Overturner

Then came the Revolution, that mighty overturner of all things sacred and time-honored, and a new chapter was written in the story of the Sainte Ampoule. ❋ Charles Morris (1877)

Portraits of Theodoric himself, unfortunately we have none; but we have two absolutely contemporary portraits of Justinian, the overturner of his kingdom, and one of Justinian's wife, the celebrated ❋ Thomas Hodgkin (1872)

Vegetation is the peaceable overturner of buildings, the battering-ram which brings them to the ground, though the trumpets never sound for siege. ❋ Senator Cassiodorus (1872)

There was yet another change brought about by that great overturner ❋ Unknown (1859)

A herald interrupts them in the midst of their lamentations to announce to them the decree of the senate, which is that Eteocles, on account of his attachment to his country, though a fratricide, shall be honored with fitting funeral rites, but that Polynices, the would-be overturner of his native city, shall be cast out unburied, a prey to the dogs. ❋ 525 BC-456 BC Aeschylus (1840)

I did the overturned tortoise [last night], [arms and legs] [everywhere]. ❋ Joshyyyy (2010)

Person 1: You know that [Dutch girl] who moved to [Norfolk]? She's such an [overturned tortoise]! Person 2: I know, right... ❋ Dragonfyre1 (2010)

Having lost the 2020 presidential election to Biden, judged the loser by every standard, Trump entered a state of delusory denial. Ignoring the stunning fact that more than 3,000 Americans a day were dying of Covid, that hospitals were unable to meet demands for basic care, that many places had no available [ICU] beds, that millions were facing poverty, hunger and [eviction], having been [smacked down] and laughed off by every court to which he took his tantrum, his sole focus was still on trying to overturn the election. ❋ Monkey's Dad (2020)

The president, living in a delusional state of paranoid [denial], ordered his supporters to storm [the capitol] building with the intent of severely harming, if not killing, basically every senator and [representative] who didn't support him in a last ditch attempt at overturning the election. ❋ Intelligence001 (2021)