had loved, it seems in a way to disrupt the cosmogony of things.
"A Fool There Was"
Porter Emerson Browne
We are disliked, as Stendhal says, because all differences create hatred; because by showing it its face in the glass we tend to disrupt society, to exhibit to its shocked eyes what is inane in its political constitution, barbarous in its moral code.
"A Novelist on Novels"
W. L. George