Sentences with phrase «so confounded»

When I meet Martin Boyce, this year's winner, at the Baltic in Gateshead after his victory, he looks so confounded he seems almost upset.

I haven't enjoyed being so confounded and perplexed in a long time.

And at the center of it all is Mikkelsen, giving an absolutely titanic performance as a man so confounded by the idea that people might think he could do such a thing that he can never bring himself to deny it.

Terry Gilliam's dystopian vision, which he considered titling 1984 1/2, so confounded Universal Pictures that it nearly wound up being shelved; only after the Los Angeles Film Critics Association named Brazil the year's best film — based on secret, unauthorized screenings — did the studio finally relent and release it.

In quantum mechanics as in cosmology, Einstein was so confounded by ideas that other researchers derived from his theories that he sought a way out.

Certainly it would be within God's power to so confound your mind.

What makes quantum mechanics so confounding?

These regions were so confounding that Pappalardo and his team called them «chaos terrains.»

Some of the greatest physicists have described these results as so confounding they are impossible to comprehend fully, beyond the reach of metaphor, visualization, and language itself.

However, the question is whether DHA status is important or is it just a marker of a healthy lifestyle (as seen in people who tend to eat fish — they are typically healthier in other respects, so confounding by healthy user bias).

So this confounds the issue.

It's because the premise is so intriguing and the drama is so compelling that the result is so confounding.

Unfortunately, the story is so confounding that a good head scratch won't come close to help you piece it together in time and by the moment you do, if you're like me, you won't care any longer.

Second, in important ways, he treats the matter as if it's largely one of (mere) economics, and in doing so he confounds important matters of science, ethics, common sense, and economics.

That's what makes it so confounding that Samsung won't be shipping the phone with Bixby's standout feature intact.

But someone who could so confound reason completely inside out like this (black is white, and white is black, and the existence of orange proves yellow which in turn proves orange exists) could also drum up reasoning like PAS theory...

Not exact matches

A heap of evidence shows women are assessed differently when it comes to confidence, likability and self - promotion, so the researchers only recruited male study subjects, as they put it, «to control for potentially confounding effects of gender.»

So how to explain the seemingly confounding detail that when MAD decided to crack the conspicuously high - rise New York City market in 2009, it never got off the ground floor.

Those are questions that perplex and confound many who are deciding whether to get the degree and, if so, where to get it from.

Although we controlled for age and sex in our analyses, we did not control for privacy concerns, so we can not assess whether this unmeasured characteristic may have confounded our results.

Its concepts and tools are limited, and so it frequently confounds species.»

Typically, those sources of noise confound the «signal» that we want to identify, so unless the noise is filtered away, there is a risk of being misled by meaningless short - term fluctuations.

But the mispricings would be much harder to conclusively prove, given that there are so many confounding variables associated with that type of investing.

Don't worry God uses the foolish things to confound the so called wise.

To be sure, the confounding calls immediately for theodicy: Why do we see power win so often and see divine inversion so seldom?

On the other hand, there is no God of a religious tradition cut off from critical reflection so that «it is wrong for religion's advocate to confound the object of this affirmation with the modalities of the affirmation; it is wrong for him to believe that the transcendence of the divine mystery is extended to the materiality of the expressions that it takes on in human consciousness; with greater reason it is wrong for him to consider that his problematic is canonized by this transcendence.

If he can so lose himself in the service of the spirit that it never occurs to him to take care for meat and drink; if he is certain that want will not distract him, and that distress will not confound for him the structure of his life, and teach him to rue that he did not first master the simple things before he presumed to understand more — then he may indeed venture, and his greatness will be more glorious than the serene security of the lilies of the field.

By contrast, although Europe has such outstanding figures as Leszek Kolakowski, Hans Maier and Josef Ratzinger, its public culture is dominated by sneering secularists, who set the tone for the rest of the population and can make light work of the average bishop rolled out to confound them, especially in the case of Anglican bishops who share so much liberal common ground.

That this is so is but another illustration of the extent to which the faith of the church has been confounded with the belief in the ideas, wishes and sentiments of men, and to which the word God has been made the symbol, not of the last reality with which man contends, but of his own aspirations.

Man, of course, is like one of the natural objects in the hands of man: «Their inhabitants, shorn of strength, are dismayed and confounded, and have become like plants of the field, and like tender grass, like grass on the housetops...» What is forgotten is that when the power of man is unleashed it is never in the hands of all men («man» here means some men rather than all men, and this is even more flagrantly so today).

Here is my evil plan — Create a fictional character, have him born into poverty in a part of the world full of strife with no recorded history, cast some doubts on his conception (that will keep them guessing), leave a decade or so gap in his life story, re-introduce him in the middle of nowhere and tell everyone he has all these amazing powers, he confounds and confuses all his followers and tells them not to tell anyone about what he does or where he is going and Oh yeah, they are all prostiitutes and tax cheats and lepers and the really lowlifes of society, deny them the chance to follow him, set him at odds with both the government and the church powers of his time, cast doubts on his seexuality and intelligence, make it so he refuses anyone to come to his aid and kill him in the most horrible way imaginable, then hide his body, make it so nothing he does can be historically proven.

The unlikeness clings to the Reason and confounds it, so that the Reason no longer knows itself and quite consistently confuses itself with the unlikeness.

The only difference is that Wenger changed to 4 -2-4 and has picked Iwobi in place of Mustafi so the boss is going for a proper attacjking side,, and trying to confound Klopp I am guessing!

I like to think of myself as a fairly rational individual, which is why what has and is going on at Arsenal confounds me... little wonder people have gone so far as to suggest that Wenger is actually sabotaging the club... one only needs to look at our starting 11 to stoke the flames of conspiracy... just think of the perceived importance of this game, considering the loss to Stoke, the historically significance of the two teams involved, the controversy that swirled around our two meetings last season, the proximity to the closing of the window and the general disdain being directed towards the manager once again... how is it even possible that you wouldn't come to Anfield with all guns blazing... not a single shot on target, with the back - up keeper in no less... where were the new signings?

From what we have seen from the Arsenal team so far it is going to take a significant turnaround in form to achieve two wins from the next two Premier League encounters, but we know that the Gunners can blow hot and cold and so I would not be at all surprised if Arsene Wenger and the players confound the general consensus of the football pundits and do it.

That «Arsène Who» confounded them and changed the face of football forever got them so green with envy and hatred for your outstanding achievements.

They came up together, and many tipped them to go straight back down together as well, but so far the pair have confounded expectations.

I love all of Dani's writing, and this memoir is no exception: in short pieces, Dani evokes so much about long marriage, about the sometimes confounding way memory works, about life itself.

It is confounding that so many women, especially poor women, don't at least give breast - feeding a try.

Professions also are proxies for a lot of other socio - economic things, so there a lot of confounding factors.

The trouble began, like so many confounding concepts in modern physics, in the brain of Stephen Hawking.

The authors note their study used observational data so, despite adjustment for possible confounding factors, it still could be subject to confounding by personality, impulsivity, feeling of hopelessness or other cognitive factors.

«But it's difficult to pick up these patterns in less - developed countries when there are so many other confounding variables.»

It should be noted that this study was conducted with healthy young individuals, to reduce the confounding influence of insulin resistance, beta - cell dysfunction, and medications, so more research is required to know whether it will apply to people with prediabetes, type 2 diabetes and obesity.

If so, congratulations: you have just confounded classical economics, which says that no rational person should ever reduce their own income just to slash someone else's.

All the egg donors were of normal weight, so their body weight could not confound the results.

The Blaschkas got it right every time, and they did so with dexterity that confounds modern glassmakers.

And so you have these longer bits of these particular amino acids, and they're the things that really confound the lining of the intestine.

DiChristina: I was just going to say, that's one thing also what occurred to me is that to me is a lesson in microcosm — because it's just a paragraph what Steve just read to everybody — that shows why it's so important in science to remove all your confounds, you know, remove all the variables so that you can find really what is at the heart of thing, and to me that that's the lesson that science has much more thoroughly adopted probably at this point and can speak with, you know, much greater authority; when something actually is a finding you need to be able to remove all the potential things that could be interfering with the conclusion that you're trying to make.

A confounding factor is that parents more likely to opt for this might be more attentive in other ways, so the training and care may not be the cause of the weight gain.