| The reader senses that Ted, looking back confoundedly on happier days in his marriage, is the one being turned to stone. |
| Why was she being so confoundedly stubborn about not abandoning him? |
| But you are so confoundedly hot-headed and exclamatory that I cannot get a word in. |
| But it is just like these merchant skippers, they are always so confoundedly careless. |
| They now got in upon us, and of course I need n't say we got confoundedly thrashed. |
| Mr. Hollande has proved confoundedly boring, they say, especially for news outlets that sometimes cover the government as if nothing else matters, relying on Paris politics to drive the news. |
