In the darkness and confusion of the battle, the retreat quickly became confused and disorganized.
The rest is lost in the violence and confusion of the night.
The race for the chair has often echoed the acrimony and confusion of the Presidential primaries.
But the constant moving and confusion of the railroad boom also made escape easier.
"Errors of judgment," however, would not count against him, if they resulted "from the excitement and confusion of the moment".
The chaos and confusion of the book certainly provokes reflection on post-colonial Nigeria, where it is set.
His hands cover his face as if to shut out the clamour and confusion of the world around him.
Envy, Poison, and Death takes the complexity and confusion of the evidence not as a riddle to be solved, but as revealing multiple social dynamics.
Still, because nearly all of those witnesses were in the field of fire, their accounts could conceivably have been skewed by the terror and confusion of the moment.
The answers to those questions are impossible to determine in real time from the outside, given the chaos and confusion of the situation.
