Sentence examples for merely confusion from inspiring English sources

An "objective" (i.e., undiscriminating) treatment of all variants in a literary text such as Ovid's Metamorphoses (of which more than 300 manuscripts exist) without regard to their metrical and stylistic quality would be a self-evident waste of time and produce merely confusion.

It now merely spreads confusion and breeds dogmatism.

Figuring out if this makes hers a rich, original mixture of ideas or merely a confusion of notions decorated with some lovely, observational details is the challenge that taking Jacobs seriously presents.

This contrasts with the bulldozing approach of Durk Jager, who tried to turn Procter & Gamble, an American rival, into a hotbed of innovation in his first 18 months as chief executive and ended up merely sowing confusion, raising costs and losing his job.

If we take his advice and accept his view that there was merely some confusion about means and ends on the part of a few misguided but well-meaning people and that the two political parties have traditionally indulged in the same dirty practices, we will reject the rule of law that preserves our system and the sense of morality that would improve it.

When they tried to say what they had in mind -- Schoenberg in his preface to the funky "Pierrot Lunaire," a sort of cabaret act for one moonstruck speaker and a virtuoso chamber ensemble in orbit; Berg in notes to "Wozzeck," his tragedy of society's castaways -- they merely sowed confusion.

Yes, Apple already treats the 'Plus' as the top tier model both in terms of features (battery, display and camera) as well as price but splitting it into two variants merely creates confusion.

This would merely cause confusion.

But with modern dance, there can be a sense of confusion, merely because the audience might not know what in hell they are watching!

The Vatican's response to the pedophile crisis, which is to assert that the problem stems from allowing homosexual men into the priesthood and to encourage greater scrutiny in the area of "disordered" sexual orientation, only exacerbates this confusion and merely changes the tone of the culture of secrecy, replacing Nixon's White House with McCarthy's witch hunt.

Whether he will now enlighten us, or merely confound the confusion further, remains to be seen.