Sentences with phrase «then confounds»

It tantalizes with glimpses of brilliance, but then confounds with clunky design decisions and baffling oversights.»

In all three, he begins with generic expectations and then confounds them.

«Malia Jensen's deceptively simple - looking sculptures, now on view at Richard Gray Gallery, lull us with sweetness and then confound us with contradiction.»

When the forcings have been changing during the period that has been measured, then confounding is in fact a serious issue.

As a gay man, I was a little taken aback and then confounded that this comment came from a lesbian, who is vocally supportive of both PRIDE and Marriage Equality, both which hold significant marches or rallies every year.

Not exact matches

There is good reason to believe, then, that we are still early, that the bull is proceeding as it always has, confounding the great majority of experts, defying the well - armed but uncritical skeptics and taking its sweet time.

If you claim the methodology of neutralizing potentially confounding variables limits possibilities to that of the natural then you also make an argument for the supernatural never to be observed by science due to it's methodology.

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.

If parents want to teach their kids a bunch of silly nonsense and tall tales calling them «facts», then that's just a product of their confounding beliefs and I don't think Bill Nye is going to change their mind.

The requirement essential to indetermination is that all responses to life situations «be inspired by past experience» (MM 69) and that they be made in the light of previous, analogous states.3 If freedom is not to be confounded with caprice, then indetermination requires the preservation of the past in the two fundamental forms of motor mechanisms and independent recollections.

I guess then we are all a bunch of idiots judged by this above statement of probabilities meant to confound anyone with a brainyard kept mindfield of causations.

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.

It has been a similar story for years but this season we seem to have perfected the art of confounding the general consensus and the bookies, by losing games that the football world see as a banker win for Arsenal and then winning games which no one gave Arsene Wenger and the lads a snowball's chance in hell of coming out on top in.

Tipped by most to struggle in the Premier League, they confounded expectations by winning their first two games, devastating Crystal Palace in South London and then turning over Newcastle in their West Yorkshire home.

This is insane, I remember thinking even then, confounded by my mad love for such a little man.

Then there is the question that confounds all parents: different parenting styles.

If I'm confused or confounded more than 15 % of the time, then it's time to recapitulate my ancestral evolutionary roots and see where I lost alignment and radically pull some weeds.

Pagani's team then analyzed the data to identify any significant link between such problems and early televiewing, discarding many possible confounding factors.

And even then it seemed like yet another confounding discovery that told us genome sequences are not the full story — indeed, they just begin to tell it.

However, the vast majority of these studies are confounded by testing too many factors at the same time and then singling out saturated fat consumption to blame for heart disease.

If they were new to training then that could be a confounding variable to the experiment, or at the very least limit how these findings can be generalizable to experienced / adapted weight lifters.

In many ways, they're easier to predict than the frequently confounding technical categories, but that's no reason to get complacent — as we saw last year with then - unexpected wins for Tilda Swinton and Marion Cotillard, BAFTA is more than capable of throwing a significant spanner in the works in the top races.

In many ways, they're easier to predict than the frequently confounding technical categories, but that's no reason to get complacent — as we saw last year with then - unexpected wins for Tilda Swinton and Marion Cotillard, BAFTA is more than capable of -LSB-...]

Darren Aronofsky's «Mother» starring then - girlfriend Jennifer Lawrence confounded audiences — and many critics — and earned an F CinemaScore in September 2017.

But then there were confounding decisions made by inconsistently written characters, and resulting subplots seemed to exist just to gobble up time.

Then again, now that I do some research, it appears that my actual first encounter with the character of the old man was in Jackass: The Movie, but you'll have to forgive me for forgetting that movie and trying to associate the character with a more pleasant — if still equally confounding — film.

Based on Sarah Water's novel Fingersmith, Chan - Wook Park's THE HANDMAIDEN hornswaggles its audience with its opening scenes, and then continues on for its running time to continually confound, shock, and gratify that same audience.

And then, in a daring move that may confound some, Leigh abandons this character never to bring her in again, the baton of distress passed to the fast - talking, heavy - drinking Mary (Lesley Manville), in the same way that Manville with this movie inherits the mantle of Acclaimed Leigh Actress that has gone previously to Hawkins, Staunton (Vera Drake) and Brenda Blethyn (Secrets and Lies).

Stevens will then have one more piece of evidence to bolster (or, possibly, confound) his hopes of transforming children's learning.

Interiors — The car's race - oriented cabin may confound many initially, but when you spend more time with the car then you realize that besides some extra buttons on the dashboard and a missing gear shifter, rest of the layout is virtually similar to a stock road going car.

In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility: But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger; Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood, Disguise fair nature with hard - favour'd rage; Then lend the eye a terrible aspect; Let pry through the portage of the head Like the brass cannon; let the brow o'erwhelm it As fearfully as doth a galled rock O'erhang and jutty his confounded base, Swill'd with the wild and wasteful ocean.

Then you have the confounding factors of the civil rights metaphor and of the types of people that seem to dominate the management of mainstream publishing.

No clear winner, then, and even the George Plimpton Rule (sportswriting improves as the ball gets smaller) is confounded.

This is confounding for a lot of people — just like the opening verse of Green Light, which holds the drums back for ages, and even then layers them deep beneath the piano.

This game continues to confound me by appealing to me in terms of concept and aesthetics, and then completely boring me in terms of execution.

Falls just short of perfection, then, but it is, nevertheless, an amazing game, which will confound those who persist in tarring games with the brush of mindlessness.

Since then he has given a lot of thought to how he wants to approach painting, and he is unafraid to confound viewers» expectations.

«If to put an image of one's body on the Internet is to frame it with the apparatus of porn, to lose control of its circulation, and to expose oneself to the cultural anxiety, sexist scrutiny, and confounding hostility that attend the gesture, then what's the way forward?»

Since then, as a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, he's dived in deep on climate and energy policy, and I've found him consistently able to cut through the confounding layers of the «super wicked» world of climate diplomacy (or the lack of it).

Although meta - analyses have their place, I have found most climate related meta - analyses totally obscure critical regional effects and then by mashing many confounding factors falsely attribute a given phenomenon to climate change.

That is, (1) there is dO18 measurement, which I claim should be fairly precise, but you stated has large uncertainties, and then there is (2) derivation of temperature from dO18 values, where you have indeed pointed out that there could be a number of possibly confounding factors in that analysis if other variables than temperature are not controlled.

The example temperature profile in this post (airport then inland) has an important confound factor in assessing the airport pavement affect.

On the other hand, if you already have picked an answer, and are just interested in making it sound like your answer is plausible by invoking a lot of things that might be confounding to the accepted answer while deliberately not looking (because if you look you might learn that you are wrong), well then, how exactly can any «debate» or «discussion» proceed?

If those confounding factors are not somehow adjusted for, then how well measurements of the tree rings correlate with actual temperature is little more than a GUESS, and likely not a good one.

They believe those who work for the government when they say, «we have modeled your future;» and, then the people don't understand when they learn that the, Global warming computer models are confounded as Antarctic... (It's unprecedented: across the globe, there are about one million square kilometers more sea ice than 35 years ago, which is when satellite measurements began).

If you want 100 % certainty, maybe, although even then someone would argue about confounding factors.

The tilt has long confounded astronomers because of the way the planets formed: as a spinning cloud slowly collapsing first into a disk and then into objects orbiting a central star, according to Caltech (who can say this better than I can):

That he both responded to a guy simply seeking work like thia [SIC] and then has the temerity to publicize it in this manner confounds me.

Those measures are then used in confidential and often confounding scoring algorithms.

We considered more than 20 smart - light - bulb systems and then spent eight weeks testing 10 contenders, confounding a family of four by constantly changing how their lights worked.