I couldn’t escape a confusing sense of having lived through all of this before—Phineas in the Infirmary, and myself responsible. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

I who had promised nothing, who knew even less, whose body was as confusing as the rock and roll lyrics accompanying the trucker’s hand pumping up and down to words yelled, not sung. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Our lack of English made for some confusing moments along the way. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

For every ambiguity that is inadvertently funny or ironic, there must be thousands that are simply confusing. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

This wasn’t just confusing and upsetting—it could be frightening, too. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

It’s dusty and confusing and mesmerizing all at once. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I say, “You got to make sure she go in the pot from now on. It’s real confusing for her if you don’t.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The exploits of Rambo and Delta Force became confusing to some, who’d never imagined men escaping entire armies, while still managing to kill so many people. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

It was hard to tell a lot of times, because the directions were confusing, but if I stared and stared at the pictures, usually I could figure it out in the end. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

He read survival manuals for Tam Lin and a long, confusing book about Saint Francis to please Maria. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think being an adult must be confusing as hell. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, this can be a little confusing, particularly when different systems use the same symbol to refer to different chords. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Dad’s job is something confusing with computers and universities. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

"I thought the whole thing would be that way, but it's just confusing and pointless. The ghosts—if there are ghosts—don't even do anything. They just show up and stand around." We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The confusing thing was, I weighed the same as I’d weighed in Italy and Germany when I won gold. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Just like how not talking about things can make stuff feel like a bigger problem, and even more confusing. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

The light here was broken and muted, and the shadows were thick, tangled, confusing. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

It was troubling, and confusing, to think about such things. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“He kept me asleep almost the entire time I was with him and when I did wake up, I kept seeing confusing things in his Noise, things that didn’t make sense.” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

The world was a confusing place, and she needed Evan to help her figure it out. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

The whole thing was very confusing, especially since Aunt Judith was a convert. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

“I never knew words could be so confusing,” Milo said to Tock as he bent down to scratch the dog’s ear. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

The letters kept on rearranging themselves in the most confusing patterns. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, okay, there’s that weird thing with Gogol’s name. Like, why does he need two names? It’s actually kind of confusing.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

It is confusing that my family was not the poor to be championed. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is confusing: Mary says that she wants a certain kind of person. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Gollum in his own way, and with much more excuse as his acquaintance was much briefer, may have made a similar mistake, confusing kindness and blindness. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

If she was going to hunt in this confusing land, she must leave a trail to lead her home. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here is a situation where the stakes were high, where things were moving quickly, and where the participants had to make sense of a lot of new and confusing information in a very short time. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

I was holding up the line, confusing them. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The adults would do their best to answer his questions, but their answers were often vague, or confusing, or contradictory, and then Bod would walk down to the old chapel and talk to Silas. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

It have inside it something to be proud of, but is confusing, too. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, the various naming systems may use the same terms to mean different things, so even a list of basic terms is a bit confusing. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

What people say about themselves can also be very confusing, for the simple reason that most of us aren’t very objective about ourselves. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

All I want to do now is drift away into a deep, thoughtless sleep where confusing visions of Mama don’t exist. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I copied him around the time I turned thirteen because confusing Mateo Thoughts surfaced and I needed tons of Mateo Time to sort through them. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

It all makes more sense now and yet is only more confusing. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Well, they can’t have two identical people around! Think how confusing it would be!” The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, an awareness of syntax can help you avoid ambiguous, confusing, and convoluted sentences. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

“I don’t think so, Caesar. There would be too many confusing scents, and he would be seen and chased.” Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

She was the most confusing person he had ever met, and surely as wicked as everyone else in the castle—although he could not quite bring himself to believe it completely. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

A confusing exchange ensued that is nonetheless significant. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“I think you must be confusing me with someone else,” she said, keeping the BBC accent. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“We have seen footage of what ultimately happened to you in the control room,” says Niles, “but it is confusing. Please describe it to us.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps they found it as confusing as he had. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, it can be quite confusing,” she said without even a hint of sarcasm in her voice. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

My body shivers, and the thoughts in my head become hot, confusing swirls. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t muddied and confusing like it is now. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He visits the fortune-teller, who does not recognize him but lays his future out in polite rows of cards, though she admits that bits of it are overlapping and confusing. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The significance of the fashion for Ancient Greek and Roman culture is an awkward one for music, leading to possibly the least successful and most confusing of all its labels. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

To small children, though, the idea of praising God in a tent was confusing, to say the least. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The images were confusing at first, until she finally understood that she was experiencing the lives of each of the ghosts speaking to her. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“It’s just—sometimes what you wear doesn’t really match, you know? It’s a little confusing.” A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

You have a math tutor, because factorials are really confusing to you. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

He touches the screen again, and the screen changes, but it remains just as confusing, a web of lines, tangled threads of numbers. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

I struggled to sum up the confusing exchange. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Maybe moms and dads forgot about this one small fact: being on the verge of seventeen could be harsh and painful and confusing. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

“I thought the whole idea was to make it not confusing,” I say. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I don’t know what killer she’s referring to—Jeanine Matthews’s predecessor, maybe?—but more confusing even than that is that she didn't join Erudite. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The police commissioner agreed the seating rules were confusing and promised that the city’s attorney would soon clarify them in writing. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Somehow life had become fragmented, confusing; for a moment he had lost his unwavering drive. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No, that’s still confusing. You guys named a natural weather phenomenon?” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The alley twisted in a confusing way, and presently they arrived at a dark doorway. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

The words are confusing—the moon doesn't have hands to bring flowers. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Luke found that so confusing, he just kept his mouth shut. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m not going to pretend this Hudson stuff isn’t confusing, because it is. But I just want you to know that the way I feel about you? Isn’t confusing.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

I know, it seems confusing, but just picture every cartoon trap you ever seen. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I still didn’t get why she was mad, and when Mom got like that—confusing mad—it was best to talk slow. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

All the streets are named after Trujillo's family, so it’s kind of confusing. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I want to hate him for confusing me so much. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

“This is confusing. Where on Earth is this Tuiereol? Is it near America?” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

The confusing blur of sounds and sensations around me. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

It was all too confusing and scary to think about. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

Across the Charles, the calamity was bright and confusing. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

She’s giving him a weird look he can’t parse, and he decides to chalk it up to June being confusing and strange. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Everything is so confusing and all your words only make things worse.” The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Even far’s not enough. It has to be confusing too.” Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Sometimes the horizon disappeared in a confusing glimmer that seemed to be neither earth nor sky. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jupiter, I wish you wouldn’t say things like that because it’s very confusing for me. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

She taunted one of the bulls into chasing her, then turned invisible, completely confusing the monster. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe if they were just Claremonts, you wouldn’t have so much luck. It’d sure as hell be less confusing—it’s the name everybody knows them by anyway!” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

As big and confusing as the city had looked from above, it was even more so on the ground. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The rest of it was a bizarre slow-motion thrill, which didn’t make it any less painful or confusing. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The vegetables were small and withered, the flowers leached of their color, confusing the birds and the bees. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

The days without my dad were also seriously confusing for me as a two-year-old. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

This is the confusing switchover: Jupiter has no problem baring her soul to me now, but it’s always from across the room. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

The streets rioted in all directions, twisting around in a confusing way. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

I was ten confusing pages into the poem when I got so freaked out that I decided to call the detective. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Am I offending you? Sorry I’m not obsessed with you like everyone else. I know that must be confusing for you.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Well, you could make it your son’s name, although I guess that might be confusing.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

It held a kernel of something that was confusing for both of us. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Did they keep score—and use all that confusing tennis terminology? The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

"No, not there. It might be confusing," she said. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

To make things more confusing, it was clear that there were moments of tenderness between them. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

It seems to me much better and less confusing if you admit in print that you were wrong. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hear a bunch of confusing trial talk. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

The next three months were hot, confusing, and miserable as Amari tried to assimilate into the culture of plantation life. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

My head whirled from the strong scent of the koka and the confusing way the shaman mixed his words. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

It all sounded terribly confusing to Milo, for he had always had trouble in school with just this subject. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

But the axis had shifted: I was now trying to balance parenting with something altogether different and more confusing—politics, America, Barack’s quest to do something important. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Stalin was a complex, confusing man who was both powerful and paranoid. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Other passages were so full of confusing, convoluted words that she ground her teeth at her own uselessness and skipped to something simpler. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Because if he can do that, he’ll be able to chart most of the houses I’ve been in over the past two or three years...which will lead to a lot of confusing conversations. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Now that Salva was learning more than a few simple words, he found the English language quite confusing. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

No Calvin Coolidge or Martin Van Buren or any other confusing presidential boys. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

This is bad, confusing directions like that, or am I jumping time, did I go down already? Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The confusing part is...they weren’t what I expected. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

“And I think you’re confusing being empathetic with being a pushover!” If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

But how confusing, to never know when someone was lying. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

Even though Jay and the girl are watching me, I can tell I’m confusing them. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

I know my last letter was probably confusing. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Dedd and I see perfectly eye to eye! The problem is other people confusing things.” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But at the same time it was kind of confusing, too. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Over time, thinks Marie-Laure, events that seem jumbled either become more confusing or gradually settle into place. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

It was essentially just a confusing mass of numbers, but Hutton noticed that if he used a pencil to connect points of equal height, it all became much more orderly. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

It can help rid their writing of errors, dead ends, and confusing passages. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Ben considered the slimy, confusing creature on the table, and then he looked at Jinny and grinned. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

But there was no confusing where we were now. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The radio report is confusing—cops say Tariq had on a red bandanna, but T wasn't sporting no colors yesterday. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Yesterday's confusing lust felt even more inappropriate now that he knew the depressing backstory. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

The news about everything was confusing and contradictory. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Let thee run off to thy quarters, and stop confusing they fowls.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as I mentioned him a confusing welter of emotions rose up in me. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Fights are confusing as to who has won. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve been feeling this way since waking up in Jupiter's bed a week ago on the day after Thanksgiving, and it’s very confusing. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

He looked at the dashboard of the plane, studied the dials and hoped to get some help, hoped to find a compass, but it was all so confusing, a jumble of numbers and lights. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon that too came to its confusing end, and, sighing, he moved again. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

We know how confusing we find it when native-born Japanese people speak English without distinguishing / and r: imagine the confusion if our alphabet did the same while similarly homogenizing the other consonants that I mentioned! Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

There were no confusing, meandering statements with him. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Good medicine, after the last few confusing days. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The moon was so bright that everything under the trees was caught in a net of confusing shadows. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“This is confusing for me, too. You’re not the only one with a past, but unlike you, I don’t live in mine.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Like a book completely intact but missing one word in every dozen, making it a miserable and confusing read. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

It could also be confusing, as things were in Haiti. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

As if the angry Romans, burning couches, and exploding buildings weren’t confusing enough, hundreds of purple ghosts drifted through the forum, passing straight through the demigods’ bodies and wailing incoherently. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The shift back to white status was always confusing. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or ask Gerald, their sworn protector, to take them somewhere far away from this confusing and frightening place? The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

The next part of the research was a little more confusing to me because of the technical language. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

It’s confusing, as is so often the case with nature. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Love,” or whatever—I don’t even know what I feel—is confusing. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

What once seemed like the most transparent and pure of thin-slicing exercises turns into something quite confusing. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

They migrated down from the north in huge flocks, confusing the skies and crowding the clouds before landing on the blue willows in our valley. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Tragedy is ugly and tangled, stupid and confusing. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

They mix together into a confusing sludge of familiar and strange faces, something that sounds like Tess's laughter, something else that sounds like June's voice. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

While the stories of adventure weren’t her favorite, and the detective stories were mostly confusing, the romance stories were exactly the kind of thing Ophie could delight in. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

She twisted, confusing them, and climbed swiftly out of their reach. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Chronicler opened his eyes to a confusing mass of dark shapes and firelight. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

However, Dana had remained stubbornly uncooperative, and his statements were confusing. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The whole holiday-gift thing is a little confusing in our family. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

For a few minutes—goodness, how confusing this was—I thought of digging a grave but then I realized that would be madness. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He spent most of the evening stabbing at the remote control, trying to find a show that wasn’t too boring or confusing. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

The wind-carved rocks and boulders seemed to grow from the ground like trees, confusing her way and disrupting her balance. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Jefferson himself thought in this French fashion, Adams claimed, confusing the seductive prospects envisioned in his imagination with the more limited possibilities history permitted. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

It was confusing and frightening, not in a way I could untangle. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

But suddenly there’s a lot of uphills, and a lot of downhills too, and it’s real confusing. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

The action was at first a little confusing to Edna, but she soon lent herself readily to the Creole’s gentle caress. The Awakening 1899-04-22T00:00:00Z

“It is the strangest, most confusing vision I have ever had.” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

The process is so cumbersome, confusing, and onerous that many people who are theoretically eligible to vote never manage to get their voting rights back. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“The scene of this test at the University of Chicago would have been confusing to an outsider,” Fermi later said. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

If that’s not confusing enough, some singular nouns that end in s are regarded as pairs—scissors, trousers, tongs, pliers, tweezers, and breeches, for instance. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wind shook shadows across the snow, confusing my eyes. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

What you avoid when you don’t meet someone face-to-face are all the confusing and complicated and ultimately irrelevant pieces of information that can serve to screw up your judgment. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

There was no confusing that with an accidental fall. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

It was a confusing feeling, happy and angry all at once. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Their conversation is confusing, but I can’t waste time now trying to determine what their bizarre words mean. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Sometimes she would go into the workshop and help Arcadio sensitize the daguerreotype plates with an efficiency and a tenderness that ended up by confusing him. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The date of my birth got even more confusing when my dad accidentally filled out an immigration document incorrectly and suddenly I was born on September 21. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Without exception they were confusing—or we were dull. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

If this seems confusing, you may take some comfort in knowing that it was confusing to physicists, too. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Instead, he possessed a mind capable of tinkering with things just enough to make them impossibly confusing and himself so dissatisfied with his own intellectual inadequacies that he would never be happy. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Courtney butterfly in my stomach flutters in a haphazard circle; there’s a Jupiter butterfly in there as well, which is confusing, and that’s why I have to ask the question. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

She was like somebody having a dirty dream, confusing her pillow for a lover. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

It turned out he’d been given confusing instructions on his last visit to the clinic, and he hadn’t received his monthly five dollars. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

I cared about Ocean, and in my own, confusing way, I was trying to protect him. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Even more confusing was his reaction to my thank-you for the bracelet. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

However, the archaeological literature can be confusing in this respect, because many books and papers report uncalibrated dates as B.C. and fail to mention that they are actually uncalibrated. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

"Change them around and read either the word on or the word no; both together are confusing." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Further confusing the matter is that the stages or ages in North America have different names from the stages in Europe and often only roughly intersect in time. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Entering Matrosskaya Tishina, I found a confusing maze of cell blocks, low doorways, endless tunnels, dingy corridors, and ancient metal staircases. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

“Remember? Miss Purrty? Lexie said it was lame but you said we couldn’t change it, it would be too confusing to her.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She had her own thoughts about the random and confusing nature of the universe. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

Not for the first time in Native American history, the confusing, incorrect name prevailed. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

It was confusing in the dark and I couldn't tell ours from theirs and moved cautiously, trying to see. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wanted to yell, “No! shut up, you're confusing things, stop it!” Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ama’s eyes glittered widely in the gloom, and her hands were moving together in a repetitive gesture of finger on thumb, finger on thumb, to ward off danger by confusing the evil spirits. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Her poems were weird, all dashes and confusing words. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

It was too vast and confusing to contemplate. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s confusing. You should stay together as a set to avoid such faux pas.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Last time everything was all red and confusing. I think maybe I should wait a bit before I try again.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“This is all very confusing and deeply upsetting.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

If anything, the bright light stabbing through the leaves made things more confusing. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

And now 1 see that my life with these people has been a confusing mixture of both. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

That third “herons” is clunky, even confusing, for the same reason that repeating the name Stanley Goldfarb in the funeral joke would have been confusing. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

What kept confusing me about it was that the argument didn’t have two sides the way an argument should, but about six sides. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe like might be confusing, but popular is even weirder. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

It’s confusing, but I’m going to find out all about my life. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was much bigger and more confusing than the plaza in Bayamón, although it carried pretty much the same types of things. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

"I can’t," I begin, but I feel more people pressing in, more voices asking for help; it's confusing and disorienting and everyone's faces are dark and shadowed. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The light dipped and bobbed and sent confusing shadows across the floor, but he was able to see. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

The stupid and confusing ideas quit coming and got their place took by a stinging in my eyes and a loosening in my nose and a choking in my throat. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Going into any prison is deeply confusing if you know anything about the racial demographics of America. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Which way did he roll the ball?...A thousand confusing ideas burst into his mind at the same time and he stands there smiling. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

It can all get terribly confusing to nonspecialists, but to a geologist these can be matters of passion. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Moss stood quickly and looked at the confusing screen on the machine. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

For someone in Anxiety Management, he’s giving me an exercise that is fairly confusing and anxiety-provoking. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t a very good player yet and they kept shouting different bits of advice at him, which was confusing. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

This made for a very unstable and confusing situation in the herd. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boy made some mistakes on the Stampede Trail, but confusing a caribou with a moose wasn’t among them. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

We would rather run the risk of confusing them while at least appearing to be sophisticated than take a chance at belaboring the obvious while striking them as naive or condescending. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

It was more than confusing—it killed me to discover the depth of their spinelessness. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

A bit confusing, because I knew this straw-haired, freckled girl who said she was Jewish. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

And the whole hallway is just so confusing to me, everyone pretending to be friends when really nobody is friends, when nobody wants anything but this chance, this job. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

“I guess. He does keep confusing me for someone else, but why would he think I was a Cavanaugh?” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Classical music is a confusing term with more than one meaning. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

It was dark and cool in the store and the hot light through the doors caused a confusing picture. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They won’t listen, Jam! They said the drawing was just a drawing. That monsters aren’t real anymore, that I was confusing Moss.” Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Their marriage was brief and confusing—especially given that her new husband, it turned out, already had a wife in Nairobi. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The teacher realized the situation might be confusing for Gary, since exams usually came only with the questions. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said tonelessly, “Mike, this is the most confusing situation we’ve ever been up against.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

“Like mammals, reptiles, birds, amphibians? Okay? Then that didn’t work. It was too confusing with the squid and the horseshoe crab.” Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Her bedroom was dark and she whispered quietly, as if she might wake up her sleeping stuffed animals, each one from another time in her life, when things were less confusing. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

NOTE: This method of naming and numbering harmonics is the most straightforward and least confusing, but there are other ways of naming and numbering harmonics, and this can cause confusion. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

From all the available evidence, there seemed to be little doubt that McCandless—rash and incautious by nature—had committed a careless blunder, confusing one plant for another, and died as a consequence. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The passage described the great prophet Mormon, a fact I’d found confusing. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It was one of those confusing village rules. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe? I’m not sure. Things have been so confusing and messed up the last couple weeks...” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

This need not be confusing; the year 45 BCE is the same as 45 BC, and the year 1945 CE is the same as AD 1945. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

She kept coming back to the pages her mother had written about love, but they were confusing. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They certainly are confusing; now what’s the Waters Office, for instance?” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of picking up on the signal that something exciting is going on, they picked up on the signal that something confusing is going on. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It isn’t confusing?” said Constance, who was turning round and round, clearly confused. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

By now the band was blasting like nobody’s business, and the usual confusing things happened. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

An ability to look into the confusing mess of life and see things for what they are. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

But it was the terminal I needed: the biggest, the most confusing. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t see them; all she could see was confusing, infolded perspectives of colonnade, staircase, terrace, and facade. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

When I was around ten years old, those scruffy children caused me the most painful and confusing experience I had ever had with my grandmother. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

She followed him for some minutes, through those confusing perspectives of light, until they came to an antechamber. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“It’s cleaner this way. Simpler. No confusing descriptions. No names. No worrying about disguises. Follow the needle, find our man, and have done with it.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

There was no confusing the sound he made. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

I remembered him jacklegging my fish, I remembered him telling confusing tales to the new-free folks, I remembered him thinking ’bout making me travel with that conjurer, Sir Charles. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

It was a frightening and confusing period in our history. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

“I think so. I don’t know. I’m seeing double here. It’s very confusing. I can’t figure out who to maul first!” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Then things got real confusing ’cause ’stead of greeting the people and making ’em feel comforted the way it happens most times, Miss Duncan-the-first started up asking questions. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

It was exciting, overwhelming, and—because my brain was still not working right—confusing. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He has never spoken at any great length with the contortionist, and her presence is almost as confusing as the fact that moments ago he had been somewhere else entirely. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

It was a complicated and confusing story, why they had to be on this ship. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Why say suboptimal? Why not say what you really are? Thoughtless and confusing and manipulative?” We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

The trick she had of leaving it to you whether she meant anything or not was no less confusing. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was all very confusing to Clevinger, who began vibrating in terror as the colonel surged to his feet like a gigantic belch and threatened to rip his stinking, cowardly body apart limb from limb. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

I feel like anything I say will reveal how young I am or how much I don’t understand about adults, about my own confusing parents. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

None of this was his fault, but it wasn’t equal, either, and for any woman who lives by the mantra that equality is important, this can be a little confusing. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Our conversation had made a particularly confusing Slingshot Maneuver. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

You can be forgiven if you found the previous paragraph confusing. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

You can see how confusing it was when you realize that sometimes Sam’s side was called Patriots and sometimes they were called Rebels. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was all very confusing, but one thing was clear: I needed to learn a little more about this faraway place before I could even begin writing my letter. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Because numbers are used in music to identify everything from beats to intervals to harmonics to what fingering to use, this naming system is sometimes less confusing. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

“It’s confusing to him, too. Plus Gogol is not an Indian name, so he’s like a total outsider, even in his own culture.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

I knew better, and I’d texted him anyway, and now I was confusing this poor kid who didn’t have a clue what he was wading into. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Yes, but how are we going to tell them apart? It’s very confusing.” Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

And this was both odd and confusing to me, because ever since we’d arrived, the outside world had loomed in my imagination as someplace inaccessible yet wonderfully desirable. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I know, but twelve can be—uh, it can be a confusing...,” he stuttered. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

He repeated himself, talking slowly, trying to make a very confusing thing simple and clear. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anybody who’d tried to grow up and sort out what to do and who to become in a world that is too confusing for me to ever understand. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“He thought love was confusing until he realized there’s only one real love,” Mr. Ram says. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

It was confusing, I know, how I’d gone from wanting a new friend in this school to suddenly wishing I could hit undo on the whole thing. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Jacob’s feelings raged so hot and confusing that they stopped up his throat. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

To make matters even more confusing, the origin of the calendar was changed again in 1976. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“I just...I’m not getting how you know what operation to use. When do you multiply and when do you divide. It’s so confusing.” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

I’m on the steps, I’m on the pavement, it’s so confusing, my heart is racing. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

People were already embroidering the details and confusing parts, but the heart of the story was still there. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Elodin did something that could, conceivably, be referred to as teaching, but for the most part he seemed more interested in confusing me than shedding any real light on the subject of naming. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Like McCandless, figures of male authority aroused in me a confusing medley of corked fury and hunger to please. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Despite their confusing behavior, Reynie still suspected them of having been kidnapped, and he found himself wondering yet again how they had come to be so pleased with their fates. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

In each new phase, called an instar, a caterpillar might change color or texture—very confusing to naturalists like Maria. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I think I was trying to make my life uncomplicated because everything inside me felt so confusing. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

This notation can be confusing, though, and in some music the pickups and repeats are written in a way that avoids these broken-up measures. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

I wonder if it will always be confusing. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Which, from a performance standpoint, was probably pretty confusing. ArtsBeat: Portia de Rossi on the Return of ‘Arrested Development’ 2013-05-23T17:56:38Z

When they emerged into the bright sunlight, they encountered a confusing horde of journalists, Red Cross workers, Dostum's soldiers, and British and American troops. America's 'detainee 001' ? the persecution of John Walker Lindh 2011-07-10T16:08:00Z

He and Michael Che trade shots at Trump’s rambling acquittal speech; his confusing Kansas City, Kansas, for Kansas City, Missouri; and his penchant for slurring words – all to the loud, self-satisfied applause of the audience. Saturday Night Live: RuPaul teaches the art of drag but episode can't slay 2020-02-09T05:00:00Z

Moe attacks the high-tech mystery with old-fashioned shoe leather while contending with both his guilt and his confusing feelings about the Hollow Girl’s mother. ‘Hollow Girl’ fitting conclusion to Prager series 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z

"Somewhere between hypnotic and immensely boring," thought the New York Times; "Superb photography major asset to confusing, long-unfolding plot," reckoned Newsday. 2001: A Space Odyssey: No 1 2010-10-21T10:54:00Z

I hope and believe this is meant to be impenetrable, because there are still four other characters seated virtually at the dinner table, each at least as confusing. ‘A Killer Party’ Review: The Case of the Online Musical 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z

Where the soup spoons go, you’d have the slightly confusing things. Anne Lamott: “The grace of this world is hilariously huge” 2017-04-29T04:00:00Z

“Totally foreign, slightly confusing, and worth another taste.” To Find Out Who You Are, Peer Into the Cheese Ball 2016-12-05T05:00:00Z

It is a confusing time for both parent and teen. Perspective | Why is my teen daughter such an enigma? 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z

“I’m sure it’s confusing for men: ‘Be like Don Draper, but also be this nice guy,’” said Daley Haggar, who has written for sitcoms like “The Big Bang Theory” and “Anger Management.” Awkward Sex, Onscreen and Off 2016-10-08T04:00:00Z

It’s very confusing to the auctioneer,” he said to one attendee whose tablemate seemed to have bid on an item. A Young Auctioneer Breaks Into the Gavel Clique 2011-10-28T22:42:28Z

Not to run away from it but to be able to accept that conflict, and to be able to create images that at once celebrate and not denounce the very confusing state of being. Kehinde Wiley explains his ‘An Economy of Grace’ paintings focusing on black women

The reason I'm attracted to things like Curious Incident is because Christopher feels like the world is very confusing and he doesn't have a voice. A Curious Incident on stage: the National does Mark Haddon's novel 2012-07-25T18:01:00Z

Like Ronan himself, it is beautiful but can be confusing: it contains both ornate brickwork and retractable bollards. Switch it off and give yourself a digital break 2014-07-27T04:00:00Z

It's a clever way to reintroduce readers to the often confusing, ever-expanding cast. Jane Smiley's 'Golden Age' brings an epic tale to a solemnly fine end 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z

There’s something so fundamentally confusing about the trans experience, the logic goes, that we need to make our stories really, really palatable for you to understand us. Trans, but not like you think 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

At the time, the two groups were starting the process of legally merging because having two organizations working to revive the house made it confusing for the city. House of writer H.L. Mencken remains in disrepair 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z

He also criticized the incompetency behind the travel ban, calling it “sloppy and confusing”. Late-night hosts on Trump's travel ban: 'He can really get a lot of stuff undone' 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z

“One of the things we were talking about was vaping and, in California especially, with pot being legal now, how it’s confusing for some teenagers,” she said. A Very Special Episode, but Maybe Not So Precious 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z

It’s a parody of events that’s at times confusing and yet rather charming, thanks to Brad Pitt’s questionable disposition and the late Dennis Farina’s cynical histrionics. 10 Films We See in the Grand Theft Auto Games 2013-09-24T22:17:56Z

French's portrait is confusing for the reader in a hurry who wants a primer on India for his first flight to Delhi. Book reviews roundup 2011-01-22T00:06:24Z

There's nothing particularly charismatic about its protagonist, whose voice-over narration quickly gets lost in a confusing timeline and a sea of flashbacks seen from other characters' perspectives. 'Road to Juarez' gets lost on its journey 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z

While their aim isn’t as simplistic as it sounds, it’s slightly confusing. Time to Put Choreography Back on Its Feet 2010-09-03T15:19:00Z

Early reviews were mixed, with tech pundits like Re/code's Walt Mossberg praising its robust offerings while also describing it as "confusing." Apple Music launches 'into the unknown' 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z

The way in which law enforcement officers police themselves is so complex and confusing, sometimes I don’t even think they completely understand. Justice for Botham Jean: Don’t let Amber Guyger hide behind “I feared for my life” 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z

Miss Flora Mae’s complicated mail system is confusing and seems to exist only to allow Sweet Pea access to her column. Can an Advice Columnist Help This Middle Schooler? 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z

Their sole encounter is confusing, cold, unwanted and quick, and when it’s over, Scovell is fired. How Nell Scovell survived male-dominated TV writers' rooms 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z

Jake is frustrated by his mom repeatedly confusing the words "genius" and "genus" when referring to Trivial Pursuit. Charlie Kaufman's exasperating "I'm Thinking of Ending Things" could've been a masterpiece 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z

The festival that Robert Redford’s Sundance Institute first brought to Park City’s steep, narrow streets 30 years ago is rewarding and exciting — but also physically grueling and often confusing. Sleepless at Sundance: How Seattle film pros ‘do’ the festival 2014-01-08T23:06:00Z

Without a trace of didacticism, she finds humor in the messy, confusing, sometimes banal experience of an unwanted pregnancy and an abortion. Comedians Turn Their Attention to Abortion 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z

It’s especially confusing because Oller’s oeuvre is such a mixed bag. Francisco Oller, Core of ‘Impressionism and the Caribbean,’ at the Brooklyn Museum 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z

To a degree, the problem is that genre is inherently confusing and complex. A Better Way to Think About the Genre Debate 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z

You may be confusing them with Benny Hill. Five silent movie myths: from damsels in distress to Benny Hill chases 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z

In another confusing shift from, or towards, tradition, our Christmas meal was goose, red cabbage, stollen, walnuts and marzipan. How we embraced Christmas 2016-12-24T05:00:00Z

“The book is confusing enough as it is!” Where does music end and poetry begin? David Grubbs wrote his first poem to find out 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z

At the F.T.C. conference, industry leaders were asked about the sometimes confusing array of surcharges that are added to the price of a ticket. Senators Ask for Antitrust Probe in Concert Ticketing 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z

Angel’s 12-year-old son thinks he knows how his father died, but adolescence is a confusing time, especially when your world is literally coming to an end. ‘Secessia’ is Kent Wascom’s vivid portrait of 1862 New Orleans 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z

Direct addresses to the audience explain some background; the time scheme is confusing; cricket is explained; we are even given the definition of a sentence. The Dark Earth and the Light Sky; Twelfth Night; The Magistrate – review 2012-11-25T00:05:48Z

But theater takes place live, in real time, and as Ms. Taylor’s drama whirls by in a confusing blur, it’s difficult to salvage much enlightenment — or entertainment — from its obscurities. Theater Review: ‘Stop. Reset.,’ by Regina Taylor, Opens at Signature Theater 2013-09-09T21:00:52Z

It was beautiful, and rapturously good, and nobody complained that they were actual slices of cake instead of confusing blobs. ’Tis the season to revisit the gingerbread that continues to defy me 2019-12-15T05:00:00Z

News that the the Beach Boys' Smile is to be released later this year is both confusing and something I really wish they wouldn't do. Why I frown upon the Beach Boys releasing Smile 2011-03-14T13:04:56Z

The “he” at the start of the second paragraph is confusing. Chekhov’s Beautiful Nonfiction 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z

Finding your desires is a conscious process – sometimes really confusing and difficult, but in my opinion, necessary. Can women be saved from bad sex? "Finding your desires is a conscious process," says author 2022-09-03T04:00:00Z

It would also have required Barnes to risk the outrage of people who make a habit of confusing fictional characters with the novelists who create them. In Julian Barnes’s New Novel, a Teacher’s Pet Becomes Obsessed 2022-08-17T04:00:00Z

Wall Street loves to use confusing terms to make you think only they can do what they do. Where are all the women in American film? 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z

"This process is confusing, stressful and difficult to comprehend for children." Ukraine's refugee children: Amid the war, how to help kids suffering from trauma 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z

And, of course, when they both had the same hairstyle, similar clothes, it made it a little bit easier, but it was confusing because all day, I would be changing clothes and wigs. In new book, Hayley Mills looks back on her Hollywood start 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z

It was all a bit hazy and confusing. Measure of my manhood 2012-12-29T00:30:00Z

Once again, we are schooled in the danger of confusing persona with reality, of turning the talented and successful into saints or heroes. In Bill Cosby saga, feelings of betrayal and vague complicity 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z

These thoughts were occasioned by “Phantom Sightings: Art After the Chicano Movement,” a confused and confusing exhibition at El Museo del Barrio presenting works by Mexican-Americans who have come of age since the 1990s. | ?Phantom Sightings?: ?Phantom Sightings? at El Museo del Barrio 2010-04-09T23:01:00Z

They have plans to travel abroad this winter, some for the first time since the pandemic started, and the information about entry requirements is confusing and sometimes inaccurate. Perspective | International entry requirements are still confusing. Here’s where to find answers. 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z

Does the tale of Donatello’s demanding conversation from his statue reflect a garbled memory of the Biblical text, confusing the artist’s Habakkuk with a very sin that the prophet denounced? Entranced by Donatello 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z

Others said the show is so confusing it’s almost impossible to follow without asking questions of more knowledgeable fans. How Quiet Should You Be During ‘Game of Thrones’? Fans Disagree 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z

Mr. de los Santos updates the action to what seems to be the 1990s — which makes the overt political references to war with Turkey over Cyprus somewhat confusing. Review: The Desdemona in This ‘Otello’ Spits Fire 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z

“This is so confusing to me,” Noah admitted. Trevor Noah just perfectly explained our sick gun culture 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z

For an adolescent black kid in an almost wholly white world, Hawaii was a vexed and confusing paradise. The invention of Obama 2010-04-23T23:06:00Z

They gave us their best advice for navigating through what can be a confusing path. Ten Common Car-Buying Mistakes 2010-05-07T20:10:00Z

One hilarious bit has famed Elizabethan actor Richard Burbage castigating his friend Will for inventing confusing words in "Hamlet." Review: Bard comically humanized off-Broadway 2013-01-14T22:26:07Z

“It’s hard work, confusing and overwhelming. But we find it works.” A senior’s intense, 14-day sailing lesson — from scratch — off the New Zealand coast 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z

It was really humbling, and I felt very vulnerable, and it was really confusing. Ben Marcus: Jonathan Franzen’s cultural commentary is really embarrassing 2014-02-10T01:00:00Z

It's confusing to cars — Is that person on a bike or are they a pedestrian? Lit Life: A Q&A with cyclist/author Mike McQuaide, '75 Classic Rides Washington' 2012-07-13T21:22:03Z

Seth Kugel is the columnist for “Tripped Up,” an advice column that helps readers navigate the often confusing world of travel. Help! JetBlue Stranded Our Boy Scout Troop in New York City 2023-08-10T04:00:00Z

This may sound confusing because, since the character's introduction in 2010, "Luther" has been inextricably associated with the actor and propelled by his appeal. For Idris Elba's sake, let "Luther" retire 2023-03-12T05:00:00Z

I described “Beloved” as “confusing,” clearly lacking the historical awareness and the maturity to comprehend the source of my profound confusion. Analysis | Toni Morrison has kept the public at arm’s length. Now she’s letting people in on her terms. 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z

It might sound confusing, but it’s also perfectly suited to the present day. ‘The Comeback’: Valerie Cherish still makes it hurt so good

Being British and black was a confusing concept for a long time. Don Letts: ‘Punk was a refuge from racism’ 2020-02-22T05:00:00Z

For instance, "The Bolshoi Theatre" could easily be rendered in English as "The Grand Theatre" but to do so would be both pretentious and confusing. Say 'non' to phrasebook foreign language in fiction 2011-07-13T16:46:52Z

The potato chip crust kept the chicken super tender, perhaps from the extra fat blanketing the mostly fatless meat, like a really confusing take on a porchetta. The absolute best way to bread chicken, according to so many tests 2022-04-03T04:00:00Z

“It was a difficult and confusing time,” he says, “but also an interesting one.” In Berlin, a Creative Paradise That’s Easiest to Reach by Boat 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z

But while it would be awesome to see Wolverine flash his retracting bone claws at the Were-Swayze, this would be confusing. "True Blood" recap: Time for betrayal 2010-07-12T12:30:00Z

If you think all this is confusing, you're not the only one. Spotify should give indies a fair deal on royalties 2011-02-01T10:34:21Z

Second, and most important, the receding doorways are confusing, not in a conceptual way, but as excess levels of visual detail. Life of a ?Salesman? 2012-03-01T19:52:26Z

So it's hardly surprising that once you get beyond the title, there are some song lyrics that are either open to interpretation or just downright confusing. 25 famous songs with misunderstood meanings 2021-10-25T04:00:00Z

Surely, there will be many Ryans in the months and years ahead, who will find that the changes in their parents’ earnings impact their lives in ways that feel confusing and at times punishing. ‘This Is How It Is Now’: Ramona Quimby, Meet Ryan Hart 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z

It was 1989, which was a confusing time to be in a rock band. The Rock ’n’ Roll Casualty Who Became a War Hero 2013-07-02T09:01:01Z

I’m neither one or the other, and sometimes it’s confusing for people … Do you treat them the way you treat men? Jodie Foster admits to being 'a little sick' of discussing women in Hollywood 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z

“Most people don’t know what face shape they have and it’s all so confusing to people and hard to remember,” she said. On the Runway: The Hunt for the Right Shades 2011-06-15T23:19:31Z

She looked into the confusing regulations and decided that her last name was good enough. Your Destination Wedding: Flight Tips and More 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z

“I’m a hybrid-genre person, which a lot of people find confusing,” he said during a recent interview in his publicist’s office in downtown Manhattan. The Artistry Is Apparent, So Where?s the Audience? 2011-02-06T22:52:21Z

So why stick to an outdated, confusing, likely corrupt nominating process that ignores voters’ actual preferences? This feminist is sticking with Bernie Sanders: Why Hillary backers need to take another long, honest look 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z

Regardless, it’s a fact that dating is confusing, and orbiting can make that worse. Orbiting, Another Thing for Online Daters to Worry About 2018-12-08T05:00:00Z

Major frustrations with the platform include little to no availability for campsites and vehicle permits, fees for canceling reservations and confusing booking windows that manage to make both spontaneity and planning ahead difficult. National Park Booking App Leaves Users Feeling Lost in the Woods 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z

Tell her that you find this confusing and that you would like to understand these relationships from her perspective. Perspective | Ask Amy: Encountering long-lost aunt prompts family questions 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z

The more you’re able to say something with absolute clarity, the more likely you’re probably wrong, because in fact the world is very confusing. Swimming against the tide: Lawrence Weschler on 'Waves Passing in the Night: Walter Murch in the Land of Astrophysicists' 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z

Let’s set aside, for a moment, the legalistic language, as confusing in some passages as the fine print on a credit card application. They come to bury the Corcoran, not to praise it

Since video can be confusing to museum visitors who have no idea how long it’s been playing or when it will end, “The Return” tells the story of all three Adams in modular fashion. A Shattered Adam Statue Comes to Life at the Met 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z

Customers reported the South Concourse was jam-packed and complained of getting confusing information about delays and trains. Metra sorry for delays, Union Station fiasco 2012-01-10T21:08:00Z

I know it sounds very confusing, but I ultimately came to see that there was a dual decision-making path even within the White House. Former VA secretary David Shulkin: Serving your country ‘shouldn’t be this hard’ 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z

I think that’s why my first record is kind of confusing, because I was still figuring out who I was and what I wanted to say. Charli XCX on 'Sucker': 'I haven't made an album to get on pop radio' 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z

It led to confusing scenes in the early morning as the picture came into focus. Once Again, Thousands of Airline Passengers Were Left Confused and Frustrated 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z

After a spate of confusing back and forth announcements, which itself came on the heels of widespread public shaming, YouTube suspended Crowder’s monetization. Americans want journalists to fix the fake news problem. Can facts once again prevail? 2019-06-09T04:00:00Z

Cairo and Alexandria are chaotic, confusing places with uncertain futures. Shubbak festival: a refuge for Arab culture at a troubled time 2013-06-19T11:08:23Z

That means very confusing signage, so be assured, it’s one and the same place. Frugal Traveler: History Beyond Boston 2010-12-22T04:00:50Z

The abundance of random stuff in the sky has gone from confusing to alarming over the past two weeks, as the U.S. military targeted four airborne objects to shoot down with Sidewinder missiles. There’s a ton of crap in the sky we haven’t shot down (yet) 2023-02-17T05:00:00Z

Much of what follows involves James’s confusing, awkward reintroduction into the world, or what some call adulthood. Review: Cosplay and Comedy in ‘Brigsby Bear’ 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z

Solving the mystery proves confusing — the secretive goings-on at his family law firm, his brother Oscar’s suspicious behavior, and the best-selling book by his wife that seems to infuriate him. ‘Fallout,’ by Sadie Jones, and More 2014-04-23T22:15:31Z

Please pay attention, because this may get confusing. De La Soul Duo's First Serve: Hip-hop Made Fun Again 2012-04-03T10:45:12Z

In fact, a lot of the criticism for the second season was on pace and on the plot being confusing. ‘Mr. Robot’ Season 3 Premiere: Sam Esmail on Parallel Universes and President Trump 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z

That can prove confusing at times, but it also nods to an implicit argument: All veterans share a bond. Theater Review: ‘The Steadfast,’ a War Drama by Mat Smart 2013-01-26T00:54:17Z

“We’ve all seen wildly confusing one-person shows, but a friend in a kitchen telling you a story is never confusing,” Daniels says. Benjamin Scheuer and a life told in heartbreaking song at the Geffen 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z

When Britain is a confusing and fragmented place, The Crown’s stately, touching progress is deeply reassuring: it goes on and on, just as the Queen has done for the lifetimes of nearly all of us. Queen Olivia Colman, an epic budget and a cast of thousands: a year behind the scenes on The Crown 2019-09-07T04:00:00Z

“You see me helpless before the confusing picture of the last century,” he wrote near the end of his autobiography. His Conducting Wasn’t Always Pleasant. But It Was the Truth. 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z

Rather than seize this chance, the Germans appear to have made their labeling rules even more confusing. 2016 Dry German Rieslings: Graceful, Resonant, Delicious 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z

A poor imitation of the best "Bourne" films, it's confusing, illogical, with plot lapses and continuity blunders. 'Cold Light of Day' can't stand up to much scrutiny 2012-09-07T19:21:04Z

Even though looser restrictions make Cuba much more accessible to Americans, travel to the island can still be confusing. How to Go to Cuba Now 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z

It’s a little confusing, but it works, we approve. RuPaul's Drag Race recap: season 12, episode 11 – the queens Whoopi it up 2020-05-10T04:00:00Z

While growing close to Oscar, Jane tries to process a confusing memory concerning Weller. TV highlights: ‘Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures’ airs on HBO 2016-04-03T04:00:00Z

Again, these are the sort of simple, general statements that are confusing and useless. In Pairing Wine and Food, Experience Is the Best Teacher 2020-04-23T04:00:00Z

“She inexplicably decides to perform her acceptance simultaneously in sign language, which is confusing because ‘Coming Home’ is not about deaf people,” she said. This Life: Speechmaking Lessons From the Oscars 2014-02-28T20:07:57Z

It is a cultural moment that has made white writers look in the mirror and wonder if we have been confusing it with a window. White Writer 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z

Simply put, the ongoing drama is messy and confusing. A timeline of HBO’s messy "torture porn" show, involving The Weeknd, Sam Levinson and Rolling Stone 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z

Having gone to Churchill on the assumption that polar bears were one missed meal away from extinction, I was surprised to find that worldwide population numbers were confusing and controversial. Polar bears just might outlive us all 2012-12-30T16:00:00Z

That switch leaves a residue of ambiguity in this wickedly funny and disturbing satire about America’s confused and confusing attitudes about race. Why write a novel about a race that’s not your own? The case of ‘Ginny Gall’ 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z

To be fair, Twin Peaks wasn’t always so confusing. Twin Peaks recap: episodes one and two – crazy town just got much, much weirder 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z

But a primary is different, and more confusing. Motherlode Blog: Explaining the New Hampshire Primary to Kids, Robocalls and All. 2012-01-10T17:09:46Z

It is in these galley scenes that the new “Ben-Hur” finally finds its rhythm after a frustratingly long and confusing dramatic setup. Review: ‘Ben-Hur’ Is a Savage Update for a New Generation 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z

Over the years, the two have invented a “Men in Blazers” vocabulary, which can be a bit confusing for new listeners. ‘Men in Blazers,’ a Whimsical Soccer Show on ESPN 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z

The arguments that it’s easier or – my favorite – less confusing for everybody, especially one’s future children, are silly. Do feminists care if you take your husband’s name? 2013-03-08T16:39:00Z

There’s a lot of confusing jargon around vegan beauty — “cruelty-free” is one example, with many people assuming that they’re one and the same. Why You Should Care About Vegan Beauty 2019-02-26T05:00:00Z

You may curse the confusing signs, narrow roads, and macho habits, but it’s all part of the experience. How to survive a European road trip 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z

There are several other surreal touches, just infrequent enough to be confusing. L.A. revival of 'A Taste of Honey,' the 1958 play that dared to make a gay character its moral center 2016-10-09T04:00:00Z

“To be a Muslim who had not defected to the promise of safety and prosperity was a complex and confusing thing,” she wrote in her book, which has since fallen out of print in Britain. A Classic Indian Cookbook Returns, This Time for Americans 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z

For years, it’s been confusing the audience with fans. Movies Survived 2020. The Oscars Diversified. There’s More to Do. 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z

Most of the time it’s confusing to see other people’s work. Now on Tour: Shoes and Sketches by Manolo Blahnik 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z

The juxtaposition of these two songs epitomizes the confusing nature of her first album. How Aretha Franklin asserted control over her career, paving the way for female musicians 2021-08-21T04:00:00Z

He also dings the design for its confusing interior layout, writing that hotel guests move through the atrium with what “can only be characterized as milling confusion.” The wrong kind of time capsule: Notes on an afternoon inside John Portman's Bonaventure Hotel 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z

There are multiple steps, and applicants must create a password, then enter a separate passcode sent via email, which can be confusing. Good News for Weary Travelers: Online Passport Renewal Is Coming Your Way 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z

The work’s title, “La Menesunda,” is, appropriately, slang for “a confusing situation,” and the immersive combination of happening, performance and installation manifested in cheap, colorful materials makes it so. 38 Art Exhibitions to View in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z

“I worried that eating the dumpling was too dark and weird and confusing and totally not something Pixar would go for,” she said. With ‘Turning Red,’ a Big Red Panda Helps Break a Glass Ceiling 2022-03-07T05:00:00Z

The piece explains: As it turns out, the messier and more confusing a store looks, the better the deals it projects. 6 ways retailers trick you into buying more crap 2012-12-15T16:00:00Z

What happened next shows the often murky and confusing aftermath of such an incident, especially one in which the victim is unconscious. Athlete charged with rape avoids jail: Apparently it “would have destroyed this kid’s life” 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z

It's a confusing and poorly shot adaptation of a minor comic-book story that feels days longer than its 80-minute running time. 'Jonah Hex': Josh Brolin sleepwalks through this scarred comic-book adaptation 2010-06-17T00:15:00Z

But the rest was, if not exactly frightful, confusing. Prabal Gurung, Ralph Rucci and Suno Show at Fashion Week 2014-09-07T04:00:00Z

Wandering through a confusing crop configuration is a relatively recent tradition. The origins of 25 fall traditions 2021-10-11T04:00:00Z

Sure, it's a confusing time for her ... but for him it might be a lot worse. Perspective | Ask Amy: Woman wrestles with adoption dilemma 2019-12-21T05:00:00Z

A defiantly eclectic, extravagantly moustached actor-turned-musician, his prodigious output, sent out into the world under a confusing array of names, is primarily informed by folk or country. Old music: Bonnie 'Prince' Billy – You Remind Me of Something (The Glory Goes) 2012-06-12T10:24:00Z

Angel d'Cuba's website bills him as Cuban soul, which is accurate but may be confusing. Sink your teeth into a better Taste 2011-06-23T11:42:00Z

Laws on television licensing were last updated in 2004 before high-speed internet made it easy to watch television on your computer, iPads and mobiles, and the regulations are a little confusing. A day in court for non-payment of the TV licence: ‘What do they want us to do, kill ourselves?’ 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z

“As time goes on . . . looking back is almost overwhelming. And confusing,” he recently wrote on his blog. Old songs get new life as reissues bring new attention to cult favorite Wreckless Eric

Just as Roiphe has a chapter devoted to “More Bad Things About Me In Print,” Keaton explains why success is “a confusing dream come true.” Review | What do women authors hope to gain by showing their weaknesses on the page? 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z

That is, until the film’s many detours — from zombie comedy to sci-fi thriller to Hallmark romance — race to a confusing finish. Five Horror Movies to Stream Now 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z

If you watch it now, you get to watch all three in a row, which is very confusing if it’s on TV in 1992, and you’re a helpless child. From Trolls to Transformers: toy films – ranked! 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z

It's a reasonable question, though the answer can be a little bit confusing. What's the difference between Parmigiano Reggiano and Parmesan? 2023-02-04T05:00:00Z

Or it could just be Trump’s way of confusing the issue and playing to his loyal base, said Nikki Usher, an associate professor in the school of media and public affairs at George Washington University. Scoop. Denial. Scoop confirmed. That’s business as usual for writers covering the Trump White House. 2018-03-23T04:00:00Z

It was, believe me, a confusing moment in ways just about no one bothered to put into words.  My teenage nuclear fantasies: Imagining apocalypse in America’s atomic age 2014-05-08T12:15:00Z

The confusing mix of emotions causes Emma to have a spontaneous nosebleed. "Emma." finds its hilarious humanity through the body's betrayals 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z

One by one, Schumer helps men delicately navigate the confusing and complicated needs of their girlfriends. Amy Schumer schools men in “the ancient art of Female Emotional Combat” 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z

Recent articles have sounded the alarm about overproduction and the confusing government guidelines surrounding the crop. For young farmers, hemp is a "gateway crop" 2019-11-02T04:00:00Z

Finding the best travel insurance has never been easy, but if you’re planning a trip for this year, it’s never been this confusing. Perspective | What’s the best travel insurance for your fall trip? It depends. 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z

Which was confusing, because the movie doesn’t vindicate her by a long shot. Tonya Harding Would Like Her Apology Now 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z

It can be confusing, though, pinning down exactly what those characteristics are. We Are Scientists present the rules ? of writing a popular blog 2010-05-20T08:27:00Z

“This guy’s name is H.R. McMaster. And given Trump’s conduct, this is going to be so confusing for him at work. They’re going to be like, ‘Excuse me, Mr. President. Joe Scarborough Breaks Down Trump for Stephen Colbert 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z

"The vast majority of young people just want a nice boyfriend or girlfriend, but they are living in a highly sexualised society that makes things very confusing." 'Any boy who tells you that he hasn't seen porn is lying. Porn changes what you expect from girls' 2014-09-28T04:00:00Z

The trouble isn’t just that his work here is confusing; it’s scattered and wan. Review: An Operatic Locavore Consumes the English Countryside 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z

They also reveal the impact of his opposition to the Lord Rogers design and how, when he wields his ephemeral power, knowing how to react can be confusing in the extreme. How the 'meddling prince' and his aides turned up heat on developers 2010-06-17T22:33:00Z

What with all the introductions of butterflies and fairy folk and the two pairs of mortal sweethearts who are about to have a confusing night, the ballet took its time getting started. At the Kennedy Center Opera House, music steals the show from the Pennsylvania Ballet

Where to find them: This is where it gets confusing. VOD, Streaming or Virtual Cinema? Your Guide to Digital Movie Options 2020-04-24T04:00:00Z

Otherwise, we risk becoming narrow and intolerant, confusing personal preferences with merit. In Zinfandel, Brawn Wins Out 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z

Almost always hidden in the back-forty, they are mostly the unassailable domains of registered guests, with a few confusing exceptions. D. J.s, Swim Briefs, $25 Coladas: In Vegas, the Party’s at the Pool 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z

But when kids opt out, perhaps because their families can't afford to pay for meals or the paperwork is too onerous and confusing, enrollments and reimbursements suffer and so, too, do nutrition program revenues. Waivers for universal school meals expired. What does that mean for childhood nutrition? 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z

Honestly, this whole thing is a confusing mess. Cheesecake Factory shares Lemon-Ricotta Pancake recipe for National Pancake Day 2020-09-26T04:00:00Z

While Cuba has decent public bus service, I found it confusing and time-consuming. Cuba beyond Havana: a colonial town and tobacco farms 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z

They said they would work to clarify confusing parts of the regulations. D.C. tattoo artists took on the government. Their grievance? Toilets. 2018-02-12T05:00:00Z

I think that would be confusing to a lot of people. Jimmy Kimmel on Hosting the Oscars at a Political Moment 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z

Murphy has historically kept details about American Horror Story under wraps, and this year's series of hints are perhaps more confusing than ever. 'American Horror Story' Season 7 Title Revealed 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z

But the confusing part is that this diverse assemblage doesn't really match up with the Sharma's surname, which is common in the Northern states of India. Rating "Bridgerton" on its South Asian authenticity, from its hair oiling to the haldi ceremony 2022-04-09T04:00:00Z

But the 1990s were a confusing time for professional boxing, creating an opportunity for another combat sport to swoop in and steal fans. Mixed Martial Arts Catches On With the Internet Generation 2012-03-14T21:49:31Z

Just to keep it really confusing, in Canada and the United Kingdom, these are sometimes also known as spring onions, but they're also known as green onions. Spring is here! Time to celebrate the arrival of alliums 2022-03-20T04:00:00Z

But the conceit, among others, didn’t work: the actors were inexperienced, the abstract costumes were confusing, and the scenes dragged. Revisiting a Legendary Sondheim Flop 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z

It’s so confusing, especially related to the latest guidance around saturated fat and cholesterol. Butter, margarine or the latest spread? 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z

Especially confusing were its live action films, a genre that many moviegoers have completely forgotten about. Operation Dumbo Drop to Mr Boogedy: the 10 strangest Disney films 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z

It’s confusing, gnomic, occasionally deranging, beautifully shot, and, like the talking tree-bag, full of something. Twin Peaks recap: episodes one and two – crazy town just got much, much weirder 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z

Abstruse and confusing, "Tales from Earthsea's" story grows increasingly blurry the closer it gets to what should be a deeply satisfying conclusion. 'Tales from Earthsea': Ebbs with narrative unclarity, flows with pleasing visuals 2010-08-12T20:24:00Z

“Most of my songs come from something sad because it’s my way of making it into something better, or something that I can control when it’s a feeling that I’m finding confusing.” Cavetown’s Heartfelt Bedroom Pop Brings Kindness to a Cruel World 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z

Set in a shabby corner of Reykjavik, Iceland, far from the usual tourist attractions, the movie focuses on four teenage boys struggling in that sticky, confusing, inescapably unsettling space between childhood and adulthood. ‘Beautiful Beings’ Review: Boys Will Be Boys Will Be Violent Jerks 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z

“It was confusing for him and emotionally wrenching for me,” she says. You can direct a movie while pregnant. But Hollywood’s not going to make it easy. 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z

She wouldn't allow me to say boy or girl, which was very confusing to a 40-something-year-old woman. Ms. Pat on embracing life's darkness and friend Joe Rogan using the n-word: "We all make mistakes" 2022-03-06T05:00:00Z

Reynolds’s engaging, clear prose shines a light on difficult and confusing subjects, including anti-blackness and the creation of racial capitalism. Can You Dismantle White Supremacy With Words? 2020-03-06T05:00:00Z

Copeland, the first Black female principal dancer at Ballet Theater, centers her tale on students learning the ballet “Coppélia,” and as such her story line can get a little confusing. 5 Dance Picture Books 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z

People in forums identified themselves in these different, passionate ways, in a whole, new, confusing vocabulary that I still don’t fully understand. Not tonight honey — and maybe not ever again 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z

I found this simultaneously funny, confusing and endearing. The internet scammer who loved me (not) 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z

The breakup will inevitably be confusing, upsetting and painful, but easier than the effects of a long-term relationship with a narcissist. The appeal of narcissists: why do we love people who'd rather love themselves? 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z

Perhaps it is unfair sport to remark on the confusing nature of German wine labels. 2016 Dry German Rieslings: Graceful, Resonant, Delicious 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z

If this sounds exhausting, confusing and intense, that’s because it is. Perspective | Toddler tantrums: Why handling misbehavior is a losing game (and what to do instead) 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z

And Steven’s music helps him tap into that inner vibration—the sense that the world is a little bit confusing and not always friendly. Sufjan Stevens and Justin Peck Make a Ballet About Respect 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z

Your vacation was part of a package, which means that you booked all of the components together, so it’s even more confusing to me that Orbitz could have changed your flight but not the hotel. Orbitz switched her vacation to Aruba — but her hotel is in Tahiti | Travel Troubleshooter 2022-01-10T05:00:00Z

“But at the same time, it’s infuriating that it took this long. And it’s bizarre that it took this long. And it’s confusing that it took this long.” Crafting a Rom-Com That’s True to 21st-Century Gay Life 2022-05-18T04:00:00Z

They said the measure’s enactment would return the country to an earlier era of misleading and confusing advertising. House bill lets airlines advertise pre-tax fares 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z

But the experience of watching it did underline the unique ambition of “Westworld,” which is appreciable even when the ins and outs of the show are confusing. ‘Westworld’ Season 1, Episode 9: You Broke My Mind 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z

All the while, she recognized that what a black audience found comic could be a double-edged blade, easily confusing uninformed audiences. The Harlem Renaissance Through Zora Neale Hurston’s Eyes 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z

Here, your friend’s behavior strikes me as more confusing than rude. Family Planning ... for Your Phones 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z

Granted they were working with someone else’s source material, but the film was engaging throughout, even if some viewers found it confusing. Netflix's Sense8 is the Wachowskis' very own Lost, with a few big flaws 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z

"Although it would appear to be quite a neat title, it is quite confusing because it doesn't really tell you very much about its content," he said. How Bradford's National Media Museum survived the spending review 2013-07-02T17:37:32Z

But what is so confusing is that there are other dynamics at work that are far more powerful than rewards and punishments. Perspective | 4-year-old’s refusal to use the potty is pricey and perplexing 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z

The recent and not-so-recent restrictions are confusing, as there are different rules for different airlines. Taking Your Dog on a Plane Just Got Harder 2019-04-24T04:00:00Z

A funny tragedy or a tragic comedy is a little confusing, so I made it simpler. Twyla Tharp Creates ?The Princess and the Goblin? Ballet 2012-02-03T15:40:07Z

Mr. Perreault’s reviews were required reading for anyone trying to make sense of the swirling, often confusing, art scene of the 1970s, when movements and trends vied for attention. John Perreault, Critic, Artist and Poet, Dies at 78 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z

In the end Mr. Resnais’s subject is less memories than the fragile, stubborn, tender minds that stir them up, confusing, blurring and forgetting them. Film: Alain Resnais Explores Desire in ?Wild Grass? 2010-06-19T06:53:00Z

The multimedia sections thrust visitors into the confusing immediacy of the periods they depict, resisting the temptation to interpret them in the light of subsequent events. Shtetl of honour 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z

So I dipped in and out, an hour here, two or three hours there, confusing my day and Claerbout's day, inside and outside. Adrian Searle encounters ... a teacup falling 70 times in a 14-hour film 2012-06-01T10:16:31Z

And yet, from the outside, their success looks a little confusing: why, out of the serried ranks of manufactured British hunks, has the US chosen to clasp cheeky-faced Harry Styles to its bosom? One Direction: Take Me Home – review 2012-11-08T15:30:01Z

There’s a complicated back story about his nephew, bewitched into an ugly Nutcracker doll, that is impossible to work out without program notes, and much that is subsequently confusing. Critic?s Notebook: ?The Nutcracker? in London, Four Different Versions 2012-01-02T23:38:52Z

She communicates a complex and seemingly confusing inner life in a way that is simultaneously vulnerable and opaque. Connie Converse’s Time Has Come 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z

Unfortunate death, confusing death, wonderful career and a confusing career. “Come from nothing, blow up and die”: Reflections on Scott Weiland dig into the self-destructive rock star myth 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z

The ending is confusing: Tamara gives in, and yet she is somehow saved, ascending to the heavens, while the Demon is left, well, demonic. It Was Russia’s Most Popular Opera. Then It Disappeared. 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z

The early movies that tried to present themselves from his books were to confusing, too complicated. Why Matt Damon and Paul Greengrass Couldn’t Quit Jason Bourne 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z

“I think it’s a confusing thing for the consumer. But I wouldn’t want to tell a brewer, ‘If you want to call it this, it has to go into one of these boxes.’ Sours are quickly becoming the funky gateway into the world of craft beer 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z

"One Out of Two," a wily, compressed novel by the late Mexican writer Daniel Sada, features spinster twins who at first blush seem most intent on confusing bystanders as to which sister is which. In Daniel Sada's ticklish 'One Out of Two,' twins raise questions about self and identity 2015-12-24T05:00:00Z

"It's a very confusing time to be alive," Martin said. Coldplay kicks off stadium tour with colorful show 2016-07-17T04:00:00Z

But the heart rarely obeys the imperatives of ideology, which can be confusing enough on their own. ‘Dear White People,’ About Racial Hypocrisy at a College 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z

“Starr is trying to make it in two different kinds of worlds so she’s code-switching, which gets to be confusing,” Thomas says. “The Hate U Give”: Angie Thomas, Children of Promise and the girl in the mirror 2017-04-16T04:00:00Z

It was a kind of intimacy I had never experienced, confusing and addictive. The end of casual sex 2014-11-16T05:00:00Z

But he maintained that the creators of the earlier show were confusing just whom audiences were paying to come and see. A Beatles Tribute Show Seeks Half the Revenues of Another 2013-07-15T21:49:58Z

“It’s very confusing, because sometimes it says two to three days, while other sites say 48 to 72 hours.” Perspective | Shifting coronavirus testing rules leave travelers frustrated 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z

Help me understand this, because it is all pretty clear to me: What is so difficult or confusing about racism? A horror comic for the Trump era: Author of "Infidel" on what's scary right now 2019-05-27T04:00:00Z

With much ground to cover — including Robeson’s long campaign against lynching — “The Tallest Tree in the Forest” can sometimes make abrupt or confusing transitions. Review: Daniel Beaty as Paul Robeson in ‘The Tallest Tree in the Forest’ 2015-03-24T04:00:00Z

It also tends to sprawl, with the chronology becoming confusing. Review: ‘Vietgone,’ a Refugee Tale With Laughs and Rap 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z

While the stories are seemingly quiet, they are all set against the backdrop of violence, from World War II to present-day fights for independence and confusing acts of terrorism. Paul Yoon's 'The Mountain' is quiet, restrained and howling beneath the surface 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z

If the time-shifting was confusing, I still always felt one step ahead of the plot. TV review: Marchlands, Louis Theroux: Ultra Zionists 2011-02-04T10:09:57Z

Even so, the timeline is jumbled and confusing. Review: Simone Biopic Nina Is All Wrong, But Who's to Blame? 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z

For nearly a decade after that, I was an independent young woman in confusing relationships who paired thrift-store finds with designer shoes. My year without makeup 2013-01-10T01:00:00Z

I think they are confusing the writer with the character. Christos Tsiolkas: 'There's love in this book' 2010-08-06T23:05:00Z

“These kinds of tweets restore to the past the authentically confusing character of the present.” Re-enacting Historical Events on Twitter With RealTimeWWII 2011-11-27T20:53:31Z

The conversation gets even more confusing when he goes on to call Carrie a “strong, smart woman.” Chris Noth (Sort of Jokingly) Calls Carrie Bradshaw a Whore 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z

Despite all these confusing feelings, your relationship with this girl will blossom. 'Don’t pretend to be something you’re not': a letter to my teenage self 2019-06-01T04:00:00Z

Welcome to the complex and confusing world of minimum connecting times, or MCT. How much time is enough between connecting flights? 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z

The proliferation of copies openly advertised online suggests that the rules are confusing, rife with loopholes and inconsistently enforced. You avoid fake designer handbags and watches, but what about furniture? 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z

Occasionally the effect is confusing, and the work depends on the dancers' athletic grace to sustain its momentum. Companhia de Dança Deborah Colker: Tatyana – review 2013-02-01T14:42:58Z

The first look, a long, romantic dress in a black-and-white print might have been a grunge reference, but after that, it was just confusing. On the Runway: Time-Warped at Vena Cava 2011-02-10T21:33:49Z

It has been, after all, a dark and confusing period in storm-struck, waterlogged New York, and it is reassuring to be in the company of a Sandy you want to cuddle instead of flee. Theater Review: ‘Annie,’ Starring Katie Finneran, at the Palace Theater 2012-11-09T03:37:23Z

The guidance is outdated and confusing, say the researchers. All babies should be given vitamin D from birth, say experts 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z

In a somewhat confusing turn of events, Blomkamp’s film will be competely separate from the sequel to 2012’s Prometheus, which 20th Century Fox is making with original Alien creator Ridley Scott. "District 9" Director Neill Blomkamp Is Making An "Alien" Sequel 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z

If that sounds vague and slightly confusing, it’s by design. Elisabeth Moss is more than Peggy Olson, as her new film, ‘The One I Love,’ shows

Throughout, Ms. Rose waded through confusing studies and heard troubling statistics about trans people attempting suicide. My Son, My Daughter: A Mother’s Evolution 2017-04-01T04:00:00Z

“We are aware that some retailers resell returned merchandise and also allow our products to be distributed through confusing third party marketplaces,” the company continued. Waffle maker from Amazon is delivered with old, crusty waffle inside 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z

It’s a confusing moment of squeamishness and overstatement from a woman who was politicized as a young mother by the funky feminism of the 1970s. Barbara Ehrenreich Urges Us to Accept, Accept the Dying of the Light 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z

But there was a moment of unexpected slapstick when an older relative began to fret about the graveyard’s confusing layout. Using Fiction to Summon the Glittering, Golden Age of Hollywood 2022-07-30T04:00:00Z

For millions watching on television, the moment was thrilling — and confusing. A year after Chris Stapleton’s CMAs shocker, country music is still wondering how much it mattered 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z

But the speed with which Gyasi sweeps across the decades isn’t confusing so much as dazzling, creating a kind of time-elapsed photo of black lives in America and in the motherland. ‘Homegoing,’ by Yaa Gyasi: A bold tale of slavery for a new ‘Roots’ generation 2016-06-13T04:00:00Z

For those of us bred from traditional gender roles, a late-in-life reimagining of self can be confusing, but is not uncommon. "Am I gay?" I'm a middle-aged woman reinventing her life after marriage and kids — and I'm not alone 2023-08-05T04:00:00Z

Most photos from Bloody Sunday show “a confusing jumble of bodies,” Mr. Berger said. Spider Martin’s Photographs of the Selma March Get a Broader View 2015-02-15T05:00:00Z

The panic in his voice is a perfect match for his preoccupation: The confusing way money works and the infuriating inequities of class. Three New Stand-Up Specials, Three Very Different Approaches 2023-02-17T05:00:00Z

Music helped him cope with, or at least mentally escape, a confusing home life, one in which he initially believed his mother was an older sister. Review: ‘Eric Clapton: A Life in 12 Bars,’ of Triumphs and Tragedies 2017-11-23T05:00:00Z

That might be a useful step forward, as would turning backroom Amtrak office space now inside the station over to passengers, opening up cramped and confusing concourses. The Case for New Hudson River Rail Tunnels 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z

And now, we’re five episodes in and it couldn’t be more confusing. True Detective: is it OK to admit that no one knows what's going on? 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z

If this is confusing, it’s meant to be. Fashion Fans in Line, for a ‘Hack’ 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z

Unfolding with a reticence that’s occasionally confusing, “Les Cowboys” presents a suggestive, almost abstract take on terror and the generational toxicity of bigotry. Review: In ‘Les Cowboys,’ a Girl Vanishes, and Her Father Can’t Bear It 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z

There's nothing more likely to infuriate a hard SF fan than confusing their rigorous, scientifically grounded genre with the namby-pamby made-up magic of high fantasy. Being male is not a prerequisite for hard SF 2012-08-07T11:18:42Z

She would like to 'magic' the pain away but there's no magic in the real world and as a trainee fairy, she finds this a little bit confusing. Charity single storms Irish chart 2012-12-08T13:24:31Z

Winfield-Hunt, who lives on the Isle of Wight off the south coast of England, admitted that while her pals think the fashion statement is hilarious, the post-nuptials look is often confusing for strangers. Thrifty bride keeps wearing $365 wedding dress to get her 'money's worth' 2019-08-17T04:00:00Z

Near the book's end, she reaches the rather confusing conclusion that she must get her 9-year-old son back. Amy Seek's 'Confessions of a Birth Mother' explores meanings of motherhood 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z

To show so much of Lotto and Mathilde's lives, Groff makes chronological jumps — a month here, a year there — that are occasionally confusing. Lauren Groff's 'Fates and Furies' turns the struggles of marriage into art 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z

I'd recommend it for children 10 plus because it may get a bit confusing for younger readers. When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead - review 2013-07-15T11:00:00Z

“And, then people hire us and they always want us to headline. So, it’s like, man this is confusing! But that’s why we just be like, ‘Let’s just keep going.’ ‘This is cool music’: A younger crew of Seattle jazz-informed musicians bend genres, creating their own sound 2018-07-10T04:00:00Z

The Potomac River changes course every four to eight years, which is confusing to the native species, except for the bottom-feeders. Style Invitational: It’s birthday-parody time! Plus fake D.C. trivia. 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z

Despite confusing information about the role of diet and lifestyle, "The Widowmaker" is a lucid and important work of advocacy journalism. 'The Widowmaker' says doctors thrive on crisis over health 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z

Going from being insulted in the street to being approached by a model agency or asked out by a complete stranger has a confusing, intoxicating impact on a person. Operation smile: how jaw surgery changed my life 2017-10-21T04:00:00Z

This can be confusing, and adds to the difficulty of acknowledging the illness. Kanye West, bipolar disorder and me: When I hear Kanye's rants, I remember my own delusions 2020-08-08T04:00:00Z

Higham’s article joins a persistent refrain in the documentary that suggests Welles, his radical independence and the very idea of film as art remain contested, confusing terrain. Review: ‘They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead’ Documents Orson Welles’s Last Film 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z

In this lively, touching graphic novel, twins and best friends Maureen and Francine navigate sixth grade, new interests and the frequently confusing changes in their relationship. Best children’s books of 2020 reveal a growing diversity 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z

What is it about the animation studio's confusing attitude towards cultural stereotypes? Brave Old Worlds: Does Pixar Have a Problem with Stereotypes? 2012-06-20T10:45:02Z

"Remember the entail?" asked Eaton, referring to a famously confusing plot point in Season 1. A visit from the "Downton Abbey" cast -- and more tidbits on Season 2 2011-08-02T23:09:05Z

He built the wall using his weird and confusing time-traveling abilities. How will "Game of Thrones" end? Fans on Salon's staff have theories 2019-04-13T04:00:00Z

In typical American fashion, regulation of the ownership of big cats such as tigers and lions is scant and confusing, varying state by state or even county by county. Murder, madness and tigers: behind the year's wildest Netflix series 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z

So it was confusing that Ms. Swift chose a third path to conclude the show: petulance. Taylor Swift Begins Her ‘Reputation’ Tour, Taking on Foes and Her Old Self 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z

The situation was admittedly confusing, for everyone, and there was a period when I needed to retrain my kids, to reconstruct their idea of me and my availability. On being a part-time working mom 2017-08-12T04:00:00Z

The narration becomes especially confusing when characters quote each other, and when Mr. Rodriguez occasionally flubs his lines. Theater Review: ?Growing Up Gonzales? at the Jan Hus Playhouse 2012-02-09T23:46:39Z

And when I did off-off-Broadway theater for 10 years, there was no confusing the two. "GLOW" star Betty Gilpin on battling "implanted patriarchy" and women "cycling through selves" 2022-09-17T04:00:00Z

It is indeed confusing and demanding; that is its intention. Music Review: Stefan Herheim?s ?Rusalka,? at Th??tre Royal de la Monnaie 2012-03-09T23:41:56Z

“The less communication there is, the less support that you have, the more terrible and confusing this time is.” ‘Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret’: Beloved, Banned and Finally Adapted 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z

She said on Wednesday that his behavior was “so confusing because when he was clean and sober, he was wonderful and that part of him I loved so much.” Johnny Depp and Amber Heard’s Courtroom Face-Off: An Explainer 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z

Around these slabs the chorus morph from persecutors to persecuted, reminding us that in war all are capable of atrocity, though in truth mostly confusing us. Nabucco; Bach Marathon; Tine Thing Helseth, Kathryn Stott – review 2013-04-06T23:06:25Z

So it's no surprise that racism is inconsistent and nonsensical or that talking about it is confusing. Suspending Whoopi Goldberg doesn’t help anyone fight against bigotry 2022-02-05T05:00:00Z

Some parents offer too many choices, confusing the child. Perspective | No, offering choices is not the silver bullet for toddler behavior problems 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z

But the more we enjoyed ourselves, the more confusing our situation became. Seeking a Father for My Child (Relationship Optional) 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z

Airbnb said the new rules were complex and confusing as they did not distinguish between local families sharing their homes and professional operators running a business. Spain's Balearic Islands to fine illegal tourist rentals 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z

Most likely, though, the Portuguese jam our friend remembered was the victim of a confusing European Union trade designation. New reasons to grow an old favorite, the carrot 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z

But in reporting on and dramatizing the hunt for bin Laden, “Zero Dark Thirty” may be confusing to some moviegoers. Movie ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ stokes debate on CIA torture 2012-12-15T03:44:31Z

“I was worried at first that it would be a confusing concept,” MacDonald said. Imagination Stage gives children two art forms for the price of one 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z

How to convey the magnitude of that loss, and also, the shocking and confusing violence that took her from the world? Making the bodies of “The Staircase”: The challenge of depicting Kathleen both in life and in death 2022-06-05T04:00:00Z

But Colorado happens to be the epicenter of people confusing them on purpose. The “man crisis,” continued 2012-05-31T00:00:00Z

Rather, her motivations are handled with delicacy and an awareness of the confusing nature of teenage emotions — and the not-always-benign influence of calculating parents. ‘Brian Banks’ Review: Falsely Accused, and Fighting Back 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z

It was messy and confusing and hard to figure out where to look. New York Fashion Week Returns. Here’s the Cliffs Notes Version. 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z

At the time, I actually worried that a focus on a character’s desperate need for health insurance would be like my ’90s cordless-phone gag — something that would, almost immediately, seem quaint and a little confusing. Planned Obsolescence 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z

She is declared the winner of the Iowa caucuses via a controversial and confusing process that, in some precincts, involves dodgeball. Dave Barry’s Year in Review: Trump and the ‘hideous monstrosity’ that was 2016 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z

I suppose what attracted me was that it appeared to promise absolutely no point of contact between its subject matter and our own confused and confusing times. For Honour and Fame: Chivalry in England, 1066-1500 by Nigel Saul – review 2012-06-26T10:45:01Z

What followed was a confusing mess, not made any easier by hours of anguished wailing. The month in soaps: Coronation Street rises to the occasion 2013-07-06T05:00:00Z

Rapture or not, life is confusing and hard. The Leftovers: Tom Perrotta's Rapture 2014-06-28T04:00:00Z

I would recommend this book to 8+ because it was quite a confusing story. Ruby Redfort: Take Your Last Breath by Lauren Child - review 2013-05-17T17:00:00Z

I understand that this may seem confusing right now, what with all the opinions being bantered about. Olympic women’s burden 2012-08-09T15:51:00Z

Originally written for the Paris Opera, the Hollywood of the 19th century, it is spectacular, flawed and often confusing, and it is Verdi at his absolute best. Review | Pared down and dumbed down, ‘Don Carlo’ still dazzles at the Kennedy Center 2018-03-04T05:00:00Z

Though not as confusing as what Jason is up to over at Merlotte's. "True Blood" recap: Time for betrayal 2010-07-12T12:30:00Z

Her notes on an early screening before a round of edits read like a poem written on the occasion of watching the most confusing movie ever. 8 things about “Aloha” that bugged Amy Pascal more than casting Emma Stone as an Asian character 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z

It seems the town she hails from has been arbitrarily renamed Quaere by a cartographer, confusing residents who had always referred to it as North Burcombe. Suspending Disbelief in a Savage ‘Endgame’ 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z

It can be confusing when a happy-go-lucky child begins to have seemingly irrational fears. Perspective | My 3-year-old says everything is ‘scary’ — including his chores. Is he manipulating me? 2018-08-14T04:00:00Z

"I think that's something that is very confusing for human beings. Some people are desperate to label things because the truth is so much more confusing and frightening," she says. The fluidity of "The Queen's Gambit" is its secret weapon 2020-10-31T04:00:00Z

Tom, like much of the internet, is algorithmically designed to give Alma increasing amounts of what she likes; yet her exasperation over these attentions is as confusing to her as to him. ‘I’m Your Man’ Review: Living Doll 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z

She recounts the story of the shooting of her brother in great, although completely fictional, detail, which is a bit confusing tucked into a generally factual memoir. Review | Nadia Owusu’s ‘Aftershocks’ is a moving tale of identity, loss and finding home 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z

Then things start to get complicated and confusing, not to mention scary. David Foster Wallace on 'The Nature of Fun' 2012-11-16T11:00:02Z

After a confusing level of online digging, I found out we were watching “was “Poinsettias for Christmas. Hallmark Christmas movie schlock has infected all of TV, and the symptoms are bland and homogeneous 2019-12-01T05:00:00Z

All of this sounds potentially confusing, and at times it is, but Johnson, who previously directed Gordon-Levitt in his high-school-noir debut "Brick," keeps things moving along. 'Looper': Hit man goes back to the future in dark, zingy thriller 2012-09-27T15:15:04Z

Mostly, there were no signs, or they were confusing or of little use, sometimes coming after the turnoff, as if to reassure drivers that they’d made the right guess. Driving Russia’s Revived Golden Ring 2012-08-31T19:01:44Z

Any reader who is not thoroughly schooled in modern Western history may find Mr Makari’s detailed account confusing. Lost soul 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z

So the timeline is a bit confusing here: has it been three months since he beat Boyd in court? ‘Billions’ Season 2, Episode 10: Nonconformity 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z

Even figuring out exactly what “Pollux” is can be a little confusing. Salonen's 'Pollux' supplies some grunge for L.A. Phil tour 2018-04-15T04:00:00Z

Less than a month after releasing a confusing initial trailer for this inspirational drama based on a true story, Universal and DreamWorks put out a second clip that’s more straightforward. The Best and Worst Movie Trailers From Comic-Con 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z

“This issue between confusing a want with a need is enormous in the sector,” said Carroll Joynes, a founder and senior fellow at the policy center. Study Shows Expansion Can Be Unhealthy for Arts Groups 2012-06-27T21:16:40Z

Choosing the right one may seem complicated, confusing and occasionally overwhelming. One Wine Glass to Rule Them All 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z

The messages he receives are much more brutal, though hardly less confusing. ‘Armageddon Time’ Review: Hard Lessons About Life in America 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z

Their hour on stage was confusing and streaked with brilliance. Are Anna & Katy the new Vic & Bob? 2013-03-01T13:00:00Z

Furniture labels are confusing — frequently downright misleading — and the government no longer specifically oversees their content. Misleading furniture labels: How to tell whether you have the real deal 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z

It engaged with the tangled, confusing narratives that, a short while ago, we would have determined were impossible to figure out. Perspective | Harvey Weinstein’s conviction allowed victims to have messy stories. That’s revolutionary. 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z

Commander Barnaud said the ban was designed to avoid confusing bystanders or cause terrorists to attack actors. Paris Calls a Halt to Outdoor Filming of Some Action Scenes 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z

The process, at times, was confusing and isolating, she said, and left her feeling insecure: the overshadowed daughter of a movie star who died young, rather than Natasha, daughter of Natalie. A Mother’s Death, a Daughter’s Life: Remembering Natalie Wood 2016-03-19T04:00:00Z

But this book is confusing in much more important ways. Books of The Times: A Life Built on Illusion: More Tease Than Strip 2010-12-19T23:12:36Z

And I didn't really expect how much it would be confusing. How Airborne Toxic Event's album "Hollywood Park" became the "soundtrack" to Mikel Jollett's memoir 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z

The mother of triplets knows firsthand how confusing and heartbreaking it is to suffer from the condition: One of her daughters showed signs of misophonia at just 2 years old. Many people find the sound of chewing annoying. But for some, it produces panic or rage. 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z

I’m drawn to ambiguity, and the idea of Stage 0 cancer was very confusing to both me and my wife. David Hollander on ‘Ray Donovan’ Season 4 and Taking Over as Showrunner 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z

She also superbly conveys the folkways of the Eastern Shore and the disruptive, confusing effect the fires had on its community. An Arsonist and His Femme Fatale Partner Fuel ‘American Fire’ 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z

The films turn confusing and the punters start flagging, and the boundaries between art and life have a tendency to break down. Cannes 2018: A search for meaning on the Croisette 2018-05-19T04:00:00Z

But he said the law is confusing and the city pension fund isn't in a position to determine whether the labor leaders knowingly submitted false information, which would be a felony. Pension perk drawn on false information 2011-09-02T03:09:00Z

"The Long Night," by design, is a dense and often confusing episode, meant to illustrate the fog of war. Arya Stark's big move is proof that "Game of Thrones" prophecies are never what they seem 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z

The other big misconception is confusing self-love for selfishness. I <3 you: meet the NYU professor whose love course is becoming a phenomenon 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z

Jason Robert Brown, the Tony-nominated songwriter of shows such as "Parade" and "The Last Five Years," says songwriters not familiar with ceding control over their work may find the theater confusing. Pop songwriters find excitement in stage musicals 2013-05-22T12:40:09Z

Which was confusing, as there weren't any desperately important connections – other than the obvious one of life expectancy – being made between serving time on death row and elsewhere. TV review: Inside Death Row with Trevor McDonald; Married in Britain 2013-01-17T22:00:15Z

They've fiddled with the chronology: I found the second episode confusing. A medieval historian's view on The White Queen 2013-06-24T17:36:50Z

“I thought that might be a little confusing, which I like.” An Interview With January Jones of ‘Mad Men’ 2013-05-17T22:09:45Z

“She catapulted herself out of a biracial, impoverished, confusing situation, into this high-art world, as my father did on some level,” Hall said. Rebecca Hall’s Complicated Inheritance 2017-06-03T04:00:00Z

"Are you OK?" my brother asked, confusing my erratic movement for anxiety-induced shaking. My neurodivergent reading of "The Little Mermaid": Ariel is autistic, and Eric has ADHD 2023-09-18T04:00:00Z

The show initially ignored the story about Sarah Palin's confusing comments about Paul Revere until she continued to defend herself, then brought on a historian to debunk her interpretation of Revere's rides. CNN's Anderson Cooper: 'I'm not an opinion person' 2011-06-13T16:40:05Z

It’s complicated and confusing for everyone, especially for her. What happens when college kids leave the nest — and the coronavirus sends them back 2020-03-16T04:00:00Z

“It was such a confusing time,” he said of that first Oscar go-round. Matt Damon: You Could Call Him Down to Earth 2015-12-29T05:00:00Z

Her deliberate arrangement of this lore, a mixture of confusing plots and unexpected endings, tells readers to be patient about extracting meaning. Kindred Spirits: 2 Collections of Native Mythology for Children and Their Adults 2021-02-19T05:00:00Z

Inevitably, some associations of text and images are confusing. Art in Review: SANDOW BIRK: ?American Qu?ran? 2010-09-17T16:50:00Z

The Lyon experience was flatter, more presentational than lived — and also confusing. Taking Note as Dance Reflections Takes a Pause 2023-11-07T05:00:00Z

It is a fanciful intermingling of art, science and nature, except for the mildly confusing detail of a student with a tablet, which he holds up to photograph the scene. Their Wildest Dreams 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z

Still, it was satisfying to read about a demographic so often invisible, to see a community brought into focus through a woman with an inner life that is layered, confusing and at times unflattering. In ‘My Name Is Iris,’ a Mother Learns the Limits of Protectiveness 2023-08-01T04:00:00Z

If you don't believe me, then there's a good chance that you're confusing it with Great British Menu, the BBC2 food show where professional chefs compete to create a meal for a minor royal. The Great British cliche 2011-03-09T12:02:45Z

The Force Awakens conjured up a confusing picture of the state of the all-powerful energy field, with blurred lines where the clear binary system of Jedi and Sith once sat. Could The Last Jedi's title bode well for Star Wars' spirit of invention? 2017-01-23T05:00:00Z

I always throw the audience into something confusing, and then the narrative starts to pull itself together. Words Make a Room: The Plays of Enda Walsh 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z

Within the park, a confusing tangle of stories plays out. Review: ‘Westworld’ Is a Provocative but Flawed Sci-Fi Shoot-’Em-Up 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z

“La Boutique Obscure” is an attempt to convey in words that brilliant, underwater multiplicity and confusing certainty of dreams. In the space of dreams: Wendy Ortiz's 'Bruja' is vivid and dark 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z

It also illustrates how digital imagery is helping us to make sense of a frenzied, often confusing world. Design: London Portrays Past and Future of Digital Art 2009-12-14T11:34:00Z

A locked green gate and a confusing panel of buzzers greet visitors intrepid enough to track it down. Hidden Gems of Europe 2012-10-12T20:14:25Z

But the story is confusing and the dialogue overwritten, making it tough for the usually game Kunis and Tatum to bring much spark to the picture. SpongeBob makes a comeback 2015-05-30T04:00:00Z

But the most confusing aspect of the series is its tone thus far. ABC's "Happy Town" gets off to confusing start 2010-04-26T07:49:00Z

And then there’s the confusing time frame here: “It’s always been important to me” and “I now realize…?” “The Fat Jew” defends himself and comes up short: Even on “the cutting edge of the Internet,” stealing actually is “a matter of right or wrong” 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z

Art houses are showing films, people are drinking coffee and telling tall tales, women and men are confusing each other and record stores are selling discs full of soul that you haven't felt yet. Jack White: vinyl ambassador 2013-02-20T10:45:13Z

But even the savviest consumers confront a confusing range of dubious publications. Analysis | As coronavirus spreads, dubious books about surviving the epidemic proliferate 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z

Episodes open with cryptic, almost surreal montages that introduce characters and clues in the most confusing way possible. Review: In Final Season of ‘Inspector Lewis,’ Solving Mysteries While Navigating a New Boss 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z

“It’s a time in life that’s confusing and messy and not always great,” she says. Teen Angst With a New Edge 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z

But Perry's song is not as meaningful as either of those, with a confusing string of similes in the verse leading into an unrelated metaphor in the chorus. Katy Perry comes to KeyArena, demonstrates the power of blending in 2011-07-14T14:01:06Z

As in all elections Labour won thanks to a confusing coalition of contrasting views. Ken Loach's Spirit of '45 is a fantasy 2013-03-08T07:00:32Z

And finding a way out of a confusing and baffling life situation gives you something to offer other people. Taylor, still 'hungry' at 63, hits Carnegie Hall 2011-04-11T20:51:09Z

Fineman, however, wanted to sing the praises of “Tár,” which she said was “iconic, vivacious, carnivorous, queer, vague, confusing, long, partially in German, and it was hands down the funniest movie of the year.” ‘Saturday Night Live’ Goes to the Oscars 2023-03-12T05:00:00Z

It’s not that characters don’t feel, it’s that they feel a confusing mélange of emotions that can’t be reconciled. Review | In Maisy Card’s ‘These Ghosts Are Family,’ resentments are passed down from one generation to the next 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z

We got ready for Sunday's season two premiere with a board game full of betrayal, intrigue and very confusing rules. @ishaantharoor “When you play the game of thrones,” George R.R. TIME Plays the Game of Thrones, and Lives to Tell the Tale 2012-03-30T15:16:49Z

"But the vagueness of the allegations so far leads only to questions and a confusing deductive trail." As Americans' views on wellness evolve, Subway is suffering an identity crisis 2021-02-03T05:00:00Z

Two weeks before her marriage in 1958, Ms. Lewis told her fiancé, Tom Tinney, that she did not understand her confusing relationship with her mother and that she did not know who her father was. Judy Lewis, Secret Daughter of Hollywood, Dies at 76 2011-12-01T03:50:26Z

The interchangeable timelines can be both confusing and enlightening. ‘Westworld’ Season 1, Episode 9: You Broke My Mind 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z

I enjoyed last week’s news about a surgical breakthrough that could potentially delay menopause, mainly as it was good to hear the whole confusing, eternally awkward thing discussed for once. I’m angry, sore, and bloated. Is this the menopause? The more I read, the less I know 2019-08-17T04:00:00Z

Martin made things even more confusing when he added: Is Coldplay Breaking Up? 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z

“American Demon” is a winding, and sometimes confusing, jaunt. The Killer Who Terrorized Cleveland — and Spurred It to Change 2022-09-06T04:00:00Z

It’s a method as clever and effective as it is opaque and confusing. Review: ‘A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing,’ by Eimear McBride

Chuck wasn’t in “Breaking Bad,” for one thing; he’s a really confusing character, for another. The heartbreak of “Better Call Saul”: Season finale hints the series will be even more devastating than “Breaking Bad” 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z

The exposition is longwinded and confusing, as are the rules of the game, in the virtual and the real worlds. | 'Ra.One': ?Ra.One,? a Sci-Fi Thriller From Bollywood ? Review 2011-10-26T21:46:19Z

Finally I was like, “Oh man, it is so hard to be a person in the world and life is so confusing so I should probably go to sleep.” Sofia Vergara’s spin at the Emmys: A subversive stunt or just a woman on a rotating platform? 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z

The Translation: Reach for an already layered piece that’s slightly confusing in the best way possible — wait, which one went on first? — but, unlike the Margiela, lets you move your limbs. Push It: 5 Style Challenges 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z

Now 37, he was raised as a Baptist in Athens, Georgia, but found the Lord’s house a confusing place. All hail Tituss, breakout star of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z

It was both a sign of the genius of her show, “Full Frontal,” and a bit that brought up a disturbing, or at least confusing, issue. Donald Trump is playing them, too: Even Samantha Bee and John Oliver are complicit in giving Trump exactly what he wants — free airtime 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z

It must be confusing for people, but it’s the way I get through.” How the Kinks turned a British history lesson into a rock masterpiece that still resonates 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z

With so many sites and apps trying to sell you an airline ticket these days, it’s confusing. Ranking the best airfare search sites and apps 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z

In a confusing gaffe, Variety mislabeled her remarks: Instead of discussing gender inequality, the industry newspaper posted an abridged version on their site as a comment about #OscarsSoWhite and racial diversity in Hollywood. It’s not that easy, Kristen Stewart: Women in Hollywood discover that “go do something” means “go do everything yourself” 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z

“The collision between the primitive way of living and modern-day society is traumatic to the people there,” Mr. Gandhi said, “and it’s confusing.” Q&A: Timeless Papua New Guinea 2014-05-02T17:58:57Z

Nonetheless, each news cycle is an exhausting, confusing blast of conflicting claims, fact-checking, reactions and outrage. Perspective | Trump’s message of mistrust is sinking in, even in journalism’s new ‘golden age’ 2017-11-02T04:00:00Z

Being a woman under late capitalism is confusing to begin with. Selling my eggs to make rent 2013-02-03T18:00:00Z

The math is more confusing when some airlines can offer no baggage fees and have no change fees while others continue to raise theirs year after year. Perspective | Got a complaint about the travel industry? It’s got one about you, too. 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z

“It is a confusing time to be a woman who loves a troubled man,” Henderson writes in this unflinching memoir of her husband’s long and confounding medical conditions. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z

At first, I found this statement confusing and evasive. A Mother Loses a Son to Suicide, but Their Dialogue Continues 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z

In this preview clip, KCRW's Jason Bentley helps recount the confusing, enticing means to get the address for a warehouse rave. Watch a preview of the EDC documentary 'Under the Electric Sky' 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z

They seem bound by their classes and by the series' confusing, time-shifting structure; by the time they're frantically rushing to the lifeboats, we still barely know them. The Titanic sinks again, on stage and screen 2012-04-04T23:27:04Z

Stuck in a confusing time of hormones, the series' Claudia is poised on the brink of adulthood but will never move forward, never grow out of her shifting moods and dramatic fantasies. The eternal sadness of the child vampire 2022-10-30T04:00:00Z

But the story it tells is confused and confusing. Various: Scared to Get Happy – review 2013-06-13T14:29:01Z

“It was very hard; it was confusing; it was foreign. I think I was having a little bit of an out-of-body experience with it for maybe the first year of working on this show.” Sara Bareilles Takes Her Slice of Broadway With ‘Waitress’ 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z

If you think it’s confusing that so many black carry-on bags look alike these days, just wait. Review | Hervé Le Tellier’s ‘The Anomaly’ has already sold a million copies in France. It should take off here, too. 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z

But converting the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s paper documentation to the E.U.’s vaccine passport proved to be confusing. Perspective | Fluid travel landscape complicates fall and winter vacation planning 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z

They used the word “terminal” in signs, which is confusing. Need to Get From Point A to Point B? This Guy Creates the Signs to Help. 2019-09-28T04:00:00Z

To help travelers navigate, we’ve explored the confusing mosaic of gun policies at some of the big hotel chains. When Guests Want to Check In With Firearms, What Can Hotels Do? 2018-10-07T04:00:00Z

“I agree, it’s pretty confusing,” said Zachary Sacks, an investment analyst in Manhattan. Dress Codes: Appropriately Inappropriate for ‘Festive Dress’ 2013-12-04T23:20:13Z

Donald Trump Jr. is facing the wrath of Twitter after confusing the nickname of NBC’s popular sketch comedy series “Saturday Night Live.” Chris Evans, Bobby Moynihan, and more rip Donald Trump Jr. for epic "Saturday Night Live" flub 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z

The boy tries to get his money bank, confusing other customers and causing a run on the bank—a sign of social upheaval if ever there was one! Mary Poppins Was the Original Disney Feminist 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z

"I kind of spent two weeks in my hotel room worrying and confusing myself," he confessed. "Cosmopolis" brings star Pattinson to Cannes 2012-05-25T11:49:47Z

In saying that, I wouldn't want to suggest that Saint-Exupéry is obtuse or confusing. Reading group: Wind, Sand and Stars – brilliantly uplifting 2012-11-09T15:57:26Z

Sometimes it feels breathtakingly brilliant and other times it just feels confusing. Arrested Development recap: season four, episodes 1-5 2013-05-26T15:37:26Z

The Interior Department initially said the ruling was confusing and the film should continue to be shown in theaters until the judge cleared it up. Hit Mexican film pulled pending legal challenge 2011-03-08T00:36:18Z

Why the penny ante murder of a barely there town’s city manager and a legendarily botched arrest would seem the right platforms from which to launch one’s gubernatorial bid is confusing. 'True Detective' Recap: Pain Is Inexhaustible 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z

He went on, “Anyone who hasn’t studied this professionally has more confidence than they ought to have. You have to really look at it hard to see how confusing it is.” The Trouble with Crime Statistics 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z

Her own German last name was endlessly confusing to people, while her spouse’s was endlessly made fun of. What’s in a Name: Family and More 2013-12-07T00:47:39Z

If the set-up is this confusing, imagine what the end result is going to be like. Crowdsourced science blogging for Comic Relief 2013-03-12T12:00:00Z

Sorrentino’s odd cocktail of sombre Machiavellian drama and Cinecittà-inflected flamboyance proves confusing enough to make the viewer question her own comprehension. A Man Without Qualities: HBO’s “The Young Pope” 2017-01-15T05:00:00Z

Everything about “White Girl in Danger” is confusing and hard to follow. Review: ‘White Girl in Danger’ Flips the Script on Soap Operas 2023-04-10T04:00:00Z

We all wonder, he says, “How am I going to compose a salad that isn’t confusing?” How to make a salad that everyone wants to eat 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z

The language is too overheated to be convincing, and there are a confusing number of character names mentioned – several women prisoners, their unseen relatives, a male guard. Children of the Jacaranda Tree by Sahar Delijani – review 2013-07-12T08:00:01Z

Pierce’s film was uncompromising in its presentation of transgender identity as difficult, untidy, as internally confusing to the person inside the body as those outside of it. Boys Don't Cry at 20: in praise of the divisive transgender drama 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z

In that same way, I don’t feel a huge connection to religion, except as a large accumulation of confusing, confusing stories. Josh Ritter preaches his “messianic oracular honky tonk”: “I don’t feel a huge connection to religion, except as a large accumulation of confusing, confusing stories” 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z

Even saying that doesn't do justice to the exhausting convolutions of "Tomorrowland's" plot or the confusing nature of its ending, all of which undermine the film's effective moments. 'Tomorrowland' reaches too far, in too many directions 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

The titles, in slightly haphazard English, were jumpy and rife with confusing repetitions. Music Review: Onstage in Milan, Shadowy Giants Visible in New York 2010-12-08T23:54:00Z

But the weightier sections are confusing and often hollow. Review: In ‘Skin,’ More Than Words and Sometimes Less 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z

It didn’t help that the sizing was outrageously confusing. Critical Shopper: Belstaff, Another Attempt at Upward Mobility 2012-10-09T21:24:12Z

I took notes throughout the process — on steps I found confusing, on any swaps or substitutions I made, on how the recipe looked visually at certain points. “My failures taught me more than a perfect cake did”: 3 expert tips to become a better baker 2023-04-08T04:00:00Z

Although you mention that you’re colleagues as a complicating factor, I’m wondering if your problems result from confusing workplace familiarity with real closeness. My bridesmaid keeps being nasty. Should I uninvite her? | Mariella Frostrup 2017-10-29T04:00:00Z

Critical response “A surreal fable” showing “colossal” imagination but dissolving “into a welter of confusing language and imagery.” My First Produced Play? Ah, I Remember It Well. 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z

He was gone for 60 days, which was a confusing time for me. 'He didn't even pretend to let us win'… Growing up with the world's biggest stars, by their children 2020-03-29T04:00:00Z

“Viewed in the light most favorable to defendants, this evidence suggests that consumers are understanding the pun, rather than confusing the brands.” No injunction for Beyoncé over 'Feyoncé' knockoffs: U.S. judge 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z

It’s confusing, because he never goes to the office and he never seems to be reporting anything. Tintin 101: What You Need to Know Before You See the Movie 2011-12-21T09:58:24Z

Others on social media made jokes of confusing Branch with musician Vanessa Carlton; both have black hair and found artistic popularity as young women in the early 2000s. Michelle Branch, Patrick Carney and the nuances of how we talk about abuse 2022-08-16T04:00:00Z

Geography can be confusing, especially if you're organising newspaper handouts in 61 locations worldwide. Radiohead leave US fans waiting for the Universal Sigh 2011-03-30T09:22:41Z

The result is as confusing politically as it is theatrically. Review: Michael Moore, Bragging on Broadway, in ‘The Terms of My Surrender’ 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z

However, for someone who hasn't used a French press before, these little contraptions can appear confusing. How to make French press coffee, according to baristas 2023-04-01T04:00:00Z

The addition of Chorney is more complex, and offers a partial if confusing glimpse into the Grammys’ behind-the-scenes process of tabulating votes. Marilyn Manson Loses a Grammy Nomination, and a Songwriter Gains One 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z

In February, HBO’s “Girls” aired its own harassment episode, one focused on the confusing experience of getting to know — and like — an alleged predator. Hollywood Harassment Was an Open Secret. But TV Comedies Took It On. 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z

The other noteworthy thing that occurred was that Si organized an age-inappropriate treasure hunt for Jep’s children that was as confusing to its participants as it was to the audience. Duck Dynasty Premiere Recap: In Which They Tackle Tough Topics Like Emojis and Air Bud 2014-01-16T16:06:19Z

By then, the ideal of the virile man had become almost impossibly confusing. When Men Wanted to Be Virile 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z

But the lota can be confusing to Americans. Secrets of the Muslim bathroom 2012-07-10T01:00:00Z

Otherwise, we could just as easily be in the late 1960s or early ’70s, in the confusing heyday of sexual liberation, when the hippest theatrical diversions in town were romantically cynical, or cynically romantic. Review: ‘New York Animals,’ a Musical About Intersecting Lives 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z

Which by the way, was another extremely confusing and annoying part… How is it that more crimes happen in this small town than you hear of happening in New York city? Theodore Boone: The Accused by John Grisham - review 2012-08-30T14:00:00Z

It was confusing, because it challenged my view of America, but also my view of myself. Brewing a "Coffeehouse Resistance": Hopeful activism that's organized and energized 2019-06-18T04:00:00Z

"The ending is ironic and kind of confusing but realistic," said Szumowska. New Polish film tackles homosexuality in Catholic Church 2013-02-08T15:21:02Z

When anything is terrifying and confusing to me, I'm somehow drawn to it. In "Goodnight Mommy," Naomi Watts is drawn to her character's "terrifying and confusing" behavior 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z

Meat cuts remain a confusing test in the grocery store. Name that meat: Is it a tri-tip, sirloin tip, triangle roast — or something else? 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z

The point is, this has allowed me to find motivation for my writing on the scale that is necessary to complete large projects, to persevere through confusing and emotionally challenging material. Is journalism killing my creativity? 2013-04-01T00:00:00Z

“My resistance was confusing and painful to discover, and is at odds with how much Rookie means to me and how badly I would like to see it grow and evolve,” she writes. Rookie Brought the Inclusive Spirit of Zines to the Internet Era 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z

So it is a little confusing to see from photographs in the catalog that Clark also considered some of them models for immense, generic public sculptures. Lygia Clark’s Many Twists and Turns, at MoMA 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z

Particularly this year, Elves on the Shelves sometimes seem to reflect not the whimsical world of children but the needs of their parents to deal with a confusing world via play therapy. The Elf on the Shelf: A Christmas toy for kids, or a mind game for adults? 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z

This was confusing for her son, she noted, since Deacon knew his mom's clear position on mask wearing. Kentucky mom who resisted school mask mandates says she was 'fighting for' her child 2022-02-23T05:00:00Z

The suit says the defendants are improperly and unlawfully trading on Adams trademark and deliberately confusing consumers. Ansel Adams trust sues over garage sale negatives 2010-08-24T03:16:00Z

The potential was so high, I thought: the juxtaposition of ancient, hungry creatures and our confusing, industrialized and increasingly awful world. "Stranger Things 5" should go full "Jurassic" 2022-07-10T04:00:00Z

So it was a confusing shock when Winfrey abruptly withdrew her support of the film just 15 days before its January premiere at Sundance, citing vague “inconsistencies”. 'People continue to turn a blind eye': behind a shocking film about music industry abuse 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z

The book's abrupt shifts in voice and time may be confusing, but perseverance is rewarded — Lippman seems incapable of writing badly. Crime fiction: new books by Garry Disher, C.J. Box and Laura Lippman 2011-08-10T22:07:04Z

This is a confusing time for the city and its guests. As an international tourist destination, Orlando copes with tragedies’ aftermath 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z

It's confusing — the line of exploitive or showy and excessive versus the story. "You Mean Everything to Me" star Morgan Saylor on this seductive cautionary tale: "I love bleakness" 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z

And while Rachel Hauck’s set exploits every nook of the Cherry Lane’s smaller stage, it’s pretty confusing, too. ‘To the Bone,’ by Lisa Ramirez, About Immigrant Workers 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z

The rooms have been configured to make it easy to visit specific areas of American art without getting caught up in a confusing labyrinth. Metropolitan Museum Completes American Wing Renovation 2012-01-05T23:11:11Z

“To most Americans, Brexit is both an important but confusing story, that unfolds in a different direction every single week,” Mr. Carter said. Graydon Carter Joins the Newsletter Brigade 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z

But structuring the book around members of Mr Putin’s entourage leads to some confusing chronological leaps. Cluster bomb 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z

“Revolution in the Arab world is inspiring, dramatic and confusing,” says A.O. ArtsBeat: Critics' Picks Video: 'Lawrence of Arabia' 2011-06-06T23:38:09Z

They claim my nights/days alternate schedule is "too confusing" to understand. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: A nurse must accept that there’s no cure for thickheadedness 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z

Listening to a few recordings was helpful but confusing. How Leonard Slatkin blogged an opera disaster 2010-04-05T11:47:00Z

There were some polite if strained attempts at praise, but most people felt the film was confusing, overlong, too kinky and generally a mess. Perspective | ‘Dune’ has long divided the science fiction world. The new film won’t change that. 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

Her labels are uniformly simplified to eliminate any confusing flimflammery: Just her name, the producer’s name, the appellation and the vintage. This bold red wine blend is delicious, straightforward and just $15 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z

All the standard toiletries are provided, though the many lighting switches sometimes proved confusing. Check In/Check Out : Hotel Review: Thompson Toronto 2011-08-12T18:55:00Z

Our highest court just gave me its support, One confusing ruling coming down. Style Invitational Week 1291: Film flam — movie anagrams 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z

You’re confusing the houses of God with the palaces of worldly potentates. Viewing Europe’s Houses of Worship in Wild Detail 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z

Angostura, Peychaud’s and many others are labeled as “aromatic” bitters, which can be confusing. Bitters make drinks better. But which ones do you need to buy? 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z

When you do what I did, and mix up your Kelvin, you end up with a confusing jumble of warm and cool light. You’re probably buying the wrong light bulb — here’s why 2022-07-16T04:00:00Z

These categories can be confusing, because they refer only to the strength of the evidence that something can cause cancer, not the degree of risk. Aspartame might be classified as a possible carcinogen by WHO — but there’s no cause for panic 2023-07-05T04:00:00Z

Modern audiences won’t want to sit for hours through parades of static arias and confusing plots. Review: The Met Opera Is Handel’s House in ‘Agrippina’ 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z

Squeeze was the first of the show's monsters-of-the-week episodes, which stood apart from the overarching mythology that was to be its incredibly confusing undoing years later. Mulder and Scully at San Diego Comic-Con: the 13 best X-Files episodes ever 2013-07-18T12:00:00Z

Two states — North Carolina and Nebraska — have decriminalized cannabis, but it remains fully illegal in all forms, which is all kinds of confusing. What's actually the difference between CBD and THC? 2022-04-26T04:00:00Z

And apparently the risk of confusing someone is not one worth taking. The fashion model the media can't handle 2011-05-31T16:12:00Z

But it’s all too confusing and exhausting, particularly the narrative shifts and hastily drawn conspiracies and twists. Jungle Mold, Ornithology and Lawn Care: 3 New Novels Find Hilarity in Unexpected Places 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z

It was something which deeply worried me, so that was a pretty confusing relationship. From the grime MC to the model: five men on what masculinity means to them 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z

It’s confusing, too; the second scene takes place a year after the first scene, but the third scene takes place three days before the second scene. Is Renee Zellweger's Netflix thriller the best trash TV show of 2019? 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z

Prince was famously both a red-blooded sex symbol and a gender-queer clothes horse – a confusing combination, which caused him to be booed off the stage when supporting the Rolling Stones in 1981. The women behind Prince: ‘The respect he showed us speaks volumes’ 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z

The latter would be confusing to write or explain in a story; there would be something really schizophrenic about it. Weike Wang on Culture Clashes and Claiming Your Identity 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z

It's all very fast and, for the uninitiated, perhaps confusing. 'Nicolae Ceausescu': Dictator's reign, downfall 2011-09-22T21:25:05Z

Director Rodrigo Cortés immediately cues a heavy-duty homage to Hitchcock with a spine-tingling title sequence that dives into blackness and a confusing interlude of dead screen time. 'Buried': An agonizing, ingenious experience from inside a box 2010-09-30T20:43:00Z

Some are just confusing: “Lost,” a highfalutin ABC series, got so tangled in its many strands that it ended in an impenetrable fog of mystification. The Tv Watch: High Bar Has Been Set for the Finale of ‘Breaking Bad’ 2013-08-12T02:00:11Z

Be prepared for uncoordinated and poorly communicated boat times, confusing directions, mistaken guidebooks and rapidly-changing laws. In the Footsteps of Charles Darwin 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z

I thought it was less confusing than semiformal, which I never really understood. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: How to respond when ‘cocktail attire’ isn’t your guest’s cup of tea 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z

As a result the ambitious Richard dispatches foes and friends alike with a speed that is almost disorienting and on at least one occasion, a little confusing. Theater Review: ‘Richard III,’ with Ron Cephas Jones, at the Public Theater 2012-08-12T20:55:37Z

Sadly this is far too derivative, clunky and confusing to be either a great show or a ratings powerhouse. Shades of Blue – Jennifer Lopez's cop show is a criminal waste of her talent 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z

“In hindsight, it was probably more confusing for the kids,” she said. Why Divorce? Just Stay Separated 2010-07-30T20:40:00Z

I just didn’t buy its premise that dreams can be manufactured, and some scenes are visually confusing. Film: Best Movie Query? You Win 2011-02-23T17:20:40Z

More confusing still are findings by the Mental Health Foundation – it identifies 18- to 35-year-olds, not teenagers, as the age group most likely to struggle with loneliness. Teenagers on loneliness: ‘We want to talk to our parents. We need their guidance’ 2017-04-08T04:00:00Z

It's almost confusing how we have to be ingenues that are young, pretty and eternal so older men can sink their teeth into our youth and steal our years. A songwriting reclamation of youth: Calling out bloodsuckers who date female artists in their teens 2023-09-17T04:00:00Z

Yes, of course, it's confusing, and I've seen it at least 10 times without ever really figuring it all out. Watch Mulholland Drive: live! 2010-10-03T17:27:00Z

Multiple and confusing threads are introduced in the it’ll-all-make-sense-later manner; the first three episodes are all setup, and your patience may flag. Review: ‘Picard’ Is, Finally, ‘Star Trek: Peak TV’ 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z

Vail is drawing on those same confusing feelings for her next novel. Middle school texting story inspired by century-old letter writer 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z

Sharp: But it just became too visually confusing. Meet the breakout stars of "Dicks: The Musical" (all four of them) 2023-10-26T04:00:00Z

The treatment is not widely available in the US, so the calls yield nothing except a series of confusing conversations. I tried the foreskin facial treatment – so you don't have to 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z

Or perhaps I am confusing her with an Aztec deity. My Five Things: Luis Alberto Urrea 2011-12-06T18:09:42Z

It’s bad for your marriage, you’re dead right about that — but it’s also corrosive to your wife’s confidence as spouse and parent, and confusing for your daughters. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Mother-in-law offers free child care. She criticizes freely, too. 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z

And to me, it just seems like, let’s not pay quite so much attention to it, because it is confusing. The only way to defeat the food industry: Cook more 2014-01-01T21:00:00Z

It exceeds that of even the creators themselves, which is genuinely confusing. Game of Thrones: how the show’s creators prompted a huge new fan backlash 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z

I prefer to think of them as a number of confusing and colorful stories about the things people do to each other. Josh Ritter preaches his “messianic oracular honky tonk”: “I don’t feel a huge connection to religion, except as a large accumulation of confusing, confusing stories” 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z

The problem is in confusing action and vigorous writing with the active voice, and weak, vague sentences with the passive. Passive panic 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z

For all its power and character, this is a confusing concerto and a challenging listen. Violinist Leila Josefowicz is a powerful storyteller in John Adams' 'Scheherazade.2' 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z

I had no idea that I would get comments back like "this slowed me down" or "the storyline is confusing at this point" and then have to sort it out for myself. Rachel Abbott: 'Self-publishing means the success of my books is entirely down to me' 2013-07-02T09:53:52Z

Transmitting the call to prayer on a public address system into the homes of the non-Muslim and uninitiated without proper explanation is likely to be confusing and alienating. Is Channel 4 right to broadcast the Muslim call to prayer during Ramadan? 2013-07-02T13:30:00Z

Germany, the grape’s homeland, produces Rieslings across the spectrum and with notoriously confusing language on the labels. Riesling, way beyond sweet

He's complex and well-written and just encapsulates how confusing boys are! Emer Kenny's favourite TV 2013-01-14T12:00:00Z

Upon hearing the blues for the first time as a young child grappling with a confusing home life, Eric Clapton was stunned. What’s on TV Saturday: ‘Eric Clapton: Life in 12 Bars’ and ‘Roots’ 2018-02-10T05:00:00Z

Artistically, the book is a mess; it’s illogical, derivative and confusing, with a rushed and unconvincing ending. Perspective | ‘A Wrinkle in Time’: Let’s hope the movie is better than the book 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z

And some confusing wording on the menu made us think our macadamia nut veggie spread would come with crudites. The Prospect doesn’t deliver on its promising scouting report 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z

You’ll be happy to hear that “Fly by Night,” gracefully directed by Carolyn Cantor, is a lot easier to follow than “If/Then,” which features confusing parallel universes. ‘Fly by Night,’ a Metaphysical Musical 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z

It ended up being a more intimate and honest book, and maybe a more spiraling and confusing book, a bit more raw. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: The Many Costs and Confusions of Chronic Illness 2018-07-08T04:00:00Z

And for a Disney mainstream audience packed with kids, the challenge of consuming a complex story and its jaundiced sequel in one sitting might prove confusing or depressing. REVIEW: 'Into the Woods': A Disney Musical for Adults of All Ages 2014-12-27T05:00:00Z

There were so many confusing directives, I didn’t know where to begin. Modern Love: A 5-Pound Sack of Maternal Wisdom 2010-10-22T18:56:00Z

Since the 1990s, some museum functions, including temporary exhibitions, were outsourced to private companies, creating a confusing overlap of jurisdictions that the reform hopes to untangle. The Taming of Italy’s Most Popular Museum 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z

One was tonal: The extremity of the punch and its aftermath was at odds with the surrounding comic scenes in a confusing, dispiriting way. Watching the Season 4 Finale of ‘Louie’ 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z

When there are as many features as possible, doing any one thing becomes very difficult and confusing.” Design Notebook: Frustrating as They Are, We Still Can’t Live Without TV Remotes 2012-05-30T22:55:39Z

No federal rule governs the dating of food, although the Agriculture Department last year set out to revamp its guidance on such labels, noting that they were confusing to consumers. Animal Rights Group Says Video Shows Abuse of Sheep 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z

But I counteracted confusing the audience by having practical case studies. “Some folks believe blockchain will save the universe”: Inside Alex Winter’s “Trust Machi... 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z

This was the birth of the “cashed up bogan”, a confusing phenomenon producing a social grouping with working-class interests and middle-class wealth. Who will win my bogan vote? 2013-05-27T01:30:00Z

Frankly, I found this all rather confusing, but I thought so long as I dressed appropriately and enunciated clearly, no one would notice or care about my ignorance. The wedding I almost ruined 2012-06-13T00:01:00Z

Initially it can be confusing, so it’s best to pick up a fair map before setting forth. Amid the Bloat at Frieze, Art Worth Seeking Out 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z

She recently posted several topless photos on Instagram, confusing her fans who worried she'd been forced to display them without consent. Britney Spears is a cautionary tale of pornification 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z

Previously, Jenny Lake visitors suffered crumbling retaining walls, excessive and buckling paved pathways, a lack of signs and confusing visitor-created shortcuts. Jenny Lake, the breathtaking centerpiece of Grand Teton National Park, gets a refresh 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z

There was a healthy dose of frustration with the kind of BS that you have to put up with, that on some level as a guy is confusing maybe, a little bit. Perspective | Seeing ‘The Eyes of Tammy Faye’ through a feminist lens 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z

Unfortunately, the message of harmony got lost by the end - diluted by a confusing series of geometric American Indian patterns with conflicting silhouettes. Fashion shows travel continents and eras in Paris 2012-09-27T20:44:15Z

David's section is chaotic, nonlinear and confusing, while the latter two, unfolding naturally, are much more affecting. Unconventional 'In Stereo' explores love in three time-twisted parts 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z

Much of the festival “Fall of the Weimar Republic: Dancing on the Precipice” is more confusing than informative. Carnegie Hall’s New Season: What We Want to Hear 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z

Maybe those emails from your boss are confusing, or it turns out you are a human clone, created to have its organs harvested for rich people. Michael Bay life lessons: Stress management 2011-07-13T19:14:00Z

I fell head over heels for the deep, savory, spicy, and, to me, totally confusing layers of flavor. The 4 essential cooks I turn to again and again 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z

Which is why what is really confusing about the “Rush Hour” update is not that it exists; it’s that it is on the oldest and whitest broadcast network in America. TV’s tokenism tension: “Rush Hour,” “Lopez” and the tricky balancing act of diversifying aging networks 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z

It was a really confusing convergence of what was happening emotionally in my physical body basically. "GLOW" star Betty Gilpin on battling "implanted patriarchy" and women "cycling through selves" 2022-09-17T04:00:00Z

There are plenty of labels on grocery store eggs, but they can be confusing. Things to keep in mind if you want to get backyard hens for eggs 2022-11-26T05:00:00Z

The title is confusing, yet it kind of explains everything. Review: In ‘Battle Creek,’ the F.B.I. Sets Up Shop With the Police 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z

And to put a name and a face on it, and try to translate this very confusing, scary disease into something that is more accessible. NY woman reveals life with a sister's schizophrenia, writes 'love letter' to her 2022-03-28T04:00:00Z

Of course, the Phantom was dramatic, confusing and volatile – they made him live in the sewers! Farewell to “The Phantom of the Opera,” which welcomed outcasts 2023-04-17T04:00:00Z

The overall effect is not so much confusing as it is perplexing. Review: Shakespeare + Chekhov = ‘Uncle Romeo Vanya Juliet’ 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z

With “American Moon” especially, she added, “he wanted people to be confused. That was his purpose. It was always confusing.” Party Like It’s 1959 2023-01-18T05:00:00Z

All of which is not nearly as confusing as it sounds or, unfortunately, as funny. 'BoJack Horseman' canters through familiar satirical terrain 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z

And it was all accompanied by a spirited if utterly confusing conversation in, if I was counting right, five languages: Dutch, English, Italian, Spanish and French. In Sardinia, an Affordable Family-Run Farm Stay 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z

But the challenges are too outsize and the format is too confusing to take full advantage of the gimmick. Television Review: ‘Owner’s Manual,’ a Reality Show, Makes Its Debut on AMC 2013-08-14T23:04:16Z

Final Fantasy XV left embarrassing scars on Square Enix because of its confusing story. Final Fantasy XVI Takes on Its ‘Star Wars’ Problem 2023-06-20T04:00:00Z

He seems to be embarking on a rather confusing stream of consciousness ramble. Julian Schnabel: ‘Why can’t a white person tell the story of a black person? Everyone is pink inside’ 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z

They probably found it strange, confusing, and sometimes offensive too,” he continued. Restaurant apologizes for advertising bag of fentanyl as 'new brunch special' 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z

Each of the first several galleries backtracks to around 1930 and marches forward again, which becomes confusing. A Singular American Painter and His Perennially Disregarded Wife 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z

My basic premise with this film, as much as it concerns a mother coping with her son's crimes, it is also about what a confusing f**king country we live in. "What a confusing country we live in": Michael Shannon on his gun violence movie "Eric LaRue" 2023-06-10T04:00:00Z

That back and forth is more typically done in private, but that doesn't make any of it any less conflicted and confusing. Courteney Cox's messy, relatable estrangement 2011-04-14T19:30:00Z

I can be funny and wear a party dress, and it’s not confusing for anybody. 'SNL' Alum Ana Gasteyer Talks About Playing Shoshanna's Mom on 'Girls' 2015-01-11T05:00:00Z

Well drawn, sympathetic characters and writing that fairly glows more than make up for the initial difficulties in getting to grips with a large and confusing cast. Crime fiction roundup ? reviews 2011-07-22T21:55:02Z

The last answer seems the most likely, since Sam Taylor-Johnson’s screen adaptation of E. L. James’s best seller is, like the book itself, a wildly confused treatment of a perennial confusing subject. Review: In ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ Movie, Sex Is a Knotty Business 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z

For students in the audience at the predominantly black college’s May graduation ceremonies, the reaction was confusing. Michelle Obama’s season of calling it like she sees it 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z

Q. As prep began for season two, what steps did you take creatively to make sure the addition of two more perspectives remained fluid and did not become confusing or convoluted? Sarah Treem on ‘The Affair’ and Why She Loves the Character You Hate 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z

Back then, like teenagers at a Baptist retreat, we thought the big, bad world would add up to something, that every confusing twist was laden with hidden meaning. Help! We're trapped by "Lost"! 2010-05-08T23:01:00Z

It is black-and-white, confusing, sad; and it leaves you deeply uneasy, as perhaps it should. Arabian sights 2010-07-08T14:55:00Z

The more explanation there is, the more confusing the whole thing becomes, until it lets go of all sense in a way that is at once exhilarating and weirdly moving. Movie Review: ‘John Dies at the End,’ Directed by Don Coscarelli 2013-01-31T23:09:01Z

At first, they are both shrouded and in the space with us, though Ms. Clark’s presence is confusing; she dilutes Mr. George’s authority. Luke George’s ‘Not About Face,’ at the Chocolate Factory 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z

Such misinformation will get worse, more legally confusing, and people will die as a result. The white, conservative Southern women who asked me to keep their abortions secret 2022-09-24T04:00:00Z

“They do so much publicity in the store to show the watch products, so something else that is representational would be confusing and have no point,” he said. Have Some Art With Your Handbag 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z

We are all looking for lights to guide us down the path of this confusing world, and when authors allow you to walk in someone else’s shoes, the path looks a bit brighter. Raina Telgemeier Can’t Wait to Break Bread With Her Friends Again 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z

It’s confusing where marketing ends and journalism begins. New York Fashion Week: Extra Extra, Paper?s Event Planning Affiliate -- NY Fashion Week 2011-09-15T03:40:50Z

Asbrink is throughout attentive to the complex dynamic produced by the Holocaust’s multiple aftermaths, the urgently necessary and terrifyingly confusing process of decolonization and the consolidation of the Soviet bloc. Surviving Europe’s Horrendous 20th Century 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z

Alas, the Principal keeps confusing reality with fantasy. Review: Christopher Wheeldon’s ‘Swan Lake’ Focuses on the Men 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z

Peck, a vocal liberal who also produced the movie, was seen as a strong, handsome example of white virtue in a confusing time of racial upheaval in America. Atticus Finch a racist? There goes the ideal 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z

Using it to mean terrorism is confusing cause with effect. Gene Weingarten: The latest weapon in his war on ‘terror’? 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z

A less confusing retail experience with lower prices still may not be compelling enough to lure consumers away from tried and true brands like All-Clad and Calphalon. Get a Handle on Your Pots and Pans 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z

Dear Heloise: There are some French terms in cooking that I'm not familiar with, so it makes it confusing when I see certain words, such as "bisque." Perspective | Hints From Heloise: Fluent in French cooking? 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z

“What was confusing was that Langston spoke like a white man,” Robinson writes. Her Great-Grandfather Fought for the South but Went On to Preach Equality 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z

“Being a young woman is confusing,” Ms. Watson wrote. Tavi Gevinson of ‘Rookie’ Inspires Young Women to Create Communities of Self-Empowerment 2014-04-02T21:19:04Z

It was passionate, confusing and at times contradictory. At This Museum Sixth Graders Learn Lessons in Democracy 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z

Ellison harnessed this energy in service of his bubbling concept, the trajectory of which he describes as "from this confusing place to a place of understanding and perspective." Flying Lotus goes deep on 'You're Dead!' 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z

That switch leaves a residue of ambiguity in this wickedly funny and disturbing satire about America’s confused and confusing attitudes about race. Why write a novel about a race that’s not your own? The case of ‘Ginny Gall’ 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z

And while that might not necessarily be the end of the world, it can sure be confusing. In defense of Katie Roiphe 2012-09-04T19:52:00Z

Complex without being confusing, the novel weaves Eugene’s own battle with mental illness and his sister’s disappearance into a beautiful, haunting tale of loss. Best science fiction and fantasy books this month 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z

After The Final Rose: Later, Robby sits down with Chris Harrison to admit that he was confident going into his proposal, so when JoJo dumped him, it was both hurtful and confusing. The 'Bachelorette' Watch: And The Winner Is... 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z

The shady real estate dealings that Helen digs out of Roger’s past are convoluted and sometimes confusing in this retelling. ‘Truth Like the Sun’ examines bright 1962 dreams 2014-04-30T23:41:12Z

That's making quite a splash, and in a confusing climate of censorship, book banning and paranoia about so-called wokeness, some viewers are drowning in misplaced outrage. ‘Up where they woke’: Fox News and others panic about “Little Mermaid” lyric changes 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z

With these varying subjects in mind, this book will look at "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre" less as just a movie and more as a multilayered hologram of astounding, confusing, and terrifying times. "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre": A metaphor for Nixon-era mayhem 2019-05-26T04:00:00Z

Then there is the subject of sex and it is all kinds of confusing with her. She’s afraid of sex 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

It’s not confusing; it’s just boring, until at last it isn’t. Monsters take the stage in a new Gothic musical and a delayed play 2016-02-10T05:00:00Z

Set in the undefined future, it envisions a reality that resembles our own, with the same drab institutions and obligations, the same confusing relationships and feelings. ‘Belle’ Review: Soaring and Singing Over the Online Rainbow 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z

Even more confusing is that proprietor Danielle Hulton is a lovely young woman who looks like a character in a Jane Austen movie. A clean, well-lighted place for computer programming manuals 2014-02-12T21:26:57Z

I'm truly grateful to see those often misunderstood and confusing sides of cancer treatment represented in a popular entertainment format. Amazon's "Modern Love" got my cancer story wrong – and I'm so angry this keeps happening 2021-08-13T04:00:00Z

At one table, the Chinese East played his three, a totally confusing card. Bridge: Bridge - Don?t Overlook Defense in Your Game 2011-09-30T21:44:02Z

Conway claims to explore the parallel elements of desire and anxiety in this Dream, adding touches of neurosis to all the characters, and further confusing matters by dressing the lovers as Puritans. A Midsummer Night's Dream 2010-04-13T21:35:00Z

The problem is that there are so many dates, it is confusing. ‘There’s nothing wrong with a bit of mould’: chefs on food waste and using leftovers 2016-03-20T04:00:00Z

Despite the slightly confusing name, riceberry rice was originally developed in Thailand as a cross between a local jasmine rice and local purple rice variety, creating a lighter, purple-coloured grain. Brown, red, black, riceberry — what are these white rice alternatives? Are they actually healthier? 2023-10-25T04:00:00Z

Even Academy members eligible to vote in preliminary rounds said they found the process confusing and opaque. ‘Son of Saul’ Leads Foreign Language Race, but Look Out for ‘Mustang’ 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z

The shows both stir and soothe very different kinds of pain and awareness, calling forth an intense and confusing panoply of emotions while also reassuring us about human persistence and art’s sustaining power. Critic?s Notebook: 9/11 Exhibitions Rekindle Grief in 3 Ways 2011-09-10T00:00:13Z

And, if the story is confusing, there are few other compensations. Peter Schaufuss Ballet: Swan Lake – review 2012-07-24T12:11:18Z

The energy around it was kind of confusing, because there was this really positive energy coming from the band, but it was missing a key ingredient. “It was the tour from hell”: Inside the Grateful Dead’s last shows, and Jerry Garcia’s final days 2015-12-06T05:00:00Z

The interface between missions is confusing and poorly designed. Video Game Review: Less Hype, More Action 2011-05-13T18:31:27Z

He did share his compatriots’ hunger for the exalting glare of the spotlight, which obliterates unhappy memories and confusing truths that are harder to shake in everyday life. Theater Review: ‘Jukebox Jackie,’ About Jackie Curtis, at La MaMa 2012-05-31T21:00:38Z

“I think to a lot of people it’s a slightly confusing choice,” he said, “but I like that.” Now Just a Muggle, With Song and Dance 2011-03-02T22:59:08Z

Gone is Black Label, a kind of midprice collection beloved of consumers but apparently confusing in a marketplace that, like the overall economy, has become increasingly bifurcated. At New York Fashion Week: Men’s, California Was the Muse 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z

If that sounds confusing, that's because it is, but wrapping your brain around the strangeness is all part of the pleasure and challenge of the book. Hugo awards 2010: the shortlist 2010-04-06T09:36:00Z

Paranoid and elliptical, here is the rock star as an avatar in a confusing, fragmentary world. Rock stars in fiction 2011-03-17T16:00:50Z

She had so much life, and that is the one thing that is so confusing to me, because I know there was so much more that she wanted to do.” Death at Soho House 2011-02-04T23:13:13Z

In one study, fifth grade students were given a task that was intentionally confusing. Why Failure Hits Girls So Hard and How to Help Them Embrace It 2015-08-25T04:00:00Z

People make the mistake of confusing her with Marion, her character in 2 Days in Paris and 2 Days in New York, the pair of relationship comedies she wrote, directed and starred in. Julie Delpy: ‘Women were bred to be directors’ 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z

Putting Bill's romance with Sookie on the back burner will, fortunately, allow the show to deal with several other confusing issues. "True Blood" finale: The big showdown 2010-09-13T12:30:00Z

But then it gets confusing because Rowsell is the one in charge of harmonies, while Oddie is the fan of hardcore. New band of the day (Wolf Alice No 1,510) 2013-05-10T16:41:22Z

What follows is a confusing rush of emotions — jealousy, inadequacy and the obvious, but hurtful, realization they aren’t the same. "Stranger Things" and the heartbreak of growing up 2019-07-13T04:00:00Z

For more than a year, he’s worked with artists from Pittsburgh to Los Angeles to display thought-provoking, eyebrow-raising or simply confusing messages each month. Billboard project shares ponderable messages 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z

This is confusing for a parent, but your child is not trying to manipulate you. Perspective | We’ve tried sticker charts, a bigger bed, coddling. Nothing solves our toddler’s sleep troubles. 2017-12-12T05:00:00Z

It should be the thing that we all should be worrying about as humans on this planet ... so it's confusing that it's not. Will.i.am arrives by helicopter for flying visit to climate debate 2012-05-24T10:49:59Z

No matter how logical the internal rationale, it seems to me a recipe for added confusion in what is already a pretty confusing situation. WME-IMG Unveils a New York Fashion Week Makeover 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z

I think it's a confusing time to be a teenager in America. Author Gabriel Bump: "We might be moving towards worse racial issues" 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z

On top of all that, news about the spread of variants is worrisome, and international travel remains head-scratchingly confusing with restrictions and testing requirements. To Stay or Go? Even With Vaccines, Travel Planning Remains Complicated 2021-03-05T05:00:00Z

“But the industry does what it can to make the science very confusing to a layperson.” Traces of Controversial Herbicide Are Found in Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z

It’s about love — crazy, confusing love, an artist’s obsessive love for his art: “a combination of duty and destiny,” he calls it. Review | He was one of the world’s greatest ballet stars. Then he crashed. 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z

“Once you figure it out, it’s still confusing for everyone else.” What’s a Wendy’s doing there? The story of Washington’s weirdest traffic circle. 2017-12-25T05:00:00Z

Brown, the retail analyst, also cautions against confusing food halls with restaurants. Forget food trucks. Now ‘food halls’ are having a moment, and they’re changing the landscape. 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z

For the show, in its world premiere in downtown D.C.’s Shop at Fort Fringe, is confusing to the maximus. ‘Nero/Pseudo’ by WSC Avant Bard fiddles away its glam-rock musical potential

Two elaborate pas de deux interestingly offer the more confusing aspects of attraction and conquest. Ballet Preljocaj's 'Les Nuits' seduces but is problematic 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z

Throughout the film, Vilma and Maria rely on lawyers, advocates, and witnesses to navigate a system confusing and protracted by design. 'A defining story of our time': the film-maker giving a face to family separation 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z

There's a reason why the trailer for "Parasite" is so confusing. Something for everyone: The best movies to stream in April 2020-04-12T04:00:00Z

Unfortunately, the book has some police abbreviations and they were confusing. The Black Echo by Michael Connelly - review 2013-02-28T12:00:00Z

Walsh promises us a glimpse of something deeper: “a confusing and intricate tapestry that offers a beguiling impression of Chinese society itself.” The Varieties of Chinese Repression 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z

Or maybe you're confusing it with the BBC2 food show The Great British Bake Off, where members of the public compete to become the country's best amateur baker. The Great British cliche 2011-03-09T12:02:45Z

The film’s answer is one favored by some partisans in the raucous and confusing public debate about educational reform: teachers’ unions. Movie Review: ‘Won’t Back Down,’ With Maggie Gyllenhaal and Viola Davis 2012-09-27T21:54:40Z

Mr. Wilson explores the damage inflicted on children raised in an atmosphere that is intentionally confusing. Books of The Times: Mom and Dad and the Two Kids They Damage 2011-08-03T22:00:29Z

"I don't have a dragon pit, of course, but . . . I do have the means and resources to build one," he coos, confusing Rhaenyra until he overplays his hand. "House of the Dragons" introduces the Lannisters before they had game 2022-09-05T04:00:00Z

Of course, the subject being tackled, the repression of women in a male-dominated society, was pretty confusing, too, since even the debaters who were ostensibly on the same side couldn’t seem to agree on much. Review: It’s Norman Mailer vs. Feminists in ‘The Town Hall Affair’ 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z

The deadly pills are not the only confusing product on the market. 'Death pill': fentanyl disguised as other drugs linked to spike in US overdoses 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z

How strange and confusing it must be to grow up loving and depending upon people who would stand outside a dead soldier’s funeral screaming. Meet the two defectors of the Westboro Baptist Church 2013-02-07T16:37:00Z

“Also, I’m worried that my paragraph structure is confusing.” Modern Love: Modern Love: A Spanking Fetish Is Not Revealed Easily 2012-11-09T17:47:12Z

This is all very confusing and none of it is consistent or logical. Suspending Whoopi Goldberg doesn’t help anyone fight against bigotry 2022-02-05T05:00:00Z

Mr Robot can sometimes be confusing, perhaps a little overwrought, and there are points where even the show’s biggest fan might ask themselves: where are they going with this? Battle of the Bastards to San Junipero: what was the best TV episode of 2016? 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z

Real life is confusing, and there are no easy answers. Alice Sebold's "Lucky" and the problem with memoirs with happy endings 2021-12-05T05:00:00Z

Many liberal parties’ names are plain confusing: the Danish governing party is called “Venstre”, or “Left”, though it is in fact on the liberal centre-right. Liberal blues 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z

It occurs to me that Orpheus has no parents; his lineage is disputed and totally confusing. The Emails Behind the Opera ‘Eurydice’ 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z

"And if it's a fake or confusing apology, it could undo all the progress I've made. I've been fine without him for six months." The forgiveness tour: How letting go of a grudge healed me 2021-01-03T05:00:00Z

What Salonen's program revealed, though, was the way the two most important 20th century Russian composers got their starts contending with confusing artistic and political times. Salonen leads Yuja Wang, L.A. Phil through Russian turmoil 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z

It was a weird, confusing space to be in. Sobbing Rihanna recalls confusion of Chris Brown beating 2012-08-16T17:51:31Z

That was my first bit of writing, and going through that whole studio system — they were lovely people, but very confusing. Hamish Linklater on writing laughs into a play about death 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z

“To put that information in the episode itself, I think it’d be confusing for the audience,” he said. Where TikTok-Like Dance Challenges Meet Network TV 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z

Was that the word that could finally explain my confusing feelings? What my gay childhood in a "Don't Say Gay" landscape was really like 2022-03-26T04:00:00Z

Sharing these things and saying, like, life is muddy and sticky and scary and confusing, and it has been for me my entire life. Chasten Buttigieg: We built a campaign where gay people felt seen 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z

She is addressing her students, but they are also — here it gets a little confusing — employing something called “bio-empathetic resonant technology.” Review: ‘Sell/Buy/Date,’ Sarah Jones’s Futuristic Look at Sex Workers 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z

The investigation that followed was confusing, to say the least. Empire: Jussie Smollett’s send-off was an imperfect – and quick – moment 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z

Growing up in Utah, things were easy — if perpetually confusing. “But you’re basically white, right?”: I’m Latina and I don’t speak Spanish 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z

But when countries try to split the difference or if they introduce confusing rules into the system, their servers are more likely to leave customers dissatisfied. Acts of Mild Subversion: Where to Get the World?s Best Service 2011-08-05T15:11:04Z

But what happens in this increasingly chaotic, comic psychological thriller — directed by Nick Tomnay from a screenplay he wrote with Krishna Jones — is a lot more complicated and confusing. | 'The Perfect Host': A Welcome to His World Is Accepted at Your Peril 2011-06-30T22:13:04Z

For like nine different, confusing, stupid reasons, I was supposed to dress as The Ghost of Sheriff Donald Duck. 'I unreservedly apologise': What happens when costumes go very, very wrong 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z

The camera looks downward to the boys’ upturned faces, which register a confusing array of emotions. Garrett Bradley Reminds Us That Black Joy Always Existed 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z

Instead they plead to lesser charges: I’m sorry for being a bad boyfriend; I’m sorry romance is so confusing. The Only Hollywood Abuser I Want to Hear From Is a Horse 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z

When navigating a confusing, shifting, globalised world, it is sometimes best to focus on the fundamentals. Venice film festival opens with controversial 9/11 drama The Reluctant Fundamentalist 2012-08-29T17:39:46Z

But I understand that it can be confusing to decipher which one is right for your recipe, so I'm sharing what to know about these creamy ingredients. What's the difference between heavy cream and whipping cream? 2021-12-16T05:00:00Z

There was the confusing rollout of tickets for the upcoming Taylor Swift stadium tour. Ticketmaster Under the Magnifying Glass 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z

For a company that clearly wants to influence fashion, that is a confusing message to send. For Tim Cook of Apple, The Fashion of No Fashion 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z

Ash is struggling to figure out who she is and what is important, and the messages she gets from everyone around her, including her loving, well-meaning parents, are confusing. Young, Gifted and Searching for a Sense of Self 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z

For those of us bred from traditional gender roles, a late-in-life reimagining of self can be confusing, but is not uncommon. "Am I gay?" I'm a middle-aged woman reinventing her life after marriage and kids — and I'm not alone 2023-08-05T04:00:00Z

He claims that convincing forgeries of his own work, made by the A.I., were confusing his buyers. An Art Professor Says A.I. Is the Future. It’s the Students Who Need Convincing 2023-05-01T04:00:00Z

From a distance it seemed dumb, confusing, boring and scary all at once, and I had Wordle to do. QAnon and the Fear and Loathing of an American Conspiracy Theory 2023-02-20T05:00:00Z

Unfortunately, the ballet was confusing as well, especially when Juliet in the third act, or the 1990s, was still at war with her father over an arranged marriage. Review: Joffrey Ballet Returns With a Muddled ‘Romeo’ 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z

The intersections and turns are “very confusing for drivers,” Astorino said. The Failed Dream of the Easy Commute 2015-02-08T05:00:00Z

It starts off with a gruesome murder of a solicitor with a confusing note in the pocket of her coat when her body is found. What’s on TV This Week: ‘The Bachelorette’ and ‘Abbott Elementary’ 2022-09-19T04:00:00Z

He accepts and the lack of drama is both refreshing and somewhat confusing. 'The Bachelorette' Recap: Kissing and Confessions in Ireland 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z

It was all very confusing; I have to say, “poor Jon Moss.” Boy George Loves His Deeply Flawed Heroes 2023-07-01T04:00:00Z

As they shift focus back and forth among all those scary places, the filmmakers create a confusing narrative muddle. ‘Insidious: Chapter 2’: a boo for going overboard 2013-09-12T15:40:19Z

Airline tickets are more complicated and confusing than ever. Perspective | Do airline tickets need warning labels? 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z

To mistake Hester Street for the entirety of the early-20th-century American Jewish experience is worse than confusing Ellis Island with the city beyond. Books of The Times: ‘A Bintel Brief’ Is Liana Finck’s Graphic Book of Letters 2014-04-22T22:00:27Z

It’s confusing, Mike, I don’t know what to tell you. Review: ‘On Writing,’ a Charles Bukowski Collection of Rants and Musings in Letters 2015-08-09T04:00:00Z

The majority of numbers just rang forever, although one call was answered with the confusing but chipper greeting “Hello, ‘Live’!” 1994 Was a Prison of My Own Making 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z

The image was described on Reddit as the comic’s most “notoriously confusing cartoon.” ‘The Far Side’ Is Back. Sort Of. Gary Larson Will Explain. 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z

In the end, “The Leisure Class” is a sour, empty, confusing story that is stretched beyond its limits into a feature film. HBO’s ‘The Leisure Class’: As expected, Jason Mann’s precious movie stinks 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z

The story gets a little confusing at this point because the Democratic-Republicans — also called Jeffersonian Republicans and, sometimes, simply Republicans — are the ancestors of today’s Democratic Party. In a presidential election, it’s almost always about two parties 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z

All of this makes Collins a somewhat confusing figure. The Female Gaze of Petra Collins 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z

He told me that he had also noticed the shift in our relationship and that it was “making things confusing at home” and that I was “always in the back of his mind.” Am I an unconscious tease? 2012-09-07T00:00:00Z

It should all be confusing, but because Glass is a pro, the trains keep running, and we wait to see what happens when her three co-protagonists all converge on Mort’s estate with their private agendas. In Julia Glass’s new novel, a famous children’s author leaves a mess in his wake 2017-06-13T04:00:00Z

I think the ending felt very rushed and was a little confusing. Cold Tom by Sally Prue – review 2013-07-02T14:00:00Z

In other words, “The Rise and Fall of Great Powers” is knottier than “The Imperfectionists,” and more deliberately confusing. ‘The Rise and Fall of Great Powers,’ by Tom Rachman 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z

The adults called him Dad, which was as confusing as it sounds. Work, pray, fear: my life in the Family cult 2016-11-27T05:00:00Z

“It was a little confusing, but then I saw the pictures,” third-grader Harper Spotts said of bin labels, especially helpful for students just learning to read. At ‘net-zero’ school Discovery Elementary, the building has become a teaching tool 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z

"One of the challenges we faced in the first episode was to introduce all the characters without confusing people," the director continues. Casual Vacancy: from page to screen 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z

So while childfree people and anti-natalists may share a concern for humans’ impact on the environment, this trend of confusing a personal choice with a moral philosophy — ours or Miley’s — is worrying. Childfree people aren't necessary anti-natalists — and the differences are significant 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z

What was more confusing to Murphy was that, in other documents, Sherman was also described as the “representative of the client Antony Stark” in Stark’s application to convert the Golden Lion into flats. The death and life of the great British pub | Tom Lamont 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z

Ms. Mitchell’s production, though hugely elaborate and confusing at the start, settled into a nice groove, and was almost lovable by the end. Review: Exploring Captivity in Handel’s ‘Alcina’ and Mozart’s ‘Entführung’ at Aix-en-Provence Festival 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z

“It’s such a complicated, complex and confusing time,” Rutter said Wednesday. Kennedy Center cancels live performances through spring. Honors are still on, with a different look. 2020-11-18T05:00:00Z

Some of Trump’s are of the pedestrian type, such as using “principal” instead of “principle” or confusing “there” and “their.” Perspective | We all make dumb typos. Trump’s are fascinating. 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z

For people who might not have followed the confusing news reports out of your country, please update us on what’s been going on. Male grooming: The movie 2012-05-18T23:15:00Z

Regular dance partners Statham and Jet Li butt heads in a confusing tale of gang rivalry and revenge that features an aggravating late-game twist. Every Jason Statham film - ranked! 2019-07-25T04:00:00Z

That clears the field for “Tenet”: Yes, Christopher Nolan’s action sequences were a bit confusing, but you can’t quibble with the incredible craft required to bring them to life. Oscars 2021 Predictions: Who Will Win Best Picture, Actor and Actress? 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z

As such, “Thelma and Louise” felt like a direct rebuke to the clueless throwback that was “Pretty Woman,” with its Paleolithic attitudes and its confusing agenda. Riff: Thelma, Louise and All the Pretty Women 2011-04-24T01:43:01Z

Taylor Swift and Daniel Ek are more alike than they might like to admit, and their arguing of late is starting to get confusing. Taylor Swift and Daniel Ek debate Spotify: What's a fan to do? 2014-11-14T05:00:00Z

“What we have now,” Miles Surrey wrote for The Ringer, “is a purposefully confusing series.” What Is ‘Westworld’ Without Westworld? 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z

Are all these release strategies confusing to moviegoers? Strong Opening for ‘Fast & Furious’ Film Suggests Movie Crowd Is Back 2021-06-26T04:00:00Z

On Saturday morning, as slush melted and police officers waved people away from subway lines under repair, protesters assembled to turn Margaret Sanger Square into a decorous, surreal, and occasionally confusing showdown. Another Planned Parenthood Protest Showdown 2017-02-13T05:00:00Z

He drinks poison, and there’s a confusing situation with his corpse, which keeps changing faces, including having Arya’s face. The “Game of Thrones” Season Finale: Winter Is Here 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z

And we are confusing ourselves by believing that they are. No food is healthy. Not even kale. 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z

And then declared an emergency … It was confusing to me. Style Invitational Week 1382: For us, it’s still Post Time — it’s our annual foal name contest 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z

The whole thing was pleasingly confusing, like a poorly but poetically translated novel. Last night's TV 2011-04-11T08:33:13Z

Cons: It may have the most confusing interface out of all of these. The 9 best free streaming services worthy of downloading 2021-01-09T05:00:00Z

It’s just too confusing especially now you’ve got all these dots going around. Remembering Anthony Bourdain: The chefs and writers he knew and inspired reflect 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z

This, he thought, was a confusing message to send to kids. Legal pot on the one hand, opioid crisis on the other. What’s a DARE officer to do? 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z

Two different voices are getting confusing to me. "American Idol" recap: Glambert to the rescue 2010-04-14T12:15:00Z

“I was very down and felt bad for six months. It was very confusing. I just got married, why am I not on Cloud 9?” From Wedding Bells to Wedding Blues 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z

What happens to him in Act II is among several confusing plot points. ?Spider-Man?: Turn On the Changes 2011-03-10T22:33:44Z

I think the author is confusing the Gunslinger and the Man in Black. ‘Westworld’ Season 1, Episode 4: Truth and Consequences 2016-10-23T04:00:00Z

Shabbily dressed in clothes that look inadequate for the fast-approaching night, he greets the aid workers, inaugurating an amusingly absurd, confusing conversation. ‘Intregalde’ Review: Oh, Be Good! 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z

That document is as much an artifact of a lost world as the poem, but far more complex and confusing. My teenage nuclear fantasies: Imagining apocalypse in America’s atomic age 2014-05-08T12:15:00Z

To assist me in figuring out the confusing strap of my quiver, there was CJ DiOrio, a recent New York University musical theater graduate, for whom this gig was his biggest yet. What It’s Like to Perform at the Met With No Opera Experience 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z

There’s often a confusing, disjunctive quality to it, especially where contemporary art is concerned, as the museum’s programming lurches from crowd-drawing, performance-art spectacles in the atrium to relatively dry and didactic exhibitions in its galleries. Hold That Obit; MoMA?s Not Dead 2010-12-30T16:49:20Z

The story is choppy and complex, the time sequences confusing, but there is much heady beauty and serious intent. First novels roundup | Book reviews 2010-03-27T00:08:00Z

She hasn't, though, solved the problem of how to make the mind-numbing complexity of some genomic interactions and the confusing nomenclature of genes palatable to the general reader. The Epigenetics Revolution by Nessa Carey ? review 2011-08-19T21:55:09Z

But nothing is more confusing than the fact that the E4 show, which documents the pretentious lives of people with names such as Mark-Francis, has one of the hippest soundtracks around right now. Why Made in Chelsea has the best soundtrack on TV 2012-12-17T15:16:26Z

While Zee rolls her eyes at Gentry’s behavior, eventually she realizes that it allows him to interact with a world at best confusing and at worst hostile to his mind and spirit. Review | In ‘The Reckless Oath We Made,’ an unlikely fairy tale unfolds in Kansas 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z

Due to the unique circumstances of this rare dual strike and the different rules governing SAG-AFTRA and the WGA, the entire situation is a bit confusing. Drew Barrymore, Bill Maher and the whole, confusing talk show strike mess, explained 2023-09-17T04:00:00Z

Birds are staggering through the air carrying hay for nests; gorse begins to emit its confusing scent of coconut sunscreen; silken magnolia buds wax and thicken. Seeds, the Gateway Drug to Gardening 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z

And he dreams of reimagining the cop buddy movie or really confusing people by starring in an action movie. Bowen Yang of ‘S.N.L.’ Is a Smash. And a Mensch. 2020-01-25T05:00:00Z

While some critics described the Tretyakov version of the show as chaotic and confusing, a review in Izvestia said it gave an authentic rendition of Diaghilev’s vision. 2010-01-26T04:38:00Z

A single man at war with himself, lost in this confusing world, worried about the future. At home and abroad, the supermarket is the church where I worship 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z

But you were asking me about how we treat a lot of confusing dilemmas as settled questions, and we treat a lot of things as if we know what’s right for everybody. Philip Gourevitch: Memory is a disease 2012-09-26T20:31:00Z

“It’s loud, confusing, hurried. But it’s fun. And the food speaks for itself.” The New York Jewish deli meets the 21st century, and the results are geshmak

Or maybe you're confusing it with the BBC1 food show Great British Waste Menu, where professional chefs investigate the growing problem of food waste. The Great British cliche 2011-03-09T12:02:45Z

There’s not a single uninteresting picture in “Crime Stories: Photography and Foul Play” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, but as a whole exhibition it’s confused and confusing. Review: ‘Crime Stories: Photography and Foul Play’ Is a Rogues’ Gallery 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z

As the Russian inquiry melds with the Michael Flynn scandal and the Comey investigation, the ludicrous denials and confusing qualifications keep spewing from the White House. Perspective | Turns out the Trump era isn’t ‘1984.’ It’s ‘King Lear.’ 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z

Not only because the episode ended on a cliffhanger where she opened the door to greet the sun and there were gunshots, but she just had so many confusing feelings about boys! "True Blood" recap 4x8: Vampire trust issues 2011-08-15T12:16:00Z

The creepiest part of any cult story is this confusing complicity, the partial sense that the followers have imprisoned themselves. “Morgan,” “The Girls,” and the Beautiful Cyborg 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z

Instead, we find ourselves slogging through an ugly, confusing underworld that eventually we only want to escape. Best-selling thriller ‘Crow Girl’ dives deep — too deep — into darkness 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z

When rental cars break, travelers drive down a confusing road. When your rental breaks down, how do you avoid blowing it? Sometimes you can’t. 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z

A cancer diagnosis pitches you into a disorientating fog of confusing, alarming and often contradictory advice, which would be hard enough to navigate at the best of times. How to get through chemotherapy: Decca Aitkenhead on cancer treatment 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z

But in one of Aldous Harding’s least cryptic lyrics, she is trying to put the best face on a confusing breakup. Best Songs of 2022 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z

And how we decided that her daughter winning "Dancing with the Stars" would further drive this ill-defined message home is more confusing still.  "Dancing with the Stars" recap: Jennifer Grey finds her groove 2010-11-23T13:30:00Z

It’s the loneliness here, and the climate is very confusing.” Review: ‘Cloud Nine,’ a Comedy of Fluid and Complicated Couplings 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z

"We began stumbling around trying to find the most fun or confusing songs to perform on the cello to play with people's perceptions." In Portland, cello players lay down a hip-hop beat 2012-06-01T22:01:36Z

Because that’s what I kept muttering over and over in response to all the confusing details and jarring detours along the way. ‘House of the Dragon’ Season 1, Episode 9 Recap: A Convenient Mistake 2022-10-16T04:00:00Z

“It was kind of old school, walking down stairs to join one queue among a confusing many, then those little buses to small planes,” says Kristol, a fixture of the Washington commentariat. Goodbye to Gate 35X, cursed portal to the rest of America 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z

In Denmark, too much choice is seen as confusing or unnecessary. How to Parent Like They Do in Denmark 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z

I pretended to be doing Dry January, hiding the very confusing, nagging feeling that eventually led to me taking a pregnancy test. I got pregnant by mistake. Was I ready for single motherhood? 2020-06-20T04:00:00Z

And it's very confusing – particularly when it goes away, as it always does. Eric Idle, comedian – portrait of the artist 2012-11-20T17:22:50Z

Men, in particular, have a habit of confusing the objects of their fantasies with the real women in front of them. ‘I’m Thinking of Ending Things’ Review: Where to Begin? 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z

He bikes to work on Capitol Hill most days, and to the White House, occasionally confusing security guards. T Magazine: Pedal Pusher 2012-03-12T20:45:01Z

Given the Gilmore’s aversion to exercise, this is a confusing turn of events. 10 Things We Learned From the First 'Gilmore Girls' Trailer 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z

But neither her dudgeon nor the Zoom itself turn out to be what they first seem; in a code-switching coda, Diamond suggests just how confusing our world’s new terrain can be. Review: It’s Just You and Me and the Modem in ‘Here We Are’ 2020-08-31T04:00:00Z

There is no crossover there – that was a very confusing moment. Umphrey's McGee lets fans conduct the band in concert 2012-04-19T17:23:00Z

I’ve chosen some of the most confusing ones, and some of the simplest. How to Read a Wine Label, in 12 Easy Lessons 2020-09-28T04:00:00Z

A New York Times review of the show, which premiered in New York last year, called Franco's work "a confusing mix of the clueless and the halfway promising". The many lives of James Franco 2011-02-20T21:29:01Z

The fact that nobody seemed to want to document that was confusing to me. Saoirse Ronan and Margot Robbie Are Coming Into Their Power 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z

Living with my mother was nothing if not confusing. One of the immutable laws of cooking: If it is nicknamed "sludge" it has got to be good 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z

The problem with many of those older materials is that they are confusing in this context. ‘Teenage’: Meandering look at 20th-century youth can get old 2014-05-08T19:56:59Z

The movie introduces the overnight process of memory consolidation, which converts short-term memories collected each day into long-term memories, stored within Riley’s colorful and confusing maze. 8 Things 'Inside Out' Teaches Viewers About Emotions, Memory and the Mind 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z

He appeared confused and was often confusing; he would say one thing and probably mean another, only to state its opposite as a counter-certainty not very long afterwards; he was fanciful, unreliable and exasperating. Julian Barnes: a tribute to Parade's End by Ford Madox Ford 2012-08-24T21:55:03Z

Abrupt contrasts, confusing superimpositions — the magazine presented life as he knew it. Wolfgang Tillmans Takes Pictures of Modern Life, Backlit by the Past 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z

He promised not to flirt anymore if it was too confusing. Twitter is for lovers 2012-09-19T00:00:00Z

It is usually employed quite bunched up, for excessive spacing between letters would make it break up very fast, confusing the eye. True to type: why letters are a labour of love 2010-10-16T23:00:00Z

“It was confusing and exciting and wild and special all at the same time,” said Carroll. Documentary focuses on unlikely champion of Mexican cuisine 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z

Was Boyd ever worried that the lack of structure would be too confusing for the general reader? Any Human Heart: William Boyd on telling the story of the 20th century 2010-11-21T08:00:00Z

Frustrated Wife: It is challenging and confusing when someone as thoughtful and kind as your husband is toward you shows so little regard for the impact of his actions. Ask Amy: Son turns 21 and throws a party for the ages 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z

After an eventful evening, Malcolm ends up with a backpack full of drugs, a handgun and a lot of confusing instructions from various dangerous characters. ‘Dope,’ a Teenage Comedy, Plays With Stereotypes 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z

What do you think about critics who think the show is too confusing? ‘Westworld’: Jeffrey Wright on Bernard’s Big Revelation and the Joys of Reddit Fandom 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z

“In retrospect,” Michael Hainey writes in his review, “Gold attempts to explain his neo-Dickensian upbringing by summarizing his ‘mom’s need to maneuver her way past some obstacles toward the bright and confusing future she wanted. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z

There’s an awful lot going on in “Space Show,” including an illicit galactic trade in wasabi and a confusing mystery involving the variety show of the title, which is broadcast throughout the universe. Critic’s Notebook: Festival of Gkids Films at IFC Center 2013-12-19T22:40:06Z

If the episode’s multiple points of visual focus are at moments confusing, that’s on purpose. 'Modern Family' to Air Episode Shot on iPhones 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z

I could not turn my back on these young musicians at such a difficult and confusing time. A Conductor on Why He Stayed in Russia After the Invasion Began 2022-03-14T04:00:00Z

What one cannot follow—it’s too confusing—is the ceaseless turnover of designers at venerable houses, which are more unstable than Stalin’s Politburo. The Year in Fashion: Down with the Élites! 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z

Details like this will engage even readers who might otherwise find the sheer scope of historical events confusing. Secrets and Lies 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z

In a somehow confusing sequence of events, the Redditor continued to state that her sister, whom she calls “The Gnat,” is not even engaged yet. Bride-to-be reportedly makes friends compete for bridesmaid party spots 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z

These are anxious times for all of us, but particularly confusing for dogs. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: Who was that masked man, Fido? 2020-05-29T04:00:00Z

The reflection rounds out an otherwise elusive persona, one that sounds young and old, and so equally involved and detached that it can be confusing. The Eternal Greatness of Nas's 'Illmatic' 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z

For all Mr. Hartman’s efforts to clarify the mysteries of which musicians played on which records, the subject remains confusing. Books of The Times: ?The Wrecking Crew,? by Kent Hartman, on ?60s Studio Musicians 2012-02-19T21:29:14Z

Tormented by doubt and seized with a confusing desire for the shepherd, the king is thrown into a life-defining crisis. Opera Review: ‘King Roger,’ With Mariusz Kwiecien, at Santa Fe Opera 2012-07-27T21:24:17Z

It’s rare that a play manages to be both predictable and confusing. Review: O, for a Muse of Fire, or a Comptroller, to Save ‘Popcorn Falls’ 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z

English is not universally spoken, directions are confusing, and traffic in a city like Beijing is nuts, so consider hiring a tour guide. How to see Beijing in three days (because you don’t need a visa for 72-hour visits) 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z

In “Le Petit Opportune,” Mr. Genovese played a piano line with his left hand and the same line on electric piano with his right, about a quarter-tone off, confusing the brain. Music Review: Jack DeJohnette’s Spring Quartet at Jazz at Lincoln Center 2014-03-02T21:26:07Z

In light of the confusing congestion of the permanent collection display, it is a relief to enter the first-floor gallery reserved for temporary exhibitions, where “Ellsworth Kelly: Wood Sculpture” now resides. Art Review: Linde Family Wing at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston - Review 2011-09-22T22:25:49Z

It was especially confusing because Lee had not appeared in person at other hearings and would not be able to speak or change the outcome. "Adnan's going to be hanging in balance for years": Freed "Serial" subject's case is not over 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z

It was a strange and confusing time," she says. "I would think, but I was born in Clapham. Children's Laureate Malorie Blackman: 'I'm looking forward to redressing the balance for teenagers' 2013-06-05T12:54:04Z

There is no confusing good and evil here; never any question as to what anyone is thinking or about to do, their personalities and fates as predetermined as those of characters in a children’s Bible. ‘Parade’ Review: The Trial and Tragedy of Leo Frank 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z

No confusing a disfiguring ordeal with a prognosis. Books of The Times: ?Life Itself? by Roger Ebert - Review 2011-09-22T21:53:06Z

“It’s about clarifying this moment in history that is so bewildering and confusing and doing that by sourcing face masks, journal entries and home recipes from our communities,” he added. How Will We Remember the Pandemic? Museums Are Already Deciding 2020-05-25T04:00:00Z

The UBA politics and turf wars are a lot more confusing. "The Morning Show" Season 3 confronts Jan. 6 and "the lies we tell ourselves" 2023-10-11T04:00:00Z

It goes without saying that “culture” is a confusing word, this year or any year. The Meaning of “Culture” 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z

“Some people find it confusing or even disturbing, but there’s no reason a dish can’t be savory and sweet at the same time,” he says. | A Paris Restaurant Where Dessert Is What’s for Dinner 2014-01-28T14:37:59Z

Critics complained about wooden acting, clunky dialogue and confusing plots. Review: ‘How Star Wars Conquered the Universe,’ by Chris Taylor

Last fall, she helped organize protests against confusing state coronavirus rules that have closed restaurants or required them to pay steep fines. Food Is Not a Prop for Senator Jessica Ramos. It’s a Platform. 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z

The streets nearby were filled with potholes and a crazy quilt of confusing traffic signs. Urban Athlete: Cycling Over George Washington Bridge to New Jersey 2011-10-20T20:27:52Z

What makes this more confusing is that tickling, jumping around and roughhousing can be wonderful ways to form parent-child connections. Perspective | Dad needs to focus on consent and boundaries with his daughter, not his ego 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z

His father, Troy Oechsner, was a little more mixed, admiring the stunts but echoing complaints that some had about a confusing plot, especially in the second act. With new precautions after accident, 'Spider-Man' swings back onto Broadway and lands smoothly 2010-12-24T10:50:00Z

Related: What #OscarsSoWhite got right – and wrong In a vote on Tuesday night, the governors elected to replace a procedure that Academy CEO Dawn Hudson called “confusing and cumbersome”, in a letter to Academy members. #OscarsBoardSoWhite? Academy overhauls 'confusing' election process 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z

Brantley was not alone in questioning the storyline, which reviewers said was implausible and confusing. Phantom sequel a "shadow of the original" 2010-03-10T11:48:00Z

Melissa McCarthy has responded to criticism of the Ghostbusters reboot, saying she finds the original trailer “very confusing”. Melissa McCarthy admits she found Ghostbusters trailer 'very confusing' 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z

Lil B wears women's clothing in videos and enjoys confusing bullies, who in rap are often homophobic. Internet rap star Lil B brings his new deal to Seattle 2012-04-26T12:47:12Z

Before “First Man,” before “Gravity,” and — as confusing as it might sound — before “Apollo 11,” there was “Apollo 13,” the movie that launched Hollywood into the space age. The 7 best movies new to Netflix in March 2019 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z

Each will occasionally get something wrong: confusing a winery’s chardonnay with its merlot, or the 2012 for the 2013, for example. App review: Even you can be a wine guru 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z

They stand out, and their stories offer much-needed inspiration to young people navigating difficult and confusing times. These books can help build strong girls — and boys — for today’s world 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z

Hannah Short is a trainee GP who set up the website Menopause UK in frustration at the confusing, poor information available not only to women, but to medical professionals. What science doesn’t know about the menopause: what it’s for and how to treat it | Rose George 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z

Some commentators found it schoolmarmish or just plain confusing, but one suspects she didn’t care. Red Carpet Watch: Julia Roberts: The Red Carpet Fashion Choices of the ‘August: Osage County’ Star 2014-01-17T21:34:38Z

And both recently ran afoul of the airline industry’s confusing photography rules. Airlines aren’t clear about their photography policies 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z

“Because our own time is quite confusing, I think it’s useful to look back,” McNamara said. This Is Not History’s Catherine the Great 2020-05-08T04:00:00Z

Farm to table is a brilliant farming strategy but the data on farming is complex and confusing. Alice Waters on Sex, Drugs and Sustainable Agriculture 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z

It conjures a confusing set of associations, including barriers, escape routes, makeshift shelters, stage sets and Minimal art. Amid the Bloat at Frieze, Art Worth Seeking Out 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z

"Never heard of any Catholics in Maycomb either," Atticus tells Jem, "you're confusing that with something else. Way back about nineteen-twenty there was a Klan, but it was a political organization more than anything." Rereading 'To Kill a Mockingbird': It lingers, but not in the way he expected 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z

Even more confusing, research shows that people with diets high in plant-sourced carbohydrates, like the Mediterranean diet, tend to lead the longest and healthiest lives. Fiber is your body’s natural guide to weight management 2023-07-03T04:00:00Z

Intermittently, they dance in unison, but the relationship between them is inconsistent and confusing. Review: In Badolo’s ‘Yimbégré,’ Men Jesting and Ranting 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z

But hearts prove wayward and the best laid plans flounder when, amid a confusing house party, Silvia and her proposed suitor, Dorant, both find their eyes wandering. This week's new theatre 2011-04-01T23:06:02Z

Many people know the story behind Thanksgiving, but its history as an actual holiday is a bit more confusing. Thanksgiving history: Traditions and origins, where did it begin? 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z

Citizens are left with a confusing, chaotic picture — one that many doubt is true, and many others have decided to block out. Perspective | Trump’s message of mistrust is sinking in, even in journalism’s new ‘golden age’ 2017-11-02T04:00:00Z

His films show how Britain has been transformed, becoming more confusing but more interesting and likable too. Cheers for Frears 2010-08-14T23:05:00Z

The story was confusing and misshapen; it didn't build but seemed merely to run down. Spider-Man, Finally: On Scene at Opening Night 2011-06-15T08:00:00Z

If that all sounds confusing and pointless, that’s because it mostly is. ‘Agnes’ Review: A Crisis of Faith, and Filmmaking 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z

Pop stardom is confusing, messy, thankless work, equal parts exultation and excoriation. Review: Meghan Trainor and Mike Posner, Taking Stabs at Pop Stardom 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z

But now I'd like to speak in praise of confusing drama – the bewildering, the esoteric, the abstruse, and even sometimes the merely poorly constructed. Why I do love to be all at sea at the theatre 2012-07-10T15:30:21Z

“The emotional stress was still fresh and the overlap was confusing,” she said. Drawn to a Jazzwoman and Her Trumpet’s Clarion Call 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z

Because so many Picasso heirs — children and grandchildren — have given opinions about the authenticity of paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints and ceramics, it has been confusing for collectors, dealers and auction houses. Inside Art: Cézanne, Picasso and Bacon Works for Sale 2012-10-04T22:28:40Z

They were messy, confusing, self-indulgent excuses for Johnny Depp to run around in circles while pulling a variety of silly faces. What we want from Hollywood in 2011 2010-12-23T22:00:01Z

There have already been confusing signals this year about the likelihood of a new Blur album. Blur and Gorillaz will both make new albums, says Albarn collaborator 2013-06-24T16:10:21Z

I first watched the movie without reading the book and enjoyed the plot twists, even as I found much of it confusing. 'Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy' dark and alluring 2011-12-22T22:05:53Z

It’s the most confusing aspect of the film. Wrong, Actually: 3 Time-Travel Problems in Richard Curtis’s About Time 2013-11-05T15:54:56Z

The film was originally called 3000, in reference to Vivian’s price, but was changed after test audiences said it was confusing. 12 Fascinating Facts on 25th Anniversary of 'Pretty Woman' 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z

She said the language, which was removed, was “confusing and basically an inaccurate description of what our intention with the public programs has been.” What Did Museum Sign Up For: Exhibition or Investigation? 2021-01-11T05:00:00Z

But initially it's really confusing, so how do we give it a code? What 'Game of Thrones'' Costumes Tell You About the Show 2017-07-14T04:00:00Z

Last night's elimination of Judith and Sarah was confusing and downright emotional for me and my comments were made based on my personal dissatisfaction with the results. Adam Levine forced to defend 'anti-American' comment on The Voice 2013-05-30T10:33:19Z

“He is not entirely with us,” says the doctor whom Saul keeps confusing with the Stasi informer. Review | In ‘The Man Who Saw Everything,’ Deborah Levy questions our notions of reality 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z

Some stem from the honest intellectual mistake of confusing a good idea with the good idea. ‘Chicagonomics’ and ‘Economics Rules’ 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z

Dodge trended flat in intonation too often, although he held his part impeccably in the section with the confusing string glissandi that accompany the artist’s stay in a mental hospital in “St. Remy.” A ‘Van Gogh’ opera without the video 2016-05-29T04:00:00Z

And differences of geographical origin are just the start of the complexities that besiege Minsung and Nanhee in this overwhelming play about being overwhelmed in a very confusing century. Review: Reaching Across Korean Borders in ‘Wild Goose Dreams’ 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z

A Uniqlo jacket, the Future Is Female T-shirt, jeans from Scotch & Soda and a confusing set of shoes. What 8 New York Voters Wore to Cast Their Ballots 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z

In the most catastrophic, confusing year of upheaval, TV viewers were largely “treated” to business as usual. Emmys 2021: Our Critics on ‘I May Destroy You,’ ‘The Queen’s Gambit’ and … ‘Hamilton’? 2021-07-13T04:00:00Z

It remains the opera’s glaring fault, a confusing assemblage of found text that keeps characters from truly interacting as dialogues become little more than simultaneous monologues. Review: John Adams’s Newest Opera Returns to the Gold Mines 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z

In “Bethlehem,” loyalty is fluid, conditional and confusing, whether it’s a question of organizational commitment or blood. Movie Review: Yuval Adler and Ali Waked Breathe Life Into ‘Bethlehem’ 2014-03-07T00:45:56Z

“The other is for strange, creepy and confusing gifts.” Chris Anderson, Curator of TED Talks, Builds his Brand 2014-03-07T21:53:45Z

High-minded, confusing and boring, the whole thing is an overearnest assemblage simultaneously bloated and thin. Music Review: D J Spooky’s ‘Nauru Elegies’ at Metropolitan Museum 2013-01-20T22:29:46Z

Its direction can be confusing; some of its images are underexplained, some of its themes are overwritten. Art Review: ‘Rise and Fall of Apartheid’ at Center of Photography 2012-09-20T22:48:21Z

The result is not a confusing mishmash of images but a musical/experimental work that visually simulates the sensation of thinking. 3-D filmmaking's radical, revolutionary potential 2010-08-10T16:50:00Z

I found each of these perspective shifts confusing, which I suspect would please the author. Motherhood Meets Lust and Violence in Ariana Harwicz’s “Die, My Love” 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z

“He’s doing that to you and it’s very confusing, it’s very confusing for you because you have a reaction, you know. It’s something that you at that time you definitely don’t know what’s happening.” Sandusky son says victim’s story sounded familiar 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z

He also lost his appetite, which was equally shocking, because food remained a spring of little joys for him, even when everything else seemed pointless, painful and confusing. The Most Comforting Dish of All 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z

Last night's Saturday Night Live opening was very confusing. Mark Zuckerberg confronts Jesse Eisenberg on SNL 2011-01-30T15:31:00Z

From the beginning, he had a firm grasp of how much to put into a book to engage their interest and sustain their attention without boring, overwhelming or confusing them. Ezra Pound, Air Conditioning’s Effects on Global Warming and Other Letters to the Editor 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z

As an object, it represented all the feelings I had at the time – confusing, excitable, unrestrained; Nick Sharratt's illustrations represented my new-found outlook on the world. Choppers, Muffin the Mule, The Famous Five … icons of the great British childhood 2012-10-07T18:00:00Z

And as time drags on, it becomes more and more infuriating and confusing. Move aside Emma Watson, here are four new ways to be single beyond ‘self-partnered’ 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z

If this sounds confusing, it is so only in the way that life is. ‘Scenes From a Marriage,’ Adapted From Ingmar Bergman 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z

In February, Hicks was involved in directing the White House’s shifting and confusing response to abuse allegations against staff secretary Rob Porter, whom she was dating at the time. Fox hires former White House official Hope Hicks as communications director 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z

While the U.S. government is generously funding cultural activities of the group's members, the menacing shadow of CIA agents with confusing agendas haunts everyone's activities, public and private. Review: 'Nikolai and the Others' bittersweet drama 2013-05-07T02:12:09Z

To be candid, "Music of the Spheres" is an unholy mess of a record, confusing and conflating generic impulses towards synth-pop, ambient sound, and electronica, among other stylistic pretensions. Coldplay has lost its way 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z

It is to feature a park map, trail maps and a schedule of events for what can seem like a confusing sprawl of paths winding through the nation’s capital. National Parks Gear Up for Summer Rush 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z

Mindful of the potential political fallout, deputy interior minister, Hector Villarreal, called the judicial order "ambiguous, confusing and dark", and began stalling over it. Mexican film ban attempt elevates Presumed Guilty to box-office hit 2011-03-07T19:06:06Z

For museum-goers accustomed to seeing familiar paintings in familiar places at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, things are about to get confusing. Old Masters in New Places as the Met Lets in the Light 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z

At one point, a historian observes that “advanced societies were very vulnerable to confusing lifestyle with life itself.” Review: Climate Change and Conflicts in ‘The Age of Consequences’ 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z

Some people would probably think that it's used for effect but it was very confusing. Carnegie medal shortlist: your verdicts 2013-06-20T16:36:36Z

The Fabric is an initiative born out of frustration with an industry that can be daunting to enter, confusing to navigate and existentially overwhelming for people of color. Fashion needs more powerful black voices — so Ethan Miller created a new way to help 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z

Their eyes were deep and dull and confusing ... Booker club: The Famished Road 2011-01-20T13:46:07Z

The restriction on legal permanent residents, or green card holders, was among the most confusing elements in Trump's order. Syrian musician says Trump immigration order insults humanity 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z

On her own temperament as a director, Foster admitted to confusing people for being very direct with her colleagues on set. Jodie Foster: 'I think this is the most risk-averse period in movie history' 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z

It’s an aesthetic that’s as confusing as it is unabashed, and perhaps that’s why it’s striking such a chord in these confusing times. Memphis Milano Returns, and Takes Over Fashion 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z

It’s the stories, which strike me as more confusing than enlightening. The powerful culinary imprint that’s missing from the African American Museum 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z

Back in March, with her mother ailing, Hirschberg struggled with the idea of flying for two reasons; her mother’s insistence that she wait and confusing government messaging. And what do you do when the trip in question might be your last chance to say goodbye 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z

It was perhaps once good to be the king; now it’s confusing. Review: ‘The Death of Louis XIV’ Has a Riveting Performance at Its Heart 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z

"For a while he felt vindicated in Ms. Sacco’s demise" This is confusing, as Ms. Sacco appears to be very much alive. When the Cyberbully Is You 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z

“The information is more confusing because the threat itself is more confusing,” said David Abramson, who directs the Center for Public Health Disaster Science at the N.Y.U. So You Think You’re a Covid Expert (but Are You?) 2022-01-21T05:00:00Z

The description on the auction says "No Rev-A, Round SOQ," which is likely confusing to people unfamiliar with video game history. Rare 'Zelda' Nintendo game selling for over $100,000 at auction 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z

As some states enact shelter-in-place and stay-at-home orders, the question of whether to continue home services may become more clear — or more confusing. How homeowners should handle plumbing, housecleaning and other services during a pandemic 2020-03-27T04:00:00Z

Conley was full of confusing contradictions — as deeply embedded in the teachings of the Bible as he was in the prose of great literature. ‘Boy Erased’: A minister’s son trapped between religion and his sexual identity 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z

Instead, it looks, at first glance, like a holiday snap – but that, too, is part of its odd, and confusing, power. Panayiotis Lamprou: the casual power of an intimate portrait 2010-09-17T16:54:00Z

The crossover is obvious with regard to subject matter, although Oprah cogently opines that the word "abuse" lacks accuracy and is confusing. "After Neverland," R. Kelly's CBS meltdown, and the insidious patterns we refuse to see 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z

Then you add in how these characters were created 40 or 50 years ago, and matters become even more confusing. Stan Lee has departed our universe, having “surpassed his wildest dreams” 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z

The inconsistent approaches to museum policy mirror the confusing, sometimes seemingly contradictory sets of rules broadly governing public gathering places as officials struggle to contain the coronavirus. Is Seeing That Renoir Essential? In the Pandemic, Cities Differ 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z

This is confusing until we realise that it is only the MetPlayer trying to be helpful, explaining the story in advance. Going out by staying in: where to watch the arts online 2010-07-25T20:31:00Z

Camouflage “appeals to me because it’s nature’s way of confusing the things we see,” Johan says. Simen Johan’s Wildlife Illusions 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z

"My DNA results are a little confusing," I manage. "Dear Father" letters and DNA tests 2021-12-05T05:00:00Z

The diverging timelines are often confusing, the songs workable but nothing extraordinary and the character portraits rely too heavily on the clockwork conceit. Review: Close Quarters and Distant Love in ‘The Last Five Years’ 2021-04-14T04:00:00Z

“We have so many decisions to make that are being stymied by a very confusing and fractured discourse.” Oregon Shakespeare Festival Explores Americana 2010-08-12T22:27:00Z

Even though he studies these credit card offers’ terms and conditions, “this stuff gets confusing to me.” ‘Free’ airline perks you earn from a credit card often come with a catch 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z

She’s saying one thing while doing another, which is confusing enough to someone trying to read her feelings and motives, but the doing part is indeed “incessant” while the saying is only on some occasions. Carolyn Hax: Does friend really need help finding a life outside parenting? 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z

Here is a look at the confusing state of mask wear in the sky. What’s the deal with masks on planes? 2022-03-22T04:00:00Z

Within minutes of the film starting, I have decided that high frame-rate 3D doesn't agree with me: there are dark, fogged spots at the edges of my vision and I find the scale confusing. Tim Dowling: The Hobbit 2013-01-12T09:00:01Z

“I think that it’s very confusing. But then everyone said we don’t care what you think.” Melissa McCarthy admits she found Ghostbusters trailer 'very confusing' 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z

Can a person split in two and then re-merge without the story becoming confusing? Eugene Onegin: unchain my heart 2013-01-02T19:30:04Z

In the absence of universal requirements and criteria for entry, international travel right now is chaotic and confusing. Confused? Overwhelmed? You may have travel whiplash. 2021-06-12T04:00:00Z

The show gets the balance of history right in other ways, too, by letting it be confused and confusing, a thing of loose strands and hard questions. Art Review: ‘Witness: Art and Civil Rights in the Sixties,’ at the Brooklyn Museum 2014-03-21T01:34:12Z

If my tale lacked the texture and depth of a film or a four-minute music video, I hoped it was less confusing than my previous effort. Pseudonym: On vision loss and hiding in plain sight from my high school classmates 2021-10-09T04:00:00Z

The whole thing was a confusing muddle, part The One Show, part Springwatch, part Something for the Weekend and part last week's Take a Break magazine. Fern: chatting for Britton 2011-03-29T09:53:44Z

TOURS, France — The task ahead of me was a two-day tasting marathon of wines with a welter of confusing labels: natural, organic, organic practice and biodynamic. In France, Pesticides Get in Way of Natural Wines 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z

The only thing that I would say is that sometimes it was a bit vague and confusing. Carnegie medal shortlist: your verdicts 2013-06-20T16:36:36Z

But Gander's version, carved from mottled brown-and-white wood, looked deliberately confusing. Artist of the week 89: Ryan Gander 2010-05-26T14:35:00Z

However, Ayoade doesn't see himself moving to Tinseltown any time soon, blaming his inability to drive, calling the sunny weather "confusing and unsettling" and saying he lacked the ambitious drive often associated with Hollywood stardom. His role in "The Watch" puzzles British star Richard Ayoade 2012-07-27T20:01:46Z

Daylight Saving Time is confusing — and most parents are going to be so sleep-deprived by next week, the questions, tears and complaints of their offspring will begin to form a strange, exhausted logic. Daylight Saving Time is proof we hate parents 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z

On a more frustrating level, the structure is confusing, particularly in the beginning, and narrative propulsion is muddled by the scope and poetic repetition. The Season’s Standout Crossover Y.A. Novels 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z

It was somewhat confusing, considering that an intermediary passage had more big, graphic coats, with no sly sexual vibe nor any visible connection to the body. Special Report: Fashion: Burberry: A Crowd Pleaser 2011-02-21T18:29:01Z

Instead, its approach to genre is mostly confusing. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Is Still Alive 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z

Wandel is telling the story of one child, a tiny planet spinning in a mysterious, often confusing, unsettled universe. ‘Playground’ Review: A Creation Story 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z

Even the doomed teenage actress, Sybil, projects her own yearnings upon Dorian, making the fatal mistake of confusing appearance and reality, real feeling and acting. The Picture of Dorian Gray – review 2012-10-07T15:33:26Z

It meant that domestic violence was messy and nuanced and often contradictory and confusing. Perspective | The trial of Johnny Depp and Amber Heard was too much and not enough 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z

You seem to be suffering a similar malaise by confusing whose life you are living and I’d urge you to direct attention back to your own. My nephew is disabled and it’s his mother’s fault | Mariella Frostrup 2017-09-03T04:00:00Z

Compare the endless bullet battle scenes the last two weeks- confusing, boring, clumsily shot and edited, to some of the great battle scenes staged by Game of Thrones. ‘The Walking Dead’ Season 8, Episode 3: Cut to Black 2017-11-05T04:00:00Z

These tiny, confusing encounters — “your brain just glitches” — make Mr. Jones aware of how much has changed. The Welcome Return of the Run-In 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z

But, he argues, we are confusing cause and effect, misunderstanding the way the mechanism works. Stellar nonfiction chosen by the National Book Critics Circle 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z

The confusing claims on the shelf are nothing short of mind-boggling. Do you know your egg terminology? 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z

The few scenes that don't contain meat contain men talking about meat, or men shouting about meat, or, in one particularly confusing segment, men shouting about meat over a crude diagram of a cow. Meat Men, where butchering is life 2012-11-23T16:00:00Z

Geri Allen, who died last year, was one of jazz’s great sense-makers of the past 35 years — a splintered and confusing time in the music, by any account. January in Live Jazz: 5 Standout Shows 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z

“I lost my therapist of 12 years on Christmas. It continues to be a complicated and confusing loss,” one reader wrote. Luvvie Ajayi Jones wrote the book on fighting fears, but she still has some of her own 2021-03-07T05:00:00Z

He was also unhappy with the third act of the film up until late November, thinking the climax ended up being confusing. 'Spectre' Is Doomed: Did North Korea Kill James Bond? 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z

Is it any wonder that my breasts and I have had a complicated, often confusing relationship? Getting it off my chest: life with big breasts 2015-11-14T05:00:00Z

Then he immediately dives into a plot that is both corny and confusing, like a flash mob. The Essential Philip K. Dick 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z

If this sounds confusing, it is, a bit. Can you identify? 2012-05-17T00:00:00Z

Even the sex scenes were confusing, dirty and violent. Russell Crowe's divorce auction: what's under the hammer 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z

Bob and Phil invite some cast members up to the inn, along with bringing backstage crew members, huge scenery pieces and backdrops and everything else you need to mount an ambitious and thematically confusing production. From “White Christmas” to GoFundMe: The plucky American fantasy of only needing to put on a show 2022-12-18T05:00:00Z

And now, as far as I could tell, things just stopped making sense, or at least got very confusing. 'The Good Wife' Recap: Story Line Over. Free at Last! 2015-01-04T05:00:00Z

It is all such a confusing and nasty stew. W. Kamau Bell on Kamala Harris, Black conservatives & why he's happy Herman Cain is ghost-tweeting 2020-08-29T04:00:00Z

The early scenes are a confusing hodgepodge that jumps around in time. Movie Review: ‘The Railway Man,’ a True Tale of Wartime Torment and Reconciliation 2014-04-10T22:30:18Z

This can get confusing, so get your quills ready. 8 Ridiculous Theories That Will Change How You Read Harry Potter 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z

By the closing Wonder, there is a weird salsa break and the confusing entreaty to dance. Emeli Sandé – review 2013-04-13T23:07:42Z

It’s all a little confusing at first, but again, the show runners are feeling free to depart from the show’s procedural roots. House Watch: Ending the Chase 2012-02-14T14:45:51Z

Well, they have to use some words, even if they’ll be more confusing, and this probably isn’t the last instance of word-banning ordered up by the executive branch. Style Invitational Week 1259: Beat the banned with euphemisms 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z

Lady Gaga was trying to cash in on some of that controversy with her new song "Judas," but ultimately the video was too confusing to upset anyone. Lady Gaga fails to provoke Catholic Church with "Judas" 2011-05-09T14:40:00Z

The zombie sequence was legitimately chilling, but over all the commute to Alexandria was visually confusing to me. 'The Walking Dead' Recap: Has Rick Lost His Hold on the Group? 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z

In fact you soon learned that what was initially confusing would never be clarified no matter how you stared and swore at it. Books of The Times: ?The Chemistry of Tears,? a Novel by Peter Carey 2012-05-21T03:47:19Z

“I think it’s the best way. It’s confusing when you have too many heads in the room.” Virginia Johnson Steps Down From Dance Theater of Harlem. For Keeps. 2023-04-18T04:00:00Z

Generally a rigorous simplicity reigns where Greek cuisine is concerned, but the two chefs manage to complicate the picture without confusing the matter. New York’s Top 10 New Restaurants of 2021 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z

So, a lot of that was up to me, which was interesting and confusing, honestly. "You Mean Everything to Me" star Morgan Saylor on this seductive cautionary tale: "I love bleakness" 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z

He also gets random calls on his cellphone from a complete stranger who poses confusing riddles. KidsPost Summer Book Club: ‘What We Found in the Corn Maze’ 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z

Well it’s a confusing mess, is what it is. Niehoff/Lingo’s ‘Collision’: pretty parts, vague impact 2013-04-19T21:57:25Z

It's confusing when you can't read the eyes, which in "Gone Girl" means everything. Ben Affleck gets the manipulated man's every twist and turn right 2014-11-28T05:00:00Z

This is a confusing time to be alive. ‘Blumhouse’s Fantasy Island’ Review: The Pain, the Pain 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z

Sometimes this is liberating; sometimes it is confusing. How LGBTQ love saves Christianity: A priest explains 2016-06-04T04:00:00Z

The usual notions of skill and finish are deferred; scale is confusing, as these things are too dense for their size. Hilary Harnischfeger and a Host of Forms at Rachel Uffner 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z

“I was so grateful and feeling so blessed, but at the same time, I was like, this is so confusing. Poetry? Really?” Instapoet Rupi Kaur may be controversial, but fans and book sales are on her side 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z

There are elements of deus ex machina in the way clues reveal themselves, moments of cumbersome exposition and confusing gaping holes in the story. Mystery Road - Sydney film festival review 2013-06-06T00:54:00Z

Listen, he is a child in the play, so to say he's gay or not might be confusing. Aaron Sorkin read Breitbart for inspiration as he wrote "To Kill a Mockingbird" script 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z

Mostly floral designs, they curl across the figures, confusing foreground and background. Review: ‘Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic’ at the Brooklyn Museum 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z

Perhaps she is confusing him with someone else.'' Jagger denies 'hitting on' Katy Perry 2013-11-01T10:36:00Z

While reviewers mostly enjoyed the thriller, some found the plot vague and confusing. Five Joan Didion Movies You Can Stream Right Now 2021-12-24T05:00:00Z

The first chunk of this opening double is fast-paced, incident-filled and fantastically confusing. Tonight's TV highlights: The Big Silence 2010-10-21T23:04:00Z

The scene, however simple and aesthetically pleasing, sends a subtle message that many Mexican moviegoers immediately understand about domestic workers like Cleo and the confusing status in the households they serve. Oscar contender Roma stirs up nostalgia and guilt in Mexico’s middle class 2019-01-13T05:00:00Z

First I had to sort through how I felt, which was confusing enough. When White Poets Pretend to Be Asian 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z

These days, one might be forgiven for confusing the candy store and cosmetics counter. Noted: Beauty Products Based on Food — Noted 2013-05-22T19:03:12Z

In other words, air travel may be about to get even more confusing. Travelers are less certain about the airport screening experience than they’ve been in years 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z

As you step further into the nasty and confusing dark of “Ninth House,” you feel for her caught-up characters. Leigh Bardugo Brews a Witchy Tale of Ghosts, Dark Magic and Murder 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z

Still, the near-overlap with progressive calls from the likes of Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren to cleanse Washington of big-money donors seemed like a window into the deliberately opaque and confusing world of congressional fundraising. The Swamp: inside a revealing look into Washington corruption 2020-08-03T04:00:00Z

A lot of work went into making the experience kids-friendly to avoid frustrating or confusing young users. DreamWorks rolls out "Kung Fu Panda" virtual world 2010-04-12T07:33:00Z

I don’t mean happy in that my life was perfectly in place; in fact, in many ways it was the opposite — messy and sad, confusing and frantic. “Skinny isn’t beautiful”: Only after I stopped dreading my weight did I find true happiness 2016-08-14T04:00:00Z

“The quality is terrible, but we liked how distorted and confusing and chaotic it was,” Mr. Williams said. ?The Select (The Sun Also Rises)? and Its Sound Effects 2011-09-09T14:41:20Z

But in the first confusing seconds after someone walks into a restaurant with a gun, patrons have no way of knowing why he’s there. After ‘pizzagate’ shooting, an industry trained in hospitality thinks about security 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z

Those who enjoyed the inaugural run's expert blend of gaping plot holes and confusing shots of men in capes striding past archways will be delighted to discover the format remains virtually identical. Whitechapel returns to take on the Krays 2010-10-11T12:07:00Z

Children, too, are seeking guidance as they navigate these challenging and sometimes confusing times. 19 books to help children find hope and strength in stressful times: A librarian’s list 2016-12-12T05:00:00Z

"I still have a weird and slightly confusing longing for Matt Smith, but I've accepted he's gone, and Capaldi is resplendently terrifying and entertaining," he said. Doctor Who: How was Peter Capaldi's debut series? 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z

It’s all very fast and, for the uninitiated, perhaps confusing, especially given the lack of a voice-over or other explanations. | 'The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu': ?Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu,? by Andrei Ujica - Review 2011-09-08T23:07:41Z

Again, I'd argue that honour should also go to Something To Answer For, but I'm prepared to admit that PH Newby's deliberately confusing and spiky novel might be an acquired taste. Booker prize disdains comedy? What a joke 2010-10-14T09:09:00Z

Yet the most confusing thing about it is why, after two outrageously camp and emotionally powerful seasons, it isn’t a TV phenomenon yet. 'Obscenely enjoyable': why Harlots is the best show you're not watching 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z

It gets confusing because we crossed over into everybody else’s episodes. ArtsBeat: Jessica Walter on the Return of ‘Arrested Development’ 2013-05-21T20:56:43Z

He uses the techniques so well, in fact, that the naturalism is jarring — confusing, even. Theater, Reality TV and What Is Stranger Than Fiction 2021-06-20T04:00:00Z

It was “exciting and terrifying and confusing and enlightening”, she says. 'I wanted sex on my terms, and it was': readers on the joy of losing your virginity in your 30s 2019-06-24T04:00:00Z

The rental process was a little confusing and disorganized. Is this rental-car repair bill a scam? 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z

After a short and confusing drive, I finally found Ms. Mihalachi’s studio, which is in her house and was closed for renovation. On the Rug Route in Romania, Kilims and an Enduring Culture 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z

Also think the food is busy and often confusing. TsuruTonTan, a Japanese Chain That Knows Its Noodles 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z

Students find it confusing: they’re just starting to get a handle on new material and don’t feel on top of it yet when they are forced to switch. Ditch the 10,000 hour rule! Why Malcolm Gladwell’s famous advice falls short 2014-04-20T15:30:00Z

The process of interpreting a deceased person’s intentions from the lines of a handwritten document can be a confusing, contentious process, one that made for a gripping story line in the HBO series “Succession.” Is Aretha Franklin’s True Will the One Found in the Couch or a Cabinet? 2023-07-09T04:00:00Z

The book will be helpful to people in O’Rourke’s position: those who are suffering with confusing, unexplained illnesses. How a Mystery Illness Cost One Writer a Decade of Health 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z

When Canadians look south to our system, it seems confusing. 11 weeks of campaigning is too long? Oh, Canada! 2015-10-18T04:00:00Z

This had to be a confusing sight for a woman who had once given me a T-shirt emblazoned with a picture of handcuffed suffragettes. The Bride in Her Head 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z

No matter who you are or where you’re starting, the road to your ideal weight is difficult at best, and confusing for most. Why it really is harder for women to lose weight

This all certainly suggested the “silvery cedars” and confusing pathway that the lost woman describes in the text. Review: The Philharmonic Shines Through Two Dark Operas 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z

They say girls are confusing and it’s hard to tell when you’re supposed to stop. 'My Rapist Is Still on Campus' 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z

I bought the most confusing garment I’ve ever owned at Limited Too. Perspective | Are you ready for the return of the Limited Too aesthetic? 2023-02-27T05:00:00Z

IT MAY BE confusing to hear battle rap called a community when events often involve rappers spraying insults, death threats and literal spit in their opponents’ faces. The Fierce, Flourishing World of Battle Rap 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z

Sure, Mel's path is a twisty, dramatic one, littered with love, sex, death and confusing paternity, but Hope's journey is the most complicated of the show. In defense of Hope: Why the so-called worst character on “Virgin River” is actually the best 2022-08-13T04:00:00Z

But for Amy, who's been taught since childhood that monogamy doesn't work, it's all rather confusing. 'Trainwreck' trailer: Amy Schumer is a 'modern chick,' off the rails 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z

If you can’t find one of these wines, things may get a bit confusing. Your Next Lesson: Chianti Classico 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z

The voice at the other end hails from a North Dakota missile silo, and briefly confusing Edwards for his father, the terrified caller tells him that the war has begun. The kids are all wrong 2012-05-29T15:20:00Z

In all fairness, I think that this review is confusing because Ms. Dargis is trying to avoid putting in plot spoilers. ‘Predestination,’ Starring Ethan Hawke 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z

Dull and sometimes confusing — why are those British soldiers loyal to the Red Coats not wearing red? — the 90-minute premiere too often encourages viewers to turn away in boredom or frustration. New on TV Sunday: ‘Turn’ bores, ‘Silicon Valley’ scores 2014-04-04T18:01:52Z

While not referring directly to Brexit, the advertisement mentions a “tough and confusing” year, with Hills saying “negotiating tricky trade deals is a shocker”, and Minogue suggesting a cute quokka is good distraction. Kylie invites politics-weary Brits to 'call on your friends in Australia' 2019-12-25T05:00:00Z

Are we now completely confusing the sensation of invention, of creativity, with that of deft emulation? David Mitchell: A 'new' play by William Shakespeare? I'd prefer a new play by somebody else 2010-03-21T00:08:00Z

This is what makes the false-flag claims surrounding “Pizzagate” — as the supposed evils surrounding Comet Ping Pong are known — even more bizarre and confusing than usual. ‘False flag’ planted at a pizza place? It’s just one more conspiracy to digest. 2016-12-05T05:00:00Z

You are confusing today's disdain for multiculturalism for what the author was talking about. Making Language Immersion Fun for the Kids 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z

It’s a brave, initially confusing sequence but it haunts and, for a show of such staggering high quality, it leaves us content to see no more. Battle of the Bastards to San Junipero: what was the best TV episode of 2016? 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z

But it's also a really confusing book that's subject to a lot of interpretation. Surviving "God Land" in the age of Trump: Lyz Lenz on faith, politics and the Midwest 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z

The most confusing count this year — and every year since 2011 — might be the number of movies nominated for best picture. For Oscars 2015, a nod to films not in the picture 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z

Steve envisioned the road ahead and saw a never-ending parade of challenges, potholes, confusing road signs, and squashed possums. Style Invitational Week 1415: The Year in Redo, Part 1 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z

And its title, a reference to the squalid, mobile encampment of Union Pacific workers building the transcontinental railroad, is nice in theory but confusing in practice. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Hell on Wheels’ Returns for a Third Season on AMC 2013-08-08T21:31:41Z

Then Duck shows up to demonstrate the extreme ugliness that comes from confusing personal and professional life. "Mad Men" recap: Welcome home 2010-09-06T13:43:00Z

Talackova and Allred called the statement confusing and urged Trump to definitely state that she will be allowed to compete and to represent Canada in the Miss Universe contest if she wins. Transgender pageant hopeful wants rule change 2012-04-03T22:19:34Z

Which is why his denial of his office crush was so confusing. He Married a Sociopath: Me 2020-10-16T04:00:00Z

Once at our destination, it was easy to find things in the suitcase because it contained one layer, unlike the confusing depths of larger bags. Two kids, two parents, no overhead bags or reserved seats. Could they survive economy light? 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z

There is another way in which the "Terminator" timelines are confusing. Why the "Terminator" series matters 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z

What makes the sculpture additionally confusing is that it hangs in the most recently finished building on the outer Silver Spring campus that has become the new home to the Food and Drug Administration. How Nazi scientists and their wind tunnels ended up in D.C.’s suburbs 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z

Menninger is not the best writer and his explanation was confusing and technical. Bill James, True-Crime Obsessive, on the Genre’s Enduring Importance 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z

To this depressive, already pertinent tale, the young director R. B. Schlather has added another, often confusing political layer: Edward J. Snowden, the leaker of information about the National Security Agency’s surveillance tactics. Review: Boston Lyric Opera’s ‘In the Penal Colony,’ a Surreal Exploration of Injustice 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z

But Adams’s confusing motivations have always been part of whatever tension surrounds his music. Haters Gonna Hate: Listening to Ryan Adams's "1989" 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z

Since the British government insists that Ferris remain uninvolved in this mess, the bizarre costume comes in handy for disguising his mild-mannered identity, confusing his superstitious combatants and infusing himself with otherworldly energy. ‘Tigerman,’ by Nick Harkaway

The song’s flaw is that it’s a little confusing. Critics? Choice: New CDs: New CDs 2010-06-27T21:17:00Z

Understanding the Meater lineup is confusing, but the differences mostly concern operational distance. The very best leave-in smart meat thermometer 2022-08-21T04:00:00Z

Because the brain is fixated on the main attachments, the child doesn’t have anywhere to put this kind of trauma; it is too confusing and too upsetting. Perspective | We love good music, but are we exposing our 8-year-old to adult themes too soon? 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z

“It’s loud, confusing, hurried. But it’s fun. And the food speaks for itself.” The New York Jewish deli meets the 21st century, and the results are geshmak

This is an illuminating way to learn about viticulture, but it’s a confusing way to find a red that goes with duck. Restaurant Review: Little Park in TriBeCa 2015-03-24T04:00:00Z

Some of the history lessons were long-winded and meandering—and maybe slightly confusing without a basic grasp of the original musical. In “The Haunting of Lin-Manuel Miranda,” Ishmael Reed Revives an Old Debate 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z

It’s a slightly confusing work, held together primarily by subtitles, but furthers his practice of hacking the apparatus of global capitalism in subtle, humorous ways. Art in Review: Guy Ben Ner: ‘Soundtrack’ 2014-01-30T21:44:13Z

And because your daughter is on the winning end of the pain, it is all the more confusing. Perspective | What to do when an ex’s behavior is hurting the children 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z

He was there when the woman he loved, Zoe, died in a tragic and confusing accident for which he is unintentionally at fault. “Only Murders in the Building” star on the creation of Theo, the show’s conscience 2022-08-03T04:00:00Z

The commonly cited rule of thumb is "as long as nobody gets hurt", but even that is confusing when it comes to sex. 50 Shades of Grey matter: the psychology of sexual arousal 2012-08-08T12:01:00Z

I think Close is confusing enterprise with creativity; they are not the same and in some cases can work against one another. My Chuck Close problem 2012-07-10T14:03:00Z

Hawthorn, the gay detective who cries often and for no reason, is at the heart of both these confusing and arousing encounters. Hawthorn & Child by Keith Ridgway – review 2012-07-11T07:00:03Z

Those first lessons in abstinence were downright confusing. Purity culture slut-shame blues: Everything I know about sex I learned from Bob Dylan 2016-10-23T04:00:00Z

I think you're confusing the idea of good value with "bargain." At Günter Seeger NY, a Star Chef Resurfaces, Confidence Intact 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z

Her defending her own administration’s decisions is predictable enough, but someone who’d risen to fame on the back of his comic opposition to those decisions defaulting to deference was confusing. Jon Stewart's Five Worst Moments 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z

Abrams rebooted the series with the film Star Trek, creating a new timeline for the already confusing Trek universe. How 'Discovery' Fits Into the 'Star Trek' Timeline 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z

That diary mostly contains tablature notation, but one entry, from before quarantine, last December, reads: “Try to find resonances — textural miracles that are confusing as to structure but spinning and mesmerizing.” A Composer and Her (Very) Long String Instrument 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z

As they celebrate at Athena’s apartment, Athena dies in a freak accident — and in the confusing aftermath, June steals an unpublished manuscript off her desk. Her Novel Became a Best Seller. The Trouble: The Manuscript Was Stolen. 2023-05-16T04:00:00Z

It also happens to be an exciting and at times intoxicating and downright confusing good time. “The Witcher” is baffling to the uninitiated, but diehards swear by its throwback fantasy charms 2019-12-21T05:00:00Z

It was a well-meaning but confusing effort; it simply did not work. Oliver Stone and Tariq Ali: brothers in arms 2010-07-26T20:31:00Z

It’s still not clear what led Angela to move to the mainland, but that also must have been confusing for her sense of identity. In “Watchmen,” just as in real life, feelings about Vietnam remain uncertain 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z

He employs a vocoder, like Laurie Anderson uses to lower her voice to a man’s range, confusing matters all the more. What you hear is what you get in 'The Encounter' 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z

And that, sports medicine doctors say, points to the problems: there is little or no uniformity among products, the labels are confusing and the ingredients are arcane. 2010-01-14T00:15:00Z

But I think the most common misconception is people confusing my fiction with my life. Barbara Kingsolver: 'Motherhood is so sentimentalised in our culture' 2013-05-11T14:00:02Z

In April, he dismissed the mayor’s announcement of continued city school closings this spring as an “opinion,” confusing parents and teachers. 100 Days of Cuomo: Governor ends daily COVID-19 briefings 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z

We're all part of that thing, and I think sometimes that gets confusing. Al Pacino faces actors' nightmares in Philip Roth's 'The Humbling' 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z

But the picture can be confusing — and changeable. Airfares: As Costs Rise, Flexibility Is Key 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z

While the plot is somewhat confusing, the writing is gorgeous. Review | Best science fiction and fantasy books out this month 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z

The costume design in the film is also confusing, combining kaftans with shalwars, and what can only be described as Party City’s take on a medieval harem girl. The fairest of them all? Two cheers for Aladdin's browner Princess Jasmine 2019-05-24T04:00:00Z

Layton does a nifty job of blending all these characters and perspectives, but so much of the film consists of highly subjective dramatized reenactments that it makes an already confusing story feel even more slippery. He fooled a missing teenager’s family — or did he? 2012-07-17T21:15:00Z

As if things weren’t already confusing, even Australian yogurt producer Wallaby is making Greek yogurt now. Perspective | Confused by the many yogurt options? We can help you sort them out. 2017-10-09T04:00:00Z

The novel shifts constantly between past and present tense, but it's never confusing. Jane Ayre, we hardly knew you 2011-03-11T16:36:00Z

There were confusing moments when a local competitor of SwimTrek veered his big boat toward one of our dinghies and yelled threats. In Turkey, Adventure Travel Takes the Plunge 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z

We would play at confusing them when they asked questions, letting them assume that we were both Cubans. Mariane Pearl: Revisiting the Cuba of My Youth 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z

What trips people up about sex is: negotiation, pleasure, confusing desires that you didn’t ask for. Dan Savage has been dishing out sex and love advice for 30 years. Some questions still surprise him. 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z

Many outdoor enthusiasts find the closures confusing, if not extreme, especially in light of Bernhardt’s recent announcement. ‘We’re closed for your hiking business.’ Communities near national parks urge non-locals to stay away. 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z

Will it last, or will it give way to a confusing 21-degree day where everyone has a picnic but is very concerned about what this means for Westeros’s carbon levels? Ed Sheeran? Incest? Ice dragons? How Game of Thrones might end 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z

“It was so sad and also just so confusing, because I felt like I was really being myself. But not everyone is the same person on the phone as they are in real life.” Sparks Fly on Virtual Dates, but Not So Much in Real Life 2020-12-08T05:00:00Z

True to Greene's character, this already complex situation became frequently bizarre, confusing and absurd. Travels with My Aunt and the many shades of Greene 2012-06-15T14:32:11Z

We talked about getting ill, which was confusing in the context of Calpol, and we talked about getting old, which led to the third problem. How do I explain death of our cat to my two-year-old? | Eva Wiseman 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z

Her methods are utterly unorthodox and extremely confusing, but she succeeds where others fail in ferreting out the baffling crimes. Classic Crime Novels That Still Thrill Today 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

“The predilection of the director, producer and scenarist for the unusual in mood, background music and characterization makes this chase more confusing than suspenseful,” a film critic for The New York Times wrote in 1946. 1940s Dispatches From the Land of Wynken, Blynken and Noir 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z

Three major plotlines ensue, and ultimately intersect, in multiple confusing ways. The essential guide to "Game of Thrones" 2011-04-09T21:01:00Z

If this sounds confusing—well, it is, a bit. Norman Mailer’s Snarling Encounter with Feminism, Restaged in Trump’s America 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z

No more paying extra for a transit card, no more guessing how much money to load on it, no more navigating confusing instructions at a kiosk. Travelers Ask, Cash, What’s That? 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z

Excellent reproductions in the otherwise confusing, poorly edited exhibition catalog reveal how much you may be missing. Last Chance: ?Mourners,? Many Faces of Grief, at Metropolitan Museum 2010-05-12T21:46:00Z

“That’s to be less confusing for the public,” Ms. Murray said. A Tax Deduction for Erotica? The Museum of Sex Favors It 2010-05-03T23:43:00Z

Probably unhealthy, but the initial teenage years are some of the weirdest, most confusing periods of your life and I formed an attachment to this family. 'I cried a lot. My face was a mess' – young fans on Avengers: Endgame 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z

Wunmi Mosaku is excellent as the indentured servant seeking escape from her predicament, but the film is hobbled somewhat by confusing flashbacks and a narrative that burns slightly too slowly. I Am Slave 2010-08-30T05:45:00Z

Mary explains how a child would experience such life lessons as confusing, terrifying and stultifying. All in the Family Dynamics: Donald Trump’s Niece on the President’s Clan 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z

The more you’re able to say something with absolute clarity, the more likely you’re probably wrong, because in fact the world is very confusing. Swimming against the tide: Lawrence Weschler on 'Waves Passing in the Night: Walter Murch in the Land of Astrophysicists' 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z

So far, it's more confusing than scary, but it's impressive how quickly they establish this new environment and fill it with great actors including James Cromwell and Sarah Paulson. TV listings and previews: plan your week's viewing - 29 October - 2 November 2012-10-29T08:00:00Z

The most important thing about the gratuitous umlaut is it does nothing so confusing as affect the pronounciation of the word. What could an umlaut do for you? 2013-05-27T14:46:26Z

The poetic rewrite, by the Austrian Lydia Haider, mixing heightened and vulgar speech, is a confusing way into the piece. In Salzburg, New Lives for Two Scandalous Plays 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z

Yes, it was confusing in the house, too; and yes, it demonstrates one risk of these short-format works: they become especially subject to cliche. Review | Dogs, snakes and piccolos: New operas take WNO stage 2019-01-13T05:00:00Z

Typically, the answers are often more confusing than the questions as Leonard Nimoy returns as the mysterious boss of the alternate dimension. Tate Modern is 10! A Culture Show Special 2010-05-25T06:59:00Z

It started off with boundaries, and then it started getting confusing. A Young Collector Continues the Family Tradition in SoHo 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z

In all fairness, I think that this review is confusing because Ms. Dargis is trying to avoid putting in plot spoilers. ‘Predestination,’ Starring Ethan Hawke 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z

In a confusing hail of bullets, both women managed to escape, but Payton’s son, who also happened to be Charlie’s fiance, was killed. NBC’s ‘State of Affairs’ and the women on Washington’s last nerve

This, he admits, “got a little complicated, a little confusing, but ultimately something I turned into a positive”. Jason Bateman: ‘My dirty secret? Playing the straight man. Because he gets to be in every scene’ 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z

To do so is not only confusing, but also throws off the balance in a relationship. Perspective | Ask Amy: Woman confused by ‘delete’ request 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z

It gets a little confusing at times, but at the end of the day it’s a dream job. New Washington Wizard Jason Smith finds himself in the center of it all 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z

A magnificent site for "when the facts are too confusing", Fake Science presents a series of infographics on topics such as how solar power works, or why bacon tastes good. Internet picks of the week 2010-09-03T23:06:00Z

By April, as multiple studies began to show people can spread the virus without knowing they have it, the CDC reversed that recommendation, angering some and confusing many. Why human brains are bad at assessing the risks of pandemics 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z

“The challenge we took on wasn’t to be confusing and experimental and wild, but to ask, how do we do what Bolaño did, only in the time-based, 3-D, actor-driven medium of theater?” ‘2666,’ a Most Difficult Novel, Takes the Stage 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z

Similarly confusing is the use of the supporting cast to shift, in a single song, between whomever they’re playing and the accusing voices of recrimination in Luke’s head. Review: In ‘Kid Victory,’ Rescued but Not Free 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z

I hope too many of them didn't ditch their portfolios and start new ones on Lady Gaga, because I rather think their teachers found what I said even more confusing than they did. Now please pay attention everybody. I'm about to tell you what art is 2011-03-06T22:30:00Z

“I said, ‘You’re wanting people to understand and accept you — this is like, really confusing to people. Ellen Degeneres: Judging 'American Idol' Was 'Worst Decision' 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z

Mr Blanning switches from the home front to foreign policy and back in a way that is both confusing and repetitious. Prussian and powerful 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z

That's why Daniel, after doing Bond for seven months – it's not that he thinks he's James Bond, he's cleverer than that – but of course there is something that gets confusing. Javier Bardem: Sinister? Me? 2012-10-12T22:00:17Z

You couldn’t call it confusing; this film knows what it wants, and gets it by the shortest possible route. The Expendables 3 first look review – a blundering jackhammer of a film 2014-08-04T04:00:00Z

It begins with a confusing framing story, "Tape 56," about some criminals sent to steal a VHS tape, only to discover a house full of them. 'V/H/S': Six horror shorts unspool with bloody results 2012-10-04T20:02:08Z

This opposition without engagement certainly racks up anticipation, but the sequence is overextended and scuppered by the confusing intrusion of a child's sing-song voice. Emio Greco – review 2012-05-25T18:17:32Z

He writes astutely here about, say, the flaws of Season 4 of “The Sopranos” and the confusing, unfocused pilot of “The Wire.” Books of The Times: ‘The Revolution Was Televised,’ by Alan Sepinwall 2012-12-04T21:14:42Z

A physical relationship began with one friend, but after a while, he said, the “friends with benefits” arrangement was confusing and unfulfilling. Why Wait? When You Know, You Know. 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z

Meanwhile, many of the parties that are carrying on are sending messages that are somewhat confusing. The Trump inauguration is shaping up to be Washington’s smallest party in years 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z

Green is shot five times in Lee’s opening pages by Cornelius Williams, a dapper 43-year-old Black man, after the two have a brief and — to Green — confusing conversation. This Novel Revisits a Power Broker Who Trod Lightly and Left a Big Footprint 2021-07-28T04:00:00Z

Instead, they realized that most studies were confusing or inaccurate, often neglecting to consider age and genetic factors. Does gymnastics derail puberty? 2012-08-09T13:40:00Z

So to the feudal estate of Milton Cross, down the road, where a confusing array of villagers are embroiled in their own tale of skulduggery and deadly intent. Live UEFA Europa League Football: The Final 2010-05-12T07:00:00Z

In the real world, people are strange and confusing. I've never seen ... Titanic 2020-04-23T04:00:00Z

The Fighter is about boxing, but it's mostly a portrait of people trapped in the confusing cycle of co-dependency. Wahlberg Punches Above his Weight in The Fighter 2010-12-09T06:00:00Z

She’s an intrepid guide to a surprisingly difficult topic: Travers was extremely private and her personal life, though fascinating, was confusing. Love ‘Mary Poppins Returns’? You’ll Love These Books, Too — No Matter How Old You Are 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z

With so many police, and so much police talk, this was a little… plodding… but inordinately valuable, if rather confusing to my own mind about being a man. Rewind TV: The Tony Blair Interview With Andrew Marr; The Hunt for Britain's Sex Traffickers; I Am Slave 2010-09-04T23:06:00Z

And if all this seems confusing, the all-purpose “queer” is increasingly used to mean anything other than plain-vanilla 100% straight, a visibly expanding category. The pansexual revolution: how sexual fluidity became mainstream 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z

This is a confusing time for many of us. Overheard on Zoom: Co-Workers Talking About My ‘Weird’ Habits 2020-04-23T04:00:00Z

It is occasionally humorous and visceral but mostly repetitive and confusing. The Great American Novelist tournament 2013-01-22T12:51:05Z

For all of the moment’s vulgarity, I’ve rarely heard such a straightforward expression on television of how confusing it is to leave childhood behind and develop into a sexual adult within the family unit. The Refreshing Frankness of the “Big Mouth” Valentine’s Day Special 2019-02-09T05:00:00Z

We are saturated, to the point of numbed insensitivity, with images confusing Eros and Thanatos. The Undiscovered Country: Journeys Among the Dead by Carl Watkins – review 2013-01-12T09:31:00Z

Choosing the right fish to eat is more confusing than ever. Elevate hummus with canned sardines—scatter parsley on top, and drizzle with olive oil 2020-04-26T04:00:00Z

To get around the Pilgrim landscape, you will need a car, some good maps, and GPS wouldn’t hurt, though even that may not help when it comes to navigating Lincoln’s many and confusing one-way streets. On the Pilgrims? Path Through England and the Netherlands 2011-11-17T20:41:15Z

Commenting on Mr. Franken’s resignation, Ms. Strong said, “I’m not sure what to think, O.K.? It’s a confusing time to be a woman. And a drug addict. And a very heavy drinker.” ‘S.N.L.’ and James Franco Tackle Al Franken and Sexual Harassment 2017-12-10T05:00:00Z

Its strength and weakness is that he puts himself at the centre of the story – that’s what holds it together in this diffuse, confusing, chaotic, violent, amoral world of organised crime. Paul Theroux on travelling 2012-06-25T11:00:00Z

Even so, Ms. Willis said that traditional providers of arts funding found the mission of Lumberyard confusing. Flipping for Dance in the Catskills 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z

As well as privacy concerns, there’s the emotional fallout of receiving confusing or life-changing results. ‘It made me question my ancestry’: does DNA home testing really understand race? 2018-08-11T04:00:00Z

He would later say, “Emerson is God,” and remark to an interviewer: “You are confusing Shakespeare with God. I don’t see why one shouldn’t, as it were.” Harold Bloom, a Prolific Giant and Perhaps the Last of a Kind 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z

While Pinterest’s cultural appropriation policy may be somewhat confused and confusing, the platform deserves some credit for attempting to tackle the subject at all. Should Pinterest prohibit culturally inappropriate Halloween ideas? | Arwa Mahdawi 2020-10-30T04:00:00Z

It’s a commonly stated maxim in Hollywood that audiences need a surrogate to serve as their guide through confusing genre worlds. ‘The Dark Tower’: What Worked and What Didn’t 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z

After the melodic and propulsive opener, Neighborhood Watch, and its elegant drum patterns, things lose focus; most of the flashes of grace overshadowed by confusing longueurs. Memory Tapes: Grace/Confusion – review 2012-12-09T00:05:50Z

“The alchemy is in taking whatever’s painful, whatever’s confusing, and transforming it into something that didn’t exist before,” he said. A Darker, Deeper Jim Carrey Returns to TV With ‘Kidding’ 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z

It’s the wasteful, confusing overlap with Mostly Mozart, a duplication of efforts that seems more obvious each year. Toward a More Perfect Lincoln Center Union 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z

Though it’s been almost two years since the onset of the pandemic, this phase can feel more confusing than its start, in March 2020. So You Think You’re a Covid Expert (but Are You?) 2022-01-21T05:00:00Z

Hubbard Street Dance Chicago is a confusing company though it’s easy to see why talented dancers flock to it. Review: Hubbard Street Dance Chicago Nods to Balanchine 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z

His table-filling classical cityscapes and ruins, built of nougat and sweetmeats, were found awesome and confusing — were they fleeting or enduring? ‘Marvelous Sugar Baby’ as a Contribution to Ephemeral Art 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z

His style may be unconventional and confusing -- he focuses on emotions rather than facts, and appears only barely literate -- but it is remarkably effective in maintaining his popularity among his followers. Decoding “the first Twitter president”: Mathematician Anthony Bonato on the science of Trump... 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z

As I said, the early days of the pandemic were a confusing time for travelers and airlines. What to do about an expired flight credit on Expedia | Travel Troubleshooter 2021-08-02T04:00:00Z

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's guidelines were confusing enough for the general public. The costs of safely reopening a high-end restaurant 2020-06-22T04:00:00Z

This misogynistic association with evil is reflected in the confusing origins of the term “hare lip”. The day we learned our son had a cleft lip 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z

Then she commits a willful and confusing act of self-sabotage that leads to a clash between her and James. Resurrecting Teresa Deevy?s Lost Irish Voice 2010-08-06T21:12:00Z

Often times modern themes and ideas are merely a confusing set dressing on a classical play, but not in this case. Review: A ‘Mother Courage’ Deployed to Africa 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z

“It’s exhilarating and confusing to constantly be exploring that.” Jake Gyllenhaal and Tom Sturridge to Perform ‘Sea Wall/A Life’ on Broadway 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z

There are many wonderful moments, but their connections are often tenuous and confusing. Wynton Marsalis debuts a stirring ‘Blues Symphony’ 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z

He was assured but soft-spoken, which was kind of confusing.” Mark O’Donnell, ‘Hairspray’ Writer, Dies at 58 2012-08-08T05:23:01Z

Airbnb said the new rules were complex and confusing as they did not distinguish between local families sharing their homes and professional operators running a business. Spain's Balearic Islands to fine illegal tourist rentals 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z

For some—for me, certainly—the deferral proved confusing. Kim Gordon, Kurt Cobain, and Punk Myth-Making 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z

“You feel like their signs are so confusing, that they want to confuse you,” Saeed says as she hands them over to O’Neill. D.C. parking tickets are a scourge. This artist wants to turn them into something beautiful. 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z

He was known for his unpredictable reading assignments and even for recommending “Hill Street Blues” to help students find coherence in a confusing narrative. Eminent scholar of early U.S., Bernard Bailyn, dies at 97 2020-08-07T04:00:00Z

It is a famously difficult city in general — especially for pedestrians, those with no Russian and anyone put off by pushy crowds, confusing signage and surly ticket sellers. Moscow in the Winter, Alive and Illuminated 2011-11-25T06:01:08Z

The name was confusing, and people thought we were in the lighting business. Shopping for major appliances? At Pirch you can bake a pie, do a load of laundry or test a toilet before you buy. 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z

Perhaps their dark energies would provide great stuff for a show with a less sassy attitude towards law enforcement, but here it’s just confusing. 'The Catch' Proves Why Casting is So Important 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z

We’re feeling small and confused, and Last Christmas is small and confusing. Emma Thompson’s ludicrous Last Christmas is the perfect Brexit festive movie 2019-12-07T05:00:00Z

They were often surprising, sometimes confusing, and usually didn’t reflect well on me. My year without makeup 2013-01-10T01:00:00Z

In one episode, viewers get a hint of how ordinary conversation filters through to Kate’s ears: as a confusing muddle of staticky noise. ‘This Close’ Is by and About Deaf People, but That’s Only the Beginning 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z

For several years, in a stunt that became something of an artwork in its own right, the curator Massimiliano Gioni presented himself at public events as Mr. Cattelan, thoroughly confusing everybody. Maurizio Cattelan Retrospective at Guggenheim 2011-10-02T04:00:07Z

Between the ongoing pandemic — now with a troubling new variant in the mix — and the confusing insurance requirements for international travel, it can be tough to figure out what health insurance does and doesn’t cover. Perspective | Health insurance for travelers: Which one is right for you? 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z

Delivering this chaotic and amusing 65-minute monologue, Mr. Maguire is an entertaining if confusing guide, his words cascading forth with few pauses for the rest of us to catch up. Theater Review: ‘Wild Man in Rome,’ a Solo Show by Matthew Maguire 2012-11-19T22:52:54Z

“Premium” is a confusing term, used by the industry to reference more expensive bottles, but often understood by drinkers to mean “better.” How to drink tequila and mezcal like a grown-up 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z

The Canadian crooner's timing couldn't be more confusing, given that he's already offered himself up for a Comedy Central roast for his 21st birthday. Justin Bieber expresses feelings in video apology after 'Ellen' spot 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z

Before the Civil War, American currency was a confusing welter of notes issued by state banks. The Secret Art History on Your Money 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z

You may find the scheme at the center of “Deutschland 86” a bit confusing. Review: ‘Deutschland 86,’ an East-West Thriller, Looks South 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z

But I found it a fitting description for the experience of watching Tron: Legacy, the sequel much-anticipated by passionate admirers of the original and mostly confusing to the rest of us. Tron Review: Prepare for Deresolution 2010-12-16T23:00:00Z

Asghar grew up as a queer Muslim orphan in the confusing, unfair months and years after 9/11. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z

This age is also confusing because, while many other children may appear mature and self-disciplined, there is actually a large array of typical behaviors at this age. Perspective | Can a 6-year-old have self-discipline? 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z

But she added: “It seems confusing. I would think people going to a festival would want to stay there and hear the music.” 3 Days of Peace, Music and a Concierge 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z

God it's confusing … Tell me it makes sense, David, give me a sign … 7.44pm: Watch Mulholland Drive: live! 2010-10-03T17:27:00Z

This is where things get even more confusing. Perspective | Milk, bread, hemp oil? A dietitian’s guide to the cannabis items in your grocery store. 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z

He considers it to be a “response to often confusing directions from government agencies.” A New Sticker Aims to Signal Safe Dining in the Pandemic 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z

What do these confusing titbits and unsourced accounts add up to? Wanna be startin' something? 2012-08-14T16:00:02Z

There’s something about China and its rush to capitalism that I find confusing. Theater: David Henry Hwang?s ?Chinglish? 2011-10-23T03:27:21Z

That those were volatile, confusing times makes the period well suited to Mr. Ridley, who has shown his willingness to explore the complexity beneath seemingly straightforward events in the ABC series “American Crime.” Review: In Showtime’s ‘Guerrilla,’ Radicalism Without the Mythology 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z

Some of the intended ambiguity may be lost, especially in a finale that’s chaotic and confusing, but the film still feels like an adaptation problem Harron and Turner have solved. American Psycho at 20: a vicious satire that remains as sharp as ever 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z

His story, a sprawling, moving, upsetting, confusing, exciting tale of submission, domination and resolution, portrays the hunger that we all must feed — through kink, through sex, through whatever intimacy works for us. ‘Kink’ Is Not a Book About Sex. It’s a Book About, Well, Kink. 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z

It was confusing and you're at an age where that stuff kind of seems like it still maybe matters. Soundgarden revisits its biggest LP at SXSW 2014-03-14T12:55:07Z

But if there’s one thing last night proved it is that “we’re going to war, people,” Noah said But the target was a little confusing. “You could see Jeb’s balls growing as he was speaking”: Trevor Noah finds some love for Bush 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z

I found it all too confusing, so I went back. Sigourney Weaver Has Us All Fooled: She’s Really Quite Silly 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z

So much about Bowman was increasingly confusing and dismaying to me. David Bowman and the Furry-Girl School of American Fiction 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z

Out of these interactions, between lovers, between strangers, between parent and child, we try to understand our place in this beautiful, confusing world we inhabit. Solnit’s ‘The Faraway Nearby’: stories that explain and sustain 2013-07-24T21:57:43Z

“When it became this thing where I had to understand that I am the brand, that was really confusing and it still is.” A Teenager, Her Ukulele and a Bedroom Pop Empire-in-the-Making 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z

A 1995 competition design for an expansion of Zurich international airport sought to make sense of what had become a confusing labyrinth of mismatched terminals built over several decades. An Alarmed Architect?s Complaint: Preservation Distorts the Past 2011-05-23T12:01:01Z

Individually these gaffes seem inconsequential, but collectively they are as confusing as the original designs were clear and reassuring. Design: How to Ruin a Great Design 2011-03-13T19:30:07Z

Love everything about the original, it’s a total classic – but maybe a little confusing? Remaking Memento, the Mummy and more: a Hollywood insider reveals all 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z

The federal lawsuit contends the show’s name is so similar to the bar that it’s confusing. Gulf Coast ‘Flora-Bama’ bar sues over MTV’s ‘Floribama’ show 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z

The host kept confusing the actors with the characters they played. An unscripted Friends reunion would be a diabolical mess 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z

The sprawling resort does not have a single fall line from the top, but rather folds into multiple zones served by chairlifts nestled in basins, so navigation can prove confusing. Land of 100 Olympians: Why Steamboat Springs is a winter sports mecca 2022-03-19T04:00:00Z

Lana meets some of his previous wives and together the women come to terms with the confusing, confused identity of the man they had loved. Murder, mystery and a hit record: the unbelievable story of Ike White 2020-05-18T04:00:00Z

Making up new rules is confusing and endless, as there is always another percent of a percent to be found. Perspective | Miss Manners: Repeatedly mispronouncing a name is disrespectful 2021-09-26T04:00:00Z

The young people zig and zag, quarrel and smoke, blithely confusing their own chaotic passions with the movements of history. Review: ‘Güeros’ Amid the Mexican Student Protests of 1999 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z

The correspondence between you, TAP Air Portugal and Expedia is pretty confusing. More than 18 months into the COVID-19 pandemic, travel companies are still processing refunds | Travel Troubleshooter 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z

You add that into the mix and it’s really confusing. Madonna: 'Caring about what people think is the death of all artists' 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z

It’s all very confusing, and hugely intriguing, indeed. Star Wars: The Force Awakens - what we learned from the Thanksgiving trailer 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z

In July, the Oakland City Council passed a resolution urging an investigation into the merger, calling it “sudden, confusing, and done with very little transparency.” 9/11 Memorial & Museum Names New Leader 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z

“Mr. Stone has made an honorable and absorbing contribution to the imaginative record of our confusing times,” A. O. Scott wrote in his review for The Times. What’s on TV Sunday: ‘Sharp Objects’ and ‘Snowden’ 2018-07-08T04:00:00Z

Making it look appealing rather than confusing is a skill. The New Days of Disco 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z

The whole phenomenon seemed pretty confusing; perhaps someone got confused because the actor did die suddenly on Aug. 14, but in 2012.  Ron Palillo, Horshack of 'Welcome Back, Kotter,' did not die Friday 2014-08-16T04:00:00Z

The confusing thing for me is how many different ways there are of taking photos. Snap happy 2013-05-19T18:30:00Z

When it arrived five years later, the museum, according to its website, attributed “Seated Woman With Red Hat” to the phantom artist Gemmaux — confusing the name of the technique with the artist’s name. Museums Special Section: Golden Age of Discovery ... Down in the Basements 2014-03-19T20:40:34Z

Your reaction to seeing this photo is both common and complex — that’s why you find it so confusing. Ask Amy: Old photo stirs up new emotions

A fact: whether you believed Brock Turner to be a good boy, ensnared by the confusing lures of hook-up culture, or an entitled élite, cornering women like game, you knew his face. The Irrepressibly Political Survivorship of Chanel Miller 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z

In past years the scrappy raw spaces of the Arsenale seemed endless and confusing. A Contemplative Venice Biennale, With Less Financial Frenzy 2013-06-02T20:17:59Z

"Now, we are taking the necessary actions to transform this confusing intersection into a multimodal project that supports the current and future needs of DC drivers, cyclists, and pedestrians." Dave Thomas Circle: DC acquires Wendy's restaurant at center of 'horror story' intersection to rework traffic 2021-02-03T05:00:00Z

“Photographs of a captured country shot through the lens of the captor possess layers of ambiguity too confusing to grasp,” she writes. A Comic Novel Asks Who Gets to Write the History of the Colonial Philippines 2018-12-26T05:00:00Z

He is also hugely distracted by a door that is swinging in the wind and speaks in bursts of freely associated thought that can be quite confusing. Jason Donovan 2010-10-16T23:05:00Z

This is not about changing the products but about confusing the public. Coke goes on the defensive 2013-01-16T20:55:00Z

It’ll be confusing, but staff will point you in the right direction. Things to do in New York: Shakespeare (Drunk or in the Park) 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z

And it's confusing that if you ask a random person on the street about climate change, then they've been given five different versions of why it's not even an issue. Will.i.am arrives by helicopter for flying visit to climate debate 2012-05-24T10:49:59Z

Mr. Gaul observes: “Calling college football a charity effectively turns the very idea of charity upside down, confusing its power and purpose.” Review: ‘Billion-Dollar Ball’ Explores the Economics of College Football’s Top Programs 2015-08-25T04:00:00Z

It’s confusing that most of the blame in this unapologetically feminist story is loaded, especially at first, on the brittle, SoulCycling mother. Review: ‘Jagged Little Pill’ Breaks the Jukebox Musical Mold 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z

Whether these tolling systems are a source of profits or not, one thing is clear: They’re pretty confusing. Tolls can hold surprise charges for rental-car drivers. Here’s what to know. 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z

The expansive world of Marvel Comics is as fun as it is confusing with new characters on every page and twice as many villains waiting to pounce in the next inked cell. Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: 5 Things You Need to Know 2013-09-24T09:45:09Z

Back then, however, he went by the name Captain Marvel, which is a bit confusing, particularly given the debut of Marvel’s “Captain Marvel” last month. Shazam Is Back. Wait, Who Is He Again? 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z

They reversed the carefully planned route, however, and before long broke up, going off in different directions, confusing the spectators waiting at City Hall. For St. Patrick’s Day Parade 1855, Snow on the Clover 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z

The ATS is the first to offer Cadillac’s slick new CUE entertainment and information system, which allows drivers to issue commands with the swipe of a finger instead of a confusing array of knobs. In Motown They're Dancing In The Streets 2012-01-09T05:05:23Z

Was "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" just too confusing to earn a nod for Gary Oldman? Oscars 2012: George Clooney vs. Brad Pitt? 2012-01-22T07:11:53Z

Garp was the first protagonist I read who seemed to inhabit precisely the same confusing headspace I live in. Why Michael Ian Black Doesn’t Like Mystery Novels 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z

That self-effacing focus can be a little confusing. ‘It’s About the Art Form’: Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana Turns 40 2023-06-12T04:00:00Z

What was confusing to him as a kid led to an ecumenical curiosity that he now appreciates. Nearing 50, Ethan Hawke’s latest radical transformation — violent abolitionist John Brown — suits an explorer of ‘intense faith’ 2020-09-30T04:00:00Z

In a fortnight we're at the Overlook Hotel, confusing ourselves about what was King and what was Kubrick, for The Shining. Rereading Stephen King: week two – Salem's Lot 2012-06-11T10:58:12Z

Given the number of larger-than-life personalities who populate his book, though, Dyson's quasi-biographical approach means he hops back and forth in time as he introduces new characters, which sometimes is confusing. 'Turing's Cathedral': convergence of the natural and digital worlds 2012-03-01T20:45:04Z

These songs set the stage for one of the most productive, disjointed and confusing years in the life of Kanye. Kanye West’s Year of Breaking Bad 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z

I found exploring Knossos a confusing and at times surreal experience. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: 21 Great Buildings Throughout History 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z

She takes up a rich subject in her examination of one of the New Testament's most colorful and confusing books, but "Revelations" is not as accessible as Pagels' earlier work. 'Revelations': a Biblical road map for the world's end 2012-04-04T20:29:08Z

But once you settle into it, it is sweet meets salty meets spicy, like the weather switching from hot to cold to hot, a delightfully confusing reminder that summer is almost here. Salt and pepper . . . ice cream?! 2022-05-28T04:00:00Z

“It’s confusing; it’s grounding. It’s risky because it is in the setting of performance.” A Dancer and Chaplain Illuminates the Invisible With Patience 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z

We sat at a vast kitchen island punctuated with a confusing number of lemons as her dog, Pepper, gnawed on a bone in a sun-dappled living room. Kacey Musgraves’s Expanding Universe 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z

If we don’t allow ourselves multiple, confusing, even conflicting feelings about our mothers, then how else do we learn to deal with people when the going gets gray? Grandparents’ unequal approach to gifts unappreciated 2013-06-15T04:00:00Z

Maybe it’s confusing, but it doesn’t bother me. Pee-wee Herman’s Big SXSW Adventure 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z

Despite stodgy trappings, “Dateline-Saigon” captures a swirl of personalities and conveys the excitement of reporting in a fast-moving, confusing and dangerous atmosphere. ‘Dateline-Saigon’ Review: Challenging the Official Story 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z

AP: It seems your search for a new kind of narrative is connected to what you've said about the confusing, fractured nature of life today. AP Interview: Soderbergh on quitting movies 2013-05-20T11:14:09Z

It’s also clear that you absorbed all kinds of messages from your parents about drinking, most of them confusing, indirect and upsetting. My Kids Say I Drink Too Much. Do I? 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z

For girls, who mature earlier than boys, the lack of information can be especially confusing. #Popsexed: What We Learn About Sex From Pop Culture 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z

The algorithm factors in variables besides bike lanes, like confusing intersections, steep hills or busy streets, before spitting out the “best” route. Google Maps Add a Feature for Bike Riders 2010-08-10T20:44:00Z

My wife said, ‘It’s very confusing but I think it says there’s a film series here,’” Biederman recalls. How “A Drive-In Movie, Except No Cars” Came to Your City 2013-08-20T19:39:55Z

Good communication on both sides is what turns a confusing message into a coherent one. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: What part of ‘this isn’t working’ don’t you understand? 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z

It’s really confusing, and it takes you a second. Kingsley Ben-Adir’s Breakthrough Year Didn’t Come Easily 2021-02-24T05:00:00Z

He wrote an alternate finale more faithful to Shakespeare, but this Met production conflates the two in a confusing and dramatically implausible way. Melancholy Hamlet returns to Met after 113 years 2010-03-17T06:01:00Z

“I thought he was confusing him with Paul Bunyan, but with a cool twist by making him black,” Ms. Brady, a parole officer from Providence, R.I., said. Familial Ties to Slavery, Bound by Vintage First-Person Accounts 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z

So, as we caregivers navigate the insanity that unfolded at the Capitol yesterday, here are some ways to help our children also find their way in a confusing time. Perspective | Don’t shy away from talking to kids about the Capitol riot. They know more than you think. 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z

Growing up, this was confusing, because we’re taught that romantic adult relationships automatically lead to sex – which I’ve always been scared by. My life in sex: 'I like hugging, holding hands and kissing, but don't feel sexual attraction' 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z

Targeting thugs or infected enemies for stealth takedowns is confusing, because switching to first person forces you to reorient your position relative to your quarry. Video Game Review: The Amazing Spider-Man, From Activision 2012-07-10T22:59:59Z

“I could tell that it was confusing for him because we were having this lovely conversation.” Sharing Their Visions, Two Filmmakers Find Love 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z

To date, there are zero consumer complaints on file in Missouri of shoppers confusing meat-like products with actual meat, according to Howell and the Animal Legal Defense Fund. Should plant-based proteins be called “meat”? 2018-12-22T05:00:00Z

The sentence is confusing, since there are hundreds, even thousands, of faith-healing churches, and it’s unclear why one or another is a “sect.” Review: ‘Bad Faith,’ a Dr. Paul A. Offit Book on Religion and Modern Medicine 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z

Losing the divide, however loathed it may be, is confusing. How LGBTQ love saves Christianity: A priest explains 2016-06-04T04:00:00Z

There's quite a confusing lyric at the centre of this song: "I'll be your clown, on your favourite channel." This week's new tracks 2013-02-04T06:00:00Z

It’s certainly got to be even more confusing for those who’ve never experienced sex at all. “Jane the Virgin,” satisfied at last: TV gets real about first-time sex 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z

That film seems to me more likely to last — it is deeper journalism and more haunting cinema — but Mr. Stone has made an honorable and absorbing contribution to the imaginative record of our confusing times. Review: ‘Snowden,’ Oliver Stone’s Restrained Portrait of a Whistle-Blower 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z

“The messaging was confusing and kept changing. Even in the beginning, Anthony Fauci said we didn’t have to wear masks.” Trauma and triumph: my father, his dementia and surviving segregation 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z

It's very confusing, especially since I told her all about my life before her and now I discover all these secrets. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Dear me! He learns his wife kept her old boyfriends’ love letters. 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z

“We’ve definitely read stories in the news about people willfully taking advantage of another actor. When there’s nobody responsible for setting clear boundaries, it gets very confusing.” Meet the theater specialists who show actors the right way to make out onstage 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z

So it goes in life, that you waste precious time confusing the people who are doing you good with the people who are doing you harm. Counting Down Dickens' Greatest Novels. Number 2: Great Expectations 2012-02-06T13:00:14Z

Their vicious argument, made all the more injurious because they love each other, articulates the confusing interplay of grief, affection and self-righteousness that only death can provoke. Review | Honoring the dead? Nathan Englander’s ‘kaddish.com’ imagines there’s an app for that. 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z

His motives become apparent to him only at the moment of decision, and the more confusing the circumstances, the more quickly he must react. Movie Review | 'Green Zone': Matt Damon Searches for That Casualty of War, Truth 2010-03-11T23:32:00Z

The background: The Smith Westerns send out confusing signals, which is no bad thing. New band of the day ? No 753: The Smith Westerns 2010-03-24T14:57:00Z

I saw things that were confusing about what they meant for masculinity and for me and my position in that space. "The Third Rainbow Girl" author on the true story of a double murder she didn't set out to write 2020-01-25T05:00:00Z

Ben is confused — because this is the most confusing conversation ever — but when she decides that her feelings are real, he finally hands Caila the Date Rose. 'The Bachelor' Watch: Bahama Drama 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z

I once described the ratings system as confusing in an article. PG? NC-17? She Made Such Calls for 30 Years 2018-11-23T05:00:00Z

Unfortunately, nothing stays fixed, the world is confusing and often cruel, the solutions the mind comes to are usually temporary. Four New Poetry Collections Confront Despair With Wonder 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z

“We know that at times the star could be confusing, especially to newcomers,” Mr. Kumar wrote in introducing the feature. Twitter Fans Speak Out Against the Heart 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z

The news reflected widespread interest in the confusing causes of this still-unexplained condition. Motherlode: Autism Study Starts Clock for Prospective Fathers 2012-08-24T23:46:30Z

Leiby wants to give us a portrait of abortion not as a crisis or a moral question, but as a common and confusing medical procedure. Comedians Turn Their Attention to Abortion 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z

But when you go to Giza, it can be a confusing place. ‘Paris 3D,’ a Digital Model of the French Capital 2013-01-09T22:25:41Z

This may lead to confusing messages that present drinking as harmless fun. Zero alcohol doesn’t mean zero risk — how marketing and blurred lines can be drinking triggers 2023-09-26T04:00:00Z

The result is occasionally confusing, not least because neither the history nor anecdotes are in chronological or any other discernible order. Design: The Look of Letters 2010-12-05T15:00:00Z

In the loud and confusing world of cryptocurrencies, fund-raising efforts are forming around all sorts of causes. Crypto Joins the Abortion Conversation 2022-05-14T04:00:00Z

She laughed and admitted it was a confusing time. What Is a Man For? 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z

Sometimes the crisscrossing of lives, loves and ideas is confusing but still true to life in its mess and its drama. Maria Popova Weaves Together Stories of Human Ingenuity 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z

At least one high-profile transgender woman says that the advocacy guidelines and talking points can feel confusing and restrictive, even to her. Transgender community, allies see Jenner interview in positive light 2015-04-25T04:00:00Z

It’s nonsensical and perhaps more confusing to a young child than educational. 11 of the Most Memorable Celebrity Guests on 'Sesame Street' 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z

“It’s like a backhanded slap then a kiss on the cheek. It’s confusing.” The Changing Sound of Baltimore 2018-07-21T04:00:00Z

“Sometimes it’s really confusing to me,” she admits. Which actress is Maggie in 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof'? (And yes, that's a trick question) 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z

And with that, Scramble for Africa became board gaming’s entree into the very particular, sometimes confusing and very of-the-moment culture wars of 2019. Should Board Gamers Play the Roles of Racists, Slavers and Nazis? 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z

But many critics also found the cerebral plot confusing. In a Big Box-Office Test, ‘Tenet’ Grosses $20 Million 2020-09-06T04:00:00Z

The effect can be cacophonous and confusing, although the other extreme is probably more disconcerting: when too many shows are talking alike. Art Review: In West Chelsea, Sculptures Speak in Dialects 2010-06-01T22:51:00Z

Hopefully True Detective 3’s opening titles won’t get any longer or abstract, because at this stage there’s a very real chance that people will start confusing them for episodes of Hannibal. True Detective's opening credits: a thing of beauty (that goes on a bit too long) 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z

In this case, though, a rule that was largely subjective was made even more confusing—particularly when the standards seemingly shifted midseason. Seven Turning Points from the Year in Sports 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z

You’ll find a confusing array staring at you at a paint store or in the paint section of a hardware store or home center. How to repair a gouged wood floor 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z

Williams could only claim bafflement, referring to Trump's statement as confusing. Fox News was in a "purple haze" on election night until Trump's wild claims gave them clarity 2020-11-04T05:00:00Z

“Hollywood is make-believe, and that’s confusing,” he says, but he is starting to drift and tire. Kirk Douglas: ‘I never thought I’d live to 100. That’s shocked me’ 2017-02-12T05:00:00Z

"World War II was just as dirty and brutal as Vietnam, just as confusing," Ayer said. 'Fury' director David Ayer's rugged style was a hit with Brad Pitt 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z

The “virility” they may have believed they were signaling in the middle of an aimless, confusing war. Perspective | Rape is a war crime, and Ukrainian women are sharing their stories 2022-04-26T04:00:00Z

Mr. Golijov said that in retrospect the statement was confusing in light of their film collaboration. Osvaldo Golijov Fracas Over ?Sidereus? Overture 2012-03-08T00:24:00Z

Now, while the vast majority of parents are making sure that their children get vaccinated on time, anti-vaxxers are getting louder — spurred on, in part, by President Trump — and the result is confusing parents. John Oliver Takes a Jab At Anti-Vaxxers on 'Last Week Tonight' 2017-06-26T04:00:00Z

Proust is making things up, changing them, disguising them, confusing them, adding extra elements to them – and he's perfectly within his rights to do so. Reading group: how LGBT is Proust? 2013-02-20T12:01:01Z

LBJ has hair and Walter White has none, but if you ignored the Texas drawl you could be forgiven for confusing the two. Bryan Cranston Talks About His Latest Role 2013-09-30T00:28:15Z

When it comes to the question of Vietnam and its confusing aftermath, that’s an ongoing, living reality. In “Watchmen,” just as in real life, feelings about Vietnam remain uncertain 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z

But the two are often thrust into convoluted situations, and there is a confusing array of subsidiary characters. Review: Better the Devil You Don't Know? 2010-03-02T12:00:00Z

Life is confusing if you’re not a pop star or a celebrity or famous. Madonna: 'Caring about what people think is the death of all artists' 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z

Even more confusing to him is his attraction to a fellow cricket player who urges him to ignore his father and live however he wants. ‘Selection Day’: Two brothers and an obsessed dad seek a ticket out of poverty 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z

You should be completely honest about inspecting her phone messages and transparent about how confusing this is for you. Ask Amy: Husband discovers wife’s secret chats 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z

“California” is like a maddening Google Map offering confusing routes from starting point A to destination infinity. Review: In ‘California,’ a Road Trip and a Detour Into Darkness 2022-05-24T04:00:00Z

Perhaps you are confusing Armagnac with Calvados, the main French Apple Brandy? To Make Its Case, Armagnac Has to Teach the Teachers 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z

Oh wow, getting dumped on national television is hurtful and confusing? The 'Bachelorette' Watch: And The Winner Is... 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z

What Mr. West eventually showed was confusing as well. On the Runway Blog: Kanye West Show, Shrouded in Silence, Creates a Scene 2011-10-01T22:57:09Z

Still, the show is a confusing mix of the clueless and the halfway promising. Art Review: James Franco?s ?Dangerous Book? of Art 2010-08-19T22:00:00Z

RE: No. DK: I mean, is there … You have to understand why it's confusing to us that you, in our log of emails, you are completely absent. Tribune interview with Rahm Emanuel 2012-02-12T13:12:00Z

A bit confusing in places, but I'm looking forward to the sequel and to the film which is apparently on the way. Anthony Horowitz's top apocalypse books 2012-10-04T10:49:38Z

Even more confusing than the name change is that the last time we saw her she died. Doctor Who: The Snowmen – preview 2012-12-19T01:25:33Z

Given the broad range of options, from super lightweight to heartier setups designed for challenging, big mountain terrain, consumers have a wide — and potentially confusing — assortment from which to choose. So, you want to be a backcountry skier? 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z

But she agrees that changing pronouns mid-epistle is apt to be confusing, even if it is a violation of grammar, not etiquette. Perspective | Miss Manners: Inconsiderate houseguests unlikely to be invited back 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z

In terms of preparation, I spent two weeks alone in a hotel room worrying and confusing myself. Cannes 2012: Robert Pattinson buries Twilight spectre with banker role 2012-05-25T18:29:28Z

It can be confusing to navigate tipping across different industries, so we've gathered insights from a variety of experts to pin down tipping best practices in today's day and age. How to tip in 2023, according to experts and industry pros 2023-02-26T05:00:00Z

It’s a fun enough idea, but it never quite landed, and segueing from that ironic niceness to Oh’s genuine earnestness just set everything off on a confusing, slippery start. The Best and Worst of the Golden Globes 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z

But, to paraphrase a portion of one of his bits, dammit if his angle isn’t confusing. What happened to Dave Chappelle: The cruelty of "Sticks & Stones" is a sign of the times 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z

“It’s all so confusing,” said the woman seated next to me on a flight from Texas last week as the Kavanaugh hearings were concluding. Perspective | Dishing up lies while proclaiming the love of facts, Trump and Sarah Sanders gaslight America 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z

She’s such a good girl now, and so legible, whereas in the book she is much more complicated and confusing, even to herself. Bringing ‘Normal People’ to Sexy, Soundtracked Life 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z

"These are confusing signals that we do not typically see," says Jim Sullivan, the company's lead analyst. REIT Report Card 2011-01-26T23:00:00Z

The effect is confusing, but history is confusing. Review: The Smithsonian African American Museum Is Here at Last. And It Uplifts and Upsets. 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z

The story becomes less about how dismaying it is to work at a big company and more about how confusing it is to be human when life itself defies human understanding. Review: Helen Phillips Tweaks Corporate Culture in ‘The Beautiful Bureaucrat’ 2015-08-23T04:00:00Z

After careening through the confusing history of America in all its honor and horror, poor Sam ends up in a Japanese monster-style battle against another Uncle Sam. Top 11 Inspiring and Oddball Comics to Keep Your Spirits Up While Resisting and Persisting 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z

As an example, early in The Best Intentions, he explains, or rather tells us why he won’t explain, the confusing name-swapping he’s done. Ingmar Bergman, novelist 2013-02-17T19:00:00Z

Dear Heloise: The phrase "beat two eggs separately" is confusing. Perspective | Hints From Heloise: Grandmothers love Shoo-Fly Pie! 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z

It goes back to my basic, original premise: this country is very confusing. "What a confusing country we live in": Michael Shannon on his gun violence movie "Eric LaRue" 2023-06-10T04:00:00Z

And the therapist himself can hitch rides back, which gets confusing fast. Review: ‘On a Clear Day,’ Eternally Odd, Gets Yet Another Life 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z

Some described a confusing scene as employees left laptops, coats and even wallets behind. CNN finds itself at the center of the news as a mail bomb forces evacuation of its New York office 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z

This is a story about identity, the confusing feeling of being torn in two and the absolute necessity that is family. Best children’s books of 2018 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z

It’s confusing to say the least, as “pinot blanc” in Alsace can refer both to the grape and to a blend. 20 Wines Under $20: For When the Weather Is Sultry 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z

The answer, revealed in the novel's final pages, is both confusing and unsatisfying, not to mention inconsistent, a surprising structural flaw. In Ishiguro's 'The Buried Giant,' memory draws a blank 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z

The work’s title, “La Menesunda” is, appropriately, slang for “a confusing situation,” and the immersive combination of happening, performance and installation manifested in cheap, colorful materials makes it so. 33 Art Exhibitions to View in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z

In the confusing atmosphere where real life, the play and the play within the play meet, you feel unmoored from the customary gravity of the theater. Review: Flying High and Falling Hard in ‘Peter Pan Goes Wrong’ 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z

He shows how serotonin systems function to help us to adapt to psychological challenges, reducing anxiety and providing "a carapace against a fickle and confusing world". Does Prozac help artists be creative? 2013-05-19T06:00:00Z

The play, based on a true story, alternates between scenes of Persephone and Dora’s first days together and their later years, a structure that is confusing at first but ultimately revealing. Theater Review: ‘Airswimming’ at the Irish Repertory Theater 2013-01-27T21:15:33Z

It was a lighthearted moment in an otherwise confusing, ponderous evening, which was full of false endings and choreography that was both frustratingly repetitive and limited in scope. Dance Review: ‘Rian,’ From Fabulous Beast Dance Theater, at Gerald W. Lynch 2012-11-10T00:56:45Z

Though I still wasn’t hearing any truly Alpine echoes, the hoots, bleats and squawks conjured a pleasantly confusing world of birdcalls in which sea gulls seemed to be especially well represented. In Make Music Winter, Critics Find Their Inner Yodelers and Pilgrims 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z

The song is from the underrated album Knnillssonn, whose double-exposure cover image doubles its doubled typography, and it’s pushed along by a lovely, confusing string part that sounds like a sample in a hip-hop song. Ben Greenman's essay 'Questions/Answers' seeks questions in songs that aren't always answered 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z

Early critics regarded this as an unnecessary and confusing gimmick. Review: Tom Hiddleston in a Love Triangle Undone by ‘Betrayal’ 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z

The confusing thing about this disagreement is that neither side is wrong. The Boy Who Lived Forever 2011-07-07T09:15:00Z

“It’s always confusing what part of my life is real.” A Pandemic Gives the Funny Pages a Jolt of Reality 2020-04-27T04:00:00Z

The varied and frenetic action makes for a novel that, while stimulating, is often confusing and overstuffed. Turning the ‘Curse of Ham’ Into a Blessing 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z

"That mix is morally confusing to soldiers but also quite intoxicating," he added. War documentary 'Korengal' explores consequences of combat 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z

She meets a ragtag group of compatriots who offer what aid they can as she navigates carnival prisons, fiery foes and the confusing fetters of the human form. "The Last Unicorn" at 40 is a poignant prophecy and reflection of today's eco-grief 2022-11-29T05:00:00Z

Though I eventually returned to the fold, I avoided Pride for those confusing first few years between worlds, my history no longer telegraphed in my haircut or my swagger. What Does Pride Mean Now? 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z

After I left, I missed the boys almost more than their father, which felt confusing. Hilary Duff’s smoking outrage 2012-06-20T18:55:00Z

Prying eyes on Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter can be exciting when they come from a prospective romantic partner, confusing when unrequited and infuriating when the looker is an ex. Orbiting, Another Thing for Online Daters to Worry About 2018-12-08T05:00:00Z

Grammer understands that his teaming up with Lawrence seemed just as unlikely and confusing--that's part of the fun, he said. Kelsey Grammer talks about joining Martin Lawrence in FX comedy 'Partners' 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z

You seem to be confusing facts and fiction. Imagining a World After Anna 2018-04-09T04:00:00Z

The world she meets is confusing: does she really have a long-lost brother? Son of Saul's László Nemes: 'Our civilisation is preparing for its own destruction' 2019-05-10T04:00:00Z

There’s also the clunky dialogue, confusing detours and cheesy sentimentality. Valerian: why Luc Besson is the unsung hero of world cinema 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z

When Cohn, sometimes fully aware of who Belize is — “my Negro night nurse,” he snarls — and sometimes confusing him for the angel of death, asks what heaven is like, Belize’s answer is a killer. Seeing a New Disease but the Same Neglect in ‘Angels in America’ 2020-10-09T04:00:00Z

Even more confusing are the relationships between figure and ground, abstraction and representation, solid object and open space. Take another look: The alternate world of 'Barbara Kasten: Stages' 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z

So, given these confusing figures, were the Victorians radically different in their approach to murder? The Invention of Murder by Judith Flanders ? review 2011-01-30T00:15:52Z

“They are apparently watching ‘The Day After Tomorrow’ and confusing it for ‘An Inconvenient Truth,'” Caldeira wrote. “An Inconvenient Sequel” is good science with a fuzzy agenda 2017-08-15T04:00:00Z

After asking a few employees about the photos, Alexander found a manager, who told us the marketing team had ordered them removed because they risked confusing the Walmart brand with something local. MLK’s booth at his go-to barbecue joint became a memorial. Then it disappeared. 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z

I found that confusing and rather frightening for a long time. 'I felt I didn't deserve success' 2011-01-30T00:05:33Z

As she does not speak English, Mr. Olmos provided her with a synopsis in Spanish, but even so, she said she found much of the play, which relies on ample symbolism and abstraction, confusing. ArtsBeat: ‘Bravest Woman in Mexico’ Sees Her Story on a New York Stage 2013-04-18T15:16:53Z

"I just made things even more confusing by re-adding the 'Chilly' to my name," he says, ever the smartass, though no less charming for it. 'Chilly' Gonzales: 'I like to be married to lots of people' 2010-08-28T23:06:00Z

The main menu was a matrix of confusing options, even to my Swiss companions. A Warm and Gooey Dish Steps Up in Zurich 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z

This kind of social mobility can be hugely confusing for observers who want everyone to stay where they're put. Arts cuts really do matter, actually 2011-02-03T11:18:59Z

"My parts didn't feel like they were supposed to be mine, so it was a bit confusing," she said. From Goop to puppets, how Netflix is offering sex ed for a new age 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z

On the show, they might have described the answer as evidence of a “confusing talker.” Signs Point to a ‘Seinfeld’ Reunion, if Ever So Brief 2014-01-31T19:59:33Z

It was bizarre, though more confusing than outré, and her footwork, too often, was indistinct over the music. Review: La Otra Orilla and Its Flamenco Bizarro 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z

That proper quality was somehow confusing: when he interrupted me to say, “Margot? Margot, I don’t think your voice is your best asset. What is your best asset?” “This Is Pleasure” 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z

He says the agencies “find the concept confusing, and want to regulate our menu and what we serve.” News you can eat: Exciting expansions, not-so-sad closures, brand-new places and more 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z

This version of the calendar actually adds an extra day every 3,030 years, so things are going to get a little confusing in the 46th century. Why Leap Day doesn't actually fix the problem with the calendar 2020-02-29T05:00:00Z

The ancillary works in this show illuminate Coecke’s talent, especially his transmedia sense of design, but his paintings seem of passing interest:  tightly composed yet confusing, with overheated colors, at least in this context. ‘Grand Design’ Showcases Pieter Coecke Tapestries at the Met 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z

At first it’s confusing to see a living Dr. Thorne, but Mr. Fellowes’s lucid, nimble screenplay quickly acquaints us with the main figures and the social strata of the fictional town of Barchester. Review: Julian Fellowes Hosts ‘Doctor Thorne,’ a British Period Drama, on Amazon 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z

“Sacré Bleu” was a delight even for a visual-arts dummy such as your reviewer, but this new book might be just confusing. ‘The Serpent of Venice’: a Shakespeare-Poe mash-up 2014-04-24T20:52:07Z

So many thoughts bouncing around in there ... it gets confusing for mere mortals. Jaden Smith, Willow Smith are way more evolved than you will ever be 2014-11-18T05:00:00Z

This process is complicated and confusing and scary, and also hard work, but it turns out to be the best fun there is. David Foster Wallace on 'The Nature of Fun' 2012-11-16T11:00:02Z

"I don't know why I was with him, it was a confusing time," Peggy begins, once Duck is gone. "Mad Men" recap: Welcome home 2010-09-06T13:43:00Z

Moving forward is not only desirable, it’s necessary, but the choice of new choreographers can be confusing beyond their brand names. Review: Exploring Nature and Nightlife at Martha Graham 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z

The confusing thing is, I’ve always been confident in spite of being insecure. Rachel Bloom’s Life Is an Open Book 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z

Note: This column was written three weeks ago and will no doubt seem confusing, even disturbing, if Donald Trump won the election. The end of the ‘Boys-Will-Be-Boys Guy’? 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z

Not only is rights management very confusing in the country, making licensing deals difficult, but companies also aren’t too worried about venturing into the digital space at the moment. 85 Percent of Music Sales in Japan are CDs 2014-09-21T04:00:00Z

Dry courtroom scenes focusing on the barely verbal Gladys drain the story’s energy and our good will, and a fractured timeline seems unnecessarily confusing. ‘The Crimes That Bind’ Review: A Mother’s Trying Times 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z

Those hiccups assuredly led to some confusing, uneven moments on the show, but if you think “Buffy” was flawless I’ve got two words for you: Season 7. 20 years on, "Angel" has aged better than "Buffy" 2019-10-05T04:00:00Z

But in DC they are blaming Pierre L'Enfant, the civil engineer who designed Washington's "totally confusing" city plan. Radiohead leave US fans waiting for the Universal Sigh 2011-03-30T09:22:41Z

Walking through the Baltimore Museum of Art’s new surrealism show, one senses the world getting busier, more chaotic and confusing, roiling with dark forces and demonic ambitions. Review | When artists confronted the horrors of war with monsters and dreams 2019-03-05T05:00:00Z

I want to dislike her more than I actually do, which is confusing for me. "Dancing with the Stars": Sarah Palin makes a cameo 2010-09-28T12:30:00Z

In that case, putting it where they did made some sense because of its connection to the 2012 events, but it was a tenuous connection and the result was a confusing timeline. Why Is the Timeline of 'The Jinx' So Confusing? 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z

I think Kat was afraid, she was experiencing all of these new emotions and discoveries and it was confusing and exciting. Saying goodbye to “The Bold Type”: “Happily ever after” looks different for all women 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z

Without telling him, Guida credited it to “U.S. Bonds” in hope of confusing d.j.s into opening the package. Gary U.S. Bonds at Seventy-five 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z

The whole thing is very confusing for most people to understand. British Columbia theaters can now serve booze 2012-04-12T22:16:14Z

Still, speaking of signage, the sight that greeted me in Merci’s huge front atrium was confusing. 2010-01-07T05:44:00Z

Vaccine supply remains limited almost everywhere, distribution is confusing and questions remain regarding their efficacy in preventing transmission. To Stay or Go? Even With Vaccines, Travel Planning Remains Complicated 2021-03-05T05:00:00Z

As drama, it may be confusing, even if beautifully cast for vocal contrast. In Four Audio Plays, No Stages but Lots of New Voices 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z

When I tested the price against the multiple and confusing booths in Leiscester Square the day of the show, I found that £19.50 was the best price that I would have gotten. Frugal Traveler: A Visit to London, With Students as My Guide 2011-03-29T21:57:15Z

Emotional abuse, which is what may be happening here, is very confusing because of the lack of obvious marks that occur with physical abuse. Perspective | How do I talk to my husband about his temper? 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z

“Back when I started in journalism, the door only opened one way. You were a journalist or you were a politician. Now the door swings both ways. It’s highly problematic and confusing to the audience.” CNN chief says Brazile’s leaks to Clinton camp were ‘disgusting’ 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z

The plot of Assassin’s Creed is very confusing. Review: It's Fassbender vs. Catholics in 'Assassin's Creed' 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z

Both sides are right, which makes the argument even more confusing. Jon Bernthal embedded with Baltimore police to play city's dirtiest cop in HBO's "We Own This City" 2022-04-25T04:00:00Z

Have an older child write the teacher a note about an unfair grade or a friend about a confusing encounter — and, perhaps, have them ask for time to talk. How parents can help introverts thrive (without trying to turn them into extroverts) 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z

In the season's horrific detour from the run of the mill, only one confusing couple has only survived the what felt like the show's version of "The Hunger Games." A disastrous "Love is Blind" season asks: Does Gen Z really believe in marriage? 2023-10-18T04:00:00Z

Befitting the confusing state described in his lyrics, of a depressed town pining for jobs through war money, the orchestra performed with tense fluidity. Elvis Costello, Ben Folds harness the L.A. Phil at the Hollywood Bowl 2014-09-06T04:00:00Z

Storm wasn’t diagnosed as PDD until he was in the seventh grade, which made his early childhood confusing and challenging for him and those around him. How “Dungeons & Dragons” saved my autistic son 2014-04-15T11:50:00Z