Sentence examples for confused ideas from inspiring English sources

It seems to me that the great difficulty of writing is to make the language of the educated mind express our confused ideas, half feelings, half thoughts, where we are little more than bundles of instinctive tendencies".

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.

To the extent that we have confused ideas, we may indeed consciously pursue ends other than perseverance in being.

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".

What if Dante were a female hobo who confused ideas with orgasms, saw Texas Chainsaw Massacre when she closed her eyes, and thought she was the devil's daughter?

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.

Neill argues that all physiocrats post-Quesnay confused his ideas, with the result that physiocracy hardened into a more rigid dogma that was purely concerned with economic efficiency].

Anyway -- I think what conservatives have done is very intentionally confused two ideas: "not carrying Gluten Free, Dairy Free, Sugar Free Almond Heirloom Organic Soy Fudge Swirl" with "refusing to sell Gluten Free, Dairy Free, Sugar Free Almond Heirloom Organic Soy Fudge Swirl".

Gertrude and Ophelia are played by the same actress, Judith Rosmair – an idea of frantic coherence that confirms Hamlet's confused, incestuous idea of every woman as similarly contaminated.