Sentence examples for confused idea of from inspiring English sources

Somewhere there exists an arbiter with a completely confused idea of what the pre-teen mind can digest in paper form.

For a long time I was playing at being a grown-up and it was a slightly confused idea of what that meant.

"Lady Monogram cared nothing for Melmotte's villainy, as regarded herself … She had but a confused idea of any difference between commerce and fraud".

Mr. Duris, so brutally charismatic in "The Beat That My Heart Skipped," here finds himself stuck in a confused idea of his character, who wobbles between tormented genius and mischievous rake.

In particular, he reshaped the notion of an idea, of a confused idea, of a clear and distinct idea, and of methodic doubt.

Thus he never gets tired of emphasizing that we only have a confused idea of substance (a claim also made by Leibniz about three-quarters of our knowledge, although he held that we have a clear concept of what substance is), and repeats quite often (at least three times in Book II, chap.

Steve Carell's wrestling benefactor in Foxcatcher has confused ideas about the limits of the role of a coach, but the take-no-prisoners philosophy he instils in Channing Tatum is clearly the correct one.

In this study, the unsatisfactory reliability might also have been caused by individuals' confused ideas about the nature of science.

Arnauld's theory of clear and confused ideas implies that ideas, as they are given to us by nature, and thus by God, are clear and distinct, and therefore cannot be deceptive, or "materially false".

More recently, the results of globalisation – the nature of immigration, the fluidity of capital – have jolted countries' long-held beliefs of what they are, and confused the idea of what a nation state is meant to be.

They confused the idea of environmental protection with sustainability, and they were dumbing the issues down because the realizations were too uncomfortable.