Sentence examples for so much confounded from inspiring English sources

For a man who is supposedly out of form, hardly renowned for his clay-court savvy and still not fully recovered from the back surgery he underwent eight months ago, Andy Murray has not so much confounded as smithereened the pre-tournament expectations of others by making it to this afternoon's French Open men's singles semi-final against Rafael Nadal on Court Philippe Chatrier.

The effects are very much confounded.

His aim is not to expose and edify so much as to confound and unsettle.

Paglen welcomes distortion in his images because his aim is not to expose and edify so much as to confound and unsettle.

He was on the verge of maturation, of summer, the season that eternally promises and confounds so much.

Links golf had confounded him, so much so he picked up his ball on the 11th hole of the third round of the British Open at St. Andrews — something Jones regretted for the rest of his life.

ALL the partisanship that swirled around the census did not so much surprise Mr. Prewitt as confound him.

With the 1992 song, "Junkie Nurse," Royal Trux didn't so much glorify bad habits as confound the image of the rock 'n' roll cliché.

The reporter in me just stopped, confounded by the reality of so much trauma in the midst of the obfuscating magic of an ancient past.

Clearly, it's not necessarily the recipe that confounds our work in the kitchen so much as it is not having the right tools.

I suggest that people often feel completely confounded when they lose something so absorbing; so much of their selves are bound up in what they do – "actually, I'm feeling that now," says Short. "Because then, I had my constituency.