How To Use Mystifying In A Sentence
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Among the expedients resorted to in exploiting a scientific fraud, mystifying lingo is one of the commonest, and in this he was an adept.
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But what I find mystifying is why the Attorney General and the people at the Justice Department and the White House risk charges of perjury and contempt of Congress by trying to cover up their political motives behind the firings.
Loyal Bushies
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It struck me that the practice of Thaipusam should not seem that mystifying for anyone who endures a crisis of conscience.
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The Council for Quebec Sovereignty set off a firestorm with the unveiling of a 142-page textbook aimed at "demystifying" Quebec sovereignty for students.
Peace, order and good government, eh?: March 2006 Archives
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Hendricks runs around through the movie clad in these throwback sneakers, a totally mystifying move by the wardrobe department.
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In demystifying the little-understood speech impediment, the award-winning film reveals myths and fascinating truths about stuttering, and has won praise from stutterers of all ages.
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The tears come because one suddenly realises that, in demystifying the belief systems in this inexorable process of enquiry, one's own vantage point is no less prone to attack.
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Maybe her ladyship had "registered a vow" never to syllable a name unchronicled by Debrett, or was actually only mystifying me for mere amusement.
The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer — Complete
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Christine Fair, a co-author of that report and an assistant professor at Georgetown University's Center for Peace and Security Studies, said the battle against extremists in Pakistan is mired in layers of subterfuge by Pakistani intelligence and a "mystifying" acceptance by the CIA of Pakistan's "good-militant, bad-militant" policy.
The Ghazi Force: Vengeful New Militant Group Emerges In Pakistan
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Loopy line extensions are not new phenomena; they've just become increasingly dizzying with many often mystifying leaps.
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Visual experience thus takes the place of the kind of self-revelation expected in an autobiographical narrative, leaving the reader with mystifying elisions in Lucy's life story.
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They're spending millions to create consistent brands recognized around the world, while Gallic winegrowers are turning out too much low-quality table wine with mystifying labels.
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quiz show (uploaded from a Serbian-language forum with a mystifyingly telling name ofParapsihopatologija - “Parapsychopathology”) - and has translated the question and four answer choices:
Kosovo & Serbia: Independence Blogging
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His previous album contained a similar mix of oddball songs and tunes; it was mystifying, irritating, a bit boring.
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Even more mystifying is the assertion that Deloitte welcomes diversity of thought.
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Oh, how she missed those mystifying green eyes and that dashingly handsome smile that sent fluttering butterflies down her stomach.
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Frobisher felt the drops of sweat forming on his forehead, for it was beginning to look remarkably as though there was but one entrance to the vault -- that through which they had come -- and that all these other passages were either natural, or had been cut simply with the idea of mystifying and misleading possible intruders.
A Chinese Command A Story of Adventure in Eastern Seas
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But other chance ejaculations were more mystifying, and served to arouse in Jacqueline an intense, terrified curiosity as to what might be this long kept secret that so troubled the soul of Vrouw Voorhaas.
Jacqueline of the Carrier-Pigeons
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And also, for those who take their history seriously, a little mystifying.
Times, Sunday Times
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If not, it's simply mystifying, as well as painfully unfunny.
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Snake charming is always fascinating and at times mystifying.
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It's clearly still mystifying, which is obvious when Terre talks to a reporter.
Undefined
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An intriguing and mystifying meeting of the minds takes place on live television when famed mentalist Uri Geller and world-renowned mystifier Criss Angel (“Criss Angel Mindfreak”) conduct an intensive search for the next great mentalist.
Jenny’s This Week on TV | the TV addict
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By spreading out, the band try to claim the stage, however with only ten performances under their belts, what lacks in self-assurance is certainly compensated for in mystifyingly thunderous guitars.
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Mystifying because in a town with a clear pride in its country and its military past he hates the Royal family, drivels on about fluffy bunnies and their rights detests hunters and is a member of the beverage (ok Beveridge), group a far lefty tax and spend appeasing fidgety self righteous nuisance cabal.
The Hunters Hunted
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It would at the same time make the reason for the First Testament choices even more mystifying since the type corresponding to the antitype often resides in a few phrases as demonstrated above.
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She has a particular interest in demystifying science for the public, and to that end co-founded the first Penn State Astrofest, served on the editorial board of Odyssey, a science magazine for children.
Archive 2008-07-01
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This reaction was dubbed mystifying by one commentator, apparently born yesterday and thus unaware that the Arab League has forever been a collection of cynical, warring, unreliable dictatorships of ever-shifting loyalties.
The Washington Post: National, World & D.C. Area News and Headlines - washingtonpost.com
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The first seemed giftwrapped for him by the Jets coaching staff, which made the mystifying decision to fake a punt on fourth-and-3 from their own 40-yard line.
Jets Stumble Into the Postseason
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This is a tongue-twister and may sound boring, but the Wikipedia link I've provided in the previous sentence leads to a Hollywood-like "demystifying" video of life in the scientific fast lane (sorry about the pun).
Musings on scientific celebrity
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Instead, Danish advises "demystifying" the action, explaining that wrestlers are actors, not athletic idols.
Is This Too Raw For Kids?
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And also, for those who take their history seriously, a little mystifying.
Times, Sunday Times
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Layering jewelry can be mystifying, which is why this single piece composed of rhinestones, faux pearls, beads, and chains is so genius.
CNN.com
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The reason for this is truly mystifying as she never missed an opportunity to work with both famous and unknown singers and orchestras.
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But the first rule of demystifying is one must herself be demystified before attempting to demystify.
ProWomanProLife » Woah, Nellie
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While they may not have been such strict barricades as has often been supposed, choir screens were highly potent in their role as mystifying enclosures.
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But the first rule of demystifying is one must herself be demystified before attempting to demystify.
ProWomanProLife » Woah, Nellie
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What’s mystifying is that interviewers allow her to get away with it.
Think Progress » Bachmann’s Latest Whopper: ‘The Federal Government Literally Owns Banks’
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Actually, the job is so huge, the spotlight so hot, the weight of becoming part of history so heavy, that some candidates go through a mental process of demystifying the job, say those who have known presidents and presidential wannabes.
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She brings a romantic and mystifying element to each role that mesmerizes me.
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Even more mystifying is home run king Barry Bonds not being subpoenaed.
USATODAY.com - Priorities of Congress questioned
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`Frankly, as an educationalist, I find your attitude a little mystifying, Moira.
AN OLDER WOMAN
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The only one of his senior officials who I have actually met is the incoming National Security Adviser, Jim Jones, who I went to see once at SHAPE in Mons when he was SACEUR (sorry for the mystifying abbreviations but spelling them out in full is tedious).
Last night's events
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They may be a depraved tangle but it's the disparate concoction and uninhibited mindset that improbably make this band one of the most inventive and mystifyingly unsettling live acts I've seen in ages.
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rituals totally mystifying to visitors from other lands
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Being late to apply to a good public school (what they mystifyingly call private schools in England) my father enrolled my brother and I in what was considered to be one of the better grammar (no-fee) schools in London, St. Marylebone.
Hooman Majd: An American Wog on July 4th
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She is a rigorously skeptical and a profoundly visionary poet, a writer whose demystifying intelligence is matched by a passionate embrace of poetry's rejuvenating power.
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The editorials and breast-beating must look quaint and mystifying at the very least.
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This anthology launches a counter-offensive against the inhuman and mystifying terminologies of high finance.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Snake charming is always fascinating and at times mystifying.
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They have been berated for being bland, boring, meandering and, most mystifying of all, not playing trance or whatever this week's essential dancefloor mutation is.
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And also, for those who take their history seriously, a little mystifying.
Times, Sunday Times
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I see that my high school students are much more agreeable to this technique and that it only takes several word demystifying tips from me to get them comfortable with acronyms.
It is not rocket science, it is a mindset! Teaching Technical Acronyms
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I find your attitude a little mystifying, Moira.
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Mystifyingly, their squad for Sri Lanka doesn't include their best spinner and their form seamer, Stephen O'Keefe and Doug Bollinger.
Bowling Is Taking a Battering
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I wonder if they would be afforded equal for television exposure as the main Parties as, mystifyingly, the Liberals are.
Archive 2007-10-21
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John Bargh, in this chapter - Bypassing the Will: Towards Demystifying the Nonconscious Control of Social Behavior 1 - takes evidence from several different subdisciplines and argues that consciousness - that thing which gives us our experience of deliberate control - exists exactly to make automatic, 'unwilled', behaviours possible.
Mind Hacks: Consciousness exists to make itself unnecessary
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But even with these parallel examples, it seems like the alliance of many in the black community with its shady stars is stronger, substantiated by some kind of mystifying cultural camaraderie; the same kind of thinking that prompted some African Americans to vote for President Obama just because he's black, and not as much as for his campaign platform.
Cocoa Popps: R. Kelly on the Soul Train Awards-Morality vs. Entertainment
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Being late to apply to a good public school (what they mystifyingly call private schools in England) my father enrolled my brother and I in what was considered to be one of the better grammar (no-fee) schools in London, St. Marylebone.
Hooman Majd: An American Wog on July 4th
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While I preferred the villain in the second movie, I found the story flabbier (egads, the Aunt May speech!), heavy-handed (Spiderman's Christ-like pose as he bodysurfs his way down the crowd of commuters), and occasionally mystifying (I'll just drop this fusion experiment gone awry into New York Harbor and that should just about do it ...).
I Was Grossly Misinformed About Spider-Man 3...
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Despite a mystifying listlessness of manner, so strange in a girl of fifteen, she charmed him.
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There are too many mystifying oddities.
Times, Sunday Times