"The Ashanti don't respect you if you speak too literally," Adum Bawuah, one of the translators, said later, explaining the seeming confusion over the king's words.

Perhaps, several said in recent days, the seeming confusion is all part of a design to keep the enemy in the dark, but perhaps it is something else.

He blinked in seeming confusion as he raised his face to regard her.

The seeming confusion and anxiety is not entirely new or limited to average Americans.

In a jailhouse interview, Mr. Singer wavered between defiance and seeming confusion.

The demon scratched its icicle-haired head in seeming confusion: no foal herel The blue lad then did something strange indeed.

Through the seeming confusion, there seemed to loom underlying order.

President Bush's advisers explain his seeming confusion by saying that he has been striving to exercise a consensus style of leadership that would bring both parties together to solve intractable problems.

The seeming confusion was settling down into a revised attack pattern with a speed and precision which surprised him pleasantly.

An ordinary human being confronted with this seeming confusion would have fled the premises.