There was a confusing double hall, with doors in every direction opening everywhere but upon the way you desired to go.
There was a confusing double stairway; having ascended the right one, you were morally certain to descend the wrong.
Nor was he anxious to maintain the connexion between philosophy and medicine which had for long existed in a confused and confusing fashion.
It had perhaps been rendered easier for them, by contact with an existing or remembered civilisation, to mature their own genius, even in the act of confusing its expression through foreign accretions.
For its secret has the same simplicity as their vegetative art; only spirituality has succeeded in adding consciousness without confusing instinct.
They have asked themselves persistently the confusingquestion whether the matter or the form of things is the reality; whereas, of course, both elements are needed, each with its incommensurable kind of being.
While metaphor was thus unintelligible and confusing to the Greek, metamorphosis was perfectly familiar to him.
The ambiguity in Kant's doctrine makes him a confusing representative of that criticism of perception which malicious psychology has to offer.
So far as their content is concerned, it is chiefly as a protest against this confusing presentation of unreality, this substitution of excitement for legitimate interest, that these stories have been written.
Does not Cinderella interject a social and economic situation which is both confusing and vicious?
The accurate estimation of heights and distances in the Antarctic is always difficult, owing to the clear air, the confusing monotony of colouring, and the deceptive effect of mirage and refraction.
With other characters, notably the size of the animal, it serves as a ready mark of identification, but is occasionally confusing owing to the variation in shape in some of the species.
There was a dark surprising picture of Hindoos doing Penance under the Banyan tree, and a confusing view of the Himaleh Mountains.
This reversal of emphasis is confusing to the immigrant parents.
The situation becomes still more confusing if employment is seasonal and irregular.
The names Chaldæan and Assyrian are used with a variety of significations by Orientalists, and in a way likely to be confusing to the general reader.
It would be rather confusing than otherwise to have to trace the character of Athenê step by step out of the natural phenomenon from which she sprang.
Often dialogue which is clear sentence by sentence is, as a whole, somewhat confusing to an audience.
Even, however, when dialogue is clear in its statement of needed information, it may still be confusing for reader or hearer.
Has the belief that she was the first actress arisen from confusing her assumption of Ianthe with the performance of the same part by Mrs. Coleman in 1656, a fact of which mention has already been made?
The distinction is necessary in order that there may be no confusing the works of nature with the achievements of the property-maker.
We must avoid, as Professor Ripley says, “the error of confusing community of language with identity of race.
I see you wandering where the Cam steals its way through those noble gardens; and, confusing you with myself, I recall the old dreams that haunted me when the chiming bells swung over the placid waters.
It is hard to live alone in the dark, confusing the day and night; dropping to sleep through sheer weariness at mid-day, and rising restless in the chill of the dawn.
His account is somewhat confusing in a number of respects, and the section given in Fig.
The messianic prophecies of the Old Testament seem only confusing and contradictory until the three distinct types are recognized.
It's by far the most confusing thing I ever heard!
A rare "invalidity" this--a little confusing easy classifications.
The singing of Meredith's blackbirds would be no less confusing than the stream of Meredith's talk; the nodding flowers and the thousand shadows, the sunshine and the talker, were too strange to him.
On re-examination, the whole passage discloses a confusion of thought naturally causing a confusing of symbolism.
They are, however, combined with more recent traditions, so that in this chapter matter from different sources is pieced together in a very confusing fashion.
What Schiller did, however, was to vacillate between the two, to blend them in a confusing way, and finally to let the interest of his play turn largely upon the hero's mental struggle between selfish ambition and unselfish patriotism.
It was the old story: There were too many distractions, too many confusingimages of what might be done.
The fact that they may co-exist affords us no excuse for confusing them.
He had a strong head, and could drink a good deal of liquor without confusing it, but liquor altered him nevertheless.
The summer heat had passed into thunderstorms, and these were succeeded by miserable grey days with mist, confusing sea, land, and sky, and obliterating every trace of colour.
The Wild Duck has several drawbacks, the chief being the confusing mixture of satire and tragedy; the satire almost oversteps the limitations of satire, the tragic emphasis seems to be placed at the wrong spot.
The young girl looked for an instant at the sky, which was still profoundly dark towards the west, hiding and confusing the outline of the distant mountains.
Again he met Layson, still strolling slowly on the trail, busy with confusing thoughts, puffing at his pipe.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "confusing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
