befog

He had a variety of disguises, each designed to befog the public more hopelessly than the last.

How they had managed to befog the subject!

I object to teaching of slogans intended to befog the mind, of whatever kind they may be.

"But I can set a spell round you and it both, to befog one seking it through sorcery.

There was no note from Estenham, of course, but Brighton rather cleverly invented this point to befog the police."

And if they didn't do the trick, she had an array of scents, equally secret in their constitution, that might befog man's vision of woman aging.

Virtually all the main characters drink steadily, to befog the present, to obliterate the past and - if inebriation becomes intense enough - to re-sketch both.

An 1898 editorial criticized "the profusion in the literary and pictorial 'output' which has a tendency to befog the intellect and lower the standards of taste."

For he plays upon their emotional natures, which tend if uncontrolled to befog the mind thus preventing the True Sun of Being from illuminating their Path.

"The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe," which opens today at the 57th Street Playhouse, presents a remarkable actress in a class act, but it is sometimes difficult to see her through special effects that befog.

In the interest of open communication with my fellow readers, I will try very hard not to speak to anyone at The Times off the record, on background, not for attribution, or under the cover of any of the other obfuscating cloud formations that befog modern journalism.

Stiff with fear, she dropped the focus-stone into her lap so that no emanation of that could befog reception for her and leaned forward, set her hands on either side of his head, held it, as if he were some artifact she must read for her life's sake.