Too much accommodation and one loses one's bearings in the necessary conventions of thought.

As one might suspect, this tendency to lose one's bearings at the wheel can have unhappy results.

To get to Serendib, one must plot one's course in good faith elsewhere and then lose one's bearings - serendipitously.

Mr. Hayden is the first to concede that it was a period when it was easy to lose one's bearings.

The more powerful its spell, the more it isolates the conjurer inside a bubble in which the chances of losing one's bearings increase over time.

Luckily, it was impossible to lose one's bearings inside Rama; a single glance at the sky was enough to establish the north-south axis of the world.

It would be easy to lose one's bearings in the dense undergrowth, and I believed Pablo's tales of spotting jaguar at Tikal, as well as ocelot and tapir.

One tended to lose one's bearings in the presence of willful and persistent acts of craziness, and the more gentle the act, the crazier it seemed, as if rage and violence, being closer to the norm, were easier to accommodate.

To the Editor: The Dec. 7 Cases column, "Losing One's Bearings at the Life-Death Border," illustrates the sad delusions that both doctors and the public have concerning the reality of death and the ability of medical science to delay it.

The glacier is completely flat, and it's easy to lose your bearings."

"If you can see anything positive in these dismal facts, then you have completely lost your bearings," she told the Chancellor.

With no set, no stage-front, and the audience on all sides, this is an easy production in which to lose your bearings.

In places, the script is dense with anguish and fragmented imagery, and you lose your bearings.

"When you lose your job, you often lose your bearings," he said.

Dither at the hub for a moment and you could lose your bearings - even the direction from whence you came.

"Don't lose your bearings," he instructed himself sternly.

"If you don't understand that this is what the university is all about - diverse opinions - then you have lost your bearings," he said.

Some prints say, "Don't Cry for Argentina," in case you lose your bearings.

Lose your bearings?"

"You were so caught up in pleasure faith you lost your bearings, Ama Clutch."

Oh, and as you are swimming, try not to lose your bearings and always remember that the word 'utopia' means 'of no place at all'."

"If you don't stand by your friends if they are unfairly attacked," Mr. McCain said Friday, "then you've lost your bearings."

It is denser than you can imagine, and it is all too easy to lose your bearings and head away from our camp when you believe you are heading toward it.

WHEN GOOD OR GREAT theater comes along, it makes you lose your bearings: it lures, hurtles or compels you into another world.

A pre-planned itinerary is not essential here - you'll probably be drawn by a pretty-looking balcony, turn down an alleyway to watch kittens playing, then a boutique will catch your eye until eventually you've lost your bearings.

Please take your electric light and go to--but never mind, it is not for me to suggest; you will probably find the way; and any way you can reasonably count on divine assistance if you lose your bearings.

When you have tramped over and over again the circuitous paths of analysis looking for a better move than anything yet seen, there is a real danger of losing your bearings and circling back on an alternative that you and everybody else had rejected long ago.

Even when you've descended so far into the earth that you've lost your bearings utterly and wouldn't be in the least surprised to pass a troop of blackened miners coming off shift, there's always the rumble and tremble of a train passing somewhere on an unknown line even further below.

When he took up the cause of postwar composers like Luciano Berio, Pierre Boulez and Hans Werner Henze, Ernest Ansermet, another Swiss conductor and an ardent advocate of Stravinsky, wrote to him, "You have lost your bearings."