How To Use Befog In A Sentence
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In a world befogged by superficiality, moments of clarity are few and far between.
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Professing, then, that having missed our way we must needs hurry on to make up for lost time, I listened patiently to the minute and befogging directions given us for finding the St. Malo road and ordered my party to march.
Humphrey Bold A Story of the Times of Benbow
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Besieged, befogged, we don't dare to voice the simmering question: "When will it ever end?"
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I see Russia and Putin from my back porch ... simply befogs my mind.
Poll: Palin decision doesn't change minds
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This seems to me to be the lesson of any view of the human prospect that is not befogged by groundless hopes.
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It's not just the classy British accent — which so often befogs the minds of Americans.
"It would be absurd to say that you can’t stick something under the fingernails, smack them in the face."
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He had not been German long enough for befogging his mind to that point, but the moment was decisive for much to come, especially for political morals.
Rome (1859–1860)
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Through a constricted throat and a befogged reason, I heard myself mutter something about the disparity of our stations.
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Befogged we have been, and don't take my word for it.
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Still, it is clearly pedantic to avoid the obvious by clothing it in befogged terminology, as one might by writing arenaceous or sabulous for sandy, immund for dirty, nates for buttocks, or venenate for poison (vb.).
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 3
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Recent financial market turmoil and the never-ending euro-zone sovereign-debt crisis have befogged the outlook for the German economy," said Carsten Brzeski , an economist with ING Bank in Brussels.
German Business Confidence Falls
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And he knew why a cloud was thus effectually befogging his wits.
Number Seventeen
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The rest of the year, when we're emailing and texting and Words-With-Friending, and we're befogged by clashing inputs, we don't have the attention span or patience to watch commercials unfold.
Adam Hanft: Capitalist Porn - Behind the Fetishization of Super Bowl Commercials
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Such souls, I suppose, are asleep, or smothered and befogged beneath mean pleasures and cares.
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In the befogged recesses of her brain has arisen a fleeting memory that she was once a girl.
THE CHILDREN
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As a bad actor befogs Shakespeare's meaning, so a good actor illuminates it.
The Story of My Life
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Tartarin of Tarascon, nearly overcome, dwelt a moment scanning the fellow-passengers, comically shaken by the jolts, and dancing before him like the shadows in galanty-shows, till his eyes grew cloudy and his mind befogged, and only vaguely he heard the wheels grind and the sides of the conveyance squeak complainingly.
Tartarin of Tarascon
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This seems to me to be the lesson of any view of the human prospect that is not befogged by groundless hopes.
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I have seen this work twice now, and am still happily befogged by it.
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They were simply digressive, which was to be expected, as elation befogs one's "goal idea.
A Mind That Found Itself An Autobiography
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Therefore, we do well by starting from the beginning, because all social thought is befogged by prevailing historical circumstances.
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Perhaps this cornucopia of educational opportunities is befogging you.
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He wondered if she really had any power to hurt him, if there resided in her any more potent charm than other women possessed, or if it were a mere sentimental befogging of his mind due to the physical propinquity of her at a time when he was weak and bruised and helpless.
Poor Man's Rock
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Still, it is clearly pedantic to avoid the obvious by clothing it in befogged terminology, as one might by writing arenaceous or sabulous for sandy, immund for dirty, nates for buttocks, or venenate for poison (vb.).
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 3
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Therefore, we do well by starting from the beginning, because all social thought is befogged by prevailing historical circumstances.
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a mind befogged with drink
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Even with modern efficacious treatments for schizophrenia, we face troubling questions about how much they befog the mind and how much they harm the brain.
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Just in case my brain-befogged state rendered the rules less than perfectly clear, what YA author Phoebe Kitanidis and I are inviting the Author!
Author! Author! » 2010 » April
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He is blinded and befogged by two things: (1) his (i.e. their) aristocratism, and again (2) his satisfaction in splendour and get-up, provided it is attached to moral greatness.
Cyropaedia
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It is surrounded by the same mystique that befogs other aspects of the Constitution.
Founders Chic
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For now the not said acquires a significance and a specific confusion befogs the spaces of the public sphere, which is where the action is…The point about silencing and the fear behind silencing is not to erase memory.
Formosa Calling: Shackleton's Account of 2-28
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We imagined Britain to be a cold, befogged island of coal surrounded by fish.
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My brain was too befogged to wonder why she had been led there.
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In a world befogged by superficiality, moments of clarity are few and far between.
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The male members of the family smoke a weed which they call Machorka and it befogs everything.
Stuka Pilot
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In an area as difficult as climate science, in which all is complex and befogged, it takes a while to see what one is not prepared to look for.
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Recent financial market turmoil and the never-ending euro-zone sovereign debt crisis have befogged the outlook for the German economy," said Carsten Brzeski , an economist with ING in Brussels.
German Firms' Confidence Hits 15-Month Low
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The American biblical scholar Bart Ehrman, in a book whose subtitle is The Story Behind Who Changed the New Testament and Why, unfolds the huge uncertainty befogging the New Testament texts.
The God Delusion
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If Bleak House was befogged, Our Mutual Friend is watery and ashed-upon.
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Once again this looks like an intellectual befogging the issue and ignoring the obvious.
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The quotation marks around the word “suspicion” befogs the meaning of the phrase.
My Thoughts on the 2007 New York Food & Wine Classic
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Something about the way she looked at him befogged his mind.
DRAGON GAMES
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But that should not deter me from protesting against their evasion of the issues, their befogging of the problems involved, their failure to prove their case or to offer satisfactory replies to criticism which is given in a fair and frank fashion.
The Journal of Abnormal Psychology
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In an area as difficult as climate science, in which all is complex and befogged, it takes a while to see what one is not prepared to look for.
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Gradually the sound fades into the distance, looming all the while like an increasingly befogged Fall Of The House Of Usher.
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For an instant Conan chased them, his sword held high and rage befogging his mind.
Conan the Fearless
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These entailed not only befogging at the time, but disillusionment thereafter.
This Freedom
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Challengers Juve, who play Vicenza today, are currently befogged in speculation.
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But, as it chanced, Mr. O'Connor's elaborate mechanism for befogging his trail was entirely wasted, for the President, so far as could be learned, said not a thing on the subject to anybody.
White Ashes
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Or is the evidence and environment so befogged with uncertainty that the best analysts can offer the National Security Council is a 0.3 level of confidence?
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Then resolutely Jurgen put aside the spell that was befogging him.
Jurgen A Comedy of Justice
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Six-plus years after 9/11; while the Taliban attempts an Afghanistan comeback; as Islamist terrorists cause mayhem in Algeria and occupy huge swaths of tribal Pakistan; despite "United 93" and "The Kite Runner," a library-full of books, presidential commissions, congressional hearings, and four election cycles — despite all of that, a strange, Victorian reticence about naming the enemy in the contest for the human future in which we are engaged befogs this political season.
The War Against Jihadism
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Feels more like a dream, & somewhere in the back of my befogged mind, I understand that this is good—that I have, at the very least, some defense mechanisms still left in place.
Hollywood Savage
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As in life so in poetry, there's need for space, caesura the moment that brings forth brief befogged epiphanies.
