How To Use Confusion In A Sentence

A good deal of role confusion and bewilderment as the growing child encounters the newer ways is to be expected and observed.
There is a good deal of confusion over the use of concepts to analyse the institutions and processes of policy-making.
Omissions in my recent article must have caused confusion.
This led to some confusion about whether or not the men of the choir would intone the chant again.
In the ensuing confusion another 8 persons were hurt.

This regress is signalled not only by increases in mental confusion but by typography less and less coherent, the type straying over the page, and with some pages simply blank.
If inattention is the cause for confusion then that's on the inattentive. A Disclaimer for Behe?
Restlessness, anxiety , confusion, and twitching may also precede convulsions.
The court martial highlighted confusion among high-ranking military officers about whether conditioning was lawful or not.
Her smile fading and her expression turning to one of mild confusion, Harstad asked, “I beg your pardon?” Star Trek: Typhon Pact Paths of Disharmony
Judah and Jerusalem desolate then this credit of the prophets, and the hopes of the people, will both sink together; the former will be found false in flattering the people and the latter foolish in suffering themselves to be imposed upon by them, and so exposed to so much the greater confusion, when the judgment shall surprise them in their security. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
Her head spun and her vision blurred from the effort but through the confusion she could see a faint light spread out from her hand and wash over her body.
Immediately any confusion over identity would have been solved.
In the confusion that followed, she managed to slip away unnoticed.
The local council has been thrown into total confusion by her resignation.
A mark of the confusion attending the rescue operation came when it was widely reported that five firefighters, trapped for two days in the rubble, had been freed from their concrete tomb.
The elements selected from the confusion of conflicting movements have this different and very distinctive bias.
His frequent use of slang threw the students into mental confusion.
This latest decision has only added to the general confusion.
She bit her lip in confusion, alarmed at the wash of warmth in her body.
A sheet of charcoal clouds stretches into white lace: confusion letting in light.
Most significantly for the theme of this book we talk to: Conceal our desires, hide our vulnerability or confusion.
How long they get away with it depends on how long they can sow confusion and doubt.
The lamp, standing alone in the midst of confusion, suffered a partial eclipse; and my favourite Dublin meerschaum successfully resisted the dilapidating effect of a fall of several feet. Canada for Gentlemen
Then, when the attack did come, confusion reigned supreme - and not just in the initial minutes, but for hours, days and years.
There is what Maximus and others called a 'theandric', a divine-human reality going on there, and the icon, the image of Jesus Christ represents that theandric reality - the interweaving (not fusion or confusion) of the endless, divine resourcefulness of agency and love with the particularities of a human life. Royal Academy of Arts Byzantium Lecture 'Icons and the Practice of Prayer'
I don't get your confusion if I mutter under my breath about the enormity of your shelter, or your look of dry indignation if I run and buddy up with you under your brolly - there's room enough for two, no?
Her speech sliced through all the confusion surrounding the situation.
The laws of Nature, that is to say the laws of God, plainly made every human being a law unto himself, we must steadfastly refuse to obey those laws, and we must as steadfastly stand by the conventions which ignore them, since the statutes furnish us peace, fairly good government and stability, and therefore are better for us than the laws of God, which would soon plunge us into confusion and disorder and anarchy if we should adopt them.
My mind was in such a whir of confusion and disorder.
Too many commentators opt much too quickly for an ascription of confusion in order fallaciously to 'solve' a problem in textual interpretation.
Medically prescribed drugs - essential though they may be - sometimes bring about confusion or memory loss.
An imbalance between these two often causes the quest for gender equality to be shrouded in confusion.
The farther the ratio between the rates of rod and disc departs from exactly 1: 5, whether less or greater, the more rapid will the strobic movement, backward or forward, be; until finally the divergence is too great, the newly forming bands lie too far ahead or behind those already formed to fuse with them and so be apperceived as one system, and so the bands are lost in confusion. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory.
And as long as we use the term ambiguously and fail to discriminate between conscience proper and the term as used in the looser, larger sense, we will have nothing but confusion. To Infidelity and Back
It is necessary to point out this fact to prevent a confusion of socialism and interventionism.
Such conditions can lead to dizziness, weakness, lethargy and confusion.
My idea of a desert is an eternal agony, plotted by the fury of the aridity, by the implacable confusion of a sun which, trampled by the wind, melts with the sand, until there is no other landscape than the sand dominating the sky, the ground, the wind. Flowers in the Desert
When prices are fluctuating, general confusion prevails regarding the behaviour of relative prices.
There is some confusion about what the correct procedure should be.
July brings confusion to your romance and you may need to remind yourself why you're in love!
No, what is required is something contemporary, a song that at least emerged from the confusion of modern, urban Scotland, that sings of the streets rather than the rivers and sheepfolds.
I tried to clear the confusion that was fogging my brain.
Confusion and perplexity characterise the political establishment everywhere.
To break through this confusion, scholarship needs to be conceptualized by source of ideas in the craft of doing analysis.
The rest of the evening passed away in a haze of confusion.
Jullundur was in a state of the greatest confusion. Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief
And as he watched her in confusion, Shelley's chuckle turned into an uncontrollable, hysterical fit of laughter.
There was considerable confusion in the administration over the correct procedure.
And it was for that reason, because of all that fear, and want, and confusion, that I had eventually resolved on asking him to be friends.
By the 1950s confusion had arisen over the use of geological terms referring to strata and to time.
There seems to be some confusion about what one should be doing at the moment.
Even in our sensual days the strength of delight is in its seldomness or rarity, and sting in its satiety; mediocrity is its life, and immoderacy its confusion. A History of Elizabethan Literature
The shock of impact riddled both pilots with confusion, stumbling to regain control of their mechs.
But there is some confusion in its use, for it is applied not only to the supreme being but to a double incarnation of him called Nara-Nârâyaṇa, and images of the pair may still be seen in Vishnuite temples. Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 2
While this is not always true, it does exist here and it adds another layer of foggy, depersonalized confusion as to who and watch we are watching.
He looked back and there was Megan, standing at the door with a tear stained face, her expression showing pure and utter confusion and disbelief.
The basis for the confusion arises from the visible suture between somites 4 and 5, which suggests that the fusion is not complete.
The disease causes sleep disorders, mental confusion, personality changes, speech problems, seizures and coma.
The term "sundowning" refers to a state of confusion at the end of the day and into the night, often leading to a state of increased agitation, activity and even borderline demented behavior. BroadwayWorld.com South Carolina Stories
My lips parted in my confusion, and I stuttered a bit, embarrassingly, in my need to comprehend exactly what it was he was saying, ‘W-what?’
He adds, a few lines further on, that this term freedom is an indefinite, and incalculably ambiguous term… liable to an infinity of misunderstandings, confusions and errors.
Marie tried to find the right words to give shape to the confusion in her head.
The doctrine that there are mental presentations which necessarily refer to external things is not only bad natural science; it is also bad phenomenology and conceptual confusion.
In the film, the city is a metaphor for confusion and loneliness.
The confusion was caused when two numbers were accidentally transposed by a Social Security clerk.
It's a confidence game updated and used for political, or in this case, the artist's, purposes, which seem to lie partly in sowing confusion.
The legal rules are unsettled, and will cause some confusion with the advent of satellite television.
Amanda's predominant emotion was that of confusion.
he changed his name in order to avoid confusion with the notorious outlaw
Often such complex layouts lead to immediate confusion, but the manual gets you off the ground with some helpful suggested settings.
As the story unfolded throughout the past week, I experienced the gamut of emotions: shock, anger, sadness, disgust, confusion.
The use of "demantoid" alone, if a noun may be made from the adjective, would avoid both the confusion with the mineral olivine, and the cheapening effect of the word garnet, and would at the same time suggest some of the most striking properties of the material. A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public
Janyn was strolling jauntily back towards his headland and the open fields, where he could fly the merlin on his creance without tangling her in trees to her confusion and displeasure. The Devil's Novice
They can create nocturnal confusion, can result in cognitive and motor impairment, and can increase the risks of falls.
The disease causes sleep dicordersdisorders, mental confusion, personality changes, speech problems, seizures and coma.
Labour seem to be in confusion themselves about when to cut - Mandy has already cut £300 million from his own department this year. toco Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?
Taking on multiple roles that have the potential for so much confusion is probably unadvisable, Campbell suggested.
Zarate did mention that his patients suffered certain adverse events, including “perceptual disturbances, confusion… increased libido…euphoria and derealization.” MANUFACTURING DEPRESSION
She looked up at him, confusion knitting her brows.
There is no use in seeing the parlous situation of the Aboriginal community as requiring increased funding. We first have to unshackle ourselves from much of the confusion that prevails.
The eggs of the bronze-winged jacana have a rich brownish-bronze background, on which black lines are scribbled in inextricable confusion, so that the egg looks as though Arabic texts had been scrawled over it. A Bird Calendar for Northern India
They learn to turn people into things, but they don't learn how to unturn them; and then, when they get mad in their families – you know how it is about getting mad in families – there is confusion. Little Saint Elizabeth, and Other Stories
The prevailing state of the world is one of irreligion, which is bound to result in anarchy and confusion. Bahá’u’lláh and the New Era
Below the decks, the middle passage was a hot, narrow, sunless nightmare; weeks and months of confinement and abuse and confusion on a strange and lonely sea.
The bottom is covered with a confusion of broken rubble and weed.
There is likewise more or less headache, neuralgia, giddiness, hebetude (state of mild stupidity), dejection, confusion of the senses, skin disease, acne rosacea (scarlet redness of the nose and cheeks), eczema, etc. Intestinal Ills Chronic Constipation, Indigestion, Autogenetic Poisons, Diarrhea, Piles, Etc. Also Auto-Infection, Auto-Intoxication, Anemia, Emaciation, Etc. Due to Proctitis and Colitis
As a result those differences have been misnamed and misused in the service of separation and confusion.
The result of this admixture of the real and the unreal is confusion thrice confounded. The Somnambulists
I can understand sowing confusion in Ancelstierre to facilitate an attack across the Wall. ABHORSEN
Aidan woke, blinking up into the gray of predawn, confusion at his whereabouts making him question the heavy oaken beams above his head, the draft from a rattling set of windows, and the dampness in the smelly blankets covering him. Earl of Durkness
There is widespread confusion about the government's transport policy.
An exaggerated sense of antiquarianism, anthopologism, confusion of roles between the ordained and the non-ordained, a limitless provision of space for experimentation -- and indeed, the tendency to look down upon some aspects of the development of the Liturgy in the second millennium -- were increasingly visible among certain liturgical schools. Clear Words of Msgr Ranjith on the Flaws of the Postconciliar Liturgical Reforms and the Need for a Reform of the Reform
Getting rid of judges' wigs and tights, and the flummery and confusion surrounding the Lord Chancellor's role, appeals to the party's modernising instincts.
The laws of Nature, that is to say the laws of God, plainly made every human being a law unto himself, we must steadfastly refuse to obey those laws, and we must as steadfastly stand by the conventions which ignore them, since the statutes furnish us peace, fairly good government and stability, and therefore are better for us than the laws of God, which would soon plunge us into confusion and disorder and anarchy if we should adopt them.
Hooting matatu taxis add to the confusion with their somewhat tumultuous chaos.
So that there will be no confusion, comfit, when it comes to my wishes I will make you obey. Much Ado About Marriage
He saw Burun grin at Arghatun's confusion.
Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem to characterize our age.
Variants occur in B-Bc 27087 (‘Clemente nono Papa’) and LVu mus.4 (‘Clemens haud papa’) which support the theory that the suffix was created in jest rather than for practical reasons: Pope Clemens VII had died in 1534 (before the composer appeared in print), and the possibility of confusion with the poet Jacobus Papa in Ypres is just as unlikely, for in this case the surnames were quite distinct. Archive 2009-06-01
David Dyer-Bennet @ 312: "let me know when the t-shirts which have nothing to do with heresiarch other than having been inspired by the brief confusion are ready! Making Light: Rowling's being sued for plagiarism again
The jamming caused considerable confusion and slowed the British reaction, and as a result the German warships had passed through the strait of Dover before the first attacks were launched against them.
A confession, I am not very knowledgable, that is why I come to this forum to ask the following questions in the hope someone can explain and clarify my confusion. Wilders Security Forums
Excessive doses can cause panic, confusion, inability to sleep, hallucinations and paranoia.
They hacked and sliced at one another till there was no meaning left, only a confusion of bloodthirsty syllables spelling out absurdity.
The principle of using a hyphen to avoid confusion explains why no hyphen is required with very and with -ly adverbs. Essential Guide to Business Style and Usage
The wish to impose order upon confusion is a kind of intellectual instinct.
Often, the driver forgets to disengage the flasher after it has served its purpose, resulting in further confusion since turning indicators are rendered useless.
The burglars left things scattered in great confusion.
The climate of political confusion has only reinforced the country's economic decline.
If it goes on after Easter, then there will be major confusion when the orals and the practicals begin.
This will inevitably generate heated controversy, fuelled by continuing confusion over the technologies.
Eagerly she tugged the card off the Cellophane wrapping - then stared at it in confusion.
So he bore with his injurious usage, saying to himself, Verily insolence and evil-speaking are causes of perdition and cast into confusion, and it is said, ‘The insolent is shent and the ignorant doth repent; and whose feareth, to him safety is sent’: moderation marketh the noble and gentle manners are of gains the grandest. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Olga Knipper-Chekhova reeled back in shock and collapsed behind the curtain in confusion and terror.
A confusion of lorries and cement mixers defaced the area just past the green.
The process is loosely similar to the confusion/defusion cycles of encryption or the repeated mixing phases used for securely anonymous Internet communications. Unpredictable elections « Isegoria
Sometimes an author when notified is eager to have his/her publisher make adjustments to avoid confusion. Lorcan Dempsey’s post on name authorities « Collocate and Disambiguate
The budget provided the financial incentive, but much confusion still abounds over the use of unleaded petrol.
There was a confusion of footsteps as the Russian boys barreled down the steps, still calling to each other, and then the metallic sound repeated itself.
Mahadevan studied and restudied the inscriptions over and over again and found the confusion was not in them but in the minds of those who read them wrongly.
Thus, the two sides to Neptune are rapture or despair, delirious happiness versus pain and confusion.
Alan shook his head, an expression of wry confusion on his face.
Speaking as an anglophone who from time to time tries to ressurect his Grade 12 French, and as someone who has also spent some time in predominantly French-only parts of the country such as Chicoutimi, I immediately recognize the confusion introduced into the interview by this question:, what would you have done about this economy and this crisis. Mike watkins dot ca
From every direction, people were running and shouting and falling over each other in a tumult of confusion.
I thought it was really terrific how he had boiled so much nonsense away and kept a particular track through the midst of all this confusion and hoopla and blah-blah.
“The use of the word ‘Allah’ by non-Muslims may arouse sensitivity and create confusion among Muslims in the country,” Abdullah Mohd Zin said. Religion News Roundup — Islam: Music, Chess, and Sin
It is trying to be all things to all sorts of rich people but is this a recipe for confusion?
However, the court assumed that Rearden had raised a triable issue of fact on use as a mark and turned to a confusion analysis. Archive 2009-01-01
Thus, some obscurities and confusions in Chappell's account mirror the reality of the civil rights struggle itself.
To avoid confusion, please write the children's names clearly on all their school clothes.
The recent name change has been the source of some confusion.
When talking about quality, there is also often confusion about which aspect of a service is under consideration.
Lafferty's red herring usage of her favorite "paraphilia" or sexual deviation instead of sexual orientation or gender identity is a dead giveaway that she is attempting to feed off her readers 'fear and confusion. Bil Browning: TVC's Andrea Lafferty: A zombie queen in pastel
If you remove something with use you cause confusion on multiple fronts: first people have to become aware of the change, then they need to understand why the change was made, then they need to make the changes to their code base, and finally when they want to express rev = canonical with a @rel value, debates over what best @rel value represents the equivalent of another @rel value if it were used in @rev occur .. 0xDECAFBAD
Indecision and confusion about where funds were to come from and problems securing necessary materials also affected construction.
This report was published in good faith but we regret any confusion which may have been caused.
There was confusion, and gloom and sorrow, and curiosity among the domestics, while the retainers of the law went from place to place, making an inventory of the goods and chattels falling under their warrant of distress, or poinding, as it is called in the law of Scotland. The Antiquary
It has created confusion about the nature of sociological scholarship and has concealed opportunities for many more craft sociologists.
Parliament won the day, but such was the confusion neither side was quite sure who had won.
Fad diets only add to the confusion and contribute to the yo-yo syndrome so many of us experience.
The idea is to standardize procedures in order to avoid confusion and eliminate the many gray areas encountered in the past.
However much he might mock the pedantic generic confusions of the ‘pastoral, tragical comical’ theatre of his predecessors, Shakespeare was their heir.
For a while, chaos and confusion reigned.
His interference spilt over into confusion.
The healer had just finished his training, but in the confusion never said that all important, closing protective prayer and it seemed the devil himself somehow transmitted this mercifulness skin condition onto Spider ten fold. Archive 2007-07-01
In our country and all over the world, we have a great confusion of various ideas and people clashing with each other.
The term delusional disorder was suggested by Winokur 1072 to avoid the confusion resulting from the diverse concepts of paranoia and the ambiguity of that term, which has been used to denote insanity, suspiciousness, persecutory or grandiose delusions, schizophrenia, and a specific disease entity distinct from other psychoses. The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry
So many of her poems express some combination of confusion and lament about the decline.
Often, the terms hypertext and hypermedia are used interchangeably, causing confusion.
Russell said that he and European auction company executive Henry Beeby, who is SITA's chairman, had discussed the confusion over the new guidelines "fleetingly" and that it probably would be addressed during SITA's next meeting, which is scheduled for November. Thoroughbred News | BloodHorse.com
All this confusion and misery is going to blow away like a puff of smoke, and I'm going to be cured?
A chorus of applause and cheers greeted this, so loud for so few that I looked around in confusion, wondering where they had hidden all the extra people.
The formula of the bookstall blockbuster is only too persuasive, offering an optimistic view of social dangers and confusions.
The confusion over the referendum could result in a significant proportion of spoiled votes.
DOBBS: It's remarkable that this -- whatever confusion, or confoundment over 7,000 cases, they actually keep a registry of cases of leprosy. CNN Transcript May 7, 2007
Even in our sensual days the strength of delight is in its seldomness or rarity, and sting in its satiety; mediocrity is its life, and immoderacy its confusion. A History of Elizabethan Literature
There is a confusion in the public mind between psychology and psychiatry.
A 9/11 legacy: confusion over a name Czechs find error in tracking Muhammad Atta. Sunday, September 19, 2004
By a chi-square test, this has a 99% probability of indicating an increased confusion of flaunt for flout. Flout good taste; flaunt your excesses « Motivated Grammar
To add to that sense of confusion, Nolan films with both forward and backward momentum.
It is Newman's ability to capture the riots' confusion, noise and incoherence that make the passage so stark yet believable.
The other actors were thrown into confusion when she started ad-libbing her final speech.
Not only does this harm individual patients, but it also sows a dangerous confusion in the minds of people living with HIV, decision makers and the general public.
You might feel anxiety, confusion, curiosity, or even anger.
His unexpected arrival threw us into total confusion.
It is important to make clear that as the existence of the hedonistic side in every spiritual activity has given rise to the confusion between the aesthetic activity and the useful or pleasurable, so the existence, or, better, the possibility of constructing this physical side, has generated the confusion between _aesthetic_ expression and expression Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic
The change of plan set off a chain reaction of confusion.
Where the confusion seems to stem from is the fact that guitar music sounds an octave lower than concert pitch.
My first week passed in a blur, mainly caused by my confusion about what I was meant to do and not knowing who everyone was.
There will also be psychological confusion about such happenings.
Yet a similar confusion of thought is involved in this indiscriminate application of the term piracy, unless we emphasize the fact that in this connexion it must be divested of its ordinary moral connotation. England under the Tudors
The Romanian cimbalom figures prominently for a start, playing the recurring figure representing confusion.
The resignation of the prime minister will cause much confusion.
Insulated wires should be used for this purpose, and colour coding will avoid confusion.
The problem is that many of us cannot find this place of inner peace and stillness, and so the sacred is lost in an overwhelming avalanche of noise and confusion.
Working mostly with polyester resin, he has created a series of crypto-functional biomorphs that thrive on category confusion: you're as likely to wonder what they do as what they mean.
Whenever demented patients travel, it is safe to assume their confusion will worsen for the duration of the trip.
Separation is advisable to avoid confusion and aid development.
Not deviating from their steady course of maintaining mass-confusion, the government lawyer yesterday commented that they were revising that withdrawn environmental assessment, which they erringly referred to as a 'study.' Stairway to Divine Strake
Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age. Albert Einstein
[Greek: synchysis] [Errata: [Greek: Synchysis]], or Confusion) was The Sceptical Chymist or Chymico-Physical Doubts & Paradoxes, Touching the Spagyrist's Principles Commonly call'd Hypostatical; As they are wont to be Propos'd and Defended by the Generality of Alchymists. Whereunto is præmis'd Part of
To understand ground rents and land prices is to understand cities; not to understand is to remain mired forever in confusion and fallacy, to be gulled and misled and bamboozled, which is, indeed and alas, the common lot of mankind.
Therefore, it is no wonder that there is a confusion of roles between the curator and the sales manager.
As there are nearly as many 'mockumentaries' these days as bona-fide ones, you can understand the confusion. Times, Sunday Times
But two accounting issues also may be sowing confusion.
I'm sitting here almost in tears, drowning in a sad mixture of melancholy, confusion, hopelessness, and self-pity.
While this wrongful association most likely arose out of sheer laziness, the confusion also reflects the fact that the creator and his creation are, in many ways, two sides of the same coin exhibited no better than the intimidating cutting between the two while trapped in the windmill. Archive 2007-01-01
He's pulled to his feet and stands vacantly and unhelpfully behind the coffin as it seesaws up the steps, carried by the royal family, in a confusion of priests and cameramen.
The film has the rhetorical flourishes of the certain, but the confusion of the tentative.
I was hardly the first person to have recourse to the sortes Virgilianae in time of confusion or trouble. Sick Cycle Carousel
Amid the confusion the invaders did their work with grim promptitude. Times, Sunday Times
So in a daze of confusion she entered her house to find her room in shambles and a shadow of a person sitting on her bed.
The seizure usually lasts about 1 minute and is typically followed by a brief period of confusion.
The remaining instances of confusion can be discussed briefly.
Saunders said Nixon's library and privately run foundation focus on history; the new nonpartisan center is a "forward-looking" institute for foreign policy: "We believe that our new name unifies our existing 'brands' while avoiding confusion with the other two entities. Center gets a little less Nixonian
He eyed the smoke curling out of the oven and was in a state of semi-panic and confusion.
May 15 will mark a year of mud-slinging and confusion. Times, Sunday Times
(Her confusion is natural: the term anorexia comes from a Greek word meaning "loss of appetite.") Fighting Anorexia: No One To Blame
Plenty of adrenaline, audible gulps and raised arms expecting to defend oneself from ghostly ghouls and fiends, had now been replaced by a sense of confusion and a nagging anti-climatic feel.

How To Use Confusion In A Sentence

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