How To Use Baffling In A Sentence
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As well as obscene and disgusting, it is utterly baffling.
The Sun
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But completely baffling if you grew up with rationing.
Times, Sunday Times
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Alongside the body are a series of baffling codes, which Langdon is asked to decipher.
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Another baffling call from our friends the bookmakers as they quoted Waterford at a very generous 6 / 4.
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In vote after vote, people have been rejecting the guidance of political establishments, baffling elites and adding to the sum of anger in the world.
Times, Sunday Times
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This is all completely baffling to the international mind.
Times, Sunday Times
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There were baffling, unanswerable teasers such as: why is a left foot either ‘trusty’ or ‘educated’ but a right foot is neither?
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It is baffling why the Department of Defense has made this ruling.
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Laurel Canyon (2003), each focused on an innocent young woman swept up in the glamorously baffling sex-and-drugs scene swirling around a charismatic older female artist, the situation here is reversed; unexpectedly drawn in to and fascinated by the ultra-domestic household created by a pair of charismatic femmes, the swinger is the straight man (literally).
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With its directives on the correct shape of fruit, production quotas, wine lakes and butter mountains the EU is baffling at the best of times.
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His abilities as an advocate evoked general admiration, though he did not succeed in baffling the prosecution.
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To the casual visitor to France, a country of high-speed trains, well-stocked municipal flower beds and sit-down lunches, such French glumness is baffling.
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She was alive, but everlastingly inaccessible, and Alberg found this baffling and frustrating.
SLEEP WHILE I SING
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There is also a growing market for new soft drinks such as clear, healthy-looking flavoured waters, herbal waters and teas, with a baffling range of flavours to choose from.
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Choosing yoghurt has become as baffling as buying light bulbs.
Times, Sunday Times
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And what's more baffling is that they counted us out even though there's the wild card, too.
USATODAY.com - Cardinal fans' impatience rewarded
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I always thought rugby was about running and passing and tackling, but it has become a game of scrabbling about until the next baffling penalty is given.
Times, Sunday Times
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His baffling new case involves a woman long presumed dead, and a mysterious ransom note sent to the man accused of her murder.
The Sun
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But completely baffling if you grew up with rationing.
Times, Sunday Times
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The idle boast recently that New Labour were bang on target to ‘lift’ a predetermined number of children out of poverty was baffling.
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I find it hard to imagine any activity more baffling than curling and the luge.
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The word "belie" seems to like shifting its meaning in baffling ways.
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Maybe they might now address some of life's other baffling puzzles.
Times, Sunday Times
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This was very baffling to his suit; but then these slumbers were accompanied by agreeable dreams, which completely inthralled the senses of the drowsy lover, so he continued to dream on, while all Granada scoffed at his infatuation, and groaned at the treasures lavished for a song.
The Alhambra
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A roll of carpet and some mats stood in a corner, chairs and tables with burlaps round their legs waited here and there, a cot with a mattress on it, evidently to be transformed into a "couch," held packages of bafflingly irregular shapes and sizes.
T. Tembarom
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Talking to someone who doesn't give you her full attention is rather baffling.
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In the following weeks and months I was constantly ill, with a baffling array of symptoms.
M.E. and You - a self-help plan
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A collage of baffling signs nailed to the bricole proclaims one-way systems, variable speed limits and width restrictions.
Times, Sunday Times
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Next on the increasingly baffling agenda comes an apache dance for Bahiyah Sayyed-Gaines and Glenn A. Sims that is not merely gorgeous but also the one authentic moment in the piece.
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And surmounting a higher ledge beyond this upthrust a huge dome of dull gold, Cyclopean, striking eyes and mind with something unhumanly alien, baffling; sending the mind groping, as though across the deserts of space, from some far-flung star, should fall upon us linked sounds, coherent certainly, meaningful surely, vaguely familiar -- yet never to be translated into any symbol or thought of our own particular planet.
The Moon Pool
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This apparently baffling arrangement turns out to make perfect sense.
Times, Sunday Times
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This is all completely baffling to the international mind.
Times, Sunday Times
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Whenever this occurred the discovery of a fresh outrage was sure to follow, but, so far, the miscreants had succeeded in baffling not only the police, but also the many farm hands who had formed themselves into a band of volunteer watchmen, determined to bring the cattle maimers to justice.
Lady Molly of Scotland Yard
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The baffling plot (which might be euphemized as ‘labyrinthian’) tells of an anti-hero, dubbed ‘A.,’ who travels to Prague to find the office of the Central Registry, where he's been promised a position.
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If there is something truly baffling about the results to any question, you may want to talk it over with an elder you trust.
Christianity Today
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It is baffling but he must have somehow managed to atone for his sins and convince her that he has changed.
The Sun
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Make no mistake: the world of investment is vast and baffling.
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My mission was to explain this with baffling technical jargon and pie charts - mmmm, pies - while Stella's role was to talk money and promise unobtainable IT related happiness.
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Bafflingly, men can now get 'mantyhose' (sometimes worn to avoid 'chafing').
Times, Sunday Times
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Schweinfurth says, "The arrow and the spear heads are of the finest and most artistic work; their bristlelike barbs and points are baffling when one knows how few tools these smiths have.
The Negro
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The fact that Steve Kloves was back writing the screenplay is baffling considering his past success in honoring the source material for the first 4 installments.
“Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” is worst of the series » Scene-Stealers
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But this is a bafflingly unrewarding, unexciting piece of work.
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Mysterious giant beasts may lurk in the darkest depths of the ocean, making whale-like noises that are baffling scientists, it was disclosed today.
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It is a baffling privilege and one that should arouse righteous indignation from a number of other courses.
Times, Sunday Times
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And one of the most baffling is the Mpemba Effect.
The Mpemba Effect
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The way that this originally purely comic figure became an icon for young womanhood is baffling.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is a baffling privilege and one that should arouse righteous indignation from a number of other courses.
Times, Sunday Times
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An equally baffling fire broke out last week in Fayetteville, Missouri.
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This apparently baffling arrangement turns out to make perfect sense.
Times, Sunday Times
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Some Indologists labeled the Hinduism they encountered polytheistic; others even coined new terms, like henotheism, to describe this baffling array of spiritual traditions.
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I eventually explained it away as ‘witchcraft’ because it was all too baffling for her.
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Given that the number is virtually impossible to misdial, this traffic was baffling.
The Best of Wired on Apple
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It is baffling but he must have somehow managed to atone for his sins and convince her that he has changed.
The Sun
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To the outsider the prosperity of Northern Ireland is baffling.
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Among the more baffling parts of this showdown is why Madam Secretary would have invited such a comeuppance in the first place.
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While Cookie hovers on the edge of death, Spoon is obliged to fill out an endless, baffling questionnaire.
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The moral order is what structures and orders the otherwise baffling spiritual world, and it is the genius of Charles Williams to have shown it with a certain plausibly, exploring the implications in a satisfactory way.
All Hallows’ Eve, by Charles Williams « Unknowing
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It was baffling, he suggested, that a country so stained by a history of slavery and brutal segregation should dare think itself a model of purity.
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Beyond that, as described by an article in New Scientist, explaining it has "proven to be bafflingly, frustratingly, mind-bendingly difficult" (as are most scientifically challenging issues -- think climate change, for example).
Ball lightning: real or fantasy?
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As Pollard notes, Lord Ahmed has bravely spoken out in favor of deporting Islamofascist extremists from the UK, which makes his association with "Shamir" real name: Jöran Jermas all the more baffling and disappointing.
Daimnation!: Hatred in the House of Lords
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That's why it's baffling that reasonable politicians like U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Brighton, and former state Rep. Lorence Wenke, R-Richland, would not only go, but fail to call baloney when they see it.
Detnews.com - Local
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I was constantly ill, with a baffling array of symptoms.
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This is all completely baffling to the international mind.
Times, Sunday Times
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Perhaps some day soon the Office of the Special Counsel will help unsnarl this baffling morass.
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The sudden outbreak of illness since the beginning of the month is still baffling the experts.
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As well as obscene and disgusting, it is utterly baffling.
The Sun
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Bafflingly for Barry, his hairy chest, toothy grin and even his ale and hearty tum couldn't win her over.
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As well as obscene and disgusting, it is utterly baffling.
The Sun
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The plot is a baffling array of gangster parody nonsense, sexist claptrap and kidnap chaos.
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Bafflingly, from the few glimpses we're given of it, this haven appears anything but alluring, with Julia coming across as a self-satisfied nag and prig.
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What I always find baffling is that any industry would want to limit what is essentially cheap or next to free publicity and advertising for their product.
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Most of us find this association completely baffling.
Times, Sunday Times
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To see the history I was engaged with being protected to maintain the large, inspiriting Nightingale narrative was a sobering, but not baffling, experience.
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They couldn't communicate with them," Foels said of officers 'troubled attempts to ascertain the group's motive, which he termed baffling, bizarre and uncommon.
Undefined
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The hitherto baffling puzzles can now be solved.
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The few known facts added up to a baffling puzzle that invited colourful explanations.
SPICE: The History of a Temptation
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I always thought rugby was about running and passing and tackling, but it has become a game of scrabbling about until the next baffling penalty is given.
Times, Sunday Times
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Most of us find this association completely baffling.
Times, Sunday Times
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Indeed what is baffling is that they don't share the same level of success overseas.
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And -- most baffling of all -- why had he resigned his bishopric ?
ULTIMATE PRIZES
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An apple tree producing square fruit is baffling experts.
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All I did was introduce myself, and she paid me what seemed at first like a baffling compliment.
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Where the parrots came from is a baffling biological question.
SPIX'S MACAW: THE RACE TO SAVE THE WORLD'S RAREST BIRD
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It is baffling but he must have somehow managed to atone for his sins and convince her that he has changed.
The Sun
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Seen as a whole, for anyone other than an expert in Leonardo studies, the essays may seem baffling.
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It is baffling to me why anyone would want to create a monopoly, a power to censor and prohibit, and ban the reporting of open justice.
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The few known facts added up to a baffling puzzle that invited colourful explanations.
SPICE: The History of a Temptation
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But ‘Minus One’, contextualised with the rest of the oeuvre, is completely baffling.
Ballardian » Simon Brook's Minus One
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In vote after vote, people have been rejecting the guidance of political establishments, baffling elites and adding to the sum of anger in the world.
Times, Sunday Times
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Given that both soft and hard alveolars (‘t’ and ‘d') are used in Punjabi, their representation in the new script would constitute the most baffling problem.
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She was alive, but everlastingly inaccessible, and Alberg found this baffling and frustrating.
SLEEP WHILE I SING
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In vote after vote, people have been rejecting the guidance of political establishments, baffling elites and adding to the sum of anger in the world.
Times, Sunday Times
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But, if it's all a bit baffling, try our easy-peasy tests below.
The Sun
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The vagueness of the crimes and ties between the characters only adds to the baffling nature of the plot.
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My recent experiences suggest there remains a baffling variability in how knowledgeable and helpful staff are.
Times, Sunday Times
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True, what's exhilarating to one person is frustrating to another, so when one considers the vast and growing array of advanced automotive engineering materials it can either look pretty baffling or extremely bounteous.
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But it is just plain baffling to watch him take the same regal attitude toward a Congress in which his party holds solid majorities in both houses.
Matthew Yglesias » Alan Bersin
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He constructs a cascade of stories that bleed into each other with a baffling, hypnotic fluidity.
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The ceremony also includes the dreaded Golden Bull booby prizes for the year's most baffling gobbledygook.
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She found the man a baffling and fascinating combination of qualities, all petty selfishness and colossal egotisms one minute, abounding in endless charms and graces and small endearing chivalries the next; outrageously outspoken at times, at other times, reticent to the point of secretiveness; now reaching the most extravagant pitch of high spirits, and then, almost without warning, submerged in moods of Stygian gloom from which nothing could rouse him.
Wild Wings A Romance of Youth
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Give it a fair trial and you will agree that taking pictures -- the mere _taking_, with no bothering your head about developing, printing, toning and the like -- is a matter no more baffling than the simple art of learning to punch the letters on the keyboard of a typewriter.
If You Don't Write Fiction
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I was constantly ill, with a baffling array of symptoms.
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Blepharospasm is a cunning, baffling, powerful adversary.
Times, Sunday Times
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An apple tree producing square fruit is baffling experts.
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The failure to fix this persistent problem is baffling.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is baffling but he must have somehow managed to atone for his sins and convince her that he has changed.
The Sun
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I also get the sense that some lawyers think baffling legal jargon and tortured syntax will impress their clients.
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The fact that the film tries to go back to cheeky black comedy after this is simply baffling.
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He is known for swinging unabashed through his corporate environment, baffling corridor lurkers with bright smiles and a radiant happiness with life.
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Choosing yoghurt has become as baffling as buying light bulbs.
Times, Sunday Times
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If there is something truly baffling about the results to any question, you may want to talk it over with an elder you trust.
Christianity Today
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The liberal "civility" extended to conservatives is baffling considering liberals extol tolerance as one of their virtue!
Liz Cheney open to running for office
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Citizens, too, began to complain that the economic system was bafflingly arbitrary.
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An apple tree producing square fruit is baffling experts.
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There are no clear-cut answers to the baffling problem of the cause of stammering.
Stammering in Young Children
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In the following weeks and months I was constantly ill, with a baffling array of symptoms.
M.E. and You - a self-help plan
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Choosing yoghurt has become as baffling as buying light bulbs.
Times, Sunday Times
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Maybe they might now address some of life's other baffling puzzles.
Times, Sunday Times
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There is a baffling array of ISA funds out there, offered by a vast number of investment companies.
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And I know from personal researches military records range from the encyclopaedic, to the scrappy, to the incomplete, to the absolutely baffling.
ARTHUR REX CRANE
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The film is appallingly directed, exposing the actors to scenes of baffling embarrassment.
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Baffling the meteorologists and weathermen and upsetting the rhythm of life of millions, the Monsoon failed last year despite the predictions of good rain.
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His baffling recruitment and shuffling of mediocre foreign players has done no one any favours.
Times, Sunday Times
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Yet Mr Newbury erects a baffling theory, accusing Chalky of saying that the cement works does no harm.
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On the contrary, money numbers are complex and often baffling, and in the past few years they have been particularly so.
Times, Sunday Times
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The study concluded that schemes with the highest fees often have baffling charging structures.
Times, Sunday Times
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There's no baffling submenus within a sub-menu within another sub-menu to switch off the interior light.
The Sun
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The referee whistles for a goal-kick, which is rather baffling.
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The tax system was described as "arbitrary" and the relationship between estate annual values and resources appeared somewhat baffling.
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His baffling new case involves a woman long presumed dead, and a mysterious ransom note sent to the man accused of her murder.
The Sun
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In that time, we've taken a look at a wide array of sexual fetishes ranging from the unnerving to the truly horrifying to the baffling.
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My recent experiences suggest there remains a baffling variability in how knowledgeable and helpful staff are.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was almost a relief when everyone started reminding each other about the ancient and baffling phenomenon of entailment, the insane property law that enabled a complete stranger (well, a third cousin, once removed, in Manchester) to inherit all your money and earldom and acres of rolling parkland.
Downton Abbey; Whites; DCI Banks; Inspector George Gently; Horizon
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Retinol, pentapeptides, pro-calcium - the list of ingredients on beauty counters is long and baffling.
The Sun
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In vote after vote, people have been rejecting the guidance of political establishments, baffling elites and adding to the sum of anger in the world.
Times, Sunday Times
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That would have been harsh, but it was even more baffling when it emerged later that Mr East whistled for a spot-kick because of a handball by Paul Groves.
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And the design of the fashion matrix was baffling - it's hard to know which stuff the editor likes from the position on the page.
Times, Sunday Times
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There is nothing baffling about its language at all.
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Californians are regularly called upon to vote on a baffling array of issues.
Times, Sunday Times
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One industry chief executive said: 'The complete indifference to the whole industry is baffling.
Times, Sunday Times
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The decision to go on with the game was baffling.
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It is baffling being a man, especially now, particularly if you are ageing and English.
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On its own, it is rather disturbing and baffling, in particular the clip where a tiny man is licking the camera lens, which turns into a cat lapping up a saucer of milk.
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The bitter ones sneer or reproach or laugh at this "contrariness" in women they do not understand, and which, baffling their intellect, appears to them to be irrational folly.
Married Love: or, Love in Marriage
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If there is something truly baffling about the results to any question, you may want to talk it over with an elder you trust.
Christianity Today
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Why he would go to such extraordinary lengths is baffling.
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Instead we need a national poet to make sense of our fast-moving, baffling world.
Times, Sunday Times
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But for her the phantom baby that came to life dancing in her fantasy was a baffling problem.
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Of course, some inclusions are obvious and some baffling.
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There is also a growing market for new soft drinks such as clear, healthy-looking flavoured waters, herbal waters and teas, with a baffling range of flavours to choose from.
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Those of us who have tried to penetrate the often baffling complexities of modern music have often had cause to be grateful to him for unravelling its mysteries.
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Allies are made, lost and forgotten in a heartbeat; promoters confound the plan by putting our tumultuous trio up as closing act of the night on bills that are, frankly, baffling and then doing nothing to hype the venture.
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This tone can be arch, infuriating, inexplicit, and baffling.
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I think there's another side to it as well, seen from the other side of the fence: incoming slang is a sort of secret language, expressing exquisitely shaded meanings that are shared among the in-group but are baffling to outsiders.
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eyes...of that baffling protean grey which is never twice the same
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I repeatedly had a baffling array of symptoms and was disappointed to receive either no diagnosis or even misdiagnosis and cocktails of harmful drugs.
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It is a baffling privilege and one that should arouse righteous indignation from a number of other courses.
Times, Sunday Times
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Just as inhabitants of different regions of the country have dialects and language unique to them, Alaskans have a lexicon of their own that can be baffling to cheechakos.
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His baffling new case involves a woman long presumed dead, and a mysterious ransom note sent to the man accused of her murder.
The Sun
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My recent experiences suggest there remains a baffling variability in how knowledgeable and helpful staff are.
Times, Sunday Times
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In vote after vote, people have been rejecting the guidance of political establishments, baffling elites and adding to the sum of anger in the world.
Times, Sunday Times
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I'd been told that all the signs in the capital Sofia were bilingual but this is not the case. Apart from a couple of government buildings, everything sports the same baffling hieroglyphics.
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One of the baffling things about social insects such as ants is how their co-operative behaviour has evolved.
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To all the rest of the world she was as a creature utterly unawake and to a man who was of the world and who had lived a long life in it the contemplation of her was a strange and baffling thing.
Robin
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Occasionally, however, the movie connection is just baffling.
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Renee DeCarlo it was quick, it was quiet, it was fast; a blue view of small proportions .... gaze inside a day when the sun shines a bright blue blessing of clear skies and the ease of breathing is all but forgotten. fixed on the soft buzz of an upward motion the hem of his slightly frayed blue jeans wrapped around my imagination and so began the baffling alchemy of apteral aeronautics once again pulling the strings of a sleepy distracted life. sensing a draw between yes and no the arousing sound of crimson fire and gritty dust stung my watery eyes creating a revolving revolution amidst the stomping of unified feet. powerless to refuse the motion of forward my numb bare feet shuffled to the plaintive chant echoed in the ancient ritual of fire. attending to the tribal embrace the bombardment of countless voices revealed hidden stories in a mesh of rattling shells drenching the crowded air.
The Clarity of Night
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This may explain something of the bond which was otherwise baffling to their acquaintances.
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But completely baffling if you grew up with rationing.
Times, Sunday Times
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But the fun had been spoiled for Sadd -- even shattered -- by May's phone call and young Henry's baffling involvement which, Sadd said, had "revved" me unnecessarily.
Working Murder
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Choosing yoghurt has become as baffling as buying light bulbs.
Times, Sunday Times
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It's a rapid-paced mélange of absurdist nonsense stuffed with mad ideas, baffling scenarios, and unlikely characters.
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Nor was the war itself precisely a definite issue between pure good and pure evil, - such distinctions belong to the world of the idealistic reason of which our actual intricate existence in whose net opposites are very bafflingly fused together, is as yet at least no faithful reproduction, - but a very confused clash and catastrophe of the intertangled powers of the past, present and future.
The human spirit has still to find itself, its idea and its greater orientation
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Maybe they might now address some of life's other baffling puzzles.
Times, Sunday Times
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The study concluded that schemes with the highest fees often have baffling charging structures.
Times, Sunday Times
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Its builders incorporated the ruins of the 11th-century church into a new facade after it was damaged in 1192, clashing simple round arches with baffling runs of blind arcading.
Gothic architecture in Britain: examples from the era
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So worried are they that customers won't pay more than a fiver for wine with a screw cap that these closures now come in very baffling disguises.
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It is a baffling privilege and one that should arouse righteous indignation from a number of other courses.
Times, Sunday Times
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While Cookie hovers on the edge of death, Spoon is obliged to fill out an endless, baffling questionnaire.
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And so art became baffling and uninterpretable without acquaintance with arcane theory.
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His management style, his beliefs, are a baffling blend that defies categorization.
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The theater was designed without either front hanging points (for lights and sound equipment) or built-in ceiling lights, which is baffling.
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The study concluded that schemes with the highest fees often have baffling charging structures.
Times, Sunday Times
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The few known facts added up to a baffling puzzle that invited colourful explanations.
SPICE: The History of a Temptation
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The sensor baffling gear was still operating, but the visual disguise was gone.
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While Cookie hovers on the edge of death, Spoon is obliged to fill out an endless, baffling questionnaire.
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Wieseltier often employs bafflingly obscurantist, elliptical, oneiric swirls of thought meant to wow his readers with his putative Kant-like gifts.
Matthew Yglesias » Wieseltier vs Sullivan
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How a state could enforce such mind-bogglingly stupid policies is baffling.
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Californians are regularly called upon to vote on a baffling array of issues.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is one of the world's most baffling puzzles, the bane of professional cryptologists and amateur sleuths who have spent 15 years trying to solve it.
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On the contrary, money numbers are complex and often baffling, and in the past few years they have been particularly so.
Times, Sunday Times
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Kapleau defines it as a formulation, in baffling language, pointing to ultimate truth.
Notes on 'Kafka and the Coincidence of Opposites'
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He bafflingly brought up his polyamorous relationship with his wife while interviewing a young woman.
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The controls and instrumentation of a modern fighter aircraft, for example, are bafflingly complex.
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Bafflingly, a knighthood still awaits, but this present accolade will surely not be the last that comes the way of a musician of unswerving integrity and principle.
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The history of To Kill a King is one of unpaid wages and bills, corner-cutting, reshooting and rescripting on the hoof, computer-generated miracles, bafflingly complicated funding deals and bankruptcy, not once but twice.
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Most of us find this association completely baffling.
Times, Sunday Times
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The conmen use baffling jargon when they talk about those deals, to confuse their victims.
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Californians are regularly called upon to vote on a baffling array of issues.
Times, Sunday Times
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And another self-inflicted wound is waiting to happen that is just as baffling.
Times, Sunday Times
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The most baffling aspect of the season has been the collapse of the defense.
