befogs

I see Russia and Putin from my back porch ... simply befogs my mind.

Poll: Palin decision doesn't change minds 2009

For now the not said acquires a significance and a specific confusion befogs the spaces of the public sphere, which is where the action is…The point about silencing and the fear behind silencing is not to erase memory.

Formosa Calling: Shackleton's Account of 2-28 Michael Turton 2009

The quotation marks around the word “suspicion” befogs the meaning of the phrase.

My Thoughts on the 2007 New York Food & Wine Classic 2007

Six-plus years after 9/11; while the Taliban attempts an Afghanistan comeback; as Islamist terrorists cause mayhem in Algeria and occupy huge swaths of tribal Pakistan; despite "United 93" and "The Kite Runner," a library-full of books, presidential commissions, congressional hearings, and four election cycles — despite all of that, a strange, Victorian reticence about naming the enemy in the contest for the human future in which we are engaged befogs this political season.

The War Against Jihadism 2008

It's not just the classy British accent — which so often befogs the minds of Americans.

"It would be absurd to say that you can’t stick something under the fingernails, smack them in the face." Ann Althouse 2008

It is surrounded by the same mystique that befogs other aspects of the Constitution.

Founders Chic 2003

It is surrounded by the same mystique that befogs other aspects of the Constitution.

Founders Chic 2003

The male members of the family smoke a weed which they call Machorka and it befogs everything.

Stuka Pilot Rudel, Hans-Ulrich 1973

They were simply digressive, which was to be expected, as elation befogs one's "goal idea."

A Mind That Found Itself An Autobiography Clifford Whittingham Beers 1909

As a bad actor befogs Shakespeare's meaning, so a good actor illuminates it.

The Story of My Life Terry, Ellen, Dame, 1847-1928 1908