| Playwrights, directors, songwriters migrated from New York to California, confecting a word-and-picture medium quite similar to the one they had left behind. |
| He was self-deprecating, sometimes unsure, occasionally irreverent, less capable of confecting answers, dissembling, or repackaging himself as England captain than any in his position who have sat before us in recent years. |
| Democrats loyal to the Clintons closed ranks, telling media outlets that partisans are confecting allegations out of nothing, and that all charges will prove unfounded. |
| It is a grave abuse to introduce other substances, such as fruit or sugar or honey, into the bread for confecting the Eucharist. |
| Many of them see him as an evil genius, confecting legal tricks that make it easier for indebted countries to shirk their financial obligations — and in the process saddle investors with losses. |
