Sentence examples for befog from inspiring English sources
Albertus's classification, which placed man between "apes" (monkeys) on the one hand and "animals" on the other, provides the first whiff of the "missing-link" concept, which later was to befog the issue of humans' place in nature.
Professor X can be caustic about the euphemism and somewhat willed optimism that sometimes befog discussion of how to teach unprepared students.
Hollywood, as we all know, harbors a deep respect for the glories of the mature woman, utterly disdaining of the lollipopped Lolitas that befog the rest of the culture's spectacles.
Their psychological flatness is all the odder because one of the effects of the Shimmer is to befog the mind: as genetic and elemental fusions take place, so does the refraction and disintegration of the brain, and the officers on their mission begin to feel its effects — to report them, but with no sense of subjectivity, of eerie or dulled experience.
But Mr. Rudnick doesn't so much dissect the idea of the gay aesthete as befog it in a sentimental haze, with lots of saucy jokes glittering in the mist.
They befog language in the academy, the Pentagon, the laboratory, the corporate office.
The majority's approach, Justice Scalia charged, is "result-driven antitextualism" that "befogs" the law and promises to "bedevil our jurisprudence" with years of litigation.
"Of all the offspring of time, Error is the most ancient, and is so old and familiar an acquaintance, that Truth, when discovered, comes upon most of us like an intruder, and meets the intruder's welcome," Mackay wrote, adding that "a misdirected zeal in matters of religion" befogs the truth most grievously.
It befogs people's ability to look carefully, in these cases, at the actual reports and the actual movie -- and to judge for themselves.
2. As a class, read and discuss the article "Smoking Ban Clears the Air, but It Befogs Italians' Mood" (//www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/featured_articles/20050112wednesday.html), focusing on the following questions: a.
2. Consider reactions to a new smoking ban in Italy by reading and discussing the article "Smoking Ban Clears the Air, but It Befogs Italians' Mood".
