T. C. Boyle

It's just my natural way - to be funny. I don't know why that is. But as I've said, humor is a quick cover for shock, horror, confusion. The critics hate funny writers for the most part. They think funny is not serious, but I think that funny can be even more serious than nonfunny. And it can be more affecting, too.

American Novelist

Lucy Dacus

I think 'Historian' is ultimately a positive record, but I was a little bit worried about taking people into a dark world. I tried to do it with as much care as possible, but it's not easy to ask people to think about death or loss or confusion.

American Musician

Helen Fielding

I think that when you're writing fiction what you're doing is reflecting life as you see it, and putting down how you think and how other people think, and the sort of confusions that you don't normally like to admit to.

British Author

Matthew Underwood

Life is full of confusion. Confusion of love, passion, and romance. Confusion of family and friends. Confusion with life itself. What path we take, what turns we make. How we roll our dice.

American Actor

Larry King

Getting your house in order and reducing the confusion gives you more control over your life. Personal organization some how releases or frees you to operate more effectively.

American Entertainer

Mary Lynn Rajskub

I personally have a background of many days on end of confusion, understimulation, overstimulation, and uncomfortableness with the world around me.

American Actress

Sonny Sandoval

We grew up on hip-hop, metal, and hard core, which... reflect a certain amount of the chaos and confusion that are part of daily life.

Brandon Boyd

Very rarely is there any confusion as to when a painting or a song is finished. You just know when it's done.

Michiko Kakutani

For most of us, art is supposed to do something more than simply mirror the confusions of the world.

American Critic

Rudy Ruettiger

Used when events or information cause uncertainty in a specific situation.

Situational Use

Don't say 'confusion of' to refer to debates; 'confusion about' is correct.

Common Misuse

Can express frustration when plans go wrong or misunderstandings happen.

Emotional Impact

Especially refers to a space that is cluttered to the point of being disorienting.

Physical Misorder

Sometimes it's used humorously or affectionately about a minor mess.

Not Negative Always

Highlights the personal, internal struggle to understand something.

Personal Experience

Implies that confusion is often a short-term reaction to a complex situation.

Temporary State

Refers to a mistake specifically stemming from misunderstanding something or someone.

Error Source

Signals a need for additional information or clarification to resolve the confusion.

Clarification Need

 or confusion between the representation of divinity and divinity itself. Keeping it real, so to speak, in the relationship between the individual and the divine. However, this can be a challenge to maintain, given that the urge to visually represent and interpret the world around us is a compulsion difficult to suppress.

A brief history of...

 Have you ever talked with a friend about a problem only to realize that he just doesn't seem to grasp why the issue is so important to you? Have you ever presented an idea to a group and it's met with utter confusion? Or maybe you've been in an argument when the other person suddenly accuses you

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 because, in a sense, it has. Our next theory deals with a confusion of the past rather than a mistake in the present. This is the hologram theory, and we'll use that tablecloth to examine it. As you scan its squares, a distant memory swims up from deep within your brain. According to the theory,

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 is the way your photo receptors and brain assemble visual information into the three-dimensional world you see around you, where edges should get extra attention because things with edges can help you or kill you. Look at that muffin pan again. You know what causes confusion here?

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 waking in a state of exhaustion, confusion, and stress, which starts the process all over again. When these cycles of stress and restlessness last several months, they’re diagnosed as chronic insomnia. And while insomnia rarely leads to death,

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 dark claustrophobic environment Carlos must remain calm and focused confusion can be death Carlos tries not to think about the soup of bacteria he's swimming in including tetanus typhoid and cholera his suit protects him but it is an armor

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 And that can also come from some kind of confusions. One of the most common ones is happiness and pleasure. But if you look at the characteristics of those two, pleasure is contingent upon time, upon its object, upon the place.

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 all 12 infants confusion reigns if one gets left behind it's sure to be lost forever but if they don't find a new refuge that's out of reach of the stripes then they're in grave danger

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 that keeps him moving forward. Gradually he comes to accept his inner confusion. In the end, his experience echoes the the deeper you go, the more you find.

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 right now the world is experiencing what I experienced everyday as a child there is chaos there is confusion everything is upside-down reality is being

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