Sentences with phrase «obfuscating about»

If the language we use is communicating false promises to others and obfuscating about the speaker's ongoing struggles with sin, then there is a problem.

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Usually, Facebook takes every chance to obfuscate this point: Last year's F8 conference, for example, was as much about augmented reality and brain - typing technology as it was about improvements to its existing services.

Jonathan Jacobson, founder of Highfields Capital Management, wrote in a recent letter to clients about why the increasing influence of quants is obfuscating market risk:

scot Talk about obfuscate and denial.

The stark realities are obfuscated, sometimes deliberately, by much talk about «prolonging death» by the imposition of new medical technologies.

I couldn't reconcile the divergence between the praise of Romney as statesman and despair about Romney as obfuscating politician.

You can try and make excuses and whine and moan about it but those are some powerful words said by a powerful founder of this nation and no amount of double talk or misinformation will obfuscate the truth.

And obfuscated his betrayal of the public trust with a sympathy story about his lack of self acceptance re being gay.

«Patently false statements and rumors about the immediate closure of LICH obfuscate the truth, which is SUNY's commitment to securing proposals to provide healthcare services in the community,» said Robert Bellafiore, spokesman for SUNY Downstate, which owns LICH, in an statement.

Those that have obfuscated and literally lied about the fact that it was CMRR that sued the county when, in a display of leadership, Hein demanded the 24 year old lease requirements actually be complied with so rather than comply CMRR sued?

It is soooo clearly and consistently all about really helping people, not about chest - beating or competitions of who can appear the most erudite or who can write in the most scientifically esoteric manner to obfuscate what would be really helpful information for people to know and to be able to use in their own lives.

I thought I'd signed on to make a movie about defending the First Amendment, but it turned out we also walked into gender politics, harassment, and a chief executive [the president] who is hell - bent on obfuscating facts.

But there are better movies about the obfuscating evils of peeping and misunderstandings and injustices, not to mention better literary adaptations, better romances, and better period pieces.

It's a slippery criticism to level at a picture that seems to be about emotional and aesthetic remove, of course, but there comes a point when the form imitates the message to an obfuscating degree — in other words, when it's no longer about the distance, but is the distance.

The confounding of language at its most basic level reduces us to a state of civic catatonia: we can't think about these issues, let alone discuss them or act against them, when they've been so obfuscated, when words have been so twisted.»

Education reform groups opposed to the bill argue that it will have the opposite effect, actually obfuscating information about achievement gaps and inequities.

It is also about power, influence, availability of the titles, communication (secrecy of the sales with an old system obfuscating every sales, but also communication in the media).

While I agree with everything (pretty much) in this post, I'd like to take some time to point out that thinking about capital just in terms of money (e.g. advances) obfuscates a few of the underlying changes in the industry.

Nothing about KU is obfuscated.

Financing cars, boats, cell phones, and furniture obfuscates the real cost — it takes what you would normally pay (in the case of the average new car, about $ 30,000) and breaks it up so it isn't quite as painful.

This comment is just here to provide to not yet aware genuine Readers about the guy cosmic tendency to obfuscate and lie as soon Star Citizen or Chris Roberts name are in his sight... I.E. every minutes of his life:)

Turrell's sophisticated command of LED technology facilitates the more elaborate visual effects in the newer Skyspaces, providing astute lessons about how light obfuscates as well as illuminates what we can see.

I can arm - wave about an unsettled issue too, and then claim that I should get credit for noticing it when a peer - reviewed paper comes out a couple years later dealing with it, but I'd only do so if my intent was to confuse and obfuscate.

They also obfuscated probabalistic statements about flooding events.

The techniques used by the tobacco industry to confuse public debate about tobacco science, well - documented in the materials analyzed by Ong and Glantz, closely resemble methods used by some of the people working to obfuscate climate science.

What has more truthiness is that a giant corporation employing world - class IP law firms can get just about anything rubber - stamped by the US PTO if they obfuscate it sufficiently.

So, they are not concerned about the toxic and obfuscated consequences of non-renewable technologies that implement low - density energy conversion of renewable, intermittent drivers.

I'm not an expert but from reading about the case the flaw wasn't exactly obfuscated if you had access to the source.

Yes Kim, I'm sure Leif will be coming up with ideas about how best to distract, derail and obfuscate the discussion of this paper as we speak.

So it's all about intentions obfuscated by phony technical debates that large numbers of the public accept as validating a partisan science consensus.

I don't think the words of the emails or the actions of the parties can reasonably be interpreted otherwise and if Penn had knowledge that the email had been forwarded by Mann then they didn't really need really to ask Mann about it in the legalistic and rather bizzare way that they did unless, perhaps, the goal was to obfuscate.

However, it matches my prior expectation that emotionally resonant results about sustainability will always end up challenged and obfuscated.

Rather than Heidi just coming out and being honest, and saying, «We have blown the world wide forecast,» she obfuscates, talking about the Southwest.

Disingenuous claims about climate change are used to obfuscate, delay and hinder any progress on this subject, be it scientific, commercial, industrial, social or political.

The comments seem to be a big raging debate about whether he was intentionally trying to obfuscate and misrepresent.

Obsessing about Phil Jones, jamming one's entire consciousness into the mental space occupied by an ancient email message is indeed the very picture of swerving into irrelevance and allowing minutia to obfuscate awareness.

Thirdly, and finally, many attorneys thus promote the use of many antiquated phrases, historical metaphors, and latin terms as «short - hand» methods of explaining legal concepts, however, ipso facto, these attorneys may obfuscate the terms about which they seek clarity, et sic porro.

One cautionary note: It's better to be straightforward about areas where you do not have experience than to be vague or obfuscate.