Sentence examples for confusion against from inspiring English sources

In a democracy you can always set short-term confusion against long-term strength, just as you can set long-term strength against short-term confusion.

You know how your horniness and confusion wrestle against each other in a mega-epic battle and at the end you're just left staring at a dick as it refracts into mosaic helicoids?

What did Frost say … a momentary stay against confusion.

He threw in his lot with small objects; poems, he wrote, provided nothing more than a "momentary stay against confusion".

Rather, he saw the self as something very much like what Frost called a poem: "a momentary stay against confusion".

Again one thinks of Frost (for whom poems were not a great "clarification of life" but a "momentary stay against confusion").

The Kremlin steps in: Russian propaganda and mixed local sentiment fuelled continued (and continuing) confusion, as outrage against western "fascists" mingled with discomfort at the Russian occupation.

To call them a momentary stay against confusion (Frost's phrase for the end of poetry) might be going a bit far, but they are a momentary stay against thoughtless consumption.

When everything else had gone to hell — rich men jumping from windows and the whole of Oklahoma turned to dust — this farm, this godsent quarter section and a half, was like a fence against confusion.

Those still alive, seminude and clad figures, including children, wander about in a state of confusion and hopelessness, against an architectural background devised by a specialist with whom Sweerts collaborated.

It is easy to be sarcastic this time of year as a defense against confusion; institutions of higher education are trying to become television shows optioned by the National Collegiate Athletic Association's championship tournament.