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Sometimes we think of the nations lying asleep, Curled blindly in impenetrable sorrow, And then the thought confounds us with its strangeness.
But since this factor confounds Time 's choice of Roosevelt over Churchill (who was more brave and honest), Time makes it a team game, arguing that Eleanor Roosevelt supplied the earnestness and uncompromising principle her husband lacked.
Clinton confounds both camps by blurring the family/economic distinction.
This confounds much-publicized concerns that the school's decision to end affirmative action last year would have a chilling effect on minority applications.
A few lines later she confounds him by prophesying that Banquo shall “get kings.”