The cranium is a complex piece of bone, producing a confusing interlocking pattern of light and dark.

The tricorder revealed a byzantine and confusing pattern of tunnels all around.

The web becomes richer, the pattern more intricate and confusing, but the line of fate neither breaks nor falters, to the end.

Yet in their zeal to work every critical view in and make every theory fit together they sometimes force their narrative into confusing patterns.

This had happened many times anyway, leaving a confusing pattern of feudal units.

Johnston pointed down at the site, where low walls and crisscrossing trenches made a confusing pattern.

A large number of human disorders-autism and cancer among them-display a confusing pattern of inheritance.

He searched desperately for Tony's father among the confusing patterns of lights and shadow shifting and flickering down there on the prom.

This confusing pattern - or pattern of confusion - is familiar to those who have known Mr. Jackson a long time.