The show is a messy, heavy, beautiful, surreal, funny, confusing, all-over-the-place and refreshingly honest piece of pop culture ― and the reviews reflect that.
Hulbert's book is a history of the theorists, researchers, and pundits who, as Acocella puts it, "aimed to reassure American parents and ultimately confused them all over again".
Then, in each quarter, she locates a "hard," "parent-centered" theorist (an advocate of discipline, character-building) and a "soft," "child-centered" theorist (a proponent of flexibility, understanding), and lays out the precepts by which they aimed to reassure American parents and ultimately confused them all over again.
"I felt confused, fuzzy, all over the place," she recalled.
It's normal for me to be confused, and all over the shop emotionally.
This, coupled with my one hundred students; my daily routine left me mentally drained, often confused and all over the place with my daily duties.
That's not to say that partisan investigations don't ever uncover important facts — partisan investigations from Iran-Contra to Whitewater to Benghazi added crucial information to the public record — but, unlike in a courtroom, there's no judge or jury to decide the case, and the public is often left confused about the over-all conclusions.
Some confused overs with runs; one aficionado believed a fallen wicket meant a point to the batting side.
It's international football's Checkatrade Trophy – derided, confused, over-sold and hard to ignore.
