Word: confounded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Reiner's favorite comic techniques is to manipulate music and sound to confound the auditory expectations audiences have been virtually conditioned to experience in suspense movies...
...cowboy dropping stray lines that castigate folks on public assistance. Celebrating yahoos and their gunracks is a tasteless idea, conjuring up images of class warfare, and the usually savvy Brooks should know better. What led this otherwise appealing country singer into such a display of musical demagoguery can only confound his fans...
...pills rather than also get a shot -- the vision of some pro-choice advocates, that the drug could abort the abortion debate, will be tested. Will antiabortion activists find ways to restrict the availability of the abortion pill? And if not, will RU 486 really obviate the clinics and confound the picketers...
There is an unpredictable, impish streak in the Russian character often expressed in the desire to confound expectations and astonish with feats of prowess. The Russians have always longed to drive their national troika at breakneck speed, forcing other nations, in Gogol's words, to "look askance, as they step aside to give her the right of way." Now history has accorded them a unique chance...
Harvard quarterback Mike Giardi, who passed for 151 yards (10 of 15) against a swarming Columbia last week, also thinks the Crimson could confound the experts...