Jumbling

This kind of jumbling makes fruitful discussion much harder to carry on, and much more work to prepare. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The mental image of Sam Brownback "jumbling" anything or anyone is highly disconcerting. ❋ Unknown (2009)

This sturdy protest of Sir John against the dominant system and against the "jumbling" by which Eusebius had endeavoured to cut down ancient chronology within safe and sound orthodox limits, had little effect. ❋ Unknown (1896)

All else being equal, elections would naturally be more competitive right after redistricting whether or not they gerrymandered since incumbent advantage is reduced by jumbling up the district lines, and taking away or creating new districts. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Wished she could untangle the knots jumbling her insides as easily. ❋ Alix Rickloff (2011)

And it incorporates something I * need* to do, too — make sense of the jumbling books half-sorted on my shelves. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I can see more thoughts jumbling my brain already … ❋ Unknown (2010)

CoF of numerous enterprises, especially Exploration, may have been rolled in as well ... (a re-jumbling, but nothing new, a red herring, a distraction). ❋ Unknown (2009)

Nevertheless, Republican dissidents fear jumbling proposed budgets with the debt issue will confuse voters and allow Democrats to block cuts. ❋ Fred Barnes (2011)

Cross Agency Support, which has decreased, is where some of these items likely come from, as well as a re-jumbling of Exploration funds. ❋ Unknown (2009)

We sat there like that for several minutes – making matches, jumbling them up, re-ordering – when someone suggested bowling. ❋ Unknown (2010)

He defined the characteristics of the New Cinema: sexual boldness, unfettered by the Code; disregard for time-honored pieties of plot, chronology, and motivation; a promiscuous jumbling together of comedy and tragedy; and a new, ironic distance that withholds facile judgments based on conventional morality, which in turn blurs the distinction between heroes and villains. ❋ PETER BISKIND (2010)

In disbelief, Clurman saw the screen go blank, followed by a frantic display of jumbling and flashing. ❋ Unknown (2008)

It was a solemn place, the pantings of the multitude died away before they reached it, no thoroughfare with its jumbling of carriages and rattling wheels and tides of (active) life, broke upon the stillness of the scene, nor invaded the rights of the sleepers; no unkid foot or careless wandered amid the habitations of the lonely dead or traced the brief epitaph at once their history and eulogisms. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Sarah Avery 5:43 pm: Well, they sort of come from real life, but they take a little jumbling up. ❋ Unknown (2010)