confusion

Examples of confusingly

confusingly
Unfortunately, and confusingly, the same terms are being applied to each of these situations, but inevitably with different meanings.
Most confusingly, opium seems at times incidental to the text, as the author surrenders his narrative to a more general discussion of commerce.
This is to insist, again confusingly, that what is clearly commensurable is incommensurable.
However, some of the information used in this chapter is inaccurate, sometimes confusingly so.
Confusingly, since the 1980s, however, 'transnationalism' has become associated with the world of historians seeking to break free from dominant national paradigms.
When used alone, it has been used confusingly to refer to (1) physical assets, (2) finance, or (3) specific social relations.
Confusingly, they also choose to label first-person plural as 'fourth person', second-person plural as 'fifth person', and third-person plural as 'sixth person'.
These sections are referred to (perhaps a little confusingly) as 'overlap passages'.
Confusingly, the second vote is the most important, determining the number of seats allocated to each party.
The instruments and performers are confusingly entangled with the unrelated real objects (bookshelves, wastepaper baskets, potted plants, tables, and chairs) that are also 'there'.
For example, ' pre-psychotic ', somewhat confusingly, does not mean prior to the onset of any psychotic symptoms, but rather prior to the onset of frequent, sustained psychotic symptoms.
Confusingly, both schools invoked an inborn "moral sense," although the first one considered this an "affection" or feeling and the other one considered it a rational power.
Empathy is seen (perhaps confusingly) as a "superordinate category" "underlying" all phenomena sharing empathy as a common process, such as emotional contagion and helping behaviour.
These are old questions in new garbs, with the result that we are now facing a virtually inextricable conglomerate of interdisciplinary theories with context-dependent key notions for confusingly different concepts.
The narrative is split (sometimes confusingly) between the apparent aims of the title - the description of autobiographical experience in the texts - and their influence on the composer.
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