Sentence examples for strange conflation from inspiring English sources

The last act of "Metropolis" seems to be fueled by this strange conflation of black magic, female sexuality and proletarian impetuousness, forces of irrationality that, once loosed, take the form of a torrential flood that threatens to drown the workers' city and with it the children that the irresponsible workers have left behind.

Thus a strange conflation of actual space with a displacement of actual space was facilitated.

So, a simple conflation of strangeness and desire.

The second republic, from 1993 to 2011, was dominated by Berlusconi and by his conflation of liberty with libertinism: he warped the country's democracy into a strange sort of videocracy, complete with showgirls in parliament and bunga-bunga at home.

This conflation is significant.

That conflation is dangerous.

"Conflation is not equivalence," said Buerk.

The conflation is itself the statement.

That thought, however, harbours a conflation.

It is a conflation of time.

When it works, this deliberate conflation of time and identity neatly illustrates how fluid our perception of the world can be -- a fluidity demonstrated in dreams when one person turns into another; when time collapses, elongates or spins in place; and when the most familiar things suddenly look strange.