Do we say fusion or confusion

fusion 218 occurrences

The President of the great railroad corporation, in the very middle of a growling fit over the extra cost involved in purchasing his last Legislature, (owing to the fact that some of its Members had been elected upon a fusion of Radical-Reform and Honest-Workingman's Tickets,) is suddenly and mysteriously impressed with the recollection that this is Christmas Eve.

But President Poincaré's happy phrase, l'union sacréedescribing the fusion of all parties, classes, and creeds in the war service of France, has nowhere found a stronger echo than in Lorraine.

The writings in which this quality has been observed, were not the work of one mind, but of the fusion of two, one of them as pre-eminently practical in its judgments and perceptions of things present, as it was high and bold in its anticipations for a remote futurity.

Sheila had an exquisite lifting of heart, a sense of entire fusion, body blessed by spirit, spirit blessed by body.

It is a very difficult matter to tell how men came to know anything of iron, and the art of employing it: for we are not to suppose that they should of themselves think of digging it out of the mines, and preparing it for fusion, before they knew what could be the result of such a process.

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He effected a fusion between the grand style revived by Niccola and the romantic fervour of the modern imagination.

Giovanni Pisano effected a fusion between his father's manner and the Gothic style.

But in style and spirit he belonged to it, resuming in his own work the qualities we find scattered through the minor artists of the fifteenth century, and giving them the unity of fusion in a large and lucid manner.

The fusion of classes in the camps of the New Armies outdoes the mixture of "cook's son and duke's son" fifteen years ago.

He began, therefore, by inventing a body for earthenware, which at the same time should be white, and capable of enduring a very high degree of heat without fusion, well knowing that the hardness of the ware depended on the high firing to which it has been subjected.

One would like to hope that in the West a similar fusion might take place between the emotional and philosophical traditions of religion, and the new conception of intellectual duty introduced by Science.

The political effect of such a fusion would be enormous.

Charlotte Brontë's imagination, and her sense of the real, are in process of fusion.

If she had had no genius she would yet be great because of what took place within her, the fusion of her soul with the transcendent and enduring life.

As Rumania's interests were identical with those of Austriawrote Count Andrassy privately to Prince Carol a few months laternamely, to prevent the fusion of the northern and the southern Slavs, she had only to express her willingness to become at a given moment the third party in the compact.

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MCCORMACK, JOSEPH P. Answers to Fusion mathematics.

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If the stones are volcanic, then they were once in a state of fusion.

The spirit of Dally tended to assist this fusion of personalities in every way, and the boy who kept apart was sure sooner or later to run foul of his good-humoured but well-aimed sallies.

It was further escalated by atomic fission and nuclear fusion.

And in 1889 it choose as its head, John Ballance, perhaps the only man who could head with success a Liberal-Labour fusion.

confusion 4537 occurrences

Everybody rushes after these prizes in a headlong manner, and the confusion becomes still greater.

She was not long deposited in her place of rest until things fell into amazing confusion, and I saw it would be necessary, as soon as decency would allow, for me to take another wife, both for a helpmate, and to tend me in my approaching infirmities.

He went away, and his records were lost in the general confusion.

Mr. Arnot, in the history of that city, says, "The news of their overthrow in the field of Flodden reached Edinburgh on the day after the battle, and overwhelmed the inhabitants with grief and confusion.

Falsehood and selfishness, spite and lust, confusion seven times confounded.

"The captain, fierce as he was, felt it would be useless to contend with twenty angry men, and he knew the passengers would not befriend him: he therefore deemed it expedient to endeavor to conciliate them by promises he never intended to perform, and, after a few hours' confusion, all was again comparatively quiet.

Resenting the confusion, Timmy made a leap, Kate screamed and jumped down from the stage, carrying not only the cat's basket, but a small dressing-bag of Angela'sall she had brought, except a suit-case containing a dress or two for the journey.

He mumbled something vague about any cupboard or cellar being good enough, and began to recover himself; but his confusion had been contagious.

My affairs, in consequence of my protracted absence and the stagnant state of the Telegraph here at home, have caused me great embarrassment, and my whole energies have been called upon to extricate myself from the confusion in which I have been unhappily placed.

" When Cicely finished her recitation, the young officers began to applaud, but stopped suddenly in some confusion as they realized that they were the only ones in the audience so engaged.

On the other hand, Marcus Antonius labours and fights in order to throw into confusion and overturn all these things, and hopes to have reason to think the plunder of the republic sufficient cause for the war, while he squanders part of our fortunes, and distributes the rest among his parricidal followers.

" "Do you mean?" began Katherine, then stopped in some confusion.

"The journey has been delightful," Mary rattled on, understanding the cause of Katherine's fluctuating colour, and anxious to give her time to recover from her confusion.

I desire to ascribe all to His glory and praise, who can bring order out of confusion and light out of darkness; and I desire to look away from human means to Him who is able to kill and to make alive, knowing that He doth not grieve willingly nor afflict the children of men.

There was a confusion of emotion in Marianne.

He continued, wrung by a confusion of dreads and desires.

There was no confusion, no jostling and no excitement, which indicates that the Bombay officials have correct notions of what is proper and carry them into practice.

As if to cover them with confusion, and leave them utterly without excuse for thus libelling the character of a just God, these developments are making, and the veil rising, which for long years of sinful apathy has rested upon the abominations of American Slavery.

The appearance of confusion on deck is completed by our thirty-three dogs1 chained to stanchions and bolts on the ice-house and on the main hatch, between the motor sledges.

'This makes it clear why at the northern and southern limits the pieces or ice-floes are comparatively small, whilst in the middle the floes may be two or three miles across; and why the pack may and does consist of various natures of ice-floes in extraordinary confusion.

Instantly the pirate yawed and delivered a broadside; but in the confusion on deck the guns were badly aimed, and none took effect.

What an advocate needs first is thorough knowledge of law, and that adaptiveness and readiness of faculty which are never surprised into forgetfulness or confusion, so that he can instantly see, meet, reason upon, and apply his legal learning to the unexpected as well as the expected points of law and evidence as they arise in a case.

The very things which seem to an uninformed man like rejection or confusion of truth are a part of the sifting by which it is to be reached.

It pleased her pride as a woman to contemplate this strong man stuttering in childish confusion.

Thus there may be but one black ball;now a single black ball may sometimes be inadvertently castthe member voting it may have been favorably disposed towards the candidate, and yet, from the hurry and confusion of voting, or from the dimness of the light or the infirmity of his own eyes, or from some other equally natural cause, he may have selected a black ball, when he intended to have taken a white one.

Do we say   fusion   or  confusion