The F.D.A. said at the time it had identified those species of most concern to pregnant women, based on scientific evidence, the fact that Americans don't eat dangerous levels of tuna and a desire not to confuse women.
Some may guffaw at the notion that libertarians think working conditions should improve, but this is to confuse the desire for something to change with the desire for the government to try and change it (an all to common mistake).
But he said that to confuse their desire to make money with a lack of earnestness about living openly would be unfair and a double standard.
But online politicking via the techniques of trolling – the use of pointless arguments to confuse subjects, the desire to get a rise out of the Internet, and the careful management of media through threats and calls of bias – are all coming into the mainstream.
And yet there is a recognisable Winterbottom style - a studied messiness, a desire to move between film and video, to confuse and explore.
Unfortunately, however, it is all too easy for a founder to confuse his or her desire to will a good outcome with the reality that will inevitably out-will any founder.
It's easy to confuse this with a desire to manage, but even when I tried to do that I found myself drawn back to code for the solutions to my problems; I didn't want to construct efficiencies, I wanted to engineer them.
Such essays invade the connection between writer and reader, erode the reader's expectation of surprise, as well as the writer's desire to surprise, and confuse us about what is meant to be interesting or amusing about fiction -- and all of this at a cultural moment when, we hear, fewer readers are clear about why anyone would want to read literary fiction in the first place.
Sinanyan even refused to acknowledge that he even read many of the posts in question, despite their wide dissemination via this newspaper, emails and blogs, a tactic that seemed only to indicate a desire to obfuscate and confuse.
The young man had managed to confuse himself as to what my faith really was, but I felt no desire to straighten him out.
