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This daughter's appearance beside Mitterrand's wife at the funeral generated nothing but emotional sympathy, "demonstrating once again that the French don't confuse bourgeois morality with public morality."
To confuse; deface; disfigure; disorganize; entangle; make a mess of; snarl; tie up; ruin: To fxxx up the detail.
The RPH isn't bothered by the fact that he's been routed before (Alexander, Alan Keyes, Pete Wilson, Pat Buchanan, Steve Forbes, Jack Kemp); that he's the most hated man in politics (Newt Gingrich); that he's a national joke (Dan Quayle); that hardly anyone outside his home state has heard of him (John Ashcroft, Bob Smith, George Pataki, Tom Ridge, John Kasich, Tommy Thompson); that most voters will confuse him with an S&L crook (Frank Keating, the governor of Oklahoma--he's never heard of you, either); or that he might not get elected if he were the next-to-last American alive (Gary Bauer).
Therefore, when journalists present the court's decision to decline to review a case as "upholding" the lower court's decision, they mislead and confuse the public.
It is a store that knows yuppie materialism is a kind of materialism that thinks of itself as anti-materialistic, because yuppies tend to confuse their restless pursuit of Authenticity when purchasing retail goods with an indifference to material things.