Sentence examples for confusing ways from inspiring English sources

At the same time, bilingual children do better at complex tasks like isolating information presented in confusing ways.

Mr. Maltin suggests that the speeding Titanic would have slowed down if its crew and officers had understood how the cold night was bending light in confusing ways.

The house's upper level, which contains the living and eating spaces, overhangs a hillside, its sharply angled walls reflecting the surrounding fields in distorted, often confusing ways.

If the average person happened to sit down with a group of New Yorker cartoonists, he or she would likely hear some common words and expressions used in unfamiliar and possibly confusing ways.

Achim Winkler, a spokesman for the European Union naval force, says hundreds of ships would be needed to secure the area.And for navies, almost as much as for private security providers, the surge in piracy has affected their institutional interests in confusing ways.

For those interested in the question of when we should hold someone responsible for his or her actions, the debates in recent weeks over the death of a young child in Haringey and the death of innocent Brazilian man in Stockwell have – in their different ways – illustrated the confused and confusing ways in which we talk of responsibility.

He's got a lot to get off his chest about the social and political transformations of the Gorbachev era, and he's worked up a memorable, if confused, way to think them through.

Mr. Ridge made his remarks as his department announced completion of a national response plan to end the fragmented, sometimes confused way that federal, state and local governments have reacted to crises.

Yet as Cass wends her cheerfully confused way from her Park Slope apartment to her own personal Mecca, Niagara Falls, neither the scenery nor the characters advance far beyond kitsch-postcard status.

It also turned Wall Street into a "reckless, dangerous, and greed- driven casino", getting the struggling motor industry addicted to cheap debt and enabling Barack Obama's money-losing green-energy industrial policies.This indictment is undermined by the sweep of Mr Stockman's claims and the overwrought and often confused way in which he makes them.

However, even though the outside world reacted with mortification that Clint a) was endorsing Romney in such a painfully confused way and b) apparently now has a voice like Kermit the Frog, the speech seemed to go down well with its target audience – convention attendees who keep accidentally wearing flags on their heads instead of hats.