Sentence examples for confusing power from inspiring English sources

There's a serious edge – the deconstruction of man's obsession with confusing power and the size of their appendages, the subversion of sexist crowing – but it's the withering humour that really makes it sting.

The song is overrun with contradictions; the strange tension between its poles gives it a confusing power.

Instead, it looks, at first glance, like a holiday snap – but that, too, is part of its odd, and confusing, power.

His lyrics tell a personal story which begins with a younger Macklemore questioning his own sexuality, a great insight into the confusing power of stereotypes.

But there are not many films that so unsparingly (if also, perhaps, inadvertently) expose the confused power dynamics of a certain kind of modern middle-class marriage.

"Never confuse power and leadership," he said.

It confuses power with effective capacity to control.

Of course, we also confuse power with authority, not understanding that an impulsive person usually lacks the latter even while demonstrating the former.

It reminds us not to confuse power with righteousness: "Who is like the Beast, and who can fight against it?" (13 4).

But the numbers are confusing: J.D. Power Asia, an automotive market-research firm, reckons Geely sold more cars than that, but from a higher base, leaving its growth slightly below that of the market as a whole.

In this consciousness-raising polemic, Levy argues that women, by confusing sexual power with empowerment, have embraced a model of female sexuality that comes straight from male-made caricatures.