His eyewitness account of the confusions, follies and vices of the 1920s is the most valuable part of these essays, and remains relevant, of course, to our own distracted time.

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But also pain and bewilderment at the confusions of war itself, the shocking photographs of the innocent dead, the media experts with their daily questioning of how things are being run.

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Hong revels in the absurd yet agonizing confusions that emerge from the deceptive comforts, routine flattery, and latent violence that he endures in the milieu of cinema.

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It says much for the tenor of Russian politics that this and other confusions of the moment were swallowed with barely a murmur of disquiet by the financial markets and with no more than a few uneasy gulps by international opinion.

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The Bill generated lots of complaints on social media and confusions, among the local IT community.

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Another factor: confusions about the differences between Windows RT and Windows Pro, two flavors of Windows 8.

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On day one of committee stage of the bill on 25 October 2011, shadow health minister Baroness Thornton explained that Labour's aim was to set a "framework" for the NHS reforms which would minimise "confusions and lack of trust".

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Could these confusions create a diplomatic opportunity for the secretary of state?

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These confusions would not be so worrying if investors did not have to take so much of the Softbank miracle on good faith.

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