There's a lot of confusion, assumptions and conflation swirling about.
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Lamenting the frequent and audacious conflation of a female novelist
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An uncomfortable conflation for platforms whose business is human surveillance.
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What accounts for Europe's apparent conflation of victim and oppressor?
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It is time to undo this conflation of religion and politics.
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They represent a conflation of private corporate interests and state authority.
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But it also spells an uncomfortable conflation of faith with facts.
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Conflation peppers the storyteller's ideology in 360 video and virtual reality.
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But Mr. Mac is also a devastatingly intelligent artist of conflation.
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It's a conflation the industry has been intentionally making for years.
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The conflation of popular and high-art commodities was classically Warholian.
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HEMINGWAY: There is a lot of conflation again in the media coverage.
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The conflation of two separate issues has been a disaster for him.
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Other critics have decried the work's conflation of genitalia and gender identity.
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But, sadly, this conflation is not limited to President Trump or Republicans.
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But the conflation is, is that talking about data is one thing.
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I am particularly disconcerted by Ries's conflation of asylum seekers and refugees.
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The conflation will turn liberals away, and that is a real peril.
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This can lead to a confusion among, or conflation of, appointed enemies.
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Just saying "Chinese" is a dangerous conflation that can spark anti-Chinese sentiment.
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But the conflation of unplanned resistance with romance is both cliché and dangerous.
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GUTFELD: Again, it&aposs an example of conflation and it happens a lot.
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There seems to be no conflation of hate speech and free speech now.
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The conflation of bad character and mental illness is both dangerous and unnecessary.
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Morris's conflation of his pastoral role with conservative politics is a powerful symbolic act.
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It's the ultimate conflation of the martial and the athletic because it is organic.
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Americans need to recognize and reject this great conflation of unauthorized immigrants with criminals.
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It was an eerily prescient look at the conflation of pop culture and political consciousness.
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They've given into the conflation of crimes (Weinstein, Moore) and power abuse (bosses) with boorishness.
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Such conflation is likely purposeful, to lay the groundwork for impeachment — political, not legal, arguments.
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Temptation, misdirection, obfuscation, conflation-slash-corruption of ideals: All of the above are in play.
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Essential to his message and presentation, his whole image, was the conflation of showbiz and sales.
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But the conflation of race, ethnicity and nationality lingers, says Shin Gi-wook of Stanford University.
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Immigrant sex workers are often the biggest victims of this conflation of sex trafficking with prostitution.
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Consistently illustrated with profound sensitivity, her drawn avatar's face elucidates a complex conflation of conflicted feelings.
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Many social media users saw it as a damaging conflation of sexual misconduct and being gay.
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The conflation of telecommunications provider with edge provider, social media and press outlet is extremely disingenuous.
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I think there's been strange conflation of my personality ... I'm sort of like a private person.
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Hence her early marriage, though the conflation of sex with true love was also a factor.
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But such a conflation elides actual, significant policy differences and does a disservice to both factions.
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I'm not the only woman starting to feel uncomfortable about the conflation of feminism and capitalism.
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Ms Gerwig's conflation of Alcott's life with the novel makes the film's feminist message hit home.
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Preacher took as its starting point the conflation of pastorly authority and possession by something evil.
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I wonder a little bit about the conflation of people being useful with people being valued.
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You might reflect on the confusing conflation of a stunt dog's purpose and a fictional police dog's.
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Both argue that the conflation of masculinity and meat is a critical factor in men's dietary choices.
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He believes there is too much conflation of conservative Islam with Islamist extremism, in Birmingham and beyond.
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"Three Twilight Labyrinths," the first work one encounters, is a conflation of sculpture and still life painting.
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The conflation of race and victimhood still permeates society, even though the commission sought a contentious evenhandedness.
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This also forced Trump to play Christian, which reinforced the conflation of Republican politics and religious values.
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Rob: There's this conflation of fake stoicism, Cado: The only reason it didn't happen before was Misato.
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It's a gorgeous conflation of sexual intensity and sex comedy, Prince as feminist and Pepé Le Pew.
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Supporters of Kavanaugh and critics of the allegations against him have performed a similar kind of conflation.
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Lee agrees that conflation of sex work and trafficking is a common red herring in the debate.
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Most experts reject the conflation of homosexuality and pedophilia as a dangerous route to bigotry against gays.
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While Scientology may be extreme, the conflation of capitalism and spiritual hunger in its rhetoric is not.
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We have seen how foreign governments have been corrupted through the conflation of personal and official agendas.
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"I worry about this conflation," Steven Wilson, the founder and chairman of the Ascend network, told me.
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The key challenge here has always been this conflation of really violent security incidences and constant attacks.
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One of these bills has already been signed into law, provoking the State Department to clarify that this conflation is not U.S. policy; the other awaits a final vote in the Senate before heading to the president's desk, where a signing statement rejecting the conflation as unconstitutional seems likely.
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A large check showing the conflation of the non-profit Trump Foundation and the Trump presidential campaign slogan.
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It's a breathtaking statement that, among other things, presents a Kevin Spacey–esque conflation of sexuality and abuse.
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The conflation of the politicized street and the apolitical wanderer is where Person of the Crowd's troubles manifest.
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His moniker grew out of his boxing aspirations in his youth; "Buster" a conflation of his middle name.
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She deftly exploited the Catholic conflation of Protestants and Muslims as two sides of the same heretical coin.
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But perhaps more dangerous than his falsehood is his conflation of two separate issues: water management and wildfires.
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Mr. Brooks's conflation of clannishness with "family-first devotion" and "loyalty to kith and kin" is also problematic.
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It seemed so obvious the conflation of love and sex and the divine, and the fetishization of Jesus.
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The photographs underscore the conflation of Iraqi civilians with Hussein who, for Americans, became a symbol of evil.
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The Obama administration has made it clear that it does not accept the conflation of the settlements and Israel.
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This conflation of religion and politics poisons Islam itself, too, by overshadowing all the religion's theological and moral teachings.
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Still, her conflation of "having a positive body image" and "having a hot body" is giving us a headache.
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The conflation of Han and national identity underlies the uneasy relationship between that majority and China's ethnic-minority citizens.
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Torres is Rodriquez's daughter, but also her primary caregiver — a relationship complicated by the conflation of love and need.
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Sprankles is a conflation of the words 'sprinkles' and 'dank'—the latter a slang term for high quality marijuana.
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It seemed like a risky way to convey an outraged denial, with its conflation of roles—publisher and source.
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But in terms of the usual conflation with death, sacrifice, and things of that nature—that's pure Christian propaganda.
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This remoteness, as much as their frequent conflation with swamps, has served to traduce bogs in the popular imagination.
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What I do see throughout The Swerve, however, is a conflation of views — of Poggio's view with Stephen's view.
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In both the medical community and the public consciousness, the conflation of addiction and chemical dependency has stubbornly persisted.
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The production's balancing of nobility and bawdiness, its profound conflation of tragedy and humor, sex and death, is off.
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In Paul Thomas Anderson's not uncomedic conflation of artistic and romantic obsession, she plays a neurotic dressmaker's new muse.
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This conflation of cultural heritage, experiences abroad, and the effects of globalization has created a so-called "in-between" generation.
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Sometimes legitimate news stories can be twisted and resurrected years after the fact to create a false conflation of events.
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I got the sense that he's worried and frustrated by the possible conflation of Marcus's political leanings and his own.
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"One thing we see a lot of on campuses is the conflation of emotional and physical safety," Ms. Harris said.
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I think we have to talk about what it means to insinuate that someone is racist, but, the conflation issue.
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But I can see how the conflation of sports and entertainment could cause anxiety in the average alpha male type.
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But I find the conflation of Clinton and Trump ill-reasoned on the issue of the public's response in polling.
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There is no clearer barometer of drag's newfound mainstream appeal than in its conflation of purchase power with fan devotion.
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The conflation of traditionalism and counterculturalism in its current form became particularly prominent in the late 19th and early 20th century.
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Protest and action against our government's human rights abuses, conflation of disproportionate wrongs, and maddening legal decisions, is righteous and necessary.
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Thank you for pointing that out because ICE has become sort of the catch all resistance to this administration, conflation everywhere.
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No more character limits constraining a full troubleshooting explanation, and no conflation between the customer's general feed and a support chat.
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Budweiser doesn't seem to mind this conflation, and instead seems to view its name choice as something of a patriotic duty.
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This conflation of the supposed "right" to game regulatory regimes with the right to private property is both dangerous and wrong.
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They saw his coming out story as an intentional distraction from the accusation and a damaging conflation of homosexuality and pedophilia.
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"The conflation of the woman wearing a head scarf with a political threat to the nation is quite extraordinary," she said.
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Mr. Faraut's impressionistic conflation of humor, wonder, horror and sympathy whisks this movie to the deluxe suite of the pleasure palace.
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The political success of Trump's assault on the press depends on his conflation of mistakes with dishonesty, of fallibility with fakery.
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The confusion, or deliberate conflation, of terrorist extremists with ordinary, law-abiding Muslims meant laying a collective guilt on all Muslims.
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It's pure conflation of the state and the president, to say nothing of the longing for the ability to inflict violence.
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But I also think that the stampede to Trumpism is being unduly influenced by a conflation of the American and European situations.
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To an extent, the debate misses the point: Mr Jackson's conflation of eligibility for a role with experience is an unnecessary one.
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" The broadcaster referred to the Seguin players as the "cougroes," an apparent conflation of the school mascot Cougar and the word "Negro.
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Creepypastas' tradition of reality-fiction conflation is moving from the written word to audio, not unlike the timeline between Walpole and Welles.
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And then there's the danger of conflation, where you conflate the concerns of your subgroup with the broader concerns of the population.
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He knows it may be the conflation of several evenings, bleeding into one another, blended and polished into soft focus by time.
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But it also reflected a more widespread conflation of eulogy and personal P.R. Did you see Madonna at MTV's Video Music Awards?
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"In my opinion in the US, there's a conflation between hedging and the actual pricing in" of interest rate cuts, Solot said.
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It was the conflation of homosexuality and Georgian tradition in "And Then We Danced" that had so angered conservative groups, he said.
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Duroseau suspects that the conflation of emergency contraception and abortion pills has something to do with a lack of comprehensive sex education.
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I might have said, "Yes, partly," but I found the question unanswerable, on account of its conflation of Zionism and Jewish identity.
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"Her" is a conflation of two women, and those two women mostly appear in my mind's eye wearing lingerie while chain-smoking.
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The conflation of internet access with the internet is dangerous and misleading, and it is a fundamental feature of the ISP lobbying platform.
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" McCreary, 35, explained that she was bothered by "the careless conflation of two black actresses with curly hair on the same TV show.
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"That anti-establishment sensibility has in recent years become this conflation of progressivism with out-of-touch-ness and class difference," said Griffin.
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And the recent election of Donald Trump can be thought of as a perverse twist in America's conflation of business success with piety.
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According to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, about 20 protesters gathered outside the church to protest the conflation of American patriotism and Christianity.
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French's argument goes awry on a number of fronts, principally his conflation of #MeToo with the #Resistance, which are two very different movements.
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Beyond that, the conflation of charters and vouchers embedded in her rhetoric presents school choice as a unified movement, which it is not.
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In 2013, Secretary of State John Kerry praised American diplomats for supporting democratic institutions in "Kyrzakhstan," possibly a conflation of Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan.
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So, too, is his history of housing discrimination, his casual conflation of Muslims with terrorists, his reducing Mexican-Americans to murderers and rapists.
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That mindset leads to what I call "tribal epistemology" — the systematic conflation of what is true with what is good for the tribe.
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"The SPLC's conflation of mainstream political advocacy groups with legitimate hate groups and domestic terror groups is absurd, frequently indiscriminate and dangerous," he said.
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In 2013, John Kerry as secretary of state praised American diplomats for supporting democratic institutions in "Kyrzakhstan," possibly a conflation of Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan.
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And while for now the Bannon-Burke conflation is a bit silly, it is possible to imagine the religious and the political eventually converging.
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Viganò's conflation of same-sex attraction, homosexual activity, sexual harassment of adults, and child abuse is common among some of Francis's more conservative critics.
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"For Trump, this is the art of the deal, but it's an inappropriate conflation of two different policy goals — trade and national security," Wessel said.
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Journalist Erin Gloria Ryan says that this conflation is also "falsehood" used by U.S. conservatives in arguments against the use of the morning after pill.
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"We tried to make the expressions more orthographic so there was no confusion or conflation with direction," says Rachel Been, a creative director at Google.
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The contemporary fight over free speech beliefs occurs in a dense fog created by the constant conflation of federal speech laws and private speech rules.
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"One of the great recurring fallacies of this sort of nutrition guru wannabe is the conflation of the part for the whole," Katz tells me.
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The ugly word Brexit — coined ahead of the referendum as a shorthand conflation for 'British exit' — was apparently now lodged in the lexicon for good.
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This stems from a conflation with magazine publishing along with a belief that an audience will tune out unless glitter is sprayed in their eyes.
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Polling is crucial for campaign coverage, but in 2016 the attention on number-crunching sites like FiveThirtyEight led to a conflation of reporting and forecasting.
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A conflation of mortality across the world and fatality among the infected may partly explain some of the pervasive statistical confusion surrounding the Spanish flu.
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Not telling the truth about a critical affair of state that affects the world economy surely outweighs the clumsy conflation in a campaign trail story.
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The insult to injury here involves the conflation of Mr. Maher's transgression and the umbrage he feigned at being asked to work in the fields.
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It is this conflation of anti-racism and respect for religious rights that has hampered the fight to keep religion out of the public square.
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Trump's characteristic conflation of issues comes just a week before Chinese officials are due to arrive for a 13th round of trade talks in Washington.
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What it is: Three and a half minutes of musical swagger, with Gaga extolling her own intoxicating charisma in a lyrical conflation of music and sexuality.
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But the conflation of RT with Russian hacking and espionage has made it out to be a 10-foot monster, says Samuel Charap, a Russia analyst.
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This conflation of space entices the viewer to move close to the painting in order to figure out which areas are real and which are not.
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I can turn down the saturation on reds, greens, and purples, like so: But colorblindness is a confusion and conflation of colors, not just a desaturation.
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The conflation of a spacesuit and a jumpsuit here feels deliberate, like Menon trying to make his audience see this choice as sillier than it is.
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Many of his criticisms center on what he calls "Christian nationalism," a conflation of evangelical rhetoric with white supremacist attitudes and a jingoistic approach to patriotism.
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That movement's strongest moral argument is that the conflation of justice and punishment merely adds more pain to the cruelty already at work in the world.
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But this sometimes uneasy conflation of modernity with bygone days is perhaps suited to a book that sits at the intersection of historical and detective fiction.
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And this conflation of an increase in patients and a lowering of capacity is where I think this will really hit kind of an inflection point.
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But the conflation of left-wing policies and authoritarian regimes clearly left Mr. Sanders frustrated, and he didn't entirely neutralize the controversy surrounding his Cuba remarks.
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Graham begins with a conflation of policing friendly nations' internal disorder, on the one hand, and defending the United States' vital national interests, on the other.
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"My Brother / Brancuzi" (1995) brings up similar DIY vibes, through a conflation of domestic and studio space — particularly, Rhoades's brother's bedroom and the studio of Constantin Brâncusi.
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Watch the video for a crash course in these shady fundraising initiatives — and the tactics their opponents are using to fight the conflation of money with speech.
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The conflation of conference room and locker room at corporate events – not to mention the scope for actual harassment – would then become unlikely as well as inappropriate.
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Yahoo fixed that by selling its core operating business to Verizon in 2016 and re-branding what was left as Altaba, a conflation of 'alternative' and 'Alibaba'.
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And the result of that is a conflation between these two domains in China, whereby the state is the market and it is using the data flows.
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This conflation of individual and social histories echoes throughout Gates's work, evoking another type of activity that brings people together and takes time to shape: political change.
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It also made the $9.9 million loan to Jesand L.L.C. Jesand appears to be a conflation of Jessica and Andrea, the names of Mr. Manafort's two daughters.
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The conflation of virtue and success guided the family foundation they created, the celebrity-studded charity events they hosted, their mammoth speaking fees, their promiscuous fund-raising.
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The conflation of women with nature (and, vice versa, men with culture) is an arbitrary but deeply encoded psychological gender binary the Western world has long promulgated.
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This spurious conflation quashed the industry for about 60 years, until a 2014 farm bill defined it as an agricultural crop, leaving the door ajar to American farmers.
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Through his signature dreamy conflation of images and feelings, Lynch has constructed a monument to the terrible power of violence, chronicling its genesis and revealing its harsh consequences.
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As we outlined publicly in 2017, we disagree with their views and the conflation of data protection laws and antitrust laws, and will continue to defend our position.
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Employee activists say that the conflation between whistle-blowing, disclosing proprietary product information, and discussing workplace conditions, which is protected by federal law, has worked to Google's advantage.
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The first is to make sure brands like Pepsi never release another ad like 2017's disastrous conflation of Kendall Jenner, protest and the Black Lives Matter movement.
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There's also a more general conflation of white evangelicalism with the GOP party agenda, which has been intensifying since the days of the Moral Majority in the 1980s.
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After 9/2003, "all of us" Muslims were being blamed, writ large, for the actions of "some people," the hijackers, and it's important to fight against that conflation.
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Emboldened by the controversy surrounding the BuzzFeed article, he's now trying to use a conflation of the reports as a way of dismissing the entire line of inquiry.
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Lawyers and campaigners said the conflation of smuggling and trafficking meant some state resources intended for trafficking victims were being spent on migrants who had not been exploited.
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Decision-making based on a sloppy conflation of the individual art object and the context in which it is seen will rob society of experiences for empathy building.
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Correction, 6:08 PM ET: Added better explanation of CC's stance, and removed conflation between fair use (as a copyright exemption) and permitted uses under a Creative Commons license.
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The popularity of American sport culture is deeply rooted in the history of a particular kind of American "muscular Christianity," a conflation of nationalism, nostalgia, piety, and performative masculinity.
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One of the most common misconceptions about the industry, which sex workers and advocates are constantly trying to correct, is the conflation of consensual sex work with sex trafficking.
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Through this intentional conflation, the bill erases the boundary between the State of Israel and the territories it captured during the 1967 Six Day War and has occupied since.
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The conflation of anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism is a bit of rhetorical sleight-of-hand that depends on treating Israel as the embodiment of the Jewish people everywhere.
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Spacey immediately came under fire on social media for what many saw as a disingenuous conflation of an apology for sexual misconduct with a public acknowledgement of being gay.
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The conflation of consciousness and activism — her singular contribution to the expanded fields of post-minimalism and queer art — is at the heart of Hammond's complex experiments with abstraction.
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Officially, even priests with a homosexual orientation who remain celibate are barred from ministry, something that contributes to the rhetorical conflation of pedophilia and homosexuality that many conservatives espouse.
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"Consumers every day are seeing this conflation of automated vehicles, self-driving vehicles, and autonomous vehicles," says Greg Rogers, a policy analyst with the transportation think tank the Eno Center.
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At times, King seems downright frustrated by these interpretations of his work, which, to his mind, require a conflation of his professional writing with his more overtly liberal-minded tweets.
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At the time of my visit, the local museum had an exhibition dedicated to "invaders and settlers"—a revealing conflation that pools together people fleeing war with those fighting it.
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D'Agostino is setting up a code of sorts, but one that distills speech into a conflation of sight and sound, visualized vocalizations that are as musical as they are linguistic.
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In some of the research that I've done, we've found that there's a conflation of being able to navigate the technology and being able to evaluate and interrogate the information.
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Offred, in fact, is a simple, proprietary conflation — "of Fred," the name of the so-called Commander (Joseph Fiennes) in whose dark, joyless, spotless home she has now been placed.
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"The country seems to be in a pretty unhappy mood, so even if law and order may not be the direct answer, there's a sense of conflation," Mr. Greenfield said.
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If you're battling the pod/egg conflation, there's a maternity fashion company called "A Pea in The Pod" to help, and thus concludes the brand recognition portion of today's post.
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Rendered in white, the trees and plants look spectral, almost supernatural, making for a remarkable nature-culture conflation while also hinting, perhaps, at amok fecundity in a global warming future.
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As Lulic clarifies, "College price inflation is a problem, but the narrative that student debt is the driving force behind declining homeownership rates among young people is likely an inaccurate conflation."
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The conflation of consensual sex work with sex trafficking, as well as the threat of litigation for websites, has already lead to a crackdown on Google Drive, social media, and more.
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It's also a lousy argument, one that relies on conflation—that the trolls and Sanders's base are one and the same—and a series of counterfactuals and half-baked historical allusions.
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This has something to do with the conflation here of Bauhaus and modernism, as well as with the fact that Bauhaus is also the name of Germany's largest home improvement chain.
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So Diana wondered if she'd sometimes mutated, in his imagination, into the conflation and the cause of all his little castrations, the leering source of everything that smote and failed him.
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As I suggested earlier, I think that Grosvenor's intentions have as much to do with art as they do with cars, capitalism, and a particularly American conflation of desire and design.
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" There's been a disingenuous conflation I've seen from some pundits that criticizing Biden's corporate support from donors is the same as calling the Black voters who voted for him "corporate Democrats.
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The conflation of references is less about wordplay than a reflection of our current reality, and the fact that these choices are not limited to a particular religious or ethnic group.
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The conflation of emergency contraception and abortion pills can have serious consequences for people who want to end a pregnancy but aren't sure which pill regimen best applies to their situation.
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That this scene is intercut with the film's only sex scene yields a troubling repetition of the conflation of Black sexuality with criminality, which has plagued cinema since its very beginning.
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But he did not directly address the chairman's conflation of the wiretap with the larger investigation, which ultimately comprised nearly 500 search warrants and hundreds of court orders for communications records.
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Trump has made the conflation between evangelicalism and nationalism increasingly explicit: His top evangelical allies, like Pastor Robert Jeffress, frequently lead services that link American patriotism, support of Trump, and Christian worship.
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But for him, the essence of intersectionality is simply conflation (the merging of different sets of ideas, texts, traditions, etc.) of different types of identity, and therefore he finds its use unnecessary.
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The piece is a playful conflation of baking pastry with baking clay, but Wolek is not really joking — "Help Yourself" is an acid comment on the greed and decadence characterizing our civilization.
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Productions include Isabelle Huppert's turn as an incestuous stepmother in "Phaedra(s)," Peter Brooks's abridged "Mahabharata," Mikhail Baryshnikov's reading of Nijinsky's diaries and Ivo van Hove's conflation of several Shakespeare history plays.
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Given this country's puritanical legacy and its conflation of godliness and cleanliness, it's not surprising that America's singular contribution to world handicraft would be the enhanced collection of dust from inaccessible corners.
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"There's a conflation of race and tribe that's infuriating, really," said Ms. TallBear, a member of the Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate tribe of South Dakota who writes about tribal belonging and genetic testing.
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Increasing transparency — initially through a data broker registry and ultimately through a robust and balanced national privacy law — would help reduce the conflation of legitimate, regulated entities with unethical companies and criminals.
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The central problem was the conflation of audience and media outlet: When it ran an ad for razors, Gillette would have preferred to show the spot just to men who shaved regularly.
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This serpentine style of time conflation is the droll setting for the piss-stain forms that have been extracted from particular localities and made to represent human beings, now thinned and diminished.
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But such a conflation neglects the layers of ego, cunning, and masculine power plays that culminate in one of the most unforgettable acts of solo vigilantism to appear onscreen since The Revenant.
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For now, at least, plenty of evangelical leaders are leaning into the conflation of nationalism and Trumpism and Christian identity — and are willing to reinterpret the words of Jesus in the process.
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The term seems simultaneously futuristic and obsolete: it could refer to the awkward AR gimmicks of early smartphones, high-tech glasses that people might not use for years, or a conflation of both.
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" This conflation of toxic masculinity and masculinity is at the heart of the confusion, he says: "Under no circumstances is the APA trying to say that masculinity itself, or men themselves, are problematic.
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Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Tuesday, the president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and former US ambassador, William Burns, said a conflation of events was creating instability.
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"I lay down next to your boots and I prayed for your anger to end / Oh father, I have sinned," she sings, extending the title track's conflation of religion and real-life experience.
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Ehrenreich is so offended by the American conflation of health with virtue and offers charming contrarian essays on the "defiant self-nurturance" of cigarette smoking, for example, and the dangers of eating fruit.
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"I think this conflation leads to a misunderstanding of how tech companies can and will grow, and that leads to enormous valuations based on prior experiences that may not be analogous," she said.
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But to many of its critics, especially since the election of Donald Trump, this tradition has come to represent the worst of the conflation of American-style capitalism, religion, and Republican party politics.
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" Bernstein's conflation of Vietnam and Iraq is made graphic in "Union Jack-Off" and the two paintings from 2015 that reprise its imagery, "Star Spangled Boner" and the title work, "Dicks of Death.
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The conflation of the right to water with property ownership led to landowners treating groundwater as a private resource with no thought of its conservation, said Kulkarni, who helped draft the 2017 bill.
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This recent flowering of AI into a buzzword fit to be crammed onto every bulleted list of features has to do at least partly with the conflation of neural networks with artificial intelligence.
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Ultimately, I find myself ill-equipped to evaluate Elevation 173 as someone who tends to categorically prioritize the confluence of art and real life, rather than the conflation of art and extreme wealth.
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"It was a conflation of a lot of different conversations about our brand: Paris and the optimism I was feeling here, and where my business was going, and also my family," Altuzarra said.
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"These companies have really intense mission statements and high-flying stories of themselves but what you see is a conflation of personal worth and economic output that is very American," Wiener told CNBC.
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Dress Codes 6 Photos View Slide Show ' There is a growing conflation of what you may wear for a workout and the ready-to-wear clothes on the runways of Milan and Paris.
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The consensus in the U.K. that something had to be done to help refugees, particularly children, had fallen apart after the Nice attack and the conflation, in its wake, of terrorists and refugees.
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But perhaps my ahistorical conflation of Lam and Rammellzee's Ikonoklast Panzerism into a supercharged "Lammellzee" should itself be the barbed target of criticism for being insufficient in describing Lam's heterogeneous artistic and ethnic situation.
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Similarly, the then-groundbreaking scenes of male nudity on HBO's 1997–2003 prison drama Oz (especially any and all featuring a beefy Chris Meloni) merely reinforced the conflation between violence and the male body.
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The second season hasn&apost fared much better: It&aposs been criticized for its muddy and one-dimensional portrayal of the region&aposs politics, and for its conflation of American intervention with American heroics.
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If Rubchinskiy and Gvasalia are dressing us as members of the proletariat, Sergeenko's clothes are an odd conflation of peasants and princesses — the garb of the former with the price tags of the latter.
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Especially after the election, they led to a conflation of diplomatic and financial interests that was a stark departure from the carefully calibrated contacts typically managed by an incoming administration in the United States.
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The mistake here by Trump -- and this, again, is far from the first time he's made it -- is the conflation of his much-touted war against political correctness with what is simply xenophobia and racism.
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Trump's conflation of the two by way of a disingenuous appeal to "Due Process" is a commonly used, but ultimately dangerous argument, because it damages our collective understanding of the issues, both legal and otherwise.
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The conflation of "high and low," a theme that gained traction in the 1980s, can be discerned in Fujita's marriage of a determinedly rudimentary visual vocabulary to the genre-transcending, utopian aspirations of historical Constructivism.
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Before the destruction of the kingdoms of Israel and Judah, worshipping the God of Israel (also known as "Yahweh") was part of a conflation of ethnic and religious identity common in the ancient Near East.
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His lifelong thematic obsessions — the flagellation of the body, the conflation of the scatological and the divine — are expressed on the page with all the rancor and destructive force that eluded him in his theatrical productions.
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Sometimes, there's a conflation between self-identifiers and what your stance is on preserving the access to abortion as a safe and legal choice, even if it's a choice you wouldn't make yourself as an individual.
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In the process of attacking "the sloppy conflation between actual white supremacists and, well, run-of-the-mill conservatives, libertarians, and classical liberals," she defends Joey Gibson, the organizer behind the West Coast's Patriot Prayer events.
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But the conflation of personhood and artwork implies that what Mr. Close has created is not artwork so much as propaganda, and that, to paraphrase Sontag, the force of his work is predicated on his harassment.
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Their unique conflation of outdoor and indoor space, coupled with a focus on creating spaces that would encourage discourse and a sense of cultural exchange, has set them apart on the international architecture and design scene.
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This is a theme we've seen again and again with various internet communities, from YouTube and Tumblr's repeated conflation of queer content with sexually explicit content to Twitter's ongoing failure to combat hate speech and abuse.
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This time the illusion holds — the cornfed limpidity of their voices, the conflation of pedal steel and keyboard gleam, the twangy squeak of the rhythm guitar, all produce not warmth or homespun comfort but rather shimmering artificiality.
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This subject, among others, is tackled in the student show La gueule de l'emploi, a French expression meaning "the face for the job," which presents a group of works dealing with the conflation of occupation and identity.
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Mr. Alipoor said some young people who lean to the alt-right had been offended at the conflation of their beliefs with radical Islam and had demanded that Mr. Alipoor debate the matter with them on Reddit.
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Aided by Katie Mitchell's modern-dress production, Mr. Crimp and Mr. Benjamin have made something more ambiguous and timeless: a tale of a leader's catastrophic conflation of his personal desires with the identity of his suffering country.
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In other words, the evangelical community as a whole has seen a shift in recent months and years, as the conflation of Republican Party values and Christian values is no longer as straightforward as it once was.
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General Flynn believes he was fired from his post as director of the Pentagon's Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA) in 2014 because of pervasive political correctness within the Obama White House, which disliked his conflation of Islam with terrorism.
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The company takes its name from Buddhism's eightfold path to enlightenment, and while I'm not sure what the Buddha would say about the conflation of professional development with spiritual growth, Garg believes that he's on the right track.
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Such a conflation means that white evangelical Christians, already historically a major part of President Trump's base (let's not forget that 81 percent of them voted for him in 2016), are now becoming all but synonymous with it.
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It's an event complicit in all that dismays us about American football as a whole and the N.F.L. especially: players' physical and mental health; compensation and exploitation; the sanctioned conflation with the league and our military; the names.
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President Trump, for his part, has told the FDA that the agency should go about launching a blanket ban on flavored e-cigarettes—a conflation, some experts have said, of the illnesses and the "epidemic" of youth vaping.
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As with many contemporary depictions of nature under climate change's shadow, there's also a desperation to this music, an underlying sense that something fragile is threatened, made more ominous by the partial conflation of nature with the erotic.
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Yet the artist's three-quarter profile and the visual conflation of prisoners with rural peasantry recalls German Renaissance painting and suspends the work between its sociopolitical context and art historical heritage, expressing an interiority of almost ineffable tension.
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In fact, if the conflation of human rights and "ad hoc rights granted by government" is our touchstone, that problem began in the international context in 85033, with the drafting of the United Nation's Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
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The fact that this conflation is occurring even within the world of the Women's March — which, as Reason pointed out, "bills itself as a big-tent rally for 'anyone who believes women's rights are human rights'" — makes it even more insidious.
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The conflation of living and creativity seems well and good when it's an attempt to find meaning and connection, but it's also a recipe for having no idea where the borders are between what you are and what you make.
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The kind of racialized, classist mockery implicit in such a conflation of Chineseness with destitution continues inside the gallery, which features defunct ATMs taped over with makeshift "Out of Order" signs, overflowing trash bins, and a broken patchwork of a floor.
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Let's stipulate, though, that light is better than dark when it comes to acts of sexual violence, but we also ought to acknowledge that equating electrical illumination and safety with oil is nonsensical, and an insulting conflation of two problems.
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The conflation that she makes in this video of 300 years ago and right now and the close-up of that woman who's got the scar on her forehead and the tattoo that says "Big Dreams" and that dress, oh!
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This issue is not helped by the conflation of robotics and AI by some media outlets and even politicians, as illustrated last week by a debate among members of the European Parliament on whether robots should attain legal status as persons.
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Marty Gaynor seems to be an extraordinarily complex person, and one who coincidentally triggered a deep response within Schonberger, touching on so many of the artist's own issues as to make the conflation of their identities understandable, though not less disturbing.
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"(Anning's) conflation of this horrendous terrorist attack with issues of immigration, in his attack on Islamic faith specifically, these comments are appalling and they're ugly and they have no place in Australia," Australia's Prime Minister Morrison told journalists on Saturday.
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He first attracted attention with a series of paintings and sculptures, made in the 19803s and early 21980s, that he called Standarts, a conflation of "standard" and "art," with an echo of the German word for banner or flag, standarte.
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And while perhaps nothing better illustrates the President's fundamental misunderstanding of the role of our executive branch than his conflation of obstruction with fighting back, he has displayed a dizzying and at times remarkable pattern of obstructionist behavior while in office.
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"People are somewhat better, historically, at fetish-fucking trans folx than dating them," the former feminist philosophy academic Fiona Maeve Geist, who co-authored a Transgender Studies Quarterly article about the conflation of the categories "trans women" and "sex workers," wrote to me.
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Still wearing the Make America Great Again hat that he had on during the "Ghost Town" performance, West insisted that the Democratic Party planned "to take the fathers out the home and promote welfare," a conflation of two baseless right-wing talking points.
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It will reflect many of his personal shortcomings: His conflation of military power with American greatness, his disdain for the nation's civic values and small-"r" republican culture, and his unquenchable thirst to always be at the center of American political life.
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The conflation of Trump and another heroic historical figure is one of the most common tropes in Trump fan art — there's the aforementioned Napoleon image, for instance (though one assumes the creators aren't advocating that Trump meets the same end as Napoleon).
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Trump's pugnacious language may seem to jar with ordinary Christian rhetoric, but it's actually very much in keeping with the imagery of "muscular Christianity," the quintessentially Anglo-American conflation of machismo and religiosity that has defined American evangelicalism since the country's foundation.
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This sentiment has certainly long been present among rank-and-file members of the Republican Party voting base, and a kind of lazy conflation of a single, coherent Islamic enemy helps explains how the invasion of Iraq was sold to the public.
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He sticks to the same rhetorical move every time: refer to some specific criminals, call them horrible people and animals, say that their evil justifies his immigration policy, and allow the conflation of all immigrants and all Latinos with criminals and animals to remain subtext.
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But given the longstanding homophobic conflation of gayness and pedophilia, Spacey's statement itself — as reaction pieces in the immediate aftermath have noted — reinforces a harmful stereotype about queer people by implicitly linking allegations of sexual misconduct with a minor to his gay male identity.
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If you, like so many others, are furious — or even minorly annoyed — by his conflation of men's access to women's bodies as the definition of "sex," or by the disturbing Handmaid's Tale undertones to this entire conversation, do not fear: Botnik Studios is here.
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The president did not refer to Haiti as a "shithole" country according to the source familiar with the meeting… though he DID say it about countries in Africa...What happened, the source says, is there was a conflation of two different remarks by the president.
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The Heian conflation of taste, ethics, and identity, not to mention their preoccupation with sending each other poem fragments like so many text messages and then fretting about not getting replies, wasn't so far off from our own era of late decadence, the 21st century.
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Democrats can also resist Mr. Trump's conflation of domestic politics and national security, which was on full display when he deployed thousands of troops to the Mexican border to deal with a phantom migrant threat invented to rally his base before the midterm elections.
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"When you talk about why now, the conflation of addiction in imprisonment has brought an increased awareness to the issue, and in addition the necessity to recognize the importance of addiction services, housing and employment services upon re-entry to society," Mr. McGreevey said.
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The delicacy of the glass and the tenderly physical, fundamental necessity of the substance itself circle back to the human experience in an unsettling conflation of poignancy and absurdity: there is a deep imbalance in the horrifying historical power of so banal an object.
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This expectation becomes an interesting problem when the space is being used to show sinister propaganda, photojournalism created to document the plight of others, and art side by side: how can visuals with such disparate aims be displayed together in a space with conflation?
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In a sense, Zenyatta's conflation of different cultures with one another is indicative of Overwatch's conviction to pay homage to different backgrounds as a whole, and without first recognizing the cultural importance of Moira's Banshee skin, I likely wouldn't have thought to delve into any of them.
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C. position has been guilty of the same conflation—perhaps even more so—by routinely treating trigger warnings as draconian mandates that professors "are expected" to issue rather than a range of informal pedagogical choices professors sometimes use at our discretion to foster discussion of difficult material.
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This stems from a conflation of the very real and exciting concept of machine learning and the very not real concept of "general artificial intelligence," which is basically as far off today as it was when science fiction writers first explored the idea a hundred years ago.
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While many sex workers acknowledge that sex trafficking is a real issue, they also feel the government is playing fast and loose with the definition—promoting the conflation that sex work is non-consensual or somehow wrong, and, in the process, pushing the industry further underground.
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"Medusa, in effect, became the archetypal femme fatale: a conflation of femininity, erotic desire, violence, and death," writes Kiki Karoglou, associate curator in the Met's Department of Greek and Roman Art and organizer of Dangerous Beauty, in an issue of the Met's quarterly Bulletin on the show.
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The website for the research team's efforts, including the gang classification paper, opens with references to ISIS and Jabhat al-Nusra before shifting to the terrain of Los Angeles street gangs, a conflation that echoes Brantingham's earlier DOD-funded work that led him to co-founding PredPol.
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A group of 19 agents with its Homeland Security Investigations unit, which deals with complex investigations including transnational crime, recently wrote a letter to Nielsen asking her to break up the agency amid what they described as a debilitating conflation of their work with ICE's deportation activities.
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" She proceeds through a number of the big questions or themes where she finds herself feeling most "agnostic": the anthropomorphizing of God, the suspicion of doubt, the conflation of faith and belief, the characterization of a "soul" as something that can be either "lost" or "found.
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A talk-show host who suggested that both terrorism and homosexuality were being used to "ruin our youth" by a nameless external enemy offered perhaps the most honest explanation for this vicious round of homophobia in Egypt: the conflation of a security threat with a "moral" threat.
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Two that I noticed: She has Harry Truman losing to Dwight Eisenhower in 93, and refers to "the Tea Party Massacre and the origins of the American Revolution," a seeming conflation of the Boston Massacre of 1770 and the same city's Tea Party three years later.
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He wrote in his letter to Cardinal Brandmüller that "Out of this conflation a new agitation is gradually being generated," which he said could inspire more books like "The Abdication," by Fabrizio Grasso, which argues that having one or more popes emeriti could fragment papal authority.
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Her ability to choose lead singles has not improved — "You Need to Calm Down," the one song about her public image, is particularly rank in its conflation of homophobia with being mean to celebrities online — but unlike Reputation, the 18-song Lover doesn't feel too long.
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Considering the somewhat-addictive quality of the platform, the perceived value of expertise, and the wholesale conflation of your identity with your media consumption in many quarters, it isn't exactly shocking that certain otakus choose to bump their speed up by ten or twenty percent to get an edge.
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"The conflation of Priyanka with Indira could lend to the perception that the Congress Party has re-discovered its purpose, that it has a definite goal and that the secularism it has historically espoused and the safety it offers India's minorities could replace the Bharatiya Janata Party's nationalistic tendencies," said Hughes.
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The ceremony, which was held by an offshoot of a controversial Christian group that critics call a cult, seemed to perfectly encapsulate the anxieties of the current political climate: a conflation of pro-Trump and Christian nationalist rhetoric, fervently pro-gun sentiments, and multibillion-dollar business interests in the arms trade.
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Thus when Jeffress says, as he did in a press release, that "[m]illions of Americans believe that the election of President Trump represented God giving us another chance — perhaps our last chance — to truly make America great again," he's speaking to a wider conflation of "alpha-masculine" values with Christianity.
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Graham's habitual conflation of painting and drawing reaches an unusual degree of refinement here: you wouldn't know it unless you read the wall label that the painting was done on cardboard, or that he seems to have attacked it with whatever he had on hand — oil, casein, chalk, ballpoint pen, and graphite pencil.
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The scene evokes a poignant sense of lost innocence, gesturing towards the common (and mistaken) conflation of play with aggression when Black bodies are involved — a particularly tense subject in Cleveland, where in 2014, 12-year-old Tamir Rice was shot dead by police for playing with a toy gun in a playground.
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It's easy to dismiss a lot of very online rhetoric that equates social media disagreement with violence, but in a Girardian account the conflation might reflect an accurate perception of the symbolic stakes: On this view, our tendency to experience online hostility as "real" violence is an evolutionary step to be cheered.
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For some time, there has been a conflation of issues—the hacking and leaking of illegally obtained information versus propaganda and disinformation; cyber-security issues and the hacking of elections systems versus information operations and information warfare; paid advertising versus coercive messaging or psychological operations—when discussing "Russian meddling" in the 2016 US elections.
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Working from an adaptation by Phyllis Nagy of Patricia Highsmith's 1952 novel, "The Price of Salt," Mr. Haynes is back in the mannerist mode of another of his period studies of sexual awakening and repression, the crest of which is "Far From Heaven" from 2002, a masterly conflation of film history and feminist tragedy.
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Read more: The CEO of $4 billion Kantar explains why it plans to acquire e-commerce and other data companies after being spun off from the ad giant WPP"A big challenge in the past year or so has been a lot of conflation about what it is that people are actually buying," Hanlon said.
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During the conflict with Iraq, Iranian cinemas would sometimes play old Allied propaganda films about World War II. (The idea was to stir up nationalistic sentiment by encouraging a conflation of Hussein with Hitler.) One such film was playing when Farhadi paid his first visit to a movie theater, shortly before the war began.
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The installation — "Watching Oprah: The Oprah Winfrey Show and American Culture" — is what can only be called so Smithsonian: a mouthwatering, heartwarming, eye-opening, foot-aching conflation of biography, anthropology, sociology, nostalgia, history and insight (about culture, race, gender, technology, media, education, consumerism, economics, beauty, fashion and the law) into a potent dioramic spectacle.
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Clearly, a large part of America is disturbed by President TrumpDonald John TrumpFive environmental fights to watch in 2020 Lawmakers close to finalizing federal strategy to defend against cyberattacks The 7 big Supreme Court cases to watch in 2020 MORE's behavior, but, to use a standard Washington pivot or conflation, who would be better?
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The structure of the home built into the rock — as the adobe houses in the Southwest and the monasteries of Asia are — is a great metaphor for the conflation of dwelling as home and dwelling as being, because it seems to blur the distinction between what is man-made and what is of the earth.
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But the anti-Semitic narratives around George Soros, which seem to have motivated the suspected Pittsburgh shooter, are rooted in a relatively more recent anti-Semitism that has been around since the late 18th century: a toxic conflation of anti-Semitism and "populism" that portrays Jews as mysterious, mustache-twirling puppet masters of the global order.
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Though it's a shame to lose the true story, the conflation of timing doesn't really matter, nor does the fact that the woman is called Heather (actually the name of Bernie's fourth and current wife.) No, the problem with this scene is the casting: Heather is played by Sharmina Harrower, a tall thin supermodel of an actor who towers over Taupin (Jaime Bell).
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Castro's decision to relocate his contingent to the heart of black New York quickened the falling out to come and presaged key pillars of Cuban foreign policy over the course of the next half-century: the explicit conflation of Cuban sovereignty with worldwide liberation struggles, particularly in Africa, and the strategic leveraging of U.S. moral hypocrisy in service of revolutionary ideology.
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But in fact, that conflation was intentional, and artificial: As early as 1945, party leaders realized that they could never rally Vietnamese to the banner of Communism, so they used the tactic of working through a supposedly non-Communist front, an approach that the Soviets had promoted for the 1920s struggle against feudalism in China, and then against fascism globally.
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India's caste system is less apparent in cities, but villages like this still operate according to it: Chippa, for instance, derives from a conflation of the Nepal Bhasa chhi (to dye) and pa (to leave something to bask in the sun) and chappana ("stamping" in Hindi); it also denotes one's caste, one's job, and is often also one's last name.
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But in a world where lazy, uncritical thinking about race — from the confusion about how to characterize President Obama that followed him throughout his term to Donald Trump's regular conflation of black people with "inner city" residents to his assaults on Mexican immigrants as rapists — is an epidemic, it's worth taking the time to think about the labels we apply and why.
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Considering the classic story and blockbuster potential of the new Aladdin, it's not surprising that Disney is taking their time to find just the right stars — and it's encouraging to hear that they're dedicated to finding somebody of Middle Eastern or Indian descent, as opposed to whitewashing the iconic roles (although the problematic conflation of those two different ethnicities signifies how much progress is yet to be made).
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The network's business model is such an awkward conflation of some of the good stuff about broadcast TV and some of the good stuff about cable TV (up to and including ordering lots and lots of shows, like broadcast does, with smaller episode counts, the better to cram more of them onto the schedule, like cable does); it's hard to imagine it not eventually blowing up for being so unstable.
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Second, and more crucially, this answer tips toward a common conflation of the act of passing out — sliding into unconsciousness, eyes closed, being what drinkers often call "dead to the world" — and the act of blacking out, a temporary, alcohol-induced state in which you can remain functional and conversational, but later you will have no memory of what you did, almost as though your brain failed to hit the "record" button.
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The department's conflation of different types of unauthorized disclosure investigations led to confusion when Mr. Sessions said the Justice Department has already handled four such cases this year, because there has been only one known new leak case in the Trump era so far: the charging in June of Reality Leigh Winner, a contractor working for the N.S.A., with sending an intelligence report about Russia's interference in the 2016 election to The Intercept.
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That year, the 11-year-old actress Daisy Eagan wore one to accept her Tony Award for her work in "The Secret Garden," and the ribbon became an instant piece of iconography — of the AIDS movement, of course, but for all future movements as well, a symbol of the conflation of money and power that was a new kind of social currency altogether, one in which one should be, or appear to be, socially aware.
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But where anti-Zionism crosses into anti-Semitism should also be obvious: dehumanizing or demonizing Jews and propagating the myth of their sinister omnipotence; accusing Jews of double loyalties as a means to suggest their national belonging is of lesser worth; denying the Jewish people's right to self-determination; blaming through conflation all Jews for the policies of the Israeli government; pursuing the systematic "Nazification" of Israel; turning Zionism into a synonym of racism.
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Too much time at war makes that strange conflation entirely too easy to make, but mostly it makes it convenient; it is an uncomfortable thing to consider that the facts on the ground in this nation have made the national anthem less anthemic for some Americans than others, and it is a relatively more comfortable one to mount, in response, a defense those brave and nebulous heroes we insist on continuing to throw in harm's way.
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But the brouhaha over Ben Shapiro is significant not because of what might go down Thursday at Berkeley, but because it is a perfect exhibition of a much broader phenomenon increasingly apparent in the wake of the Charlottesville, Va., demonstrations last month: the sloppy conflation between actual white supremacists and, well, run-of-the-mill conservatives, libertarians and classical liberals whose main beef is with some on the left who seem like they'd rather do without the First Amendment.
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"Purple Rain," what with its slow buildup, increasingly wild vocal performance, stately melody, huge gospel chorus, absurdly magnificent guitar heroics, inarticulate spiritual howl at the climax, big loud ending note that lingers for a whole two minutes, and everything else that makes it a terrific rock anthem, imparts not just a pseudoprophetic message about purple rain enveloping the world as we enter the Kingdom of Heaven, and not just a compassionate message about romantic love —nor is it a conflation of the two, in which bathing in the purple rain and/or entering the Kingdom of Heaven stands as yet another metaphor for sexual ecstasy (or is it the other way around?).
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Writing on apocalyptic rhetoric in American elections, sociologist Daniel Whisker noted that there's a discernible shift in the way Americans talk about these themes over time: These apocalyptic themes — the minions of Satan, their empire on earth, the persecution of the elect and the coming millennium — are as old as the American republic, but since the second world war, their periodic recurrence has been replaced by a continuously rising eschatological panic… 21st century apocalypticism is distinguished from most 20th century versions of the paranoid style by the conflation of the religious and the political themes at work … The increased political significance of religious identity since the onset of the "culture wars," the migration of protestants from traditional denominations to evangelicalism, and the revived rhetoric of opposition between Christianity and Islam since 2000, has entrenched Christian apocalyptic themes in current versions of the paranoid style.
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