Sentence examples for confounding notion from inspiring English sources

Yes, I exaggerate, but only to emphasize the confounding notion that one's taste in certain wines is occasionally viewed as emblematic of things far more meaningful.

They confounded notions of "black" art as being a fixed style or set of ideas and did so in an era when African-American artists were being pressured to cast their work in clear ethno-political terms.

Two victories in the London mayoral election for Boris Johnson, confounding the notion that his charge is a buffoon and London a Labour fiefdom.

Each time he looked into the nighttime sky with ever more powerful instruments, more stars appeared than before, confounding any notion that a person could ever count them all.

Nor is it really a matter of confounding the notion of political loyalty.

We demonstrate hormone-induced plasticity of subtype status in breast cancer cells, confounding the notion of an inherent intrinsic subtype.

Proteins which share the stereotypical Syt domain architecture, are encoded by distinct (not phylogenetically homologous) gene families in plants and in animals [ 33] further confounding the notion of a homologous Syt family defined in terms of domain architecture.

Confounding my notions of fleece, Kieran is a laidback skater who says he falls off the Segways all the time, but only because he's trying to do tricks on them, which even he admits can be foolish.

In the event, the skittish opening exchanges of the series soon confounded any notion that there could ever be anything perfunctory about winning the Ashes.

But reading his dispatches back to back doesn't confound the notion that, for all the liberating properties of gonzo's speedy reportage, if Thompson wasn't completely on the ball his work could seem dashed off and self-obsessed.

She also confounds the notion of outsiders lacking ambition, or business sense: she wants to perform on the space station, and once crowdfunded an anti-gravity flight in the US.