Sentence examples for confounding legacies from inspiring English sources

From different angles, Charles R. Cross and Michael Eric Dyson try to make sense of these confounding legacies.

Here was one of the most confounding legacies of the subprime era: the nearly cosmic invisibility of who owns what.

Stuart is one of them, and with this powerful book she explains how she herself arrived in the complicated Caribbean, and she analyzes and, crucially, humanizes its conflicted, confounding legacy.

That's what confounds legacy media folks: "If I get more audience and have more effective advertising, why am I not being paid more?" Because you're operating by media laws that are now outmoded.

The only contemporary representation we have of Zenobia is on a coin, which makes her look rather witchlike, but Gibbon's description of her pearly-white teeth and large black eyes, which "sparkled with uncommon fire," cast a spell over future historians, both in the West and in the Arab world, who quarrel over nearly everything having to do with Zenobia and her confounding legacy.

Glacial and fluvial archives are not treated in depth because, though historically important for triggering interest in climate change, glaciers and rivers tend to confound or erase the legacies of their predecessors, leaving at best a fragmented record of change.

However, the study of agricultural legacies is complicated by non-random land-use decisions: areas selected for agriculture commonly differ from non-agricultural areas in ways that may confound interpretation of agricultural legacies (e.g., agricultural areas may have more productive soils).

He left a legacy that is perfect in its inscrutability: a spiralling monument as confounding as the coils of fossil ammonites were to pre-Darwinian eyes.

It was confounding.

The impact was confounding.

It really is confounding".