| 单词 | confound |
| 例句 | “I’ve got to stay for this confounded supper, but I shall be home early tomorrow. You’ll come and meet me as usual, girls?” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z We see master and slave alike, confounded at the celerity and ineluctability of our approach, calling warnings— messengers sent on horseback, riding no faster than our progress, posting along ridges, bent close upon their steeds. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z “It is not I. You confound me with my friend M. Bouc.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z My willingness to eat confused and annoyed the staff, confounding their efforts to understand what I was doing there. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z When Lyra was younger, he had taken an interest in her spiritual welfare, only to be confounded by her sly indifference and insincere repentances. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z "Where do I keep it? I have no pockets in these confounded clothes." Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z The young, photogenic Yale-, Oxford-, and Harvard-educated lawyer had learned just how confounding the problems of urban America were. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z He might eventually return to the spot where he had started, and would of course be utterly confounded to explain how that had happened. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z He said these things with a sly grin, knowing they would confound me as I mulled them until our next meeting. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z For reasons that confound medical science, the product also fails to affect those working in certain professions—the editors of fashion magazines, for example. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z But, as with many crimes against American Indians, the question of which government entity had jurisdiction over the Osage murders was confounding. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z And really, after a day or two of confusion worse confounded, it was delightful by degrees to invoke order from the chaos ourselves had made. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z The paradigm was simple enough to make their behavior confounding: Good/Bad. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z The man behind the camera was confounded by their outlandish names. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z “They didn’t carry out my plan,” he wrote, “confound them!” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Master Hyrrokkin opened his mouth, confounded, but no sound came out. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The best chance of avoiding and confounding the beasts that lie below is to be as unpredictable as the sea and sky. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z By then she had performed unfalteringly under the twins’ perspicacious scrutiny and had confounded all their expectations. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Their commitment to their faith is confounding a long-held assumption that, like earlier generations of Baptists or Pentecostals, prosperous evangelicals would abandon their religious ties or trade them for membership in establishment churches. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Smoking is without doubt a significant contributory cause of cancer, lung and heart disease, but there are confounding factors having to do with life-style and environment which partially obscured this fact for some years. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “Hush, he’s in the garden! I forgot the confounded jelly, but it can’t be helped now,” said John, surveying the prospect with an anxious eye. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z This original sin against my family told whenever anyone addressed me in Spanish and I responded, confounded. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z It even happens that something that at first repelled or confounded us emerges only many years later as one of the most important artistic events of our lives. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z “Tell me where you feel it and I’ll plot a course for us that will confound its pursuit.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z I looked from his face to the glass, thinking, he's disemboweled himself just in order to confound me . Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z “Surrender, you two! and confound you for two wild beasts! Come asunder!” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z I probably had a “Cecile look” on my face for the times we said things that completely confounded her. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z “Only,” said I, “that you would not confound them with the others. They may be of the same blood, but, believe me, they are not of the same nature.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z You feel fortunate to have such a knowledgeable expert as an ally in this most confounding enterprise. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z What I had read in the tennis magazines simply confounded rather than enlightened me. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Yet Gabriel felt that he had surprised them; he had found them out and they were a little ashamed and confounded before his purity. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Their banter might be hilarious were it not so confounding and, often, scary. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z How could nature be governed by ratios and proportions when something as simple as a square can confound the language of ratios? Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z I add: An intellect confounded yet a trusting sense of presence and of ultimate purpose. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z “What a confounded nuisance,” said Maxim, “that cupid is worth a hell of a lot. How I loathe servants’ rows too. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z "It would please me to shake the teeth out of your confounded face!" replied Hold-Your-Nose Billy. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z ‘Of all the confounded nuisances you are the worst, Sam!’ he said. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z I did well in my classes, especially in math and science, which confounded some of the other kids, since my English was still raw. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z There are many confounding factors, however, and whether there’s any causal relation between the two phenomena is unclear, as is its direction, if there is one. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Of course, the more she wandered the station, the more likely she’d be seen, but it was worth the risk to confound the DNA detectors and send her pursuers on a wild-goose chase. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z But there was a change in Gatsby that was simply confounding. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z The roads confound him; they’ve knotted up, dark, antagonistic; he pits himself against them, valiant, a man doing battle for love. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z “She is a tearing fine specimen. She got excellent reserve. Not so confounded get-at-able.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z "Yes," he said, "I know that many of the old families still survive. And individuals too, the human stock goes on, even though it degenerates. But these cabinsl" He seemed surprised and confounded. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z No wonder Atticus confounded Henry in the early days of their association by saying, “Pleading’s little more than putting on paper what you want to say.” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z For as long as I could remember, people had always confounded me. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z She was paired with the one person who could confound her plans, manipulate her moves, keep her from the truth. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes correlated quantities are causally related, but other “confounding” factors complicate and obscure the causal relations. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I opened my pack, rooted through the contents, and then looked up with that confounded expression that comes with the discovery of a reversal. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Lydia sat confounded and speechless for several minutes after he finished. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z He might as well be leading a confounded parade, for all the noise he was making. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z He kicked, pounded, twisted, pushed, using his lack of size to confound and exasperate Elisha, whose damp fists, joined at the small of John’s back, soon slipped. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z In fact, they had encountered the same wave-particle duality of light that was confounding their elders in physics. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z It confounds me when people don’t assist or even welcome those on their own team. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z She had no time to fool with Fern, but Fern stamped her foot, confounded by the effort it took to get Big Ma near the chicken run. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z After a long piece of his intestine was removed, Dad confounded everybody by going back to work in a month. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Early twin studies were thus confounded by this confusion, leading to inconclusive results. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The Sisters of the Star lived in the Tower, a massive structure that unsettled the eye and confounded the mind. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z I didn't like the look of things, for all my wish to see the committee confounded. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z I follow Amber in the papers to feel closer to her, but the stories are confounding. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z It is no small thing to confound the High King’s general, to sneak out of Faerie with his baby in your belly and hide for almost ten years. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z It's fine to cure the leukemia sufferers but much more satisfying to imagine the parade of opportunists confounded by my refusal to cooperate. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Either she doesn't want to confound the jury, or she has no more idea than I have why Sam Westing had to play two roles. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z You would die out there for sure—shredded by a cougar or thudded with a tomahawk or just left to wander to a stumbling, confounded death. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Those include confounding effects of natural variation in additional variables besides the one of interest, as well as problems in inferring chains of causation from observed correlations between variables. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “Good, good. Thank you for your commiserations, my friend, and now you’d best be off, back to your confounded computer. I’m sorry to work you so.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z He had confounded them all by passing the test, although they still refused him the ballot . Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Still confounded, the old librarian just held out the request form. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Here there was a choke that couldn’t be controlled, so he decapitated buttercups while he cleared his ‘confounded throat’. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z Immoral logic seemed to be confounding him at every turn. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z I needed to confound them with my intelligence. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z He had confounded them all by passing the test, although they still refused him the ballot . Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z I stood confounded on the spot where we had last been together. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z I was confounded by her stopping and offering her unsolicited opinion. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The volume of things was confounding—the volume of air above me, the volume of water around and beneath me. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z “Is it your plan, then, Sonny my boy, to disgrace the entire state of West Virginia with your confounded ignorance?” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z He lapses into a confounded silence and we regroup around the subject of whether having idols is desirable or necessary when planning for the future. Paul Dano on acting, love and embarrassing parents: 'They have way too many pictures of me' 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z More than once, I was simply confounded by the text. ‘Bone Rooms’: Where scientific racists stored their ‘evidence’ 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z That book, The Adventures of You on Sugar Cane Island, confused and confounded publishers for six years, failing to find a home until the manuscript fell into the hands of R.A. The Real ‘You’ Tube: Choose Your Own Adventure‘s New Era 2013-01-09T13:00:47Z So in late January last year I began training three or four times a week with a trainer called Rory Lynn, who used to be a professional rugby player and confounded my prejudices about PTs. 5am ice baths and a strict vegan diet: my year of living (very) healthily 2018-01-06T05:00:00Z That said, America, in particular, is culturally perplexing, and even confounding to a lot of the rest of the world. Delusional, prudish, selfish, violent: This is how Americans compare to the rest of the world 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z Gripping and deliberately disorienting, Mr Robot continually confounds its obsessed audience with clues that the entire show might actually be taking place inside the main character’s addled mind. After Mad Men and Breaking Bad, what’s next for The Great American Drama? 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z And I think it's important and it's valuable, but there's still a little part of me that feels caught up in this endless, confounding cycle of competing narratives. In ‘Allen v. Farrow,’ looking for the last word on a notoriously unresolved story 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z There was no blood or gore, but it was a truly shocking scene, far more shocking, for example, than the bodiless head in The Fear, because there was a context and expectations were abruptly confounded. Rewind TV: The Fear; The Town; A Young Doctor's Notebook; The Secret Life of Rubbish; Imagine... Jeanette Winterson: My Monster and Me; Inside Claridge's – review 2012-12-09T00:06:09Z Why Jones and Stone would tell the Infowars audience that Trump is slurring his words is almost as confounding as the story itself. Alex Jones, Roger Stone agree: Someone may be drugging President Trump 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z Partially inspired by the christening of the Judy Blume Service Area on the Garden State Parkway, I decided to revisit the guidebooks that have helped two generations navigate a confounding stage of life. The Essential Judy Blume 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z For some scholars, White’s passion for preserving treasures of the past and what they view as her collecting miscues are a confounding mix born of a perhaps noble, but misguided set of impulses. At the Met, She Holds Court. At Home, She Held 71 Looted Antiquities. 2023-07-17T04:00:00Z To confound her suitors, her father has set them a challenge. Review: A ‘Merchant of Venice’ That Doubles Down on Pain 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z Joseph and Dun are devoted Christians from Columbus, Ohio, and they combine a kind of stalwart Midwesternness with a genre fluidity that feels deployed to confound. The Slippery Appeal of the Biggest New Band in America 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z Many of Miss Manners’ Gentle Readers are confounded by the separation between personal and professional etiquette, but her sympathy is more engaged when the confusion is well-intentioned. Perspective | Miss Manners: My greedy brother is just waiting for dad to die! 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z Leonardo A. Patterson, a globe-trotting antiquities dealer who is called canny by friends and a tomb raider by detractors, has long excelled in two areas: acquiring pre-Columbian artifacts and confounding investigators. Antiquities Dealer Leonardo Patterson Faces New Criminal Charges 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z Pope put it best: “He gains all points, who pleasingly confounds/Surprises, varies, and conceals the bounds.” Art Review: At Morgan Library, Glories of Nature, Tamed by Man 2010-06-03T21:31:00Z And a lot of them have their own definition of “major improvement,” which, in some instances, would confound anyone who has ever attended culinary school or frequents upscale restaurants. What Happens After ‘Restaurant: Impossible’ Leaves Town 2012-07-10T21:00:58Z Throughout there is an unavoidable sense that a good deal of Gauguin's self-projection was, precisely, a pose, yet one that confounds our sense of the poseur by the repeated production of works of genius. Gauguin: Into the mystic 2010-10-01T23:06:00Z Rivalries between them and within their teams "confounded political science models". There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra by Chinua Achebe - review 2012-10-05T21:55:01Z Silence amid a roomful of people giving set speeches — how startling and confounding. In ‘Forest Dark,’ Nicole Krauss Plays With Divided Selves 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z Or is it all more ambiguous and confounding, an unresolved emptiness as hard as a rock? What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z They belong to the all-embracing culture of the internet, which for them turns out to be a confounding Tower of Babel. Review: Reaching Across Korean Borders in ‘Wild Goose Dreams’ 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z His arrival does not, however, dispel the melancholy that pervades this deeply compassionate elegy on the confounding sorrows of day-to-day existence. Review: ‘Signature Plays’ Triple Bill Reveals Truth in the Mirror’s Lies 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z When Frank Castorf, the avant-garde German director responsible for this confounding concept , took the stage with his production team, almost the entire audience, it seemed, erupted with loud, prolonged boos. At Bayreuth, Boos and Dropped Jaws 2013-08-01T10:42:00Z A novel about a homely, forsaken child is bound to involve hardship and despair, and Shannon certainly endures both, but Ms. Celona adroitly confounds many of our expectations. Books of The Times: ‘Y’ by Marjorie Celona 2013-01-09T19:43:08Z He then added, confoundingly, “I also like to work carefully and with discipline.” Robert Goodnough, Painter Who Eluded Categories, Dies at 92 2010-10-13T03:57:00Z The first movement is a commanding yet confounding Sonata-Allegro form; the final fugue, driven by a bustling theme initiated by a persistent trill, is a dizzying web of counterpoint. Review: Murray Perahia Takes a Majestic Approach to Beethoven’s ‘Hammerklavier’ 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z Repeatedly confounded by these questions, my wife, Joan, and I started to compile an informal rule book for what we call “econ-travel.” Practical Traveler: Is There a Right Way to Spend Money When Traveling? 2011-03-09T15:36:48Z Any hint of what he’s thinking about this choice, or who, even unintentionally, might have put the idea in his head, is confoundingly missing. ‘Dear Evan Hansen’ radiates charm and wit, and that’s no lie 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z As a quarantined theater world copes with confounding new realities and open-ended separation from its natural habitat, new methods are being experimented with to fill the void. Perspective | A Tony-winning director finds a rewarding new way to build a musical in the age of covid-19 2020-04-29T04:00:00Z And yet the interlinked fates of those countries, made so evident in her firsthand reporting, remain a confounding feature of regional geopolitics, so skewed toward the question of terrorism. 'The Taliban Shuffle' more relevant with bin Laden death 2011-05-06T19:32:00Z Set in Italy’s industrial capital, Turin, during a period when labor unions barely existed, it is insouciant, sentimental, farcical and confounding by turns. 9 Movies About Work to Watch This Labor Day 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z Getting this sprawling, five-act opera on the stage has both inspired and confounded some of the best directors in the field. Music Review: ‘Les Troyens,’ at the Royal Opera House in London 2012-06-26T21:10:52Z She withdraws her maternal love after Jaime forces the boy to cut off his flowing blond locks and confounds poor Alejandro by alternating chilly reserve with erotic provocation. ‘The Dance of Reality,’ Jodorowsky’s Comeback Film 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z But after a beginning that was, typically, mesmerizing and confounding, the ending came together gorgeously and symphonically to suggest that there was a chance. Review: The Leftovers Season Finale: Don't Let's Go to the Dogs 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z But whether or not everything in it qualifies as incontrovertibly beautiful, it offers an exciting opportunity to meditate on two perennially confounding questions: What is beauty: And what is it good for? Museum & Gallery Listings for June 10-16 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z This amalgam of support proved to be a lethal combination for the growing insurgency in Afghanistan that confounded United States policy makers. Books of The Times: ‘The Wrong Enemy,’ by Carlotta Gall 2014-04-09T20:24:47Z Why the stale news of his visit, news that Noah was unwilling to meaningfully examine, was made into our first look at Noah is confounding from the viewer’s perspective. 'Daily Show' Trevor Noah Debut: Much Room to Grow 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z She is confounded when her classmate’s father asks the same question of her. Black Lives Matter and the Intrepid Lives That Preceded It 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z In a 2017 interview with The New York Times, Mr. Just said his opinion about “that confounding war” had not changed. Ward Just, 84, Dies; Ex-Journalist Found Larger Truths in Fiction 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z Whether you are an enthusiastic, habitual cook or an indifferent, infrequent one, I believe that everyone has that one dish that always confounds them to prepare. ’Tis the season to revisit the gingerbread that continues to defy me 2019-12-15T05:00:00Z But between her boss’s obstruction and a confounding mass of new developments, a simple investigation is getting more intricate by the day. ‘Fargo’ Season 3, Episode 5: ‘Once Upon a Time ...’ 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z I especially like the exchanges between Mrs Bridge and her son Douglas – the boy mischievous and practical, the mother continually confounded. Mrs Bridge by Evan S Connell – rereading 2012-06-08T21:55:17Z All of this confounds the idea that human beings act in such a way that they maximise their wellbeing and minimise their pain. Why too much choice is stressing us out 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z And top prizes are split into dramatic and comedic categories, often in confounding ways. ‘The Shape of Water’ and ‘Big Little Lies’ Lead Golden Globe Nominations 2017-12-11T05:00:00Z But the orchestra; the superb quartet of vocal soloists; the powerful, precise San Francisco Symphony Chorus; and the crisp Pacific Boychoir are part of a misbegotten theatrical presentation that confounds far more than it illuminates. Review: San Francisco Symphony Stages ‘Missa Solemnis’ With a Visual Component 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z But you may also observe that the inconsistent detail, the confounding, non-fitting fact, is often the giveaway mark of material drawn from life. Mere fact, mere fiction 2010-04-16T23:10:00Z It’s the first and last dicta, however, that have proved the most influential, not through their utility but through their confounding simplicity. What Does It Mean to Be a “Real” Writer? 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z Well, what he’s done next is what he’s always done best: confound expectations. Books of The Times: Padgett Powell’s New Novel, ‘You & Me’ 2012-08-14T12:00:00Z That is relentlessly gutting and confounding stuff to live with on a daily basis — for which perhaps the only solace is that they can’t kill us all. Critic at Large Rebecca Carroll on Wesley Lowery's 'They Can't Kill Us All' 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z Michelle Obama’s entire speech, which even Trump said was effective, ran only about 12 minutes, but it could be the heart of a stump speech with the potential to confound Republicans. Team Clinton has found its secret weapon for the fall campaign: Michelle Obama 2016-07-27T04:00:00Z Ultimately the results are eye-popping, sometimes almost confoundingly so. ‘Ottolenghi and the Cakes of Versailles’ Review: Pastries of the Gilded Age, Made Modern 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z A generation later, Marlene Dumas is keeping painting alive and confounding the naysayers. Brushing with the world 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z Science fiction offers a way for these confounding systems and experiences to “acquire proportions that the muscles, nerves, and sinews of our bodies can recognize kinesthetically.” How “The Memory Police” Makes You See 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z Frost took an almost Joycean delight in confounding his readers, and so “Mending Wall” ends on the conviction about good fences making good neighbors, making the entire poem a gorgeous act of equivocation. Donald Trump should read Robert Frost's poem 'Mending Wall' 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z Evil confounded by sassy innocence is a frequent scenario; all that seems left of her Afghan upbringing – aside from nostalgia for more gracious times – is a knowledge of the Dari language. Forbidden Lessons in a Kabul Guesthouse by Suraya Sadeed, with Damien Lewis ? review 2011-07-29T21:57:02Z What is being said is not what is being reflected, and this is confounding for parents. How to be your daughter’s confidante 2015-05-06T04:00:00Z Blending historical fiction, magical realism and a lyrical sense of place, her recent work confounds neat distinctions of genre and has established her as a leading voice in global anglophone literature. Painting a vibrant and lush portrait of the 16th-century Ottoman empire 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z David Stuart MacLean’s new book contains more than one confounding riddle. David Stuart MacLean’s terrifying memoir of amnesia 2014-02-20T20:03:28Z He adores her ability to dazzle and amuse, while he is confounded by her nature. Looking for a blissful summer novel? Here it is: ‘Standard Deviation’ 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z In a confounding turn, Mr. Kelly’s management also denounced on Friday a statement attributed to the singer that was published by The Associated Press. R. Kelly Again Denies Sexual Abuse Allegations (and an Unauthorized Denial) 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z Shannon is a great character actor, but he can’t overcome this confoundingly bad casting, despite the gleaming gold belt buckle, tinted glasses, high-collared shirt and flashing rings. Screen Kings of Rock ’n’ Roll: The Best and Worst Actors to Play Elvis 2022-06-27T04:00:00Z It is also not known whether both are influenced by other "confounding" factors that are associated with both gut microbiota and chronic disease. Does our gut microbiota really influence our health and life expectancy? 2023-05-03T04:00:00Z True to form, Stanley Kubrick’s final film — unveiled four months after his death in 1999 — confounded audiences and critics upon its release, only to grow in reputation and estimation in the ensuing years. Stream These 13 Movies Before They Leave Netflix This Month 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z He also played three songs from "Nebraska", the mournful acoustic album which confounded fans when it was released in 1982. Springsteen revisits Glory Days in London 2013-07-01T06:16:51Z The show, which will travel to Barcelona and Washington, also aims to confound expectations and explode a few myths. New Europe: Juan Mir?, a titan of art whose presence is still felt 2011-03-30T06:00:03Z He is also the stunted Christian confounded by Spielrein’s passion and Freud’s wry wisdom. A Dangerous Method: Freud Had the Theories, But Jung Had the Sex 2011-11-22T17:45:41Z One thing I like about White God is the way it confounds expectations and keeps changing its coat. Apocalypse bow-wow: the new breed of arthouse animal horror 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z That it upholds creative vision while confounding listeners is a plus. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Sun Ra 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z Nicholas uses every manipulative ploy in the book to confound his supposed family and the law. | 'The Chameleon': A ?Who Is It?? More Than a Whodunit 2011-07-14T22:46:18Z It’s been an interesting and at times confounding change in how viewers think about the Best Picture category, flooding prognosticators with significantly more movies to address. These Were the Films That Benefited Most from the Oscars Expanding the Best Picture Category 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z He doesn't laugh when he says this – Olof and Karin are endearingly earnest interviewees – but the Knife have always got a kick out of confounding their audience. The Knife: 'Music history is written by privileged white men' 2013-03-23T06:00:00Z So it's doubly fascinating, and confounding, to see it mixing with European dance music. Scene and heard: Electro champeta 2010-08-12T15:26:00Z The mystery is almost as confounding as that “Teddy Perkins” episode. The Best and Worst Moments of the 2018 Emmys 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z That they don’t read as preposterous, even as they confound, is due to the author’s inventive play with form and his deeply affecting focus on human desire. Review | In Matthew Baker’s ‘Why Visit America,’ the U.S. is an absurd place, but also full of hope 2020-08-13T04:00:00Z For instance, Saeedah never truly vivifies as a character, her choices never fully interrogated, her behavior continually confounding. Review | Eman Quotah’s engrossing debut, ‘Bride of the Sea,’ offers Americans a nuanced view of the Saudi Kingdom 2021-02-01T05:00:00Z In later years, however, he confounded critics with a prolific output in dozens of unconnected genres. The Outsider author Colin Wilson dies 2013-12-13T13:05:09Z More confounding is the rapidly changing cultural landscape. The ‘Esquire Man’ Is Dead. Long Live the ‘Esquire Man.’ 2017-02-04T05:00:00Z It was both fantastic and confounding that the vessel that I met with only minutes before could be the home for such dread. Our Favorite Arts Photos of 2021 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z At one point, all expectations are confounded when four of the six women re-enter. City Ballet Revives Three Pieces in Repertory 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z But then she would toggle rapidly, and at first confoundingly, to fits of temper and nervous breakdowns. Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier’s Turbulent Relationship, Retold With Compassion 2022-03-22T04:00:00Z “All of it — terrifyingly and marvelously — evades summary and confounds expectations,” wrote A. O. Scott wrote in his review for The New York Times. What’s on TV Sunday: The Soul Train Awards and a Bruce Springsteen Film 2017-11-26T05:00:00Z One fully voiced character is Douglas’s granddaughter, Florence, the shelter worker and a single mom, whose liberal confidence in the social order is confounded by the awfulness of her neighbors under stress. The bankruptcy of liberal America: ‘The Mandibles,’ by Lionel Shriver 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z His work also confounds any neat border between the written and the spoken. Juan Felipe Herrera of California to Be Next Poet Laureate 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z One of the attractions of contemporary puzzle movies — with their ambiguities and labyrinths, unreliable narrators and storytelling thickets — is that their complexities are by turns beguiling and confounding but also familiar. ‘Ultrasound’ Review: Trapped in a Murky Mystery 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z But it confounded many others who wondered why a spokeswoman for an organization known for fierce advocacy of gun rights would weigh in on programming aimed at preschoolers. N.R.A. Show Puts Thomas the Tank Engine in White Hood to Criticize Diversity Move 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z It’s challenging to feel invested in what happens to the Underwoods’ marriage at this point, and it’s even more confounding to determine how, exactly, Claire had time to orchestrate such an elaborate campaign strategy. ‘House of Cards’ Season 4, Episode 1: Is Claire Out of the Woods? 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z The latest and most clearly confounding exemplar of this blurrealist trend opens Friday at the Whitney Museum in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District. Who Wore It Better: Art or Commerce? 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z The bulk of TV production has no interest in generating the next “Twin Peaks” — that is, a wild, confounding creative risk. TV’s War With the Robots Is Already Here 2023-05-10T04:00:00Z As in Stein’s original question, the answer is at once intuitively obvious and theoretically confounding. The Movies Are Back. But What Are Movies Now? 2021-07-15T04:00:00Z And they prove to be a useful guideline as you try to puzzle out what director Sam Gold is up to on this confoundingly muddled evening. Review | Glenda Jackson as King Lear was a good idea. Why is everything around her so wrong? 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z “It’s been cool to see people’s reaction to my work alone, without any confounding variables,” he said. When the World Shut Down, They Saw It Open 2020-08-24T04:00:00Z The production, written and directed by Pensotti, employs schematic divisions only to confound them. 'Cineastas' captures moviemaking endeavors in progress 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z Many of these commenters were themselves confounded that they warranted further investigation. In Transit: Readers Share Thoughts on the T.S.A. 2010-12-11T16:58:00Z “Between them they have conspired to confound accepted categories and notions — including my own — of identity and gender, nationhood and patriotism, faith, family, motherhood, death — and love itself.” After a 20-Year Hiatus, the Booker Prize-Winning Novelist Arundhati Roy Returns to Fiction 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z “Everyone is here — the well-to-do farmers, laborers, merchants, westerners, kids, politicians, immigrants, veterans, women, and African Americans. They are elated, dejected, confounded, argumentative, jovial, and intensely serious.” The controversy behind the painting that will hang at Trump’s inaugural luncheon 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z Though her cinema was more obviously thematic than her choreography, Rainer remained more interested in confounding viewers than gratifying them. Step-by-step guide to dance: Yvonne Rainer 2010-12-24T13:12:31Z Authentic as they may be, the onion reviews are still confounding. What Does Amazon Know About Your Thanksgiving Groceries? 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z Still confounding the art world, they plan to call it China Art Objects. Artist-Run Galleries Defy the Mega-Dealer Trend in Los Angeles 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z At the least, the group managed to confound and even entrap the FBI. '60s and '70s radicals get a fresh look in 'Days of Rage' 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z At Elstree Studios, the world of The Crown presents itself as a confounding, impossible geography. Queen Olivia Colman, an epic budget and a cast of thousands: a year behind the scenes on The Crown 2019-09-07T04:00:00Z Conditioned for the dull, meticulous, reassuringly and confoundingly robotic programming of a normal political convention, we’ve been instead exposed to the jarring and, yes, entertaining chaos of a Trump convention. A political convention as improv farce 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z Also one of the most confounding – perverse and hard to fathom. Alan Moore: why I turned my back on Hollywood 2012-12-15T19:08:25Z Being of a more prosaic disposition myself, I wonder if it's got a lot to do with having confounded so many predictions of his professional demise. Russell Brand: 'It's irrelevant what other people think of you' 2013-02-03T20:00:01Z Splitting the role of Wendla between two performers evocatively expresses the alienation of this confounded adolescent, whose body has become a perplexing stranger to her. Deaf West revisits 'Spring Awakening' with fresh vigor at the Wallis 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z I'm just sort of wrestling with it, and maybe a little confounded that I have to wrestle with it. Miranda July faces "The Future" 2011-07-27T00:30:00Z Knowing that their deaths are imminent, these longtime eco-warriors have decided to use their final moments to confront and confound a government that has declared fostering the natural world a crime. Review | The post-apocalyptic world of Joy Williams’s ‘Harrow’ reads like a cautionary tale 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z Instead, she approaches the exercises to test her fitness with a guilelessness that at first confounds him — but that ultimately impels him to confront his own tumultuous existence. Zazie Beetz Grew Up With Shel Silverstein and Nina Simone 2021-08-03T04:00:00Z But she’s stranded in Portugal, John’s personal history seems confounding and she needs to figure out what happened to him. Her Husband Is Kidnapped. Then Things Start to Go Downhill. 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z If Los Angeles is a confounding feast Santa Barbara is an amuse bouche. Confused in California 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z Not interesting in quite the same way as the chocolate-beef burrito from Watson’s cookbook, with its confoundingly cohesive garnishes of soybean and Edam cheese. Meet Chef Watson, IBM’s futuristic foodie robot 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z But Wilkie Branson's new show, blending dance and film, confounds such expectations with its range of moods and dance styles, and an emotional backdrop that is tender and beautifully staged. White Caps | Theatre review 2010-04-04T21:00:00Z Instead, Preminger deftly and undemonstratively evokes the shortcomings of the system, its failure to account for aspects of human behavior that defy rationality, that contradict self-interest and confound tidy chains of cause and effect. DVD: Preminger?s ?Anatomy of a Murder? on DVD 2012-03-09T17:00:00Z The joy of this book, and the reason it remains fresh for nearly a thousand pages of text, is that personality and character constantly confound the conventional wisdom. How Ronald Reagan Triumphed 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z A county supervisor said he was confounded by hospital’s inability to correct basic problems. Why can’t medicine seem to fix simple mistakes? 2012-07-24T16:57:00Z In the book’s most confounding scene, he decides, at age 13, to have plastic surgery, after enduring bullying from his classmates, who harass him with the nickname “N-word lips.” Reckoning with an Upbringing in a ‘Noah’s Ark’ of a Family, With ‘Two of Every Race’ 2023-03-27T04:00:00Z Perhaps, in light of that, we might impose on ourselves another kind of silence, and listen, in humility and with penitence, to God speaking in God's endlessly surprising and confounding ways. Silence: A Christian History by Diarmaid MacCulloch – review 2013-04-21T08:00:15Z And there’s one more confounding factor, she said. Help! I’m 93, My Postponed Cruise Has Been Postponed Again, and I’d Like My Money Back. 2022-08-19T04:00:00Z Or was something more confounding — and insidious — at work? A True-Crime Mystery From the 1950s, Fueled by Racism and Corruption 2018-04-25T04:00:00Z Cahalan’s condition is what in medicine is called a “great pretender”: a disorder that mimics the symptoms of various disorders, confounding doctors and leading them astray. Her Illness Was Misdiagnosed as Madness. Now Susannah Cahalan Takes On Madness in Medicine. 2019-11-02T04:00:00Z His memoir recounts the year he spent, not long ago, when he was well into his 60s, trying to learn the algebra, geometry and calculus that had confounded him decades before. Math Defeated Him in School. In His 60s, He Went Back for More. 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z But a synopsis could barely describe how thoroughly the Zürchers — the credits list Ramon as director but call it “a film by” both of them — have confounded a sense of the ordinary. ‘The Girl and the Spider’ Review: Where Did I Put That Thing? 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z To see years of Ms. Williams’ confounding fictions collected in so hefty a volume is like seeing snowflakes accrue into an avalanche. Diane Williams, a Master of the Very Short Story, Has a Very Big New Book 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z The researchers control for one confounding variable here: socioeconomic status. Are kids from religious backgrounds really more selfish than their nonreligious peers? 2015-12-13T05:00:00Z Those little words have confounded and comforted me for many years. ‘Westworld’ Season 1, Episode 9: You Broke My Mind 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z The result was a conversation that ranged from the confounding nature of his success to the motivation for his latest project. Milton Glaser’s Unseen Design for New York: ‘Together’ 2020-06-29T04:00:00Z Kirk, who often pushed for newsrooms to employ more women, was confounded by questions from those who couldn’t break into writing. How to Pitch a Magazine (in 1888) 2014-09-02T04:00:00Z Diamond asks, confounded by the idea of crime without personality, stripped of style and panache. DVD: How Crimes Have Changed 2011-08-12T18:43:25Z I found it haunting, thrilling and confounding in equal measure. ‘The Image Book’ Review: Godard Looks at Violence, and Movies 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z Dillon challenged this in 2017, writing an open letter to the Television Academy about being confounded over whether to submit themselves for Emmy consideration as a supporting actor or actress. Why the Oscars, Emmys and Tonys Are Not Ready for They and Them 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z Ironically, Wolfe's distrust of pop art is confounded by the fact that his own prose style seems surely to be pop at its most classic. Michael Bracewell's top 10 art books 2012-06-06T10:35:15Z "It's confounding people that every week it's growing in audience," Bywater continued. 'Empire' aims to climb music charts as well as TV rankings 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z Expectations that rock fans meanwhile might be prone to emulating some of their harder living idols are also somewhat confounded. Revealed: types and quantities of drugs seized by police at UK music festivals 2012-05-20T23:00:00Z The soprano Marina Poplavskaya’s Marguerite, held over from the premiere, remains confounding. Music Review: ?Faust,? With Joseph Calleja, at the Met - Review 2012-01-15T23:23:25Z Proving that a political campaign is war by other means, they form a phalanx around Lang's achievements and vulnerabilities; their job is not to help the Ghost but to contain and confound him. 'The Ghost Writer': Polanski Escapes into His Cinema Nightmares 2010-02-20T04:30:00Z But the sense that humanity is the enemy of life and beauty: that part may be right, to judge from the heaving, confounding, chockablock preview days of the 2022 Venice Biennale. At Venice Biennale, Contemporary Art Sinks or Swims 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z But Mahon is resistant to categorisation, and confounds any simple contrasting ideas of "formal" and "free". Poem of the week: The Seasons by Derek Mahon 2011-03-07T11:09:38Z When they finally meet in person Jobie discloses her secret and Brad confounds the audience when he says: “Well, I’ll try anything once.” The Jerry Springer Show turns 25: fistfights, fetishes and farm animals 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z As American health care continues to confound and inflame, Iglesias is tapping into a source of familiar anguish. Gabino Iglesias, a Writer of Noir, Explores the Texas Underworld 2022-08-01T04:00:00Z The problem with the second season, really, was that when you focus on plot over character, it’s a bit confounding when the plot denies satisfaction. Mr. Robot's Season 2 Finale Was Surprisingly Satisfying 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z I took the page from my breast pocket and placed it upon the lectern, smoothing out the creases with my hand, and looked to the happy couple whose happiness confounded me. The wedding I almost ruined 2012-06-13T00:01:00Z And Ms. Lescaze’s film confounds expectations in other, more significant ways. Television Review: ‘All of Me,’ an Obesity Documentary on PBS 2014-03-23T22:42:24Z This makes her a wonderful and confounding narrator for a mysterious series of village deaths that make up the plot of “Drive Your Plow.” What We’re Reading This Summer 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z Fastest of all is Michael Langan’s “Dahlia,” which animates actual photography in confounding and fascinating ways. Television/The Web: Fishing Online for Cable Viewers 2011-02-20T02:01:55Z Pixar movies are constantly dealing with nostalgia, struggling with whether to confound and deny it or wholly embrace it. Brave Old Worlds: Does Pixar Have a Problem with Stereotypes? 2012-06-20T10:45:02Z To the uninitiated El Topo was confounding, but to its devotees, it was like midnight mass, a religious experience, its meaning what they made of it. The strangest, sickest and scariest midnight movies ever 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z The orchestral half traces the demonic striving and eventual fall of Faust, the choral his redemption, although it does end on a questioning note: "Shall I not be confounded in eternity?" The Gothic Symphony: 'It's a Himalayan peak' 2011-07-13T20:30:01Z Guide Neal Hamilton explained how, for nearly 40 years, the site’s stonemasons chiseled confounding details into this structure. Edinburgh in a day: A quick family visit to Scotland (with beer and skittles) 2016-07-23T04:00:00Z Even so, what the publicity notes are pleased to call a “disconcerting narrative structure” is far from the only issue with “Archaeology of a Woman,” Sharon Greytak’s confounding blend of long-ago murder and present-day dementia. ‘Archaeology of a Woman,’ Starring Sally Kirkland 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z A first-timer to the play would likely be confounded by the doubling and tripling of roles. Who is Hamlet? Three actors make their case 2017-08-19T04:00:00Z There is the explicitly entertainment variety—The Daily Show—which still confounds, simultaneously making smart news more accessible and making smart news dumber. Telivision is having its moment 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z Toward the end, she turns for help to a spiritualist of some kind, a healer whose arrival is a dazzling and confounding surprise. Review: ‘Let the Sunshine In’ Shows the Complex Radiance of Juliette Binoche 2018-04-25T04:00:00Z We are now better equipped than at any time in history to judge, say, the most popular pop song of a given moment, yet we’re more confounded by what all this popularity actually means. What Was, Is and Will Be Popular 2013-09-06T22:52:30Z “He’s certainly confounded the market before. It depends on how successful the work is,” said Marc Porter, a chairman of Sotheby’s fine art division. Damien Hirst Alienated Collectors. Will His New Work Win Them Back? 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z They were doting but incurious parents, bewildered by her fame, and confounded by the fans, who kept turning up at their door or writing to them during Blondie’s heyday. The Tide Is High (Really), but Debbie Harry Is Staying Put 2019-09-28T04:00:00Z The original posters’ toxic brew of insecurity, resentment and hostility was confounding, but it’s unclear what the show was trying to tell us about it. At the Exponential Festival, Case Studies in Category Busting 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z Still, he sang with intelligence and stamina, and his natural charisma lent humanity to the confounded Kovalyov. Music Review | ?The Nose?: Picture This: A Nose Goes Missing 2010-03-07T00:53:00Z But he meets expectations, too, by continuing to confound them. No More Country for Old Men 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z That Guido -- like this one, played by Day-Lewis -- is haunted by the women of his past and confounded by the women in his present; he needs to find inspiration in them, not just chaos. 2009-12-18T01:20:00Z Both the short and the feature, “Skin,” are jaw-dropping, confounding experiences that aim to make grand statements about race, but do so clumsily and without insight or depth. In "Skin," a neo-Nazi turns from hate: Good intentions can't redeem this disaster of a film 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z The problem is that for most people, putting chicken over the fire turns dinnertime into a display of confounding results. Grilled chicken: How to get it perfect All this may be confounding, more than is dreamt of in our philosophy, but it’s also breathtaking and wondrous. Review: Helen Phillips Tweaks Corporate Culture in ‘The Beautiful Bureaucrat’ 2015-08-23T04:00:00Z The word "Office" is still evident on the front of this salvaged door, its supplicant posture confounding official expectations of artistic authority. Object lessons at Torrance Art Museum's 'Another Thing Coming' 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z “Amir Zaki: Survey 1999-2015”: A retrospective of a fascinating Southern California photographer’s work that cunningly confounds the rules of perspective and subverts your sense of spatial logic. 5 must-see art exhibitions for November in Seattle area 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z It’s a confounding picture, conceptually arresting — visually, not so much. When He Was Good, He Was Breathtaking 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z I like the idea of confounding audiences to a degree, challenging their expectations. Simon Pegg and Crispian Mills: 'Musicians throw TVs. Actors just disappear' 2012-06-07T20:00:01Z The Miss Nebraska advisers, confounded by Kristin’s lean, athletic figure, showed her all the tricks with padding and tape and thickly lined bra cups — because nothing, they said, absolutely nothing must show. The competition for Miss America 1984 was business as usual — until everyone got a look at Vanessa Williams 2021-08-20T04:00:00Z It’s what got him interested in ideas about confounding perspective and playing with familiar American tropes. Phish’s Art Director Calls Four Shipping Containers Home 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z Another Cannes entry that showcases for excellent actresses, Sils Maria needs a bit more tension in its telling — and a change of its confounding title. The Cannes Countdown: Six Contenders for Major Awards 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z The detailed, immersive, delightfully kitschy environments she creates for these personas — like campy stage sets from a Waters movie — confound expectations and clichés. An Artist Stands Before Her Fun House Mirror 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z Copenhagen's supermarkets are now full of once-obscure roots and herbs; a new generation of Danish chefs likes to shock and confound. How the Dogme manifesto reinvented Denmark 2012-11-25T19:00:01Z If you get close and try to read the instructions, which are printed on the boards in challengingly small fonts, it can all get a bit confounding. Perspective | Kids used to make up their own games. Now the games play them. 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z They set out to confound and resist not only the excesses of bourgeois capitalism but also the tyranny of modernism's urban agenda. Grand plans: how the simple planning diagram has shaped our cities 2012-11-22T15:24:06Z “Forest” opens with small, monochromatic text paintings that confound expectations. William Pope.L returns to L.A. with twin gallery shows focused on race 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z Inside-baseball talk aside, though, West further revealed a confounding hypocrisy in his critique. Kanye West hit wrong note in latest Grammy diatribe 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z Sure, there’s a lot about mothering, but the actual beating heart of the series is blank acquiescence to confounding or inappropriate circumstances. Review: ‘Top of the Lake: China Girl’ Soaks in Mood More Than Logic 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z But confounded all forecasts and pulled off his own heist. Puss Boots Tower and Kumar in Another Weakened Weekend 2011-11-06T21:48:55Z More immediately a concave disc of polished stainless steel by Anish Kapoor attached to the building’s stone exterior wall demonstrates perceptually confounding mirroring effects. Art Review: ‘Light and Landscape’ at Storm King Art Center 2012-09-20T21:27:58Z The confoundingly impassive surface of “After the War” is summed up in the hostile silences into which Bella lapses at regular intervals, as Joel seeks to draw her out. ‘After the War,’ about an Israeli musician, shows there’s no country for bold men 2016-03-29T04:00:00Z The narrative, interspersed with newspaper clippings, philosophical detours and stream-of-consciousness observations, confounded some critics. William Demby, 90, Novelist and Reporter, Dies 2013-06-01T01:38:33Z Photograph: Allstar/Broad Green Pictures Life, he admits, is chaotic, confounding; in good ways and bad. Michael Shannon: ‘Actors are just models nowadays. Going to the Oscars is like going to the prom’ 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z Given the originality of her oblique style, near-documentary fascination with large families and taste for depicting provincial inertia, Ms. Martel both excites and confounds viewers. Lucrecia Martel: A Director Who Confounds and Thrills 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z This beauty confounded me: How to juxtapose it with the dastardly deed at its core? On a Caribbean Rum Trail 2014-02-21T19:02:44Z Politicians offer up much by way of raw, often confounding, material. In ‘God Save Texas,’ Lawrence Wright Ranges Far and Wide 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z In his "Euclidean Space," which debuted last year, life's algorithms unfold in equally confounding and breathtaking fashion. Spectrum's Donald Byrd asks everything of his dancers, and his audience 2012-11-28T23:59:27Z However, I was also nervous — what if an audience watches and says it’s confounding in the wrong way? Imogen Poots Keeps Everyone Guessing in ‘Outer Range’ 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z Thus begins a complicated and sometimes confounding journey that will have a profound impact on both author and subject. Jamie Brisick describes Peter Drouyn's journey to 'Becoming Westerly' 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z Professional baseball’s longest game confounded time, history and, most of all, common sense, and yielded the sort of signature oddity submitted as evidence of the sport’s charm. Books of The Times: Baseball According to Beckett: A Game That Wouldn?t End 2011-04-24T21:07:26Z In these stories, art doesn’t comfort or enlighten, but confounds and terrorizes. Short story collections dive in to this fall As the guiding force of , a collective she helped to found in 1999, she has facilitated flamboyant, confounding and enticing collaborations among choreographers, visual artists, actors and composers, including her own well-traveled “Oceanic Verses.” Music Review: ‘The Violin’ at Federal Hall in River to River Festival 2013-07-10T21:09:25Z There is little that Pattinson, 33, likes more than confounding expectations, and plenty were placed on him after the megahit “Twilight” franchise ended in 2012. What Can Robert Pattinson Do to Keep You Guessing? 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z In fact, Camilla Oddell, the savage executioner from the opening scene, appears to be the most dangerous among them, although she is confoundingly well-behaved once it becomes clear a serial killer lives among them. Review | A modern twist on a classic Agatha Christie novel 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z “People may be moving up the coast, bringing it with them,” he said, adding that he was utterly confounded by the midwestern “hella” hotspots. ArtsBeat: Regional English, Tweet by Tweet 2012-03-02T13:00:25Z That she does this rather than use her discovery to find out where she ought to be may confound some viewers. ‘Italian Studies’ Review: Alone in New York With Amnesia 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z You’ve arrived at the most confounding moment in salad making: What do you add now? How to make a salad that everyone wants to eat 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z It is impossible to leave the musical “Falsettos” unmoved, even if the path to its irresistible ending is peculiar and confounding. Review | ‘Falsettos’ revival brings back an era of liberation and fear 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z The self-described “hybrid photography” of Southern California’s Amir Zaki, now at James Harris Gallery, nails the essence of the subjects he captures on camera while also making them cryptic or confounding. You don’t need rules to look at Amir Zaki’s photography — just imagination 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z But his movie is as miserable and ultimately confounding as it is earnest. Review: In ‘Jesús,’ a Delinquent Teenager in Trouble Too Deep to Handle 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z The 86 rooms are spacious and gadget-rich, but at times confounding. Check In: Hotel Review: The J House Greenwich in Riverside, Conn. 2013-05-28T21:30:01Z Our results, along with results from clinical studies less prone to reverse causality and confounding bias, do not, however, support a significant effect of gut dysbiosis on chronic disease. Does our gut microbiota really influence our health and life expectancy? 2023-05-03T04:00:00Z All of that made their total absence from platforms such as Spotify and Pandora and digital marketplaces like Apple’s iTunes Store all the more confounding for fans, according to A.D. De La Soul finally streams, a scream for beloved hip-hop trio’s fans 2023-01-05T05:00:00Z Even those with the most sober public profile feel duty bound to confound expectations. Now that's what I call Desert Island Discs! 2011-03-02T20:00:02Z If that last sentence confounded you, let me just say that’s only one of the inane and illogical narrative turns in this stubbornly unfunny film. ‘The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run’ Review: Still Square 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z In “Refuge,” a house interior overgrown with scraggly woods confounds the eye. Chris Engman’s photographic illusions dazzle 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z Despite having confounded his privileged peers by setting himself up as a private detective, Lenox is the son of a baronet and very rich, which makes him a prize indeed. Murders Most Foul 2020-03-06T05:00:00Z "I was always fascinated by how sound confounds us," Strickland says. Peter Strickland: 'I'm glad British film produces mainstream crowd-pleasers, but I don't want to make one' 2012-08-23T20:00:02Z "The art market seems to confound all other financial indicators," he said. Modigliani portrait sells for $42M in London 2013-02-07T13:09:09Z But they confounded the Cassandras by remaining exemplarily independent and interdependent. Remembering Andrew Sarris: A Great American Film Critic 2012-06-21T12:39:03Z Blair’s gift, like Bill Clinton’s, was to confound the country’s political boundaries for a time. The Return of Tony Blair 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z This dilemma is further confounded by the way our brains process the experience of happiness. Permanent happiness is a myth: Why you shouldn’t want to always be happy 2016-08-15T04:00:00Z And, to confound the matter, didn’t he write, just a few chapters earlier in the same letter, that: “It is well for a man not to touch a woman”? The wedding I almost ruined 2012-06-13T00:01:00Z Throughout the years, the artwork has confounded, provoked and inspired employees, some of whom eagerly acknowledge their engagement. Inside Rand Corp.'s impressive art collection 2017-07-30T04:00:00Z It will also confound those who suggested the film might be the victim of an Academy boycott after some accused it of airbrushing the monarch's antisemitism. The King's Speech enjoys a royal flush at Oscar nominations 2011-01-25T15:31:35Z They stared at me, confounded, then the woman — Katarina Synakova, I would later learn — said in English, “Where are you from?” A Walk From Vienna to Budapest 2010-05-22T02:41:00Z The less confounding part of this episode comes near the beginning. ‘Better Call Saul’ Season 6, Episode 9 Recap: Bye Bye Love 2022-07-18T04:00:00Z “Mad Men” keeps confounding expectations — the ’60s fashion, mores and cultural landmarks keep getting more familiar, but the characters maintain an elusive weirdness. Television: Changes for Fourth Season of ?Mad Men? 2010-07-16T19:01:00Z Also featuring an influential rock band’s long-awaited homecoming, a confounding techno producer and a legendary lyricist from the golden age of hip-hop. Your week in Seattle music: Tori Amos, Journey and more 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z All of these notionally disparate elements find a home in Yeasayer's often dazzling, just as frequently confounding pop tonight. Yeasayer 2010-05-29T23:05:00Z But it’s also one of the more confounding entries in the series. Review: ‘How to Be Bored’ Looks at How to Deal With the Blahs 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z Her prosecutor was seemingly confounded by her decision to die for her faith, desperately urging her to recant. An atheist’s guide to Scorsese’s “Silence”: You don’t need faith to be astonished by the faithful 2017-01-14T05:00:00Z In October, he will reveal a character to "confound, amaze, heal and entertain" in a show at the library. Library appoints resident artist 2012-02-09T13:17:40Z There is, for starters, the book's odd and sometimes confounding protagonist, based on a real man who is most often referred to in historical accounts as "Blind Tom." 'Song of the Shank' gives poetic voice to a unique American musician 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z "I'm fascinated how the media in particular are so confounded by entrepreneurial women doing something outside of their box." Gwyneth Paltrow finds comparisons to entrepreneurial actresses misogynistic 2015-06-06T04:00:00Z And then I’ll find those judgments are often completely confounded when I meet them in real life. Mark Strong: ‘I’ve seen people I know become very famous. It’s nothing I would recommend’ 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z The movie, which runs ragged by its second half, ends by embracing Pug’s fantasy adventure, confounding the present and future like a scene in “Out of Sight.” Movie Review: ‘12 O’Clock Boys’ Centers on Dirt Bike Riders in Baltimore 2014-01-31T00:28:01Z Considerably less obvious is Dalí and Gala’s confounding union, which began in the 1920s. ‘Dalíland’ Review: Landscape With Vipers 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z Songs like "Damaged Soul," "End of the Beginning" and the first single "God Is Dead?" fit into the band's canon, but others, like the jazzy "Zeitgeist," might confound some fans. Black Sabbath to release new album, embark on world tour 2013-06-10T19:14:00Z What was striking about Smith's role and her performance was how much it confounded expectations, hers included. From slappers to Hedda Gabler: the irresistible rise of Sheridan Smith 2013-03-18T18:12:48Z Why bother, when confounding the perpetrators with their absurdity is far more amusing? Amazon's "One Mississippi" exudes calm confidence in its second season 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z And fresh from his performance as Loge in the confounding and mostly terrible new production of Wagner’s “Ring” at Bayreuth was the busy tenor Norbert Ernst, here as Colin, a shepherd. Music Review: Braunfels’s ‘Jeanne d’Arc’ Plays at the Salzburg Festival 2013-08-02T21:51:38Z The first photograph on the left in the triptych above makes us realize that torture is always confounding; it comes in a sturdy, moldy, dank shape that won’t go away. Torture and silence: Photos by Andres Serrano confront what we don't talk about 2017-08-27T04:00:00Z Eric’s superpowers confound him as well, although, as a hangdog of few words, he initially appears more interested in brooding than in solving the mystery. ‘Mortal’ Review: Discovering Superpowers, None Too Quickly 2020-11-05T05:00:00Z The protagonists are at once fascinated with and confounded by America. ‘Party of Five’ and ‘Little America’: Immigrant Stories That Get the Job Done 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z The problem with electric cars, their cost and range aside, is that they deprive the private motorist of choice, limit his personal freedom and confound his sense of agency. Books That Cover Two Human Constants: Time and Motion 2021-08-17T04:00:00Z It's not only that of time and the girl: the trees, too, seem lost in the wrong element, in "the waters that confound them". Poem of the week: 'Time has disappeared/Lo temps s'es perdut' by Aurélia Lassaque 2013-02-11T11:28:12Z But the undisciplined shooting style and underdeveloped script confound the actors at every turn. Movie Review: ‘Red Tide,’ a Bare-Bones M.F.A. Project Set in Florida 2013-07-26T00:31:56Z As the messageboards attest, his latest album has succeeded in confounding his fans: no mean feat, given that his fans previously bore even a 5CD collection of Christmas songs with good grace. Sufjan Stevens: The Age of Adz - review 2010-10-07T14:30:00Z “This central blurriness in the midst of hypercharged description, furthered by a non-chronological structure, is both fascinating and confounding. It is also, I think, exactly the tantalizingly elusive effect Tallent intends.” 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z You could feel within them the unknowability of God, the intangible mysteries of life that confounded her characters, and which I find by my side every day. Bruce Springsteen: By the Book 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z Now I supposed I must investigate this alternate parking—although the phrase confounds me. 'Sleepy Hollow' Recap: Introducing a Special Guest, Ichabod Crane 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z All of the things that confound the male psyche.” Nail Polish in Greens and Yellows Fail to Win Fans 2012-04-04T21:09:39Z And Cage’s use of chance as a creative method suggested the advantages of shaking art loose from traditional forms and predetermined meanings, opening it to expansive — and potentially confounding — new content. Fraught and Fabulous: Art That Shows a Passion for Democracy 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z Ms. Baldwin’s name change especially is what confounds people who knew her in her Hillary years. The Hilaria Baldwin Story: ‘I’m Living My Life’ 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z The presence of these artists and their work brought an optimism and energy that confounded even the cynics. Stellenbosch Triennale, a Bold Experiment 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z Something so beyond the scope of human understanding or experience, without any kind of explanation — the largest, cruelest, most confounding and absolute miracle of all time. Where Is God on the Small Screen? 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z "Oh, confound expectations.: And the man says, "Well, we already have that spot filled. Grammys 2015: Transcript of Bob Dylan's MusiCares Person of Year speech 2015-02-07T05:00:00Z The tie-in may confound comic geeks, but shades will include a bright pink called Your Web or Mine. Noticed: Noticed: Movie Tie-Ins Extend to Beauty Products 2012-03-23T17:26:11Z Scott- good point about how this confounds your expectations of a 'typical HBO show'. ‘Westworld’ Season 1, Episode 9: You Broke My Mind 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z “I found him really sort of confounding,” she remembers. SAM’s ‘Andrew Wyeth: In Retrospect’ includes rarely seen works by the artist 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z Brown, who died in 2006, was a fascinating and confounding figure. ‘Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown,’ on HBO 2014-10-26T04:00:00Z To confound a bit more, this week my new artists are also my old artists. Music Match: If You Like Steve Martin and Edie Brickell, Try Their Music as a Duet 2013-05-22T20:01:30Z Mr. James warns, though, that “if you are going to read this as history, you’re bound to be disappointed and confounded.” Marlon James’s New Novel Is ‘A Brief History of Seven Killings’ 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z Even seemingly simple movies can work on us in mysterious, confounding ways, lodging somewhere in our hearts and brains. Review: With Allied, the Old-School Wartime Melodrama Enters the Modern Age 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z You’re invited to draw this connection yourself, fancying a peek into the artist’s psyche, though Mr. Coleman remains as much an enigma, and his music as radiantly confounding, as before. Critic’s Notebook: Ornette Coleman Profile, ‘Ornette: Made in America’ 2012-08-30T21:07:14Z And that fact alone makes middle-aged people happier, thus confounding the survey’s dubious results. 20 reasons to be cheerful in middle age 2016-02-03T05:00:00Z He was dealing with a problem that often confounds architects in Washington, where Pierre L’Enfant’s 1791 street plan chops up what would ordinarily be rectangular spaces into triangles. Perspective | The best way to honor I.M. Pei? Spend some time at the National Gallery of Art. 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z It’s not news that the social network, whose roiling environs hold over 1.5 billion people, is a complex and sometimes confounding space. The Facebook Breakup 2016-03-12T05:00:00Z The absurd mess of American health insurance confounds every effort to get Willa’s father-in-law the care he needs. Review | In Barbara Kingsolver’s ‘Unsheltered,’ Trump is just the latest threat to Earth’s survival 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z Last month a Lifetime movie “A Deadly Adoption,” starring Mr. Ferrell and Ms. Wiig and written by Mr. Steele, confounded viewers by being exactly that: a Lifetime movie. From Will Ferrell to Stuffed Squirrels: 6 Steps to the Perfect TV Spoof 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z The book is an understated howl of protest against the racialized blame game that has, for decades, powered American politics and confounded our attempts to talk about poverty. The Lives of Poor White People 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z It’s a humiliating, deflating moment that’s soon followed by another: a confounding vision of the daughter. Joyce Carol Oates’s New Stories Consider the Roads Not Taken 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z There’s so much to delight and confound, but given that Tokyo is home to 13.5 million people, there’s also ample risk of being overwhelmed by it all. Traveling to Tokyo With Three Generations 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z In a way, he scrapes away at confounding clues to reveal the raw skin of the facts. Review: Liam Neeson Gets Taken on A Walk Among the Tombstones 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z Given the infectious buoyancy she generates, titles of individual works like “Ministry of Hate” and “Hill and Dale, Black-Ops” are confounding. Art in Review: Sue Williams: ‘WTC, WWIII, Couch Size’ 2014-01-30T21:43:51Z “The Prodigal Son Returns” had some of the elements that could make The Leftovers confounding and frustrating. Review: The Leftovers Season Finale: Don't Let's Go to the Dogs 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z In Croft’s book, words function as networks of secret shapes that both guide and confound her, often in the same moment. A Translator’s Tribute to the Lifesaving Power of Words 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z And yes, I think it infuriates and confounds some people who study storytelling. With ‘1883,’ Taylor Sheridan Expands His Western Empire 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z While the Aztec city of Teotihuacan thrived between the 1st and 7th centuries A.D., the legendary Temple of the Feathered Serpent is still confounding historians and archeologists. 8 Awe-Inspiring Pyramids From Around the World 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z Before the show, which is in previews, viewers watch a short video in which they are instructed to assemble basic tools they’ll use as Suran performs his confounding stunts. Perspective | With playhouses dark, interactive theater online is lighting things up 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z The sound on “Strange Mercy” is similarly confounding: dry, compressed drums; neon synthesizer glare; aggressively processed guitars; calm, dispassionate singing. Music Review: St. Vincent Sings at Metropolitan Museum of Art - Review 2011-08-26T23:18:13Z It is a series of speeches and depositions, a whirlwind of discourse surrounding a terrible and confounding act of violence. Review: Amos Gitai’s ‘Rabin, the Last Day’ Looks Back in Anguish 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z But Mr. Truaxe’s actions further confounded the boundaries separating the workplace and the home. He Built, Then Nearly Broke, a Successful Beauty Start-Up. Can It Go on Without Him? 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z In this confounding era of online retail, I’m certainly willing to pay a premium for such pleasures, but an extra thirty or forty per cent seems to be too large an ask. Should We Pay to Enter Bookstores? 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z A Writer’s Unusual Rituals Yield Results The novelist Ayad Akhtar is confounding expectations in his screenplays and his debut play, “Disgraced.” Can Art Still Shock 2012-09-20T15:45:24Z But in 2014, Kawakubo’s interests shifted, and her work — at least what she presented to the international fashion industry on her Paris runways — became conceptual, and even more confounding. Perspective | How Rei Kawakubo left her avant-garde mark on the Met Gala red carpet, and the world 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z Its intellectual substructure is likely to confound young audiences. | 'Wild Grass': Alain Resnais?s Film of Anarchic Imagination 2010-06-24T23:40:00Z But in a world that prefers simple messaging, riesling’s spectrum of possibilities may be confounding. 10 Reasons You Should Give Riesling Another Look 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z If you’re not a regular, like me and Headley, the process — including finding one and navigating it once inside — can be a bit confounding. Start in the basement, and other tips for scoring treasures at estate sales 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z But there’s another way maths movies can confound the Boredom Equation, namely by leaving a black hole where the maths should be. Genius by numbers: why Hollywood maths movies don't add up 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z It feels only right that the final choice she makes in the series be just that confounding. Lena Dunham on the ‘Girls’ Finale and That Last Shot of Hannah 2017-04-16T04:00:00Z In a small dark space two magical works by James Turrell confound visual perception. Last Chance: The Pace Years: When One Gallery Is Not Enough 2010-10-17T22:25:00Z The technique isn’t always successful and the flurry of pop cultural name checks can read like a confounding shorthand — especially the overwhelming array of bands and singers. Growing Up in the Margins Without Being Marginalized 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z The author is a chipper field guild and canny ethnographer, writing with refreshing honesty about the folk ways of the Department of Defense, which often confound outsiders. Review: ‘How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything’ 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z It’s confounding to be so misunderstood and misused after being deemed worthy of attention by every writer’s dream publication. New York Times restaurant critic Pete Wells reviewed my book; now I know why so many chefs hate him 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z The range of contradictions in American food is confounding. TsuruTonTan, a Japanese Chain That Knows Its Noodles 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z The series finale, with its abrupt cut to black, has confounded, intrigued and enraged viewers. The Sopranos: 10 years since it finished, it's still the most masterful show ever 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z It was confounding when they suddenly broke their side of the bargain, as if shrugging their shoulders and telling the world, “never mind.” ArtsBeat Blog: The TV Watch: Chelsea Clinton Finally Embraces Her Celebrity 2011-12-13T11:52:18Z We might recognize that criminology—a field with direct bearing on many charged issues—is also slow and confounding, with answers that may come decades late or not at all. The Trouble with Crime Statistics 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z What confounds me is the actual death, the event of death. My husband has ceased to exist – I still can’t understand how 2016-05-21T04:00:00Z The drought is all the more confounding because only six years ago it was possible for anyone to score a couple of bottles, even at a charmless Pennsylvania state store. Pappy Van Winkle’s aged bourbon can’t keep pace with consumer demand Nothing confounds a celebrity profile like a happy family. Kaia Gerber’s Dad Was a Model, Too 2018-01-27T05:00:00Z He further confounds the public’s notions of what gendered and sexual labels mean in 2016, continuing much of the work that Prince did throughout his entire career in rock ‘n’ roll. Frank Ocean’s queer revolution: How “Blond(e)” asks us to see queerness as the new normal 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z The most obvious, and perhaps most frustrating, thing to reporters about Mueller is his confounded discipline. The end of the Mueller investigation is near! No, really. Anytime now. 2018-12-26T05:00:00Z The work of the Radicals is curiously confounding. Living With Freaky Furniture 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z Despite these unorthodox ploys, he’s a smart guy who understands that “sometimes you confound expectations, sometimes you grow into the thing that people think you are.” Beware Strange Psychologists: The Latest in Crime Novels 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z But it struck a lyrically cautionary note at a time when movies seek engagement with a wider world that, even at its most confounding, intimidating and even frightening, they ignore at their peril. At a notably relevant Golden Globes, the film world is seen struggling to keep pace 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z “I’m very focused on the confounding variables,” he told me. Date Lab: ‘The most interesting part of the date was when we talked about rating it’ 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z What the magistrates and other observers found most confounding about the case was the diary itself, which even her own lawyer described as “monstrous.” “Mrs. Robinson’s Disgrace”: Divorce, Victorian-style 2012-06-18T01:00:00Z The point of the confounding exercise is to show that even the most talented illusionists can be made the fool. "Is It Cake?" feeds viewers visual catharsis for uncertain times 2022-04-10T04:00:00Z But what really confounds her is the depressive’s maddening self-absorption, a mind trapped in that mesmeric hall of mirrors where every affirmation of hope looks ridiculous and the only pathway seems to spiral downward. Book review: ‘All My Puny Sorrows,’ by Miriam Toews It’s not quite so simple as that, confounded by the way the movie plays fast and loose with audience expectations and historical context. Sharon Tate Is a Woman in a Tarantino Movie. It’s Complicated. 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z “But where most saw an impenetrable mystery,” Marks writes, “I saw gaps that needed filling, and felt compelled to unravel the story that had confounded so many.” Review | Who was Vivian Maier? A new book explores the inspired life of the nanny with a secret gift for photography. 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z Still others simply posted pictures of Elba dressed in dapper attire, confounded at how anyone might consider him anything less than suave. James Bond Author Called Idris Elba 'Too Street' to Play 007 and the Internet Is Not Happy 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z A social worker who could use a good therapist, Marcie is so nasty to her daughter that it’s a bit confounding how Karla manages to bite her sharp tongue. Comedy, and sex, in the cancer ward? 'A Funny Thing Happened' goes there with glee 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z “That resistance to pigeonholing, while confounding to many, might just be one of the character traits that heralds Frank’s six decades of mold breaking,” she added. Frank Bowling’s New Paintings Are Family Affairs 2021-04-30T04:00:00Z Shortly after buying a Connecticut farmhouse, the Times columnist grapples with a confounding tick-borne illness in this darkly thoughtful memoir of attempting to make peace with discomfort, uncertainty and unsatisfying answers. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z Now, we as a largely secularized people grapple to find our own meanings in the fascinating, confounding beings Ebenstein works so passionately to explain within these richly adorned pages. Resurrecting the Anatomical Venus: Death, sex and ecstasy intersect in 18th-century dissectible wax women 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z Twenty-seven years after Don't Stand Me Down was released to widespread bafflement that took years to turn into acclaim, Dexys return with an album every bit as confounding, theatrical, strange and painfully honest. The best albums of 2012 (so far) 2012-06-14T19:00:06Z Having purchased the same plant documented in “The Last Truck,” a Chinese billionaire converts it into an automobile-glass factory and restores lost jobs while confounding American workers with a new set of attitudes. Julia Reichert, Documentarian of the Working Class, Dies at 76 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z Bob Dylan, accepting MusiCares Person of the Year award recently, identified “confounding expectations” as his job description. No More Country for Old Men 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z The Look of Love seeks to portray its protagonist as a libertine tragically confounded by doomed paternal love. Steve Coogan: forever Partridge? 2013-04-15T15:29:00Z It’s all the more confounding given that the first half-hour or more is devoted to the leisurely unfolding histories of Saleem’s parents and grandparents. Lovely ‘Midnight’s Children’ crams in birth of a nation — and 2 boys 2013-05-09T20:50:32Z All of this makes Smith's "explaining myself" tour by way of promoting "Emancipation" increasingly confounding in the way it is consciously designed to do the star more favors than the project he's promoting. Will Smith presides over the most bizarre "Red Table Talk" yet – to talk trauma, but avoid the slap 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z But Carey’s refusal to embrace the comeback kid title – back then, or on Wednesday – is confounding yet understandable when taking in Wednesday’s show. Mariah Carey in Vegas: 5 things we learned from her residency debut 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z What literature would he recommend to someone who just arrived in America and wanted to understand this complex, sometimes confounding country? Obama, the Best-Selling Author, on Reading, Writing and Radical Empathy 2020-12-08T05:00:00Z And in so doing he raised the confounding question of musical maturity and chronological age. From John Adams to Mozart: Dudamel's powerful pairing at the Bowl 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z Aly’s book appears, of course, at a moment when anti-Semitism seems ascendant, yet also when the chasm between proponent and foe is more confounding than ever. What Were the Origins of the Holocaust? 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z Equally confounding is how frequently Perry lets her words get in the way of her voice. Review | Katy Perry’s half-woke, no good, very bad album 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z The rest of the exhibit promises to confound first impressions with objects that look like one thing but are, in fact, something else altogether. Look Ahead: The hottest Seattle events for January 2020 2019-12-27T05:00:00Z Green is a secular Jew, confounded by what that even means, while Marlon sings in the choir in a storefront church near the Roxbury border. Bridging the Racial Divide in a Middle School Friendship 2018-01-15T05:00:00Z Web forms, confounding instructions, long lines at embassies and ever-changing requirements are par for the course. How to get a visa faster, without frustration 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z It says something about Grant's confounding brilliance as a songwriter that it's hard to imagine a more enjoyable and rewarding hour of music being released this year than Pale Green Ghosts. John Grant: Pale Green Ghosts – review 2013-03-07T15:29:01Z Her one-volume history is elegant, readable, sobering; it extends a steadying hand when a breakneck news cycle lurches from one event to another, confounding minds and churning stomachs. As the News Cycle Lurches, Jill Lepore Offers a Long, Steady View of American History 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z Such ontological questions confound the mind, but it is possible to solve them using diagrams. All Hail the Achievement Beard! 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z He's an artist who is as likely to confound as delight his fans, switching regularly between delicate acoustic ballads and noisy electric rock. AUDIO: Neil Young: Depth, darkness and despair 2012-06-08T06:51:24Z And some years ago, you confounded the priests in the temple at Jerusalem when your brother got into trouble. Philip Pullman: The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ 2010-03-27T09:00:00Z Incomplete to the last, Raymond Chandler goes out as he came in: contradictory and confounding, an abiding mystery, perhaps even to himself. A Mysterious Something in the Light: Raymond Chandler, A Life by Tom Williams – review 2012-08-16T07:00:01Z Still firmly tethered to the LA band's trademark blend of grubby rock'n'roll and strutting gutter-punk, Confessions seeks to confound received wisdom by exploring the gruelling reality of frontman Josh Todd's troubled childhood and wild adolescence. Buckcherry: Confessions – review 2013-02-14T22:15:01Z “A Bid to Save the World” is instead a lyrical meditation on loss using loosely interwoven stories, songs, incantations and poetry, and the result is a drama that is equal parts moving and confounding. ‘A Bid to Save the World’ at Source Festival The courts are where, under oath, the most confounding secrets are spilled. Books of The Times: A Murder Trial Unfolds Under a Gimlet Eye 2011-04-26T11:45:00Z All too aware of his gorgeous exterior, he confounds your expectations of a walking, talking, aftershave commercial and nine times out of 10 has the audience in stitches. Six to watch: Perfect chatshow guests 2012-11-08T16:30:10Z Much of Naipaul’s work is the baring of a wound by a man who, confoundingly, appeared to enjoy—or was unable to prevent—inflicting further wounds on the already wounded. The Shattering Double Vision of V. S. Naipaul 2018-08-12T04:00:00Z On the other hand, mastering those confounding rules is a dead serious job. Review: ‘As We See It,’ Where the Quest for ‘Normal’ Is Extraordinary 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z The remnants of Sonny Corleone made him a no-brainer for villain roles, and he played them well, but some of his most memorable work inverted and confounded those expectations. 9 James Caan Movies to Stream 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z “I’ve seen somebody step on someone else to get the jeans on a Black Friday,” he said, still sounding confounded by the behavior he witnessed. ‘Friday Black’ Uses Fantasy and Blistering Satire to Skewer Racism and Consumer Culture 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z In the lacuna of language that surrounds women’s illness, and psychogenic ailments in particular, the question of how to fight for one’s health becomes especially confounding. How Patriarchy Imprinted Itself on the Family Who Created Jell-O 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z The Emmys’ ongoing infatuation with the show is confounding. Emmy Nominations 2016: This Year’s Snubs and Surprises 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z Even the slight, prefabricated “Boeing Boeing” — a 1965 film based on a French farce that had flopped on Broadway — takes on an otherwise unaccountable emotional and thematic complexity, thanks to Mr. Lewis’s confounding presence. DVD: Jerry Lewis on DVD, ?Geisha Boy? and ?Boeing Boeing? 2012-02-19T03:43:03Z She confounded Archie with her malapropos — “You know what they say, misery is the best company” — and open-hearted acceptance of others, including her beleaguered son-in-law and African-Americans and other minorities that Archie disdained. Jean Stapleton, TV’s Edith Bunker, Dies at 90 2013-06-01T21:24:50Z Even now, in Kino International’s fine new Blu-ray edition, “The Birth of a Nation” continues to thrill and confound, to exalt and appall in equal measure. ?Birth of a Nation,? Born Again for DVD 2011-11-27T05:03:04Z Lautrec produced hundreds of paintings, watercolors, lithographs and posters, and thousands of often miraculous and confounding drawings. Review | Yes, Toulouse-Lautrec was an alcoholic cabaret creature. But his art ranged far beyond the demimonde. 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z Attention-grabbing, unashamedly pretentious and arriving later than scheduled, the stone is an apt tribute to one of the most confounding and charismatic figures in British music. A fitting headstone for Tony Wilson's grave 2010-10-26T19:00:00Z Between them, there were lusty renditions of songs and sitcom-like sketches that were often confounding and exhilarating in equal measure. Review: ‘Die Monosau’ Revives Chaotic Energy in Berlin 2023-02-20T05:00:00Z On a windy Southern beach Orville and Wilbur Wright pore over physics statistics to a disjointed melody, their progress confounded by problems of equilibrium. | 'Take Flight': Musical About Early Aviators at McCarter Theater 2010-05-23T22:45:00Z The Sharper Image, founded in 1977, is the old curiosity shop of confounding gadgetry. The absurd allure of the Sharper Image, the uncle-gift emporium for uncles you barely know 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z Today’s dictators confound their critics by peppering their speeches, the author says, “with references to liberty, justice and the rule of law.” Books Of the Times: ‘The Dictator’s Learning Curve,’ by William J. Dobson 2012-06-10T20:56:47Z Ms. Grammatico, 30, studied art but found entree into the gallery system confounding. The Artha Project Supports Emerging Artists on a Small and Personal Scale 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z The border confounded racists who’d reduced the world to a basic binary but didn’t know how to slot a middle term between white and black, acceptance and opprobrium. A Tale of Racial Passing and the U.S.-Mexico Border 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z But the director, Roel Reiné, confounds the action by relying on perplexing lore to explain his characters’ motivations, origins and abilities. ‘Fistful of Vengeance’ Review: Pursuing the Queen of the Underworld 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z And if, at the top of a city centre escalator, you come across an apparently useless and confounding rotating white Perspex something-or-other, that'll be by these two, too. This week's new exhibitions 2010-09-24T23:06:00Z But look at the beach photos on the resort’s website and you are sure to be confounded and disappointed. A Plush Hideway in the Florida Keys 2016-05-21T04:00:00Z Blue and Josh, now roaming around Manhattan, are still confounded by visual puzzles relating to colors and shapes, and once sufficiently stumped, they still ask the audience to get involved in direct address. ‘Blue’s Big City Adventure’ Review: It’s Gotta Be the Clues 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z The Slovenian band Laibach is best appreciated not as a music group but as a deliberately confounding aesthetic construct. Review: ‘Liberation Day,’ Rocking in Pyongyang With Laibach 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z For some school administrators, the clothing has presented a confounding problem, and they have struggled to address its popularity. American Teenagers Are Declaring ‘Virginity Rocks’ 2020-03-16T04:00:00Z It also tracks his frustrations, thwarted in love at Berkeley and confounded by a devilishly difficult problem at Princeton before a disgraced return to the Midwest. Ethan Canin's 'A Doubters Almanac' is a blazingly intelligent novel 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z Woman Fish is about as surreal as it gets: it is not just that weird things happen, they are juxtaposed in a way that confounds all logical expectations. Chinese fiction is focusing on the fringes – of both map and mind 2013-03-21T13:27:56Z This is a confounding affliction in which gluten consumption causes damage to the small intestine and interferes with the body’s ability to absorb vitamins. Backlash has begun against gluten-free dieters Which leaves the confounding case of Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets. Box office massacre: how Hollywood flopped this summer 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z So how will they confound and delight their fans this time? Replacements reunion: Genius or folly? 2013-07-12T18:03:00Z His quick, confounding mind leapt from one association to another at turbocharged speed. Tom Hardy Is at Home as Hero and Villain in ‘Taboo’ 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z “You discover how confounding the world is when you try to draw it,” Tan says. Shaun Tan?s Wild Imagination 2011-04-23T04:30:02Z A shock conk confounds our perceptions and forces us to see a different person. Clip joint: fake noses 2010-12-01T13:54:00Z On any normal day, the things you can see in museums like the Met and MoMA are enough to collapse time, confound categories, leave you euphoric or unhinged. Perspective | I just went to the Met and MoMA after five months away from museums. Someone, please, pick me up off the floor. 2020-08-31T04:00:00Z Both Sides of the Blade” is a Claire Denis movie, which is to say that it can be expected to confound expectations, including those it seems to set up for itself. ‘Both Sides of the Blade’ Review: Who Do You Love? 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z Boyhood is quietly confounding and quite possibly unique. Time and motion pictures: from Boyhood to old age, Everyday 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z It's a very interesting, fraught process and kind of confounding to me how it even gets done to work so beautifully. The making of Eagly, the "Peacemaker" scene-stealing, butt-kicking eagle whose hugs are miracles 2022-02-13T05:00:00Z She was like a medieval peasant confounded by books and easily impressed by stained glass.” Book Review: ‘Whiskey Tango Foxtrot’ May Be the Novel of the Summer 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z Part of the reason L.A. continues to confound so many of us, after all, is its complicated relationship with its past. Following L.A.'s history through maps 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z While calling the film "a staggering masterpiece," critic Glenn Kenny, writing at RogerEbert.com, called the film "both very simple and head-spinningly confounding, a thing of endless visual beauty… a true work of art." Isao Takahata of Studio Ghibli surfaces with 'Tale of Princess Kaguya' 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z Top prizes are split into dramatic and comedic categories, often in confounding ways. Netflix Dominates Golden Globes Nods, With ‘Mank’ and ‘The Crown’ Leading the Way 2021-02-03T05:00:00Z Even now, as a teacher, my color confounds. An open letter to Justice Scalia 2015-12-13T05:00:00Z Metro police had just assigned one of its top detectives, Danny Whelan, to the case, but he was faced with a dizzying puzzle with no set pieces and a confounding array of clues. D.C.’s last serial killer: The Princeton Place murders, 20 years later Hence, discovery of a relation between being bullied and a later trait is usually confounded with other properties that make a necessary contribution to the outcome. Science doesn’t know everything 2013-06-02T18:00:00Z As a solitary, debilitating state, grief goes against the grain of what cinema values most highly: it confounds momentum and thwarts all but the cruellest sort of closure. Good grief: cinema’s new mood of despair 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z Daily life in Trump’s America is overstuffed with emotion and confounding concepts. “Invisibilia” Returns—with Timely Concepts 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z It is also not subject to the effect of confounding factors, since the genetic variations used are specifically associated with the characteristics of the gut microbiota. Does our gut microbiota really influence our health and life expectancy? 2023-05-03T04:00:00Z Exhibit A was Lehrer's recitation of a confounding psychological test – in the form of a simple math problem – routinely failed by even the most educated respondents. Aaron Sorkin's verbal tics and self-plagiarism's technical impossibility 2012-07-09T13:00:00Z As a queer woman, a wedding has always been a confounding desire. I used to love the bride 2013-04-09T23:50:00Z News stories — and movies based on those stories, and movies responding to the movies based on those stories — are proliferating at a confounding rate. When it comes to a national conversation, you will just have to wait for the movie 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z Of all the secrets that emerge late in this touching, eccentric book, that is the most confounding one of all. Books of The Times: ‘Perfect: A Novel,’ an Eerie Look at Life Via a Child’s Eyes 2014-01-22T21:56:35Z They’re going to do things that confound and confuse, and seem messy, or angry, or human, or weak, or disloyal. Ryan Condal Was Surprised People Liked ‘House of the Dragon’ So Quickly 2022-10-23T04:00:00Z Yet McGowan was also systematically discredited, “confounded and confused” by the way she was routinely slated in the press. Rose McGowan: 'I won't be free of Harvey Weinstein until he's dead – or I am' 2020-02-28T05:00:00Z He was amazed by cellphones, confounded by the many unfamiliar gadgets blinking on the car dashboard. From Waitress to Brother?s Savior, Then Hollywood Hero 2010-10-12T22:57:00Z I did not want to like it, but confound it, I do. ‘Girls’ Finale: Is It Just Us, or Did the Show Get Better? 2016-04-17T04:00:00Z You empathize on this occasion with Jennings’s wholly embraceable Mark, but even more so with a playwright struggling to contain all of her thoughts about this utterly confounding juncture for our democracy. Review | It was a dark and stormy night at Woolly Mammoth Theatre, as the talk turned to Trump . . . 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z There, a door sign read, confoundingly, “Please Do Not Enter,” but that is, in fact, the name of the store. A Stylishly Secretive Store for Design-Obsessed Men in Los Angeles 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z Missing Child Seems Found, but His Family Is at a Loss Like its smirking antihero and chief narrator, the serial con artist Frédéric Bourdin, “The Imposter” is slippery, manipulative, unstable and smoothly confounding. Movie Review: ‘The Imposter,’ About the Con Artist Frédéric Bourdin 2012-07-12T22:39:37Z At first the rhythmic foundation of the piece — the five-beat repeated pattern called the clave, the basic building block of Cuban music — confounded some of the American players. Fire and Ice: Minnesotans Join Orquesta Aragón in Havana 2015-05-17T04:00:00Z The point is clear: Few natural resources so confound measurement, let alone management, as fish. In bluefin tuna, fisheries science is never neat 2023-08-02T04:00:00Z Still, if "Inherent Vice" at times can confound and test your patience, that's by design. NYFF: 'Inherent Vice' and the contemporary cult hit 2014-10-05T04:00:00Z But whether or not everything in it qualifies as incontrovertibly beautiful, it’s an exciting opportunity to meditate on the perennially confounding questions: What is beauty? Cooper Hewitt Triennial Offers a Bold Look at ‘Beauty’ 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z And for someone who generally considers a jog through the park an outdoor adventure, my choice of lodging in one of the most beautiful places in the world was understandably confounding. Can Responsible Travel to Hawaii Be Fun? We Gave It a Try. 2022-11-27T05:00:00Z But they were confounded in their spiritual aspirations by the absence of any positive, nonkitschy vocabulary in which to invest. Milton Resnick Exhibition at Mana Contemporary 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z The opera opened to mostly positive reviews, confounding some critics’ expectations. Revival of ‘Anna Nicole’ Opera Comes to London 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z The call confounded her, Ms. Corry said: not only had he misremembered the incident, which made her think there were other moments of misconduct, he also implied she had done something to invite his behavior. Louis C.K. Is Accused by 5 Women of Sexual Misconduct 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z But over the years, "The View" also confounded expectations and created a new template. For Barbara Walters, power, politics and pop culture were personal 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z Other projects were more theoretical or experiential, and sometimes confounded their audiences — or were thwarted altogether. Newton Harrison, a Founder of the Eco-Art Movement, Dies at 89 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z Still, there is something confounding about the idea of signing into Facebook to do business, rather than to be distracted from it. Workplace by Facebook, or a Party in the Office 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z “It is a confusing time to be a woman who loves a troubled man,” Henderson writes in this unflinching memoir of her husband’s long and confounding medical conditions. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z That “something” has coursed through the narrative tissue of the Faye trilogy, a clean, cold energy that braces and confounds. Elusive leaps of grace and daring: Rachel Cusk's 'Kudos' 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z There are no easy answers at the end of Magdalena’s journey, but her story is as interesting as it is confounding. ‘Rock, Paper and Scissors’ Review: There’s No Place Like Home 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z A few things happen for no apparent reason in Midsommar, their presence in the finished product confounding understanding rather than helping it along. Extended scares: in defense of the two-hour-plus horror movie 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z The question is raised by “Wow,” the bizarre, hilarious, enthralling, confounding and cathartic new work that Ms. Garfield presented on Thursday at Danspace Project. Keely Garfield Draws on Kate Bush at Danspace Project 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z Osgood, the NYPD’s hate crimes chief, said he was confounded that other departments wouldn’t keep more detailed records and why they wouldn’t consider it vital to report them to the FBI. The tail wagging the dog? NYPD’s long history chronicling hate crimes 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z Then again, this being "Twin Peaks," the answer to what happened to Cooper after he got trapped in the Black Lodge may be more confounding than the question. Kyle MacLachlan will return along with 'Twin Peaks' on Showtime 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z The politics confound the film’s sense of action; the camera sticks to the diplomats even after the protagonist has escaped from a back door. ‘Kompromat’ Review: Escape From Siberia 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z It confounded us, but it made sense, too: Lying and deceit had added to our dissonance. Coming out to my wife 2013-02-19T01:00:00Z “The quality that really confounded me about Aaron’s instrumental tracks is that to me, they were immediately, intensely visual,” Swift wrote in an email. How Aaron Dessner Found His Voice (With an Assist From Taylor Swift) 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z “It confounds me that she didn’t win the Oscar for ‘Gone Girl.’” Rosamund Pike Is Delighted to Appall You 2021-02-19T05:00:00Z Fans of Bill James — baseball fans, in other words — will have many of their expectations confounded by his new book. Books of The Times: Crunch the Numbers; Solve a Famous Murder 2011-06-02T21:24:11Z For fans of a show that specializes in confounding expectations and keeping viewers on the edges of their seats, the wait must have been unbearable. Critic?s Notebook: No Need to Settle for Summer Reruns 2011-06-02T21:45:20Z A lively, difficult brand of unevenness was inherent in Gawker’s work, and this still seems to confound people: How could a site seesaw so wildly from the essential to the extraneous, and even the questionable? Gawker’s Essential Unevenness 2016-08-20T04:00:00Z I wanted us to share the sense that the number of wrong moves far exceeds the number of good moves, to share the frightening instability of the correct decision, to bond in being confounded. The Book of My Lives by Aleksandar Hemon – extract 2013-02-23T08:00:19Z And dramatically she drew out every elusive nuance of this confounding character. Review: A Conductor Delivers a Magnificent ‘Parsifal’ at the Met 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z At its worst, as in this stilted, confounding episode, it has squandered its talented core cast and flaunted symbolic messages so blunt they seem more appropriate for, well, advertising billboards. 'Mad Men' Recap: Misplaced Nostalgia 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z His singing was solid, but it was the young, tenderly confounded man he handsomely individualized that made us feel the weight of the musical's tragic antiwar vision. This 'Hair' makes it easy to be heartened 2014-08-04T04:00:00Z As Mr. Trump has defied conventional politics and confounded conventional pundits, so has he frustrated conventional satire. Donald Trump Is a Conundrum for Political Comedy 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z Difficult to describe and confounding to follow, the film is best when you submit to the surreal nature of it; then, you will be open to witnessing one of this year’s most mesmerizing movies unfold. ‘Slow Machine’ Review: What Do Paranoid Actresses Dream Of? 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z The most confounding started with a base of ricotta, thin rounds of zucchini and a carrot-top pesto that reminded me distantly of za’atar. Restaurant Review: Bruno in the East Village 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z Still, what is confounding is that the same narratives apply year after year, the biggest of which being that the Emmys never change. Emmy nominations 2014: some surprises, just not the right ones 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z It was a neat conjurer’s trick on a show that has been defined by its abundance of them: unannounced flashes forward and back, characters with hidden motives or identities, confounding twists both large and small. What Is ‘Westworld’ Without Westworld? 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z Results did not appear to be confounded by maternal inflammation, infection during pregnancy, the mother’s mental health problems, or other potential confounders we evaluated. Motherlode Blog: The Official, if Possibly Unnecessary, End of Acetaminophen Use During Pregnancy 2014-02-25T22:22:14Z Season three’s plot strand about Carcetti’s bid to become mayor of Baltimore even confounded some of the writers. The Wire, 10 years on: ‘We tore the cover off a city and showed the American dream was dead’ 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z One of Russia's most revered cultural symbols may confound its legions of traditional fans at home with director and Bolshoi darling Dmitry Chernyakov's adaptation of a classic opera based on a poem by Alexander Pushkin. Puppets, naked ladies run wild in revamped Bolshoi 2011-11-01T14:32:16Z The other day, Win Butler and Régine Chassagne of were redecorating their home in Montreal and listening to In Utero, the album Nirvana recorded amid the vertigo induced by sudden and confounding success. Arcade Fire: 'It's a lot easier to get smaller' 2011-02-10T21:36:01Z This is a book that confounds our expectations of what a novel should look and sound like. ‘Lincoln in the Bardo’ arises from a tragic footnote in American history 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z The Academy, however, can take the blame for confoundingly leaving out Elle, Fire at Sea, Julieta and Neruda at the shortlist stage. And the real winner is… welcome to the Observer’s alternative Oscars 2017-01-29T05:00:00Z At this point, the troubles of the New York City Opera are more and more confounding. Critic?s Notebook: For an Opera Company, a Troubled Vision Quest 2011-07-13T11:48:19Z Here is where the confounding aspect of her book begins. Reviving Emily Dickinson in 10 Episodes 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z The easiest way to understand them is as simplifications designed to show how specific mechanisms work by isolating them from other, confounding effects. ‘Chicagonomics’ and ‘Economics Rules’ 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z The book’s final section, headed “In Their Own Words,” confounds me. Hear Them Roar 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z Mr. Graham was never afraid to confound while enlightening. Rodney Graham, Conceptual Artist Who Starred in His Work, Dies at 73 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z He is one of those phenomena that rise regularly in history to confound us with the possibility—and black comedy—of potent evil: conscienceless, cruel and pathologically dishonest. Why Trump Is Different—and Must Be Repelled 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z It’s a role that confounds allies and admirers who remember Giuliani’s rise as a law-and-order Republican twice elected in the country’s largest bastion of liberalism. What happened to ‘America’s Mayor’? How Rudy Giuliani became Trump’s attack dog. 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z At the very least, continuing to allow Cosby to bear that honor sends a confounding message regarding the seriousness of the accusations against him. Bill Cosby’s public shaming: What it means for Fordham and Marquette to yank his honorary degrees 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z Nagasaki residents, of course, didn’t know what had hit them and were confounded by the “atomic bomb sickness” that killed people who initially appeared to be uninjured. In deft, distressing ‘Apocalypse Factory,’ Seattle author details Hanford’s role in the dawn of the nuclear age 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z I mean this in a value neutral sense: The finale of “Twin Peaks: The Return” was confounding. Revealing the mystery behind “Twin Peaks: The Return”’s new mysteries 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z And they take a surprising approach to language: in addition to being confounding science-fiction novels, they are fractured, lyrical love letters to Florida’s mossy northern coast. The Weird Thoreau 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z “If you do the unicorn,” Jeffrey told Bill, who was confounded by the concept, “the Internet will altogether say, ‘You understand us. The art of advertising things people find gross 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z It’s Rachel from “My Cousin Rachel” and Nurse Ansel from “The Blue Lenses”: alluring, confounding characters, impossible to classify as victims, saviors or executioners. In Praise of Daphne du Maurier 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z The feud over which of the two owns the most suffering-filled upbringing is a repeat refrain from last week and still confounds me. 'Masters of Sex' Recap: I Will Fix You 2014-09-14T04:00:00Z I’m fascinated how the media in particular are so confounded by entrepreneurial women doing something outside of their box. Gwyneth Paltrow on Comparisons to Other Actresses: 'There’s Something Slightly Misogynistic About It' 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z "Otherness," let the record once again show, goes out the window when empathy for our confounding common humanity is stirred by artists unafraid of complexity. Take note of these four musicals for a Tony, then vote for 'Fun Home' 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z Both, he noted, have cast enormous shadows and had enormous influence, and both have engendered an undercurrent of resistance..Discussing the music of "The Rite," Mr. Taruskin pointed to its ability to confound expectations. ArtsBeat: 'The Rite of Spring' Still Grist for Discussion 2012-10-28T19:54:43Z But few other shows that go this determinedly for the jugular are as consistent at confounding expectations. Sons Of Anarchy: 'don't touch the Harleys' 2013-02-02T08:00:00Z The movie is as confounding as it is grisly. Movie Review: ‘The Collection,’ Torture From Marcus Dunstan 2012-11-30T03:14:37Z I found the work to be riveting — but confounding. Go to LACMA for John McLaughlin, possibly the most important postwar artist you don't know 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z It’s a question that confounds even the most seasoned travelers: Just how much are you supposed to tip the staff during your hotel stay? A Three-Step Guide to Tipping on Vacation 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z While the novel astonishes and confounds, in almost equal measure, I’m unconvinced that high modernism of this sort comes any closer to what it feels like to be human. Book review: ‘Shark,’ by Will Self: Postmodern novel in a psychiatric community Correction: In an earlier version of the story, confounding variables was misstated. Date Lab: ‘The most interesting part of the date was when we talked about rating it’ 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z In the parking lot, they brain-valet a car from one parking space to another as the car’s confounded owner searches for it. Chronicle: It's Carrie Plus X-Men, With Found Footage 2012-02-02T16:41:05Z He’s now confounded a force even more powerful. 'Twin Peaks' exit provides a last Lynchian twist 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z Her sister's comments about the aforementioned dog at dinner confound her, and there is a discussion about spells and invisible people in the jungle and colonization. Tilda Swinton moves through the dreamy and confounding "Memoria" at her own frequency 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z During his time among the common folk, Jordan is not above employing his celebrity to confound Emily’s judgmental peers or, in one instance, flaunting his wealth to prove his devotion. Review: In ‘Be Somebody,’ a Teenage Idol Goes AWOL With an Ordinary Girl 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z You may find yourself championing its subjects even while feeling confounded by the omission of details by its filmmaker. Review: ‘500 Years’ Looks at a Guatemala Searching for Justice 2017-07-11T04:00:00Z And now we have Major League Baseball, where the piped-in synthetic applause from enthusiastic ghost crowds has given confounded viewers the willies — or at least struck some as “intellectually dishonest.” Perspective | I miss live performances, but what I really miss is applause 2020-08-26T04:00:00Z Philip Roth is neither Shakespeare nor Wilde, but he has always possessed the knack of confounding his audience. Philip Roth and famous literary exits 2012-11-12T13:37:25Z Differences between the two are confounded: Is one model more authentic than the other? Thomas Demand undercuts what we think photographs show us 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z Narrative art at its best both confounds and satisfies. Big Love: Shark-Jumping in Utah 2010-02-22T14:05:00Z Told in poised, often shimmering prose, these tales distress and confound. Shrewd Short Stories That Merge the Hopeless and the Hopeful 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z At least 30 minutes and several scams too long, the plot passes from amusing to confounding long before the final double-cross. Movie Review: ?Let the Bullets Fly,? With Jiang Wen and Chow Yun-Fat 2012-03-02T04:40:37Z If they are fakes, who are these preternaturally talented forgers who have been able to confound experts? Arts & Leisure: Authenticity of Trove of Pollocks and Rothkos Goes to Court 2012-02-22T13:00:00Z When their radio breaks, Jim splurges on a new one, a “large gumwood cabinet” with a confounding number of dials and switches. “Brad’s Status” feels like a movie about America in 2017, but it’s more timeless 2017-09-16T04:00:00Z Anne Frank's diary told us what our grandparents couldn't, while The Machine Gunners confounded our ideas by showing a kind German airman. Nina Bawden's Carrie's War speaks a truth about the ripple effects of conflict 2012-08-24T16:30:00Z While it’s simple, it’s also “confoundingly challenging to so-called ‘get right,’” Garfield said. A Dancer and Chaplain Illuminates the Invisible With Patience 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z The situation is even more confounding because quahogging was a quintessential form of social distancing before social distancing was a public mandate. One Shop Became a Lifeline for Rhode Island’s Solitary Clam Fishermen 2020-03-27T04:00:00Z The actor, confounding as ever, promptly bounds off in the opposite direction. Joaquin Phoenix: ‘There was a period when I wanted out. I wanted my life back’ 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z It had become a confounding mystery of the Broadway season: Why hadn’t Carole King come to see the Carole King musical? So Far Away. No, She’s in Row K. 2014-04-04T22:13:12Z Posey is a hugely engaging presence, but perhaps also a confounding one for demographic-obsessed Hollywood execs looking for someone easier to define. Parker Posey: ‘I didn’t think I would work again – so I wrote a book’ 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z The second episode introduced this kind of sympathetic, funny, interesting guy who confounds the audience. This Is What 'The Jinx' Creators Think of Robert Durst 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z The loss of a child, precarious finances and fear of belittlement from their white neighbors confound an immigrant family from Taiwan. 50 notable works of fiction in 2019 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z But not only are you starting with flawed data, you’ve got a zillion possible confounding variables — dietary, demographic, socioeconomic. Perspective | Here’s what the government’s dietary guidelines should really say 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z “Oculus” plays on that notion, confounding distinctions among reality, fantasy and dream sequences. Movie Review: In ‘Oculus,’ From Mike Flanagan, a Mirror Holds Secrets 2014-04-10T23:07:53Z Yet this production, shown in seemingly random excerpt form, is confounding. Soledad Barrio and Noche Flamenca Explore Sophocles’ Drama 2014-11-02T04:00:00Z Also here, in big black letters, is the show’s confounding title. ‘Production Line of Happiness’ Is a ‘Making Of’ Special 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z Both display a lack of sophistication and concern with hip-hop’s principles — infuriating and confounding offenses to purists. If you’re not a teenager, don’t try to understand Lil Yachty 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z The narrative's murkiness, however, isn't consequential because the veracity of his story is established by his wounded, permanently confounded, compulsively hilarious manner. 'Darrell Hammond' traces SNL star's painful path to laughter 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z Tyler was confounded by Ms. Bacall’s husk and doesn’t seem to have known that, per Hawks’s instructions, she had stripped away any trace of what he deemed a potential feminine flaw. Lauren Bacall’s Debut in ‘To Have and Have Not’ 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z Then there is “Who? Weekly,” the cutting podcast in which the hosts, Lindsey Weber and Bobby Finger, guide listeners through celebrity’s confounding new frontier. A Celebrity Z-List? Yes, It Exists 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z The product of a devout Irish-Catholic family in Boston, he attended Harvard University only to confound expectations by quitting in 1948 after one term to focus on his interest in women’s hats. Bill Cunningham, photographer of New York street fashion, dies at 87 2016-06-25T04:00:00Z Sleepless: Sometimes, events seem to unfold in a flash, where you are simply too shocked, surprised or confounded to respond in the moment. Perspective | Ask Amy: Deleted picture from work raises concerns at home 2017-03-25T04:00:00Z Here he finds paralysed patients cared for but forgotten, so he is soon instigating a physical fitness regime with the promise that their condition will improve, battling the "system" and confounding colleagues in the process. TV highlights 16/08/2012 2012-08-15T19:00:03Z The reviews of “Lolita, My Love” had been savage, and the cast was confounded. A Restaging of “Lolita, My Love,” the Musical “Too Dark to Live” 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z It was confounding because of the episodes that led up to it. Revealing the mystery behind “Twin Peaks: The Return”’s new mysteries 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z But there’s an underlying poignant sadness, too: “Who’s this stupid clown blocking the bathroom sink?” he sings at his own reflection on “Pretty Pimpin,” one of the year’s most confounding and moving songs. Pop, Rock & Cabaret Listings for Oct. 2-8 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z Avatar was predicted to change the market forever, making hugely expensive 3D the only way to go for blockbuster films but Skyfall has confounded that. Skyfall becomes first £100m movie at UK box office 2012-12-31T14:57:11Z Apparently aiming for an open-ended psychological thriller, Ms. Thoman focuses so fiercely on atmosphere that her narrative isn’t just opaque, it’s a confounding collision of signifiers and symbols. Review: Secrets and Lies in ‘Never Here’ 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z True to form, Wheatley's latest is an unruly, confounding affair; a shotgun wedding of The League of Gentlemen and Nuts in May. Ben Wheatley's Sightseers brings English tourist trail to Cannes 2012-05-17T19:00:03Z So’s death is particularly confounding because it occurred just as his star was rising. A Rising Star’s Career Was Cut Short. His Impact Is Just Beginning. 2021-07-19T04:00:00Z Leonard is undone by his own restless intellect, confounding even himself. Theater Review: ‘Mary Broome’ by Allan Monkhouse at Mint Theater 2012-09-23T21:27:20Z This question, of how he creates, confounds even those closest to him. Stephen Malkmus had his groove denied. He was upset for about five minutes. 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z The concerto, completed in 1910 for the violinist Fritz Kreisler, is a dense, teeming work, by turns fascinating, elusive and, for me, confounding. Music Review: Rendering Elgar?s Mercurial Impressions 2010-12-10T22:00:00Z Anyone coming into “Love Beats Rhymes” expecting to find some continuity with 2012’s “The Man With the Iron Fists,” the prior and first feature film directed by the hip-hop luminary RZA, may well be confounded. Review: In ‘Love Beats Rhymes,’ a Hip-Hop Artist Transformed by Poetry 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z Premiering in January 1981, Hill Street Blues challenged, even confounded the meager audience that sampled it. Steven Bochco, creator of Hill Street Blues, dies at 74 2018-04-01T04:00:00Z It remains fairly pristine even as it kicks up enough dust to confound the highway patrols of several Western states. Barry Newman, Star of the Cult Film ‘Vanishing Point,’ Dies at 92 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z In other words, the comparison that drove the authors’ key statistical finding, New York, was the one with the least suitable comparator state, and the most confounding problems. Economists Claim Medicaid's Health Outcomes are Great. Or Do They? 2012-08-01T06:38:59Z Which doesn’t mean that personal filmmaking doesn’t come in some confounding forms. ‘Clerks III’ Review: From the Heart 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z From Pakistan to Sweden to China, the American family that perhaps put the most fun into dysfunctional has delighted audiences - and confounded network and government censors - seemingly everywhere. 'Simpsons' invade the Hollywood Bowl 2014-09-14T04:00:00Z In this way, "Everyday Life" acts as a pointed rejoinder to the social and political unrest that plagues our confounding present day. Coldplay attacks social and political unrest with hope on "Everyday Life" 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z The enigma proved confounding even in his final scenes. Remembering Prince 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z It’s handsome in parts and confounding in others: Why include even a second of the ever-popular floss dance? Review: William Forsythe Takes Dance to a Quiet, Uneven Place 2019-10-13T04:00:00Z Dogs have become almost a separate species from wolves, and their evolution continues to confound biologists. In Defence of Dogs by John Bradshaw ? review 2011-07-08T21:56:01Z But just the idea that this is still a topic of discussion confounds Harjo. ‘Reservation Dogs’ Uses Humor, Not Magic, to Conjure Native Culture 2021-08-06T04:00:00Z Artistic directors of orchestras, opera companies and chamber ensembles struggled to placate tradition-bound subscribers while also enticing those eager for challenging, even confounding modern music. New York City Ballet Uses Contemporary Classical Music 2010-06-11T14:17:00Z But the racially mixed Toomer’s confounding efforts to defy being stuck in conventional racial categories and his disaffiliation with black culture made him perhaps the most enigmatic writer associated with the Harlem Renaissance. Scholars Say Chronicler of Black Life Passed for White 2010-12-26T21:46:48Z In a word, the film is “weird,” misbehaving in ways that deliberately confound the expectations of audiences used to getting all the information up front. Yorgos Lanthimos totally gets that you might hate his movies. He's fine with that. 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z Many film critics found fault with Spectre and its confounding third act, and so too did Pierce Brosnan. Pierce Brosnan on 'Spectre': 'Too Long' and 'Story Was Kind of Weak' 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z He decided to let his clothes speak for him and when his clothes were confounding, he was content to let audiences wrestle with the conundrums all on their own. Perspective | Martin Margiela did himself a favor: He anticipated fashion’s future — and its failures 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z But around 2006, she plunged once more into full artistic commitment across a series of ever more sublimely confounding pieces. The Confounding Lightness of Helen Pashgian 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z From a hunt in Namibia to a safari lodge in South Africa, from an animal control program in Zimbabwe to a Las Vegas convention hall, the narrative becomes only more complex and confounding. Review: For the Wild Things in ‘Trophy,’ Life Has a Price 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z Yet Alfonso winds up confounded by the stubborn complexity of human nature. A Salzburg Festival Rich With Dreams and Power 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z As for the “Choreoplay” subtitle, that remains confounding since there is no dancing. In a Marathon of One-Act Plays, Boundaries Are Pushed and Pulled 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z Romeo may not be deserving of such an insight, but Erdrich often confounds expectations. In Louise Erdirch's 'LaRose,' parents make an impossible bargain 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z Supporters also point to Dylan’s early protest songs as a link, though Dylan has famously spent most of his career confounding all attempts to use him or his music as a symbol for any cause. The $10 Million Bob Dylan Center Opens Up His Songwriting Secrets 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z The whole story is lousy with attitude: grieving Mike trying to drink away his sorrow; confounded Mike trying to understand his survival; vengeful Mike trying to find Annie’s killer. Review | A corrupt, cynical world as only David Mamet could imagine it 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z The first scene offers a montage of the monotony of illness: the football games whose outcomes become confoundingly trivial and the fresh air that tastes fresher if only because it’s in limited supply. Have Your Morning Cry with Deleted Scenes from The Fault in Our Stars 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z But state orders are where the most confounding conflicts reside. What’s ‘essential,’ anyway? Roses, guns, manicures, marijuana — it all depends on who’s deciding. 2020-04-03T04:00:00Z Well, his motive is not given, and I hope that that omission informs the story, just the way he eludes and confounds his parents. This Week in Fiction: Ben Marcus on the Cruelty of Children 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z Extensive interviews with the musician only confound the question of whether he is to be admired or loathed. Winter Movies 2021: Here’s What’s Coming Soon to Streaming and Theaters 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z And when the characters are in pitched battle with one another, at last confronting their confounding and long-buried past, the production stops marking time and bursts into anguished meaning. Arthur Miller's 'The Price' bursts into meaning at Mark Taper Forum 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z One of these books is so confounding that it is said to be “like ‘Finnegans Wake’ on steroids.” Books of The Times: Literature Can Turn Most Lethal 2011-07-06T21:30:34Z Under the heat, the tofu itself is confoundingly cool. Burmese Cuisine, a New York Rarity, at Rangoon Spoon 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z On its release Christopher Nolan’s “Memento,” for instance, both confounded and rewarded audiences with its narrative puzzle, and it helped create intense fan engagement, which sustained the film’s theatrical afterlife. Arts & Leisure: Films Dispense With Storytelling Conventions 2012-11-21T13:00:00Z He confounds other expectations by being naturally shy, and by refusing to champion anything. The Heretics: Adventures with the Enemies of Science by Will Storr – review 2013-02-13T07:00:02Z Trump’s bumbling, combative Covid briefings are depicted as wonderfully comforting, instead of utterly confounding. Loyal to God and Trump, Mike Pence Defends His Record 2022-11-14T05:00:00Z Even critics confounded by the chase concede that Van Winkle makes very, very good whiskey. Pappy Van Winkle’s aged bourbon can’t keep pace with consumer demand That Bertolucci, who died Monday, couched an essentially humanist critique within a movie consumed with romantic desire was also very much in keeping with an oeuvre that proved as confounding as it was essential. Perspective | More than anyone, Bernardo Bertolucci exemplified the pain and pleasure of the male gaze 2018-11-26T05:00:00Z Again confounding their expectations, the researchers discovered that introverts are more likely to use a photo of themselves as their Twitter profile pic than extroverts. What does your profile picture say about you? - Quiz | Ben Ambridge 2017-03-26T04:00:00Z There, he confounded a lot of casting directors. Tony Dalton Talks ‘Better Call Saul’: Sympathy for el Diablo 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z There are too many stores and a confounding preponderance of malls, which all smell alarmingly similar — drenched in Cinnabon and Aunt Annie’s pretzels with a base note of failure. Shopping in stores is a misery. Can wine, yoga and ‘storytelling’ make it fun again? 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z There may be no aspect of our nation’s history more fraught with duplicity and bad faith than governmental dealings with Indian tribes, and curiously, too, no aspect more complicated and confounding. ‘Nation to Nation,’ at Museum of the American Indian 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z Alternately, the Daniels' "Everything, Everywhere, All at Once" confounded expectations earlier in the year to earn $104 million worldwide. Why aren't cinephiles taking the Oscar bait? Salon conducted an unscientific survey 2022-12-11T05:00:00Z He is trying, in fictional form, to tell the serio-comic story of his father’s life—the obstacles, the small triumphs, the confounding and humiliating episodes, the larger achievement. The Shattering Double Vision of V. S. Naipaul 2018-08-12T04:00:00Z The premise of “Escaped Alone” is both simple and confounding. Review: In ‘Escaped Alone’ Fears Small (Cats) and Large (Apocalypse) 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z Something in the texture of her writing – its conversational ease, high spirits, bourgeois-domestic subject matter – confounds the heavy machinery of the academic critical apparatus. What Matters in Jane Austen? by John Mullan – review 2012-06-15T21:55:14Z “ORG” has since been made available, in all its confounding splendor, on a PAL region-free DVD from Arsenal, the German film museum. In ‘The Color of Pomegranates,’ the Cinema of the Cryptic 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z Mr. Wasson’s book is filled with anecdotes about just how confounding “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” was from the start. Books of The Times: ?Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.? by Sam Wasson 2010-06-13T22:07:00Z A review in the 3 May 1836 Morning Post read: "This is one of those amazing pictures by which Mr Turner dazzles the imagination and confounds all criticism. It is beyond praise." Record £30m sale for Turner artwork 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z One issue that confounds me is what comes next. 'Better Call Saul' Recap: A Chimp With a Machine Gun 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z Comparing New York to Pennsylvania suffers from many confounding factors Also, it must be noted that no two states are alike. Economists Claim Medicaid's Health Outcomes are Great. Or Do They? 2012-08-01T06:38:59Z The chemistry between them is real, but it’s also confounding, embodied with a charming and slightly ominous bewilderment by both performers. Review: In ‘Boy,’ a Man Deals With Gender Cards He’s Given (Not Born With) 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z It’s also a movie that you’ll most likely encounter in your living room or on your laptop, further confounding an inevitable identity conundrum. ‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’ Review: All the Blues That’s Fit to Sing 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z As the hoofers trade turns in the spotlight, each yields songs from the ground, scraping and stroking and piercing the floor in ways that confound the eye and ear with their intricacy. Review: Mourning in Tap Shoes at Jacob’s Pillow 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z And here is okra the underestimated, a vegetable that confounds some Americans with its inner tap of mucilage, a viscous liquid shunned as slime. Sharing the Food of an Ivorian Childhood at Paradis des Gouts 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z I was comforted by books in which vast mysteries confounded even the bravest and most brilliant adults — because being confounded didn't keep them from trying, from seeking answers and in doing so experiencing growth. Grief is a distant planet: How "A Wrinkle in Time" is helping me deal with my father’s decline 2023-06-17T04:00:00Z He specialized in playing characters who found themselves more often than not contending with confounding or preternaturally intelligent animals. Dean Jones, Star of Disney’s ‘The Love Bug,’ Dies at 84 2015-09-02T04:00:00Z All this confounding of expectations is admirable, but that doesn’t necessarily equal enjoyable; in some authors’ hands, subversion can be buffoonery, and admirable can be didactic and tedious. Nordic Noir, in the Horn of Africa 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z He was courageous, confounding, and one of the greatest collaborators. Remembering Hal Prince: 12 Broadway Luminaries Share Their Stories 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z Then, after a pause, a man describes how he carried a book by Adorno as a symbolic shield in a recent political demonstration and, through this seemingly absurdist gesture, succeeded in confounding the riot police. Art Review: Hito Steyerl Has New York Solo Debut at e-flux 2012-12-20T22:07:09Z There are other important differences between states There are other confounding factors that could explain why the authors found differences between the states’ Medicaid programs. Economists Claim Medicaid's Health Outcomes are Great. Or Do They? 2012-08-01T06:38:59Z The sense of expectation readers are left with slightly confounds the nice cosy message that all babies are unique. Royal baby books: regal or ridiculous? 2013-07-19T09:36:00Z Given its confounding novelty, her music is an acquired taste. Joanna Newsom ? easy to appreciate, hard to enjoy 2010-07-29T20:33:00Z Even for a crowd steeped in the make-believe of Broadway, this was confounding. In 'Birdman,' Alejandro G. Inarritu takes his doubts and lets them fly 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z In the early days of parenting I pretended to be confounded by swaddling. How I Trained My Husband to Be a Dad 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z Joaquin Phoenix, with his deep-set eyes and his malign jaguar smile, has a gift for unhappy, confounded men caught between aggression and chagrin. David Denby: “The Immigrant,” “Belle” Reviews 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z The photographs of contemporary men from the region in Mr. de Andrade’s “promotional” posters simultaneously confound the idea of fixed ethnic identity and reinforce “male” as a stereotype. ‘Under the Same Sun,’ Art From Latin America, at Guggenheim 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z They confounded notions of “black” art as being a fixed style or set of ideas and did so in an era when African-American artists were being pressured to cast their work in clear ethno-political terms. Art Review: Romare Bearden at Studio Museum, Schomburg and the Met 2011-12-08T23:44:36Z There are others scenes that confound, such as one involving the janitor watching a fake Robert Zemeckis film. Charlie Kaufman's exasperating "I'm Thinking of Ending Things" could've been a masterpiece 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z This novel draws heavily on research, but it does so in confounding ways. Books of The Times: A First Wife Can Be So Stolid and Clueless and Plain and Pregnant 2011-02-27T22:49:34Z In the company's signature style, singing entwines with signing to movingly capture the angst, alienation and longing of the teenage characters on the confounding cusp of sexual adulthood. The best theater of 2015 highlights transformation and enduring power from L.A. to Broadway 2015-12-12T05:00:00Z The hierarchy of this year’s jury was decided just days earlier in a somewhat confounding manner, according to Matt Hulse, a British filmmaker on the panel. In North Korea, an International Film Festival Where ‘Self-Reliance’ Is the Star 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z “But I do think in terms of jolting people, challenging them, confounding them.” Perspective | How Howard Shalwitz led Woolly Mammoth’s stampede 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z He shows himself stranded on a desert island, drowning in blood and in dialogue with the endless cockroaches that plague his imagination throughout his most confounding journey. Cartoonist Mana Neyestani speaks on his Iran imprisonment, Charlie Hebdo 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z “It extends a steadying hand when a breakneck news cycle lurches from one event to another, confounding minds and churning stomachs.” 7 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z Apart from a wry, but affectionate deconstruction of “Easy” by the Commodores, Faith No More only became less accessible, even dabbling in jazz, making records that were often confounding — but never dull. The Week Ahead: June 27 ? July 3 2010-06-25T15:46:00Z Instead, they are riveting, confounding and, as exchanges between Jones and her mother attest, personal. ‘Sell/Buy/Date’ Review: The Topic of Sex Work, From All Sides 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z The self-described “hybrid photography” of Amir Zaki nails the essence of the subjects he captures on camera while also making them cryptic or confounding. You don’t need rules to look at Amir Zaki’s photography — just imagination 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z Small talk can confound, as can restaurant ordering. 'The Wolfpack's' isolated brothers relate to world through movies 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z Jack narrates in a voice not unlike that of Burr’s standup persona, responding to the issues that confound the contemporary straight white male with profane non-sequiturs. ‘Old Dads’ Review: Bill Burr Rails Against Modern Life as a Dad 2023-10-19T04:00:00Z Seemingly indifferent to the public and the demands of an art career, Marisol periodically headed off to remote corners of the globe for years at a time, confounding her dealers. Marisol, an Artist Known for Blithely Shattering Boundaries, Dies at 85 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z Begin there, and you’ve got the heart of the mostly stunning and totally mystifying — if downright confounding — Japanese anime feature “Children of the Sea.” ‘Children of the Sea’ Review: Finding Beauty in the Watery Depths 2020-09-02T04:00:00Z And Choi’s brief final section, which “ends this strange eventful history,” will confound you yet again. Review | Susan Choi’s ‘Trust Exercise’ invites you to recall the highs and humiliations of adolescence 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z But as you work your way through this exhibition, they become confoundingly strange. Exhibition Review: Natural History Museum Explores the Wonders of Pterosaurs 2014-04-10T14:00:02Z A glance at the signal movie moments of the past 12 months reveals a startling number of instances when the real world intersected, and sometimes collided head-on, with cinema in new and confounding ways. When you were at the movies this year, reality wasn’t too far away 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z Bottura, who likes to call his food "a reinvention of the flavors of my youth interpreted through the avant-garde," thrives on keeping the palate guessing with dishes that confound expectations. The Jewel of Modena: Osteria Francescana 2010-08-26T08:35:00Z Mr Skarbek’s analysis confounds the assumption that prisons are stuffed with violent, racist thugs who act irrationally. Protection rackets 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z Not because it especially matters, he said, but because accounting for a confounding pattern such as the divorce streak might be revealing. Everyone who’s won this seat in Congress has gotten divorced afterward 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z The message, it seems, is that everyone is confounded by spiritual issues and that we’re all in this together. Review: A Sublime and Provocative ‘Parsifal’ at Bayreuth 2016-07-26T04:00:00Z The follies will surely increase as we age—as confounding new contraptions hit the shelves and operating-system updates outpace slowing synapses. Rudy Giuliani and the Butt-Dialler Within All of Us 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z However, The Passion, Fox’s live retelling of that story with the help of pop stars and modern music, made it seem like the most confounding experience imaginable. The Passion review – Jesus Christ turns superstar in live broadcast 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z Mr. Trump is a presence even when offscreen, confounding campaign hands and analysts alike. Review: ‘The Circus’ Is Reality TV for a Reality-TV Presidential Race 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z Over a recent breakfast, Sheen reviewed the intricacies of the confounding character whose work help set the stage for the sexual revolution. 'Masters of Sex' artfully exposes a myth of masculinity 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z “What’s wrong with me?” many asked of their medical providers, only to come away with confounding answers. What I learned talking to 120 women about their sex lives and desires 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z So in “Russian Doll,” her dark new Netflix comedy, debuting Feb. 1, in which her character dies and dies and dies again, it’s maybe not so much the way it happens that’s confounding. Natasha Lyonne Has a New Life. It’s Just That She Keeps Dying. 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z Ultimately, though, such lapses never distract us from the thesis of this unexpected novel, which is that imagination, like the world, confounds and reveals us at every turn. Someone is stalking a famous novelist in Herman Koch’s ‘Dear Mr. M’ 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z It was a really great photographic moment, because it was visually confounding. Photographer Amy Stein's best shot 2011-03-23T22:01:01Z Religion, for example, continues to confound and separate us. As Jean Paul Gaultier takes a bow on ready-to-wear, a look back at a fashion agitator It enhances every dish with which we've tried to confound it. Five Common Wine Myths, Debunked 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z Charming and confounding poems from a provocative voice. 100 Notable Books of 2016 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z But of course, nothing is really finished, there is always a resurrection, a new order, and frequently these entrench themselves with a confounding swiftness, in life and in the book. Mark de Silva talks about his novel 'Square Wave,' a paean to process 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z But whether or not everything in it qualifies as incontrovertibly beautiful, it offers an exciting opportunity to meditate on the perennially confounding questions, what is beauty and what is it good for? Museum & Gallery Listings for Feb. 19-25 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z What you lose is any sense of what Orton was trying to say: namely, that our rigid categorisation of people as mad or sane, straight or gay is confounded by experience. What the Butler Saw ? review 2012-05-17T11:01:56Z After releasing in July one of 2014’s strongest rap albums—“Lese Majesty,” a dense, confounding work that sounds like little else in contemporary hip-hop—Shabazz Palaces caps its year with this show. Your New Year's Eve in Seattle music: Shabazz Palaces, Beat Connection and more 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z The “Mad Men” finale was many things at once: Frustrating, cynical, dark, moving, optimistic, profound, confounding. The most ridiculous moments from the “Mad Men” finale 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z Weilerstein, one of the busiest solo cellists in the world, confounds traditionalists with her unorthodox positioning of both hands, and yet the results are pinpoint accurate and often richly expressive. Three singular artists present an engaging program at the Kennedy Center 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z Arguing that art music arose from race-based folk cultures, Wagner describes Jewish folk music as a “sense-and-sound confounding gurgle, yodel, and cackle.” Germany Reckons With Wagner: Cultural Jewel, or National Shame? 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z This wound up being one of the evening’s more confounding moments. Governor Cuomo Says Cynthia Nixon Saved a Teahouse. Huh? 2018-09-01T04:00:00Z Insular, cryptic, ineffable in its appeal and yet riddled with cliché, the labyrinthine city is intricately mapped and yet, as any visitor knows, confounding to navigate. In Venice, a Young Boatman Steers a Course of His Own 2022-04-16T04:00:00Z Maybe that's why he put it there; Creed does like to annoy and confound. Prickly customers: Martin Creed and Richard Wright in Edinburgh 2010-08-04T20:31:00Z There is no evidence of disaster, no suggestion that humanity will be rebuked for its vaulting ambition and confounded by God’s splintering of their common tongue into many languages. Review | After 450 years, the frighteningly modern visions of Bruegel get the showcase they deserve 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z The series brilliantly intertwines a scathing critique of our "reformative" justice system and a confounding idea that our protagonist could be a violent, tattooed murderer but could also be a loving son and college student. ‘The Night Of’ Finale: In a Lonely Place 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z Bessie spoke English just fine, but her language of choice was Yiddish — I think because it was so colorful and confounding. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: He wants the last word on last words 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z One great thing about life is its habit of confounding expectations. I've never seen ... Titanic 2020-04-23T04:00:00Z Then, in 2008, he confounded expectations with “The Given Day,” an ambitious historical epic set against the profusely detailed backdrop of post-World War I Boston. Adventures from Dennis Lehane and Lene Kaaberbol 2015-08-02T04:00:00Z As much as it confounds the tradition of western novels, Nothing But Blue Skies probably confounds the tradition of aging baby boomer novels even more. Overlooked classics: Nothing But Blue Skies by Thomas McGuane 2012-08-29T10:47:53Z Every inch of the domed interior of this Coptic site is lavishly decorated in the colorful, optically confounding jeweled style. Art Review: ?Byzantium and Islam: Age of Transition? at the Met 2012-03-15T23:06:56Z And it’s hard to say goodbye to India: Davis and cinematographer Greig Fraser capture small bits of this vast country in all its confounding, chaotic, dusty glory. Review: A Young Man Searches for His Lost Family in Semi-Effective Lion 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z In a diary entry written a week later, he was still confounded by the behavior he’d witnessed among the masses: Phony Beatlemania hasn’t bitten the dust: Justin Bieber, One Direction and “A Hard Day’s Night” fetishes 2014-07-06T04:00:00Z Back in the day, people looking for Osento on a similarly soupy afternoon were probably just as confounded. Uncovering Gay History in San Francisco 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z As Garner says, “There’s almost a universal rule that any two words that resemble each other in some way will be confounded.” 5 Common Words That Used to Be Totally Unacceptable 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z The New York hippies are merely the start of a confounding parade of homes, owners and experiments that Nim must endure. Project Nim: we are the real chumps in this chimp's story 2011-01-21T11:00:10Z This is why, I suppose, poems can be so confounding. The Shape of the Void: Toward a Definition of Poetry 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z Emotions are processed in nontraditional ways and metaphors confound him. Three bright performances on Broadway: Nathan Lane, Michael Cera and Alex Sharp 2014-10-25T04:00:00Z But when it comes to the front-runners — which also happened to be the movies my fellow critics praised most lavishly last year — I’m either neutral, unenthusiastic or simply confounded. Sorry, best picture front-runners: She’s just not that into you. 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z “It confounded Baldwin scholars because it doesn’t fit in with the rest of his oeuvre.” A James Baldwin Book, Forgotten and Overlooked for Four Decades, Gets Another Life 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z It is neither predictable nor well-behaved: everywhere you look, there is something to delight, confound or arrest you. Rosemarie Trockel at the Serpentine: life, the universe and everything 2013-02-13T19:30:01Z “A Piece of Work” willfully confounds understanding, making a merry joke of our dogged need to find order and meaning in art. Theater Review: ‘A Piece of Work,’ a Computerized ‘Hamlet’ Mash-up at BAM 2013-12-19T21:16:36Z Ms. Barnett said she found herself in stasis, struggling to fulfill her professional duties, and confounding her friends and colleagues. FKA twigs Sues Shia LaBeouf, Citing ‘Relentless’ Abusive Relationship 2020-12-11T05:00:00Z His latest move – a new album, Scratch My Back – both confirms and confounds this proposition. Live music picks of the week 2010-03-27T00:09:00Z That way, both can establish an alibi and, with no known link between the men and their victims, the police will be confounded. Critics applaud Strangers stage play 2013-11-20T12:58:45Z Particularly confounding is an unrelaxed and excitable Sixth that hardly lives up to the symphony’s nickname as the “Pastoral.” Gustavo Dudamel: An Introduction in 10 Recordings 2023-02-07T05:00:00Z The standards for what qualifies as an “Oscar movie” — what is considered worthy, important, legitimate — have always been elastic, sometimes confoundingly so. Perspective | An existential question animates this year’s Oscar race: What, exactly, is a movie? 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z Chen Man, one of China's most famous and fashionable photographers, reveals a world of female allure that can be quite confounding to western attitudes. This week's new exhibitions 2012-02-11T00:05:00Z He slyly manages to show, if not actual emotions, the desire to please humans who count on emotional reflections to understand themselves and their confounding place in this world. Playing with memory in 'Marjorie Prime' 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z Fashion Nova is continuing to confound the internet with yet another interesting clothing item. Fashion Nova’s revealing lace-up top causes confusion: 'Is she wearing it backwards?' 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z Everything is right there on the screen and the soundtrack, arranged to confound and complicate your expectations. One Indelible Scene: the Master Class in Ambiguity in ‘Tár’ 2023-01-02T05:00:00Z The opioid epidemic, as we now know it in America, is confounding, terrifying. Sins of the mother: I blame myself for my son's overdose 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z The vicissitudes of history always challenge us in new and often confounding ways; that’s in the nature of things. Great Leadership in a Time of Crisis 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z As for what Bolton might have said at the trial, his chapter on Ukraine is weird, circuitous and generally confounding. In ‘The Room Where It Happened,’ John Bolton Dumps His Notes and Smites His Enemies 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z In the action movie “Fistful of Vengeance” there are two kinds of scenes — coordinated fight scenes, or confounding exposition. ‘Fistful of Vengeance’ Review: Pursuing the Queen of the Underworld 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z But some films take longer to settle and confound the knee-jerk response. Cannes diary: day seven 2012-05-22T13:56:07Z Even when it annoys or disappoints me, which is often, I respect its originality, and its determination to surprise and confound the viewer. Is NBC's Thursday night lineup doomed? 2011-04-15T14:15:00Z In book after book, his characters club together to start literary movements whose main function appears to be to confound bourgeois expectations. The joy of literary destruction: Writers who broke all the rules 2014-01-19T15:00:00Z But David was just as confounded as I was. Perspective | I ignored warnings from friends and family not to marry my husband. Was I making a big mistake? 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z “We both base our art on the kinds of things that delight, terrify and confound us,” Lorde said, making sure they were not mistaken for the show’s children. Separating the Grown-Ups From the Newborns at the Video Music Awards 2014-08-25T04:00:00Z Dickey’s saints do not amaze so much as they unsettle, confounding fixed boundaries of the human, bridging the gap between faith and fecklessness, pathos and pathology. “Afterlives of the Saints” 2012-06-23T00:00:00Z The series itself had some incredible high points and confounding, meandering lows. When Bad Title Sequences Happen to Good Shows (and Vice Versa) 2012-07-18T13:36:35Z The words we assign to so many elements of the world are complex and often confounding to children, and they need time and space to explore this confusion. The Secret Rebellion of Amelia Bedelia, the Bartleby of Domestic Work 2019-06-10T04:00:00Z They are rife with confounds, biases and all-around distortions. Review: In ‘Ordinarily Well,’ Peter D. Kramer Goes to the Antidepressant Ramparts 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z Both comedians are biracial and much of their comedy was given to exploring, mocking and confounding racial stereotypes. ‘Key & Peele’ to End After Its Fifth Season 2015-07-25T04:00:00Z Have I mentioned there are enough love triangles here to confound Euclid? Times Critics’ Top Books of 2017 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z While in Mr. Knott’s employ, Watt is repeatedly confounded by the duties he is asked to manage. The Alternative Facts of Samuel Beckett’s “Watt” 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z But the show is also determined to confound knee-jerk reactions and stop viewers from being smugly judgmental. "Big Love's" riveting final stretch 2011-03-07T17:15:00Z And in 2011, a washed-up tennis champion gives lessons to well-off summer residents and finds himself ensnared in a sexual tangle that confounds a belatedly developed love. Review | A black man shot by a white police officer tells his shocking story in ‘No Justice’ 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z Using physics to stun and confound is what I do. Style Invitational Week 1239: MASH 3 — combine two movie titles 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z The studio was skeptical, but the movie — released in 1949 and now on Blu-ray — confounded expectations with its commercial and critical success. William A. Wellman, Two-Fisted Director With Heart, in Six Takes 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z Late-night hosts did their best on Thursday to make sense of the confounding deal-making process on immigration that unfolded between the White House and Congress’s Democratic leadership this week. Seth Meyers Can’t Keep Track of Trump’s DACA Deal Making 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z Isadora is so confounded by her fame and grief that she’s in the dark about her own emotions, even as her expressive dances capture the world’s attention. Review | Amelia Gray captures the mind of Isadora Duncan, the mother of modern dance 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z Lindelof thrives on all things confounding, the one point his previous works Lost and The Leftovers made abundantly clear. Riddle me not: why I'm sick of TV shows that revel in WTF storytelling | Charles Bramesco 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z “To Ransom A Man’s Soul” confounds elements of that argument. The “Outlander” torture chamber: A shockingly brutal rape transforms a hero into a victim, but at what cost? 2015-05-31T04:00:00Z It's sort of the beauty of humans: that they surprise you, that they confound you, that they undo your preconceptions. An interview with the director of 'The Oath,' about Osama bin Laden's driver and bodyguard 2010-06-14T22:49:00Z What they rarely contain is any element of surprise, a moment of interpretative insight perhaps, or a hint of eccentricity, anything to confound expectations. Leif Ove Andsnes ? review 2011-07-07T17:15:00Z Yes, I’m also occasionally confounded by my own gender, but I am one, too, so I do have quite a bit of insider information. What I learned in the writers’ room: These guys don’t know s*** about pleasing a woman! 2015-05-23T04:00:00Z His return to consciousness confounded prison officials, set off a small tabloid tempest and left Damon in a peculiar limbo as he awaits news of what’s next. | 'When I Come to Die': When the Final Curtain Doesn?t Fall 2011-02-11T03:01:32Z Social media confounds her, as it can tend to for those who have no need to celebritise their own life. Laura Linney: 'America's very puritanical' 2013-01-13T20:00:00Z But the puzzle confounding historians was figuring out where exactly Johnson had recorded the last of his famous songs. Texas Monthly: Dallas Church Preserving the Legacy of Robert Johnson 2011-11-20T04:30:35Z We probably camp a couple of times a year and generally let others take care of the heavy lifting, or at least the complicated tent poles that easily confound us. Camping without the hassle: New service rents you all the gear you need, plus the car 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z In that sense, Keanu Reeves is a koan: a paradox that confounds all reason. Review: In John Wick, Keanu Reeves is Back Up to Speed 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z Goucher dreams up scenarios in which Hiawyn confounds Nazis with itching powder, exploding wine bottles and explosives hidden in everyday items such as shaving brushes. Goucher's War ? review 2011-03-03T21:45:01Z Now add in the confounding element of other people’s, too. What’s Up With Those Voices in Your Head? 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z The idea was to confound ethnic xpectations when it came to names. A boy named Sue? Why not! I named my kids Yo and E 2014-03-22T23:00:00Z His videos get steady traffic on YouTube, but he has yet to penetrate mass consciousness, a prospect that doesn't bother Smith but confounds others. Sound of the White Buffalo can be found between tenderness and a growl 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z Will Prince Kuragin’s missing wife confound expectations and turn up as a Hong Kong … taxi driver? 'Downton Abbey' Recap: Thomas and the Heterosexual Household 2015-01-25T05:00:00Z But it can be thrilling to see something that feels new, risky or unusual, and even to venture into the realm of the confounding. Arts & Leisure: Films Dispense With Storytelling Conventions 2012-11-21T13:00:00Z Ms. Bontecou was less confounded than the critics by the trajectory of her work over the decades, seeing all her art as connected to and even seamless with her life. Lee Bontecou, Acclaimed Creator of Wall-Mounted Art, Dies at 91 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z I find it, like many New Yorkers, just confounding and astounding. Candace Bushnell: 'In real life, Carrie and Big wouldn’t have ended up together' 2017-07-03T04:00:00Z That would be the confounding, cohesive and divisive document that is the United States Constitution. Review: She’s Still Debating ‘What the Constitution Means to Me’ 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z "My theory is that this was a case of confounded expectations," Cooke said. UK censors ask focus groups to watch sexually violent films 2012-07-11T15:32:26Z The looping, dreamlike style of “M Train” can be confounding, particularly after the heartbreaking directness of “Just Kids.” Patti Smith, Survivor 2015-10-03T04:00:00Z In what amounts to a lengthy critical essay disguised as a scoop, writer Martha P. Nochimson looks far and wide for insight into what remains perhaps the most confounding finale in television history. Is Tony Soprano dead? David Chase responds to debate that won't die 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z Certain people, like the Scottish comedian and actor Billy Connolly, confound him. Lip Readers Apply Their Skill to Celebrity Conversations 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z Jason Mott’s “Hell of a Book” is a novel that confounds the normal parameters of storytelling. Review | In ‘Hell of a Book,’ an author and his imaginary friend go on a book tour 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z This list, with all its variety, shows that great writing just gets on with it – shrugging off the bounds of geography and the colonial past, and confounding expectation. Caine prize 2010-04-26T14:36:00Z For such a likable writer, it’s confounding that Lamott’s work is weakest when she speaks like who she is: the self-made leader of a literary cult. ‘Hallelujah Anyway’: Anne Lamott’s conflicted message for a conflicted nation 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z Displays like these from known provocateurs like Tyler and West are confounding to many: Why hang such ambitious social critiques on T-shirts and sneakers? Tyler, the Creator’s Fashion Statement 2016-06-14T04:00:00Z In one example, it was at first amusing, then absolutely confounding, that so many designers showed models wearing shorts with black dress socks. At Men’s Fashion Week in London, a Changing of the Guard. 2012-06-20T20:43:03Z In the decades since, Follett has confounded early expectations, taking his fiction in surprising new directions. Review | Ken Follett’s latest epic is a cautionary tale of global catastrophe 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z The country confounded our expectations from the beginning. Exploring the Surf in Sri Lanka 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z Feeling vengeful, the author in the story confounds one audience by saying, “Why don’t you call me Rose?” ‘The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher,’ by Hilary Mantel 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z It's certainly tempting to recruit witches as symbols of paganism, nature worship, herbal remedies, earth-wisdom and ecological right-mindedness, if only to confound those who see them as purveyors of madness or Satanic child abuse. Blake Morrison: under the witches' spell 2012-07-20T21:55:10Z Listening to it now is bizarre: it sounds like the work of a band who can't decide whether to court or confound the audience. Blur: 21 – review 2012-07-26T14:30:01Z |
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