Sentence examples for confusion force from inspiring English sources

The reader is fully on Rushdie's side, and outraged when, in one of the book's few superbly rendered scenes, fear and confusion force him to re-embrace Islam before some Muslim scholars/busybodies.

Watching Jason, a powerless white man, try to reclaim power is terrifying, and Pullen combines confusion, force, doubt, and fear in such a way that you can't avert your eyes.

This confusion forced Melvin to speak publicly.

This confusion forces opponents into extra practice time.

Can you write, too?" Luther, paralyzed by confusion, forced his head to nod.

"Crisp" calamari were soggy, the squid in both texture and taste bringing to mind a condom fitted over an unwashed garlic press the day timetable confusion forced the cookery teacher to take sex education at short notice.

In the various versions of "Armida" the East represents guile, laxity and confusion: every force opposing reason and progress.

Comm'n of Cal . 475 U. S. 1 (1986) (holding that a state agency may not require a utility company to include a third-party newsletter in its billing envelope), respondents argue that the threat of voter confusion will force them to speak to clarify their positions.

That decision created confusion and forced police to plan for rallies at two locations.

And after two thwarted general elections and little more than six years, the SDP collapsed in an unhappy confusion, its forces scattered and the "gang of four" that founded it split apart.

"At the moment there is a lot of confusion that forcing chooks out into the range on most days in all sorts of weather conditions wasn't necessarily going to be in the best interests of the chooks".