Sentence examples for confounding plot from inspiring English sources

Director, writer, and star Orson Welles cast his estranged wife, Rita Hayworth, opposite himself in a film that became famous for its confounding plot and for the studio interference that marred Welles's vision for the project.

Geolocation error was not evaluated in this study but also contributes to confounding plot and pixel comparisons, especially near forest and agricultural field interfaces.

Since that show's final-season bellyflop, viewers seem wary of shows with a complex backstory and assumption-confounding plotting.

This study controlled for the confounding factors but plot size was still significant in positively influencing probability of adoption of the two technologies.

One reads the book hoping that Price will confound expectations about plot rather than fulfill them: what if the police never found Little Dap and Tristan, and the book left the reader with a fistful of loose ends?

Its insistence on chance and the arbitrary nature of human decisions repeatedly confounds expectations and lurches the plot in strange directions.

And the moment we think we're certain of who did what to whom, the movie throws in two or three extra plot turns to confound us.

In this view, America's indictments are simply a politically motivated plot, perhaps to confound Russia's 2018 World Cup, or avenge the failed American bid to play host in 2022.

"Spider-Man" was also confounding at times; there were confusing plot turns that perhaps will be clarified now that the show is under reconstruction.

There is some evidence of residual confounding in the fathers in the plots of respiratory disease and lung cancer mortality against decile of BMI (see web appendix B).

Twelve population and study characteristics were assessed as possible confounding factors by visually inspecting forest plots for the magnitude and variability of study WOMAC scores.