Word: confusional
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Normally in Murdoch's fiction, isolated and frankly artificial settings help resolve dilemmas or at least recast them into familiar types of allegory. But Seegard adds to Edward's confusion and despair. Nothing here is quite what it seems, and the moment one set of deceptions is exposed, another takes...
Edward accurately describes the novel in which he appears. The Good Apprentice is a tour de force of narrative energy. It also includes the provocative remarks ("If Newton hadn't believed in God he would have discovered relativity," or "Psychoanalysis attracts failed artists") that have become a hallmark of Murdoch...
When Congress deregulated the airline industry, it unleashed the powerful forces of competition into a field that had been tightly controlled. For the first time travelers have real choices. They can pick a People Express or a United, a Continental or a Delta. The competition has produced much confusion, and...
After heated protests, however, Hale reconsidered and proposed instead to create an advisory committee of managers and employees to "free the workplace of drugs." In a separate memo to all Capital Cities workers, Murphy acknowledged the "distress and confusion" that had been sparked by the plan to bring in dogs...
The problem stems from an official list of simplified characters, issued in 1977, that was recently abandoned because it caused confusion and was often inaccurate. The government now also advocates greater use of standard spoken Chinese in an effort to "enhance communication within China as a whole," where several hundred...