Victoria Pendleton

To be honest, after you've crossed the line at the Olympic Games, it is bedlam for the next, about, five or six hours. Media, press conference, dope control - you might get some food if you're lucky. You might see family if you're lucky.

British Athlete

Nish Kumar

I got fired from a job years ago. It was an accounting job. They were basically trying to cut corners, so they employed a bunch of temps to do proper accounting. And it just caused absolute bedlam and I did get fired.

British Comedian

Amy Gerstler

One of those quiet types who logs a lot of time in the bedlam of her head, I sometimes need to be startled awake to the fact that the outside world still exists.

American Poet

Emily Blunt

I used to look like a deer in headlights on the red carpet. You step out of the car and it's bedlam. Everyone's got crazy eyes.

British Actress

Implies extreme disorganization often with loud noise or confusion.

Intensity of Disorder

Used to describe situations negatively, suggesting unwanted chaos.

Negative Connotation

Often arouses feelings of frustration or stress in those involved.

Emotional Response

Originally was the name of a London hospital for the mentally ill.

Historical Term

Now an outdated term for asylums, rarely used in modern contexts.

Archaic Usage

Common in historical or literary contexts, not in everyday conversation.

Cultural References

 in a normally when you improvise an idea at all the time around the world there's this initial period of kind of horror like everyone's to fright to throw their hat into the ring an awful pregnant silence and then suddenly as if by magic bang they're all in there it's complete bedlam you can't hear anything no one's

Trusting the ensemble -...

 Normally when you improvise -- and I do it all the time around the world -- there's this initial period of horror, like everyone's too frightened to throw the hat into the ring, an awful pregnant silence. Then suddenly, as if by magic, bang! We're all in there and it's complete bedlam. You can't hear anything.

Charles Hazlewood:...

 of four hours and we're in row boats and it was just bedlam and it was it was inspiring to see the sharks but it was very depressing to be a human being that morning I just found it very Wow we are just pressing down so hard and yet we have to be inspiring we cannot send out gloom and doom or people will

Bedlam