"It was that crowd in front of me, and the hopeless confusion of my leadership, that opened those gates."

That made Maraklov stop in hopeless confusion.

In Chicago there was hopeless confusion.

Alfred, listening to two voices speaking simultaneously, opened and shut his mouth in hopeless confusion.

In a moment the pleasant oak-raftered coffee-room of the inn became the scene of hopeless confusion and discomfort.

In the city all is hopeless confusion.

In hopeless confusion he sought out his mentor Seneca.

Jim kept no eye-beams set in the main passages, since that would lead to hopeless confusion.

Although Blake lost only 3,001 men on the battlefield, many thousands more were dispersed in the hopeless confusion of retreat as the Spanish front disintegrated.

The playwright can create isolated moments of an affecting sense of hopeless confusion.