Confabulations

It recalled confabulations I had with Prof. Geddes, many years ago, when he was first formulating in Edinburgh those ideas which have since become so widely known. ❋ Patrick Geddes (1893)

You talk about 'hacking confabulations' whilst hopelessly lost in your own 'confabulations'. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The group of Christian conservatives (led by call their confabulations and rewriting of history, biology, and everything else under the sun, an alternative to "liberal" Wikipedia. ❋ Unknown (2010)

These confabulations allowed Devereaux to receive compensation benefits for medical disorders he claimed he sustained in combat. ❋ Unknown (2010)

As a result, I think he has fooled magazine editors, knife companies and thereby, fooled hundreds - if not thousands of people through the years with his vague extrapolations, exaggerations and confabulations. ❋ Unknown (2010)

See, this is the way a properly wired Spanglish mind processes information -- constantly analyzing English and Spanish in terms of each other, scrutinizing translations, combinations, confabulations. ❋ Bill Santiago (2011)

Any debate over what is in this RES bill will be taken as an opportunity revert to ideological arguments, leading to gross confabulations from both sides of the aisle about what such a piece of policy would do. ❋ Daniel Goldfarb (2010)

Washington Post columnist George Will attacked the “altar of climate change” and “climate confabulations” again today, the sixth such column this year. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The Shimkus “knowledge base” is extremist pro-pollution climate denial, embracing the worst myths and confabulations of the radical right. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Such are the confabulations that forge national identity and they are usually harmless. ❋ Unknown (2011)

In all of the confabulations on the US-India nuclear deal, the USIBC did a fabulous job of building understanding on both sides of the other country's positions and concerns. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Vatican attorney Jeffrey Lena said the "employment and 'secret policy' theories concocted by Mr. McMurry are little more than a lawyer's speculative confabulations, as the archdiocese documents demonstrate." ❋ Unknown (2010)

A great voice for democracy, all these weird confabulations would have delighted him with rage. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The Times called the vice president “a politician who not only manufactures gross, obvious lies about himself and his achievements but appears to actually believe these confabulations.” ❋ Unknown (2009)

Cullen interweaves these threads in such a way as to illuminate both Holmes's fading memory (and the confabulations it presents him with, until the entire narrative takes on an air of unreliability) and his still-phenomenal deductive skills. ❋ Matociquala (2007)

What Suvin argues in his work is that the defining characteristic of science fiction is the pwower of defamiliarization that allows us to see our own world more clearly and maybe for the first time, which is accomplished through the sort of intricate, even obsessive world-building confabulations SF is famous for. ❋ Unknown (2009)

He was lying about going to the [Laird] Hotel. He was [called out] as being a [confabulator] which he obviously denied ❋ Mikey308 (2020)

"No, that didn't really happen, George. What you have just experienced was a confabulation." "But i swear [that time] in [year 8] the teacher was wearing huge [come fuck me boots] to class..." ❋ Franga (2008)

Latoya: "heyyy bob. that was some party last night" Bob: "oh yeah. [i loved the part] where... WTF?! OMFG! u beyotch! coffee! WTH?...yup, that was good stuff" Latoya: "umm...?" [Kayli]: "oh don't mind bob, he's just suffering from [confabulation]. poor guy" ❋ I<3life (2009)

John told me that his brother drove him home, but he was was drunk and his brother lives in Texas, so I'm sure it was a [confabulous] story. John said all the girls begged to dance with him, but he was [too busy] solving [world peace]. [Confabulous]! ❋ Coldsnap_NOLA (2013)

kelly and i [confabulated] in the [hallway] [after class]. ❋ Joe Schmo (2005)

I [finally] [got to] confabulate [my hair] yesterday! Confabulations! ❋ ProfessorHakase (2013)

[I fell asleep] during his [confabulation]. ❋ Herman D. Optional (2004)

dudes, [jens] [all like] [confabulating] up the crowd! Confabulation ❋ Jazzy Jim (2005)

My, that's confabulating! ❋ Mousier Bonjour (2003)

The Confabulator in Chief still believes the election was [rigged] by the Democrats and the unfair media and is pressuring the [VP] to declare the election [null and void], allowing him to remains as president. ❋ Sparrow3502 (2021)