| 单词 | baffle |
| 例句 | But the world of sons has changed; it’s more likely to be the boys now with that baffled look, like a night dweller gone blind in sunlight. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z I could not react as the world in which I lived expected me to; that world was too baffling, too uncertain. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z But we shouldn't forget how bafflingly unfamiliar an idea this was to the musical establishment of the early 1900s. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Hazel looked down at her rumpled denim, not self-consciously, but baffled, as if she couldn’t imagine what was wrong with them. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z I drew two identical girls side by side, which he found even more baffling, given that Leah and I—the beauty and the beast—were the twins under consideration. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z My dad was just kind of staring at everything with a baffled expression, until my mother told him to go after Jeffrey. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z If this girl has so fully misunderstood or been so wholly baffled by the strange little scene that has unfolded before her, how might it affect the lives of the two adults? Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Turning away, Noemon took the path to his father’s house, leaving the two men there, baffled and hostile. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead, it used stepping switches, electronic devices that scrambled the message in baffling ways. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z It was utterly radical and, for many musicians and listeners at the time, baffling. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Newt looked completely baffled and finally broke the silence. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Valley just shrugged, still looking bafflingly smug, and Seven wanted to scream. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z “We too are baffled about the results,” the principal, flanked by several matriculation teachers, addressed us. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The Underlanders were baffled by his anger and stung by his tone, even if they couldn’t understand his words. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z This time, however, he was baffled; he knew as well as she that there were no garments to spare in that house. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z I came to understand that I had baffled and infuriated my father at least as much as he had baffled and infuriated me. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z And then he noticed my pajamas, which seemed to baffle him for only a second before he said, “Oh, wow.” A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z But then a baffling and magnificent thing happened—one by one, the stars came out, here and there a green flash in the dark. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z The chaplain shook his head in baffled protest. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z “What the—” James looked baffled for only a moment before the expression dissolved into seriousness. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z When he spoke again, he sounded as baffled as he looked. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z It was one of those baffling aberrations in Ammu’s taste, a cloud of stiff yellow lace with tiny silver sequins and a bow on each shoulder. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Then they stun themselves against clear windowpanes and die, fatly baffled in the sun. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z She looked around the table at her daughters' baffled faces. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z “I am unwell and baffled and compromised. I would like to sleep.” Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Their baffled little faces did not know what to make of us. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z With almost seventeen years of baffled living behind me, I faced the world in 1925. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Only stories of love pass through our post-mortal filter, yet even then, we are baffled by the intensity of longing and loss that threatens those mortal tales of love. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z And when I brought it up with Tom—calmly, matter-of-factly—he was just as baffled as I was. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Never did I see such baffled malice on a face; and never, I trust, shall such ever be seen again by mortal eyes. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z He was baffled by other people’s inability to grasp what he was doing. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z If he chooses to lie hidden, he may baffle us for years; and in the meantime!—the thought is too horrible, I dare not think of it even now. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z Julius could see that the Emperor—that tiger among men—was baffled, as Brute had been. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z To be honest, the boss was a little pooped; a bit under the weather; unhappy, and baffled too; call it at loose ends. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “What the—” James looked baffled for only a moment before the expression dissolved into seriousness. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Of all the things she said to me, this was maybe the most baffling. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z “Not at all,” his father says eventually, one hand going to his ribs, a habitual gesture that has baffled Gogol until now. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z She was one of them, really, blithe and girlish in her manner and her tastes—video games, Harry Potter, the baffling pop music they listened to. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z “Please, sir,” begged Sergeant Towser, sighing wearily, with a sidelong glance at the four baffled new officers listening in mystified silence just outside the entrance. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z There are the old throwbacks, like Brutus and Enobaria, who are just here for another Games, and those too baffled or drugged or lost to join in on the attack. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Later given the code name Purple, the new machine baffled William’s team. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Somewhere around thirty-five, she heard his footsteps, and he appeared at the top, looking more baffled than relieved. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z I was stunned at this amount, and baffled at his lack of concern. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z The police were uncharacteristically restrained and their behavior baffled us. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z But there existed in the Western world an element that baffled and frightened the Communist party: the prevalence of self-achieved literacy. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z He was baffled the first time it happened. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Ignorance and tribalism claimed him so wholly—mind, body and soul—that he was baffled why the world, his wife, his children, were seemingly turned against him. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The Mexica reacted to the sacrilegious abduction of their leader with the same baffled horror with which Europeans later reacted to Cromwell’s execution of Charles I in 1649. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z It is truly baffling that we were ever friends. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z This, spoken in a cool, tranquil tone, was mortifying and baffling enough. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z I stirred, baffled by the strange sensation, squinting into dark corners to learn the cause. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z She loves me but finds me baffling and unfeminine, and probably a troublemaker. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Throughout my stay, I was baffled by the food. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z By performing many transpositions on the same plaintext, and shuffling the columns, you can create a baffling message. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z A baffled, bewildered crew blundered on deck, and walked round the capstan. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Though baffled, I was not a bit disconcerted. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z “The true history of the most baffling series of murders in the annals of crime,” a handbill for the show said. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Baby wriggled free, ran to Ugwu, and stood there looking at Olanna with baffled eyes as if she no longer recognized her. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z A failure to realize that my chunks may not be the same as your chunks can explain why we baffle our readers with so much shorthand, jargon, and alphabet soup. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Ged was not so much baffled as angry, for this seemed like a further mockery to him. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z A few days later my classmates came to me with baffled eyes, holding copies of the Southern Register in their hands. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z But now their art and knowledge were baffled; for there were many sick of a malady that would not be healed; and they called it the Black Shadow, for it came from the Nazgûl. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Zeno’s logical puzzle baffled Greek philosophers—as well as the philosophers who came after them. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z My slow southern ears were baffled by their clouded, thick accents. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z You might think a question like this would have baffled Thwaites. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z Your Honor, is this boy alone in feeling deprived and baffled? Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z When the baron expatiated upon the superior practices of Europe, the Indians were baffled. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Their minds were baffled by the plague of air. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Then perhaps he could explain many of the aspects of Communism that had baffled me. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The baffled mother cat looked at me uncertainly and followed at a cautious distance, meowing. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z I gagged and stumbled away from them into the dark, simultaneously grossed out and baffled. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z The Blue’s Clues tester played the part of Steve, and walked the kids through the script, making a careful note of all the questions they answered correctly and those that seemed to baffle them. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Utterly baffled now, the children held their tongues. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z He seemed to absorb the baffling paradoxes of quantum theory with ease. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z It was baffling to see her friend dabbling in this exotic faith. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z “It’s across the hall from that,” Theodora said, and turned, baffled. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z The conditions under which I had to work were what baffled them. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Whatever it was they were supposed to read there baffled the women and they murmured together. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The darker man looks at his companion, who shrugs, baffled as well. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Yes, I thought so," he said. He answered the ticket lady's baffled look with a satisfied smile. “Do you happen to know the address?" The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z In her animal spirits there was an affluence of life and certainty of flow, such as excited my wonder, while it baffled my comprehension. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z I was baffled, initially, by what seemed like a certain lack of get-up-and-go on the part of my fellow workers. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z How on earth did they find the inspiration to create such bafflingly intricate music? The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z But it’s not the only way we baffle them. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The words and actions of white people were baffling signs to me. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z He was shocked and baffled by the mindless destruction that greeted him. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I must look baffled, because Camel lets loose with a toothless cackle. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Mrs. Frisby, looking at their baffled faces, felt her delight subsiding. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z But once we'd torn open the boxes, my sisters and I gave each other baffled looks. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Even if he’d been half forced into it, though, my dad loved the job, which baffled my mother given the amount of time it demanded. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z When I finished she smiled at me oddly, her eyes baffled and astonished. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s a blind spot that baffles local and international human rights groups. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Her baffled hands moved through and through, and still the little boy stood there pleading. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z I was naturally a little surprised by this, but then quickly saw the situation for what it was; that is to say, it was clearly expected that I be baffled by the question. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z A few days later Mrs. Moss came to me with a baffled look in their eyes. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z It was said with a kind of horror that baffled her, as though he had never considered it possible that she could lie. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z There is much about Chris that still baffles him and always will, but now he is a little less baffled. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z In the baffled silence I began to uncoil slowly. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z “We need to go grease the baffles on the bird feeders.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z Which left only the middle line, and that one utterly baffled them. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z I stared up at the hall, baffled, beginning to shake. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z Billy expected the Tralfamadorians to be baffled and alarmed by all the wars and other forms of murder on Earth. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z This reaction baffled me because my social activities were so mild as to be almost nonexistent. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z The baffled rage was naked on their faces. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z “But I thought we were looking for places You-Know-Who’s been, places he’s done something important?” said Ron, looking baffled. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z She gave Yishan a baffled look, but rolled the string off her wrist and handed it to him. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z But most farmers, completely baffled by the complexity of a conservancy district, did not know what to do. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Again the audience howled, and John Isidore felt baffled and impotent rage seep up into the back of his neck. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z Knowing that we were frightened and baffled about our new “uncle,” my mother—I guess—urged Aunt Maggie to tell “uncle” to bribe us into silence and trust. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Confused, sleepy children stumble along after their parents, most either too stunned or too baffled to cry. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z On the shelf below the baffle tray, she kept what was left of Mammachi’s willow-pattern dinner service. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z And suddenly my behaviour seemed to me utterly baffling. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z For historians of technology, the Phaistos disk is even more baffling; its estimated date of 1700 B.C. makes it by far the earliest printed document in the world. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z She gazes into their faces, eyes and mouth wide open, baffled but delighted. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z August stares at her, baffled, as though he’s simply awakened and found himself here. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z There was the brilliant world of hunting, tactics, fierce exhilaration, skill; and there was the world of longing and baffled commonsense. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z The same is true for the two baffling sentences I used on page 140, the ones about moderate drinkers and Serbian intervention. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The boys are baffled and shove each other more noisily. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The ecosystem on this lifeboat was decidedly baffling. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z I raise my fingers to my mouth, baffled. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z She managed a weak smile, a bit baffled by his sudden charm. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z At the door he turned and looked back, his face baffled and unhappy. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z For a moment Meggie almost felt sorry for him—he looked so sleepy and baffled. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z The realization baffled me, since that had been primary on our minds when we left—the be-all and end-all of our journey, the reason for leaving Mamá’s side. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Mr. White stumbled back from the window, horrified and baffled. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z It was a problem that had baffled me in my childhood. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z It is perhaps one of the most baffling phenomena in history. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z A need that I did not comprehend made me use words to create religious types, criminal types, the warped, the lost, the baffled; my pages were full of tension, frantic poverty, and death. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “Then I’d know,” I said, baffled by how upset he was. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z His memory loss was baffling in its complexity. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z He was baffled when he saw the Tralfamadorians close their little hands on their eyes. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z That zero is not the same as nothing is a concept that baffled Europeans as late as the Renaissance. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z They were baffled when they found no difference; the speed of light was the same in every direction. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z So he was in double distress when he emerged from under the rock and stood in all his angry might, looking around, baffled, for the cause of his pain. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z But this new hunger baffled me, scared me, made me angry and insistent. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The consul’s wife smiled tensely and said, “Oh, dear, that’s too bad,” which baffled Mami completely, as she thought Yale was the school where the best families in the United States educated their sons. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z But its really a little baffling, because Alex doesn’t look like me at all. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z Here, he felt as baffled as Alice in Wonderland from one of the old books in the attic. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z Looking a bit baffled, Sam said nothing, but continued to give Enoch the evil eye. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Verrazzano was baffled by this “barbarous” behavior, but the reason for it seems clear: unlike the Narragansett, the Abenaki had long experience with Europeans. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Farmer seemed to know everything about a country that baffled me on many levels, and his insights helped me with the article I was writing. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Alex grew up with a mother who was a sometimes baffling combination of intensely organized and committed to lines of emotional communication, like an overly invested life coach. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z She remains baffled by the way their clients crave the communication, the reassurance. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z My own mother is looking at me as if I completely baffle her mind with my looks, my height, my hair. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z My mom stood in the kitchen, a soapy pot in her hand, and looked at me, baffled. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z Cecile knew she had us baffled and took control of the talk like she had grabbed both the ball and the jacks. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z After that, we reach the most baffling chapter in Elizebeth’s working life. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z His face was hard, baffled; I knew that I had not convinced him. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The young man seemed to find this remark rather baffling. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z No matter what came up, night or day, if it baffled his men, he must decide. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Crestfallen, he gazed mutely at the false animal; he took it back from her, fiddled with the legs as if baffled—he did not seem quite to understand. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z At Turner’s, he stood in front of a shelf of crackers, baffled by the variety. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z But I am more baffled by the quantity of things Vivi has and how many of them don’t seem to have any value. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z I was nervous and baffled and queasily excited all at the same time. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Minho squinched up his eyes and pulled his head back, as if he were baffled by Newt’s question. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z The baffled reporters asked the stewards why they had held an inquiry at all, but the stewards refused to explain themselves. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z At first I find the videos on kitchens and bathrooms baffling, and it takes me several minutes to realize why: there is no water, or almost no water, involved. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z At the same time, it can’t be so complex that the first time around it baffles the children and turns them off. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He looked baffled, so I volunteered enough details to explain my past. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z Surprised and baffled, I moved that Young’s statement be referred to the executive committee for decision. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Thomas was baffled by this girl—first the connection he’d felt to her from the very beginning, then the mind-speaking, now this. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z He looked first at the Captain and then at me, apparently baffled. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The inhabitants often fought back vigorously, but they were baffled by the Spaniards’ motives and astounded by the sight and sound of horses and guns. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z This latest discovery of a new and baffling rhyme concerning moonlight, the north and an unknown threshold nagged at his brain. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z This, of course, bred in her mother a kind of baffled fury, and she never tired of telling Elizabeth that she was an “unnatural” child. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z “Colonel, half the men are down. If they come again . . .” He shrugged, annoyed, baffled as if by a problem he could not quite solve, yet ought to, certainly, easily. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z She said that she was baffled too, and that I should not mistake her calm probing for the absence of anger. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Each of us said over and over that it was a "crazy idea"--we all talked at once to a baffled clerk and thought, or pretended to think, that we were being very funny. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z What I heard and saw baffled and angered me. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The effects of tide and current baffled them. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z I followed, wanting her to interpret the baffling spectacle I had seen. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z He shakes his head like he’s baffled to find himself here. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z My mother stares, baffled, as I present her with a red construction-paper heart, with writing on it that she has no idea how to read. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “What baffles me,” Winifred mused, “is where young Matthias has got to. It’s not like him to miss the chance of a battle.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z I tried to smile to diffuse the situation but I was completely baffled. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z I stood there staring after him, feeling bewildered, baffled, and stupid. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Without looking at the children's baffled faces, he gathered a few screws and threw them into Mosca's toolbox. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z “What do you mean?” he said, a baffled expression on his face. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z The cans baffled us at first, as they had in the grocery stores. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z Here another ten rats stood, baffled, in a semicircle. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z I found his behavior completely baffling and totally disrespectful. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z The rest of us gaped too, baffled as to where Horace had gotten it. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z They ignored us, as they, too, looked baffled about why they were there. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Rush was forty-seven years old and so highly respected that he was often called in by colleagues when they were baffled by a case. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z There was no other mention in the index, and Will got up from the microfilm reader baffled. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I UNDERSTAND, more or less, how flowers reproduce—with fruit and seeds and pollen—but the sexual parts of the human body baffle me. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Doctors were thoroughly baffled by yellow fever, but curiosity and fear drove a number of them to continue to investigate and speculate on its cause, spread, and treatment. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z They looked at me like I had a second head growing out of my neck, baffled that a teenaged person was speaking to them. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Fangburn was completely baffled, but he knew better than to disagree. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Of course it made the Red Army soldiers even angrier at the Germans, but it also baffled them. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z I was even more baffled when, instead of sneaking around the back, any hope of our passing undetected was dashed by Emma pushing me right through the front door. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z And the mystery of his suicide had left him baffled and without support. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Sugar-Girl nudged Otis with her elbow, and he stepped up and helped them get her situated between the extractor and the baffle tank. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Changing the jars was no trouble to anyone but the men who watched them changed every hour or so and were baffled by the procedure. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z They looked at each other, baffled, in love and hate. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z He closed his eyes and scrunched up his face, looking baffled by all the attention. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z I told her that the idea that someone on that jury thought it plausible there was a gun in the car baffled the mind. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Standing baffled, quaking with fear, three feet from the edge of a nightmare cliff, I find myself, incredibly, moving toward it. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z A doctor who didn’t understand local culture might mistake patients’ complaints for bizarre superstitions, or be utterly baffled by Haitian logic. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z For the greater number of her twenty-nine years, Bibi Haldar suffered from an ailment that baffled family, friends, priests, palmists, spinsters, gem therapists, prophets, and fools. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z I stood staring at the guy, completely baffled. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z It would be impossible to describe the expression of hate and baffled malignity—of anger and hellish rage—which came over the Count’s face. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z Each was blind to the other’s being, Ged as baffled by impalpable shadows as the shadow was baffled by daylight and by solid things. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z He was completely baffled by what Gaily was saying. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z I stood there baffled while Ema moved around the tombstone, using the light from her cell phone to see. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z The clerk looked baffled by the sheer amount of junk food on his counter. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z The main force of the flood was broken up here and baffled by the trees, which was why the canoe hadn’t been torn loose and swept away. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z The public, then as now, were simply baffled. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z It means “baffled” or “confused,” not calm and collected. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I was both baffled and somewhat insulted by the request. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z The film is earnestly and unabashedly melodramatic to an extent that may baffle audiences accustomed to clever, knowing historical fictions. ‘The Immigrant,’ With Joaquin Phoenix and Marion Cotillard 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z Everything we experience unfolds without a pattern, and life is just a baffling occurrence, a scattering of notes with no melody. Growing Up in the Library 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z It's quite silly, and at times frankly baffling, but for all its colour, the production can't get around the fact that the opera is a largely static affair. Montezuma 2010-08-15T21:01:00Z I know now not to consign to a watery grave, but I remain baffled by its appeal. Titanic, TIME and Me 2012-04-04T20:24:41Z The women, baffled, look at each other: What did they do to deserve that word and treatment? Can you define “appropriate attire?” The Speaker’s Lobby dress code is a reminder that the sartorial is always political 2017-07-08T04:00:00Z I am constantly baffled as to why anyone would think it would comfort me or turn me on to suggest that the appropriate response to egregious male violence is to perpetrate additional male violence. Is romance and recovery as difficult as it seems? A rape victim reflects on the triumphs and traumas of her dating life 2017-04-09T04:00:00Z But it was also, unmistakably, Twitter, the home of quick responses and at times baffling themes. The First Debate of the Twitter Election 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z These clothes were not, as has often been the case with CDG shows, baffling yet beautiful. Special Report: Fashion: Giving a Rebel Yell 2010-10-03T17:03:00Z This is a bizarre film in many ways with baffling and sometimes absurd emotional moments – but with a radioactive atmosphere of pure, nauseous evil. Meek's Cutoff and Post Mortem shine at Venice film festival 2010-09-06T09:48:00Z Looking at this with an European POV, I am just baffled, it looks just weird and tacky, oh and the food, why corn? Medieval Times Goes Modern, Replacing Its Kings With Queens 2018-01-29T05:00:00Z As a Midwesterner, I’ve always been baffled by the term “heartland.” Dismantling the Myth of ‘The Heartland’ 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z Yet I have to believe that a playwright as sophisticated as Mr. Pierce has made these baffling, disruptive choices meaningfully. Review: Anna Chlumsky and Adam Pally Paint the Town Red in ‘Cardinal’ 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z But anyone looking for the lowdown on haute cuisine will be sorely disappointed: devoid of emotion, context or narrative, the baffling avant-garde techniques and extreme politesse of the lab become oppressively dull. | 'El Bulli': Pushing Cuisine?s Envelope, on a Molecular Level 2011-07-26T16:43:02Z They were baffled when I told them why we’d been kicked off.” Woman wearing see-through top kicked off plane for 'disruptive behavior:' 'I was in shock' 2019-06-30T04:00:00Z At home, though, my dad’s language was often dismissive, hostile, and unpredictable, almost baffling. The Cost of Defying the President 2017-02-12T05:00:00Z But the sketches, songs and videotaped descents into the fathoms of the freaky and surreal exceeded this setup, alternating between the baffling, the hilarious, the nightmarish and the unnamable. Celebrating a decade of disgust with Tim and Eric 2017-08-12T04:00:00Z It’s understandable why it pulled in nearly $1.7 billion at the box office, given that it was a much-hyped sequel to a beloved classic, but the critical acclaim a little baffling. 26 films Rotten Tomatoes got 100% wrong 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z The idea alone is baffling, and there was no way Mayer or Green Day could reconcile the middlebrow musical with the low-brow punk song. Green Day: Rock’s saddest joke 2012-07-16T21:10:00Z Yet “Cry, Trojans!,” which opened on Tuesday night, only piles obscurity onto a play that has baffled and divided scholars, critics and audiences for centuries. Review: ‘Cry, Trojans!’ Is the Wooster Group’s Take on ‘Troilus and Cressida’ 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z Yes, it's baffling that someone would even consider turning the famous 17th century poem into a multiplex surround sound experience, but hey, I'm not in charge of movies this year. Who should play Lucifer? 2011-05-06T13:15:00Z I first heard about this baffling thing, "information theory", from chaos scientists. James Gleick: 'Information poses as many challenges as opportunities' 2011-04-09T23:05:59Z "Why," he wrote to her, baffled, "do you want a son of yours to have no courage?" TV review: Storyville: Hitler, Stalin and Mr Jones; Michael Johnson: Survival of the Fastest 2012-07-05T21:20:01Z Indeed, I would argue that unless we understand envy, there is a broad range of human behavior that will baffle us. You’re such a jerk 2013-03-10T20:00:00Z Some plot threads are unclear, and the coda is entirely baffling. Your guide to SIFF 2011 2011-05-18T20:00:54Z But the performances and script are baffling, verging on the risible. Travellers ? review 2011-01-13T22:04:00Z Police were baffled, thinking that some suitably Bondian criminal mastermind was behind the heist. The wackiest art heist ever: Hardly a “Thomas Crown Affair,” this real theft of a masterpiece was a little bit 007 and a whole lot Monty Python 2015-11-14T05:00:00Z It’s important to note that while these are the most baffling wins and nominations, that doesn’t mean the recipients are undeserving. Perspective | The 10 most baffling Golden Globe wins and nominations of the millennium. (Remember ‘Salmon Fishing in the Yemen’?) 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z This vision captures precisely the jagged, baffling flow of “A Book of Common Prayer.” Review | A new collection of Joan Didion’s work reminds us that she is her most memorable character 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z The baffling echelons of dead relatives would conflate with mythical figures and with the tissue of the house. More than a home 2010-06-26T23:05:00Z My father-in-law and I exchanged baffled, broken glances. What he said before he died 2013-01-29T01:00:00Z Ms. Gonzalez, who had planned to celebrate the holiday with her family, said she was “baffled” when Mr. Miltz asked what time could he come over and what he should bring. Their Interfaith Relationship Turned a Corner on Christmas 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z Their most recent antics, though, have made for a baffling chapter in their storied friendship. Miley Cyrus and Wayne Coyne create trippy video, get matching tattoos 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z Shooting Stars is about the baffling, the surreal, the unexpected and the unbelievably silly. TV review: Toast and Christmas Shooting Stars 2010-12-31T08:00:05Z Miller even went to see the production, although confessed himself baffled by the enthusiastic audience response. Death of a Salesman v the death of directing 2012-10-29T17:43:33Z The best works don't baffle but beguile; they stage a dialogue between the two-dimensional images by the Parisian photographer and the three-dimensional forms by the French sculptor based in Belgium. Photography, ceramics meld into 'Doublemix' at De Soto 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z “We have nothing to hide, and are as angry and baffled as you are at how Harvey’s behavior could continue for so long,” it read. Quentin Tarantino on Weinstein: 'I knew enough to do more than I did' 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z Many current pop singers leave him baffled and in despair. Barry Manilow Just Wanted to Write the Songs. He’s Still Singing Them. 2019-08-05T04:00:00Z Ross, a criminally adorable 23-year-old who apparently held allegiance to the losing team was, bafflingly, in a foul mood about the loss, and Edward proceeded to tease him about it. On boys and balls: How I learned to stop hating sports 2014-05-12T23:00:00Z She was completely absorbed, especially in Jackson Pollock at this period, as well as other work bafflingly new to me. The day I shared a gondola with Peggy Guggenheim 2015-12-06T05:00:00Z That was presumably the case with the entertaining but often baffling 2010 action-comedy Let the Bullets Fly, another former Chinese No 1, which grossed a feeble $69,000 in the States. Lost in Thailand: did China's comedy hit get lost in translation? 2013-02-13T16:50:12Z One such citizen is a dentist whose wife is so baffled by his disappearance that she enlists a journalist, Tom Clarke, to help her investigate. Thrillers ? review roundup 2011-02-19T00:05:22Z The police are baffled, and the retired Inspector Mortimer, himself a suspect in some eyes, concludes: "in my opinion the offender is Death himself". Rereading: Memento Mori by Muriel Spark 2010-06-04T23:06:00Z Besides a baffled music business, an acrimonious separation between Chuck and Anna Griffin and the fact that group members were facing the realities of adulthood contributed to the Voices’ demise in 1975. 50 Years Ago, They Did Something Rare in Gospel: Tied Music to Protest 2020-09-13T04:00:00Z He looks a bit distracted, as if looking for something, or thinking, or waiting for someone to show up — us, maybe, his baffled but buzzed and enchanted band of followers. Art In Review: Sergei Tcherepnin: Ear Tone Box 2013-04-18T20:29:55Z The wife may be baffled, but she’s full of theories about what went wrong and why. It’s the End of Marriage as They Know It and They Feel Fine 2022-08-16T04:00:00Z It has caused wrinkled critical noses here and there, and I am apparently in a minority in preferring it to his bafflingly overpraised previous film The Big Short. Golden Globes 2019: who will win – and who should win – the film categories 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z He's baffled that more people don't make oeuf-mayo at home, especially seeing as it's becoming tougher to come by in restaurants and bistros. Eggs and mayo is a way underrated French bistro dish 2022-07-11T04:00:00Z Presidential candidates are always promising to bring about change; with Mr. Ramsay in the cabinet, change will be radical, constant and possibly baffling. Critic’s Notebook: Reality TV and the Presidential Cabinet 2012-11-05T19:27:21Z The process by which China chooses its submission for the Oscar for best foreign-language film is opaque, as might be expected in a one-party dictatorship, and its choices are often baffling. China Submits an Unexpected Contender and Surprises Even the Director 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z "Jeopardised your relationship with your daughter?" replies a baffled Tijen, when Cherry confesses her fears. Britain's Next Big Thing 2011-04-12T21:00:00Z “The film is earnestly and unabashedly melodramatic to an extent that may baffle audiences accustomed to clever, knowing historical fictions,” A.O. What’s on TV Friday: ‘Voces’ and ‘Between Two Ferns: The Movie’ 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z When I asked her recently about the whole charade though, she was baffled. I was a chronic masturbator 2015-08-16T04:00:00Z Not long after that, Simon Topping, our singer, left and we changed our style from gothic darkness to Brazilian music, and people were baffled. 'Catalyst bands': What do you mean, you've never heard of them? 2011-07-21T21:01:01Z Don’t be baffling, don’t be indigestible, he warns the young writer. Martin Amis Offers the ‘Inside Story’ of His Relationships With Three Famous Writers 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z Albert Speer — one of Hitler’s closest advisers and his minister of Armaments and War Production — doesn’t actually go to Hollywood, but he does get bafflingly close. ‘Speer Goes to Hollywood’ Review: Expert Rebranding 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z Some music now considered transporting was simply too revolutionary for its time: Beethoven’s late works often baffled his peers but inspire us. Music Review: Juilliard School?s Focus! Festival Celebrates John Cage 2012-01-29T22:47:28Z During the semifinal rounds, more and more spellers were baffled by obscure words. Fist pumps, visualization carry youngsters into U.S. spelling finals 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z But it prompts a worrying notion: that the imperative to Know Thyself inevitably collapses into baffled histrionics and will always be comically futile. Review | For Dana Schutz, a new show after her controversial painting of Emmett Till 2018-01-29T05:00:00Z It is truly baffling that all these talented, acclaimed people actually read this script and then agreed to devote their time to this movie, especially given its uncomfortably flagrant misogynistic streak. Capsule reviews of new movie releases 2012-12-06T00:16:06Z Though undercooked and a little baffling, “Kill List” compels with a dreamy approach to violence that infuses everyday situations — a spousal tiff or an informal dinner party — with undercurrents of pulsing claustrophobia. Movie Review: ?Kill List? Is Ben Wheatley?s Second Feature Film 2012-02-03T01:14:37Z Chang is particularly brilliant at this: The 1970s Wen Chang is endearingly, and hilariously, baffled at Saul’s swagger and unrelenting obscenities. Review | Full-court banter and intensity mark a gripping ‘Great Leap’ at Round House Theatre 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z “It baffles everyone when it goes the other way.” Passing in reverse: What does an NAACP leader’s case say about race? 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z Like nearly all Hollywood movies, it carries an ideological message – and like all Hollywood movies in an age where most of Hollywood’s money is made overseas, that message is bafflingly vague. Rock amid the rubble: California crumbles in ludicrous “San Andreas,” but Dwayne Johnson, of course, saves the day 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z I was always baffled that Letterman, who I still prefer as a comic and personality, would gush about Carson in interviews. As a Teenager, I Hated Johnny Carson. Then Came the Pandemic. 2020-07-26T04:00:00Z It can also challenge, baffle and incense us. What ‘The Death of Klinghoffer’ Could Have Accomplished 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z The song's speaker, one of Springsteen's poignantly baffled young men, is stuck in the desert town where he grew up, unable to gain any real purchase on life. Bruce by Peter Ames Carlin, Bruce Springsteen and the Promise of Rock 'n' Roll by Marc Dolan – review 2012-11-28T08:00:01Z Playboy was a depiction of women that baffled me. Let’s Talk About Hugh Hefner’s Political Legacy 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z When he tries to explain his non-motives to his baffled doctors, he remarks, “Suicide will become the ethical and aesthetic realisation not only of the individual, but of families, dynasties and nations.” The Violent Insights of Bohumil Hrabal 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z Mr. Lang has written a concerto in which unusual percussion instruments try to mingle with the orchestra, though the traditional instruments are initially baffled by the strange intruders. Wine Bottles, Twigs and Trash Cans Join the Mostly Mozart Orchestra 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z Hollywood professionals have been baffled by the circumstances of the movie-set shooting. ‘Rust’ assistant director hopes for film industry changes 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z The obsession with alerting the audience to the equipment of the paparazzi is also the subject of frequent baffled queries on TV blogs. Why do newsreaders make such a big deal about flash photography? 2010-08-05T07:00:00Z And me, I was just a baffled little feline, following its light wherever it led. "Cats" is a mesmerizing laser pointer for your brain 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z Now, like so many political scandals of the past, it seems like a clue that might help decode the eternally baffling present. “Public Official A,” Reviewed: The Sins of Rod Blagojevich Are the Sins of Our Time 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z There was another possible nod to Bernstein in the program itself on Sunday afternoon: Charles Ives’s Second Symphony, a somewhat baffling cornucopia of Americana, and a bit of an adventure for the Viennese. Review: A Brash Wunderkind, Now 37, Meets an August Ensemble 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z Not naturally gifted at pedagogy, he initially spends much of the time baffled by new teaching methods and the children's enthusiasm for learning. TV listings and previews: plan your week's viewing - 26-30 November 2012-11-26T07:00:00Z So they work on us in baffling ways. She’s afraid of sex 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z But the New York Post called the show an "epic flop as the $65 million show's high-tech gadgetry went completely awry amid a dull score and baffling script." Debut of `Spider-Man' on Broadway is a rocky one 2010-11-29T22:31:00Z Quite a few people asked whether we were lost, and when we told them, “Nah, we’re just walking around the city,” they seemed even more baffled by our presence. A new mom regains her fitness groove, one step at a time 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z He's given baffling challenges and harsh criticisms by the clowns, or a mysterious other — or maybe it's himself, or someone he knows. Valeria Luiselli's 'The Story of My Teeth' is a collision of storytelling, lying and art 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z You can usually count on the Globes’s handful of voters to make some baffling choices as well as to celebrate some deserving but obscure nominees that the Emmys overlook. ‘I May Destroy You’ Is Shut Out by Golden Globes 2021-02-03T05:00:00Z At times it left me baffled — but sometimes that’s what unique compositional voices are meant to do. Review: Mivos Quartet Performs Gesualdo, Berg and Kate Soper 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z Amy Warren, meanwhile, wisely plays against the madcap mood in the role of Shlemiel’s baffled wife. | 'Shlemiel the First' : ?Shlemiel the First? at Skirball Center - Review 2011-12-15T23:08:04Z Zeke is a tattooed college dropout with an avuncular pleasantness and a bafflingly selective charisma. Pete Davidson has a puzzling yet undeniable charisma, but is he ready to be a movie star? 2020-02-28T05:00:00Z The word was that Mr. Pacino couldn’t remember his lines and that audience members were walking out in baffled annoyance at intermission. Review: In David Mamet’s ‘China Doll,’ Al Pacino as an Urban Warrior in Winter 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z Instagram users were completely baffled by the man’s insistence on swiping his bill to no avail. NYC subway rider swipes money at turnstile instead of MetroCard in hilarious video 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z Mr. Colbert zeroed in on the tweet Mr. Trump sent after finally deleting his baffling original message: Trevor Noah Thinks Trump Should Ease Up on London’s Mayor 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z His baffled, mud-encrusted face makes it very clear that this isn't just paintball. Armadillo: the Afghanistan war documentary that shocked Denmark 2010-06-03T20:45:00Z Perhaps it was filmed in front of a studio audience, and they sat there, in silence, baffled, or possibly asleep. TV review: Pete Versus Life, Roger and Val Have Just Got?In 2010-08-06T21:15:00Z I was baffled; I didn’t think legally they could do that. 'I cried all night': homeless women on their first night on the streets 2018-06-04T04:00:00Z But I got a really baffled call from my friend Rosie O'Donnell, and she is the preemptive expert at being trolled by Donald Trump, he's been after her for 12 years. Kathy Griffin is used to the death threats now. And she’s not backing down 2018-12-08T05:00:00Z Williamsburg isn’t exactly a destination for foodies: Options are dominated by chain restaurants and a baffling density of pancake houses. An Awakening in Columbus, a Reckoning in Williamsburg 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z Wayne was similarly fond of Douglas – they made a handful of movies together – but he was a little baffled by him. Kirk Douglas: ‘I never thought I’d live to 100. That’s shocked me’ 2017-02-12T05:00:00Z Though I was utterly delighted to get the part, the process baffled me. Get Out of My Light, Honey. I’m Auditioning Here. 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z The question of what women want has been baffling people for years. 7 weird things that turn women on 2015-01-05T05:00:00Z The yarn is a real corker, a polymorphously perverse tale of baffling motives and strangely poignant psychology. Billy Crudup in 'Harry Clarke': A deviously brilliant performance is reborn as an audiobook 2018-01-16T05:00:00Z What they created was an album that baffled the music press at the time and flickered briefly in the British album charts where it rose to no. UK band Ultrasound rises from ashes of 90s implosion 2012-10-15T15:56:31Z But his narrative is bafflingly restless, bolting from one inkling of dramatic possibility to the next. San Miguel by TC Boyle – review 2012-10-12T21:55:09Z Sure, there are shows whose existence I find baffling, if not downright distressing — get thee behind me, CBS comedies — but at least these days I have options. What You Should Watch This Week: ‘Younger’ and ‘Magic Mike XXL’ 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z Here, though, the use of a one-nameless-guy-fits-all image material is merely unnecessary and a bit baffling, given how much great, detailed information Mr. Kirby has gathered. Review: ‘The Hunting Ground’ Documentary, a Searing Look at Campus Rape 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z A prejudice against disability in the medical profession looks, on the face of it, baffling, but Elton has an explanation. Panic, chronic anxiety and burnout: doctors at breaking point 2018-03-10T05:00:00Z Yet, in the ballroom, she’s at once the work’s prima ballerina, to a thrilling but baffling degree. ‘Cinderella’ to Join American Ballet Theater Repertory 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z The persistence of Franck’s interest in Michel — which begins to resemble love — at times feels arbitrary and baffling, the result of a narrative experiment rather than the exploration of a plausible motive. Movie Review: Death and Desire in ‘Stranger by the Lake’ 2014-01-23T23:17:56Z Instead, Boulé usually positions Chrissy with her back to others, staring into space with a baffled expression. 'In the Boom Boom Room' piles on misery with unrelenting punch 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z But the music keeps breaking into baffling discontinuities. Review: The Philharmonic Hails Sibelius, and Offers Joshua Bell on a Mendelssohn 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z It was a baffling way to draw the bold, confused and exhausting spectacle to a close. A Splashy, Messy All-Naked Revue 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z Spies, who is the chief technology officer at Voltage Security in Palo Alto, Calif., describes himself as a collector of “baffling contemporary art.” Consumed: Art That Sells Itself 2010-05-07T18:33:00Z Farrell won the Globe for best actor in a comedy or musical for his baffled “Banshees” performance, taking time to thank studio executives, his co-stars, his family and the donkey that appeared in the film. Tarnished Golden Globes Return to TV, and Hollywood Plays Along 2023-01-10T05:00:00Z But that doesn’t mean the 31-year-old hasn’t been baffled by persistent debates about Wonder Woman’s looks–and the sexual and anti-Semitic harassment Gadot has received online over the past two years. Wonder Woman Breaks Through 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z "I was only the support act for Michael Kiwanuka, but everyone was silent and it kind of baffled me, to be honest." Jake Bugg: 'I have to pinch myself' 2012-10-15T07:12:17Z The fact that “Wuthering Heights” is so adaptable heartens some scholars, who celebrate the novel’s messiness and survival in popular culture nearly 200 years after baffling readers and critics. A New ‘Wuthering Heights,’ From Andrea Arnold 2012-09-30T04:27:19Z But its international stops, chronicling the painting’s sales, are baffling leaps. ‘Lost Leonardo’ unpeels the mysteries of the Salvator Mundi 2021-08-11T04:00:00Z There are 60 paintings in the National Gallery show, the first devoted to this crucial — if often baffling — aspect of Cézanne’s oeuvre. Review | The sourest, meanest mouth in the history of portraiture 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z Michael J Fox and Lea Thompson, for example, look frequently and understandably baffled by Glover in Back to the Future, while he’s laughing like a cricket or contorting his body into physical expressions of awkwardness. Crispin Glover: ‘When you raise questions people say, ‘You’re crazy’’ 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z As someone who loves identifying genres, I am delightfully baffled by, and enamored with, “Pet” for defying my every attempt at classification. 6 Great Y.A. Fantasy Novels 2023-05-06T04:00:00Z My new husband was baffled by my abrupt change in fortune and, of course, I milked it for all it was worth. The day Donald Sutherland showed me some chess moves 2017-01-29T05:00:00Z Gig reviewers tend to describe crowds at boy-band shows in a tone of puzzled alarm, like Victorian anthropologists observing some gory and baffling ritual. Why does Bruce Springsteen make middle-aged men behave like teenagers at their first pop show? 2012-06-21T09:34:56Z Carlile and the twins were about to step into the biggest spotlight of their careers and the stage hands at the Grammys were baffled. Backing Brandi: How the Hanseroth twins and Brandi Carlile became a Grammy-storming ‘misfit’ family 2019-05-24T04:00:00Z Keaton’s crazy eyebrows are put to good use as the on-the-edge mentor, but it is a somewhat baffling choice for him: the movie is undeniably generic for an actor who has always eschewed straightforward genre. Michael Keaton: ‘There was a lot of bad taste in the 90s and I contributed to that’ 2017-09-09T04:00:00Z There will almost certainly be an audience for this – the behind-the-scenes treatment of the open-kitchen conversations and delusions the federal complaint captured to spectacular effect – which makes the movie’s dullness all the more baffling. Why is the college admissions scandal movie so boring? 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z Of course, this is just the latest in a string of fashion trends that delight women but baffle their menfolk. Nail Polish in Greens and Yellows Fail to Win Fans 2012-04-04T21:09:39Z They admitted the things that scared them and humiliated them and made them angry and baffled. I like to be objectified 2012-11-20T01:00:00Z The collection of the old Royal Museum stretching along Chambers Street in Edinburgh's Old Town is an engaging but initially baffling affair. National Museum of Scotland: suspend your disbelief 2011-07-26T20:31:01Z Impressive, and she'll baffle those in the music industry who like everything to fit into neat, marketable categories. Kit Holmes: Driving into the Blue ? review 2011-02-03T22:00:01Z As in “Diagnosis: Impossible” and “More Things Impossible,” this third collection of Hawthorne’s cases, “Nothing is Impossible,” continues to offer baffling murders capped by properly unexpected solutions. ‘Nothing Is Impossible: Further Problems of Dr. Sam Hawthorne,’ by Edward D. Hoch Keaton cuts to her at-first baffled, then amused reaction — and then cuts to the entire dining room listening in. Now’s a Good Time to Give Silents a Try. Start With These Comedies. 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z Mr. Taylor, as Isaac, captured the boy’s frantic feelings when he realizes what his father is about to do, singing the baffled phrases over madly scurrying runs in the piano. Music Review: Chamber Music Society at Alice Tully Hall 2013-05-12T21:55:55Z The condition spreads, hospitals are overwhelmed, and the disease-control centre is baffled. The Bay – review 2013-02-28T22:19:01Z Wolfe doesn’t so much reject this idea as seem baffled by it. Tom Wolfe Looks Over His Notes 2015-02-28T05:00:00Z Ms. Fain, on the other hand, was baffled by the notion of a Texas sheet cake without the cocoa. Even the Sheet Cakes Are Bigger in Texas 2021-07-23T04:00:00Z Never let it be said that Prince doesn't retain the capacity to both dazzle and baffle. Prince dazzles and baffles on two new releases 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z The children, based on all available evidence, seem baffled by its appeal. ‘Succession,’ Season 4, Episode 2 Recap: The Serious People 2023-04-02T04:00:00Z But Mr. Neuenfels’s new staging of Tchaikovsky’s “Pique Dame,” also presented at the main festival hall, despite some baffling touches, shows a compelling director in his element. At Salzburg Festival, Two Bold Directors Claim Their Stages 2018-08-12T04:00:00Z It's baffling to me that on this of all days, a woman's chief preoccupation should be thinness. How to have a feminist wedding 2014-06-28T04:00:00Z The rest of the time he was busy, as he puts it, being "America's favourite tabloid presence", an off-the-rails celebrity bafflingly unlike the prissy Dr Crane. Kelsey Grammer: starting over 2013-03-23T09:00:00Z The suggestion he was indulged because of his celebrity is one he finds baffling. Sean Penn: ‘Some of my best laughs have come out of the worst reviews’ 2018-05-05T04:00:00Z And now comes the most revolutionary reimagining of Jefferson’s life ever: a colossal postmodern novel that’s often baffling, possibly offensive and frequently bizarre. ‘Thomas Jefferson Dreams of Sally Hemings’ reimagines his illicit affair 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z Seen the tragic film 'Paul Jacob and Nuclear Gang' plus 'Electric Boogie' a baffling new dance. Excerpts from Mandela book 2010-10-11T09:46:00Z When I first discovered our elevator deficit, I was rather baffled. My NYC parenting nightmare: It’s either hell or Larry David 2015-12-12T05:00:00Z "Beatles mystery tour baffles viewers" was the headline in the Mirror, flagging up claims that "by the thousand, viewers protested to the BBC". Fab furore: Is it time to re-evaluate the Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour? 2012-09-25T17:33:00Z At the time, “unhappy, and ashamed of it . . . baffled by my life,” Fraser confesses to having hungered in particular for “the desperate bits,” “the secret, shameful things about these women—the pain.” “Sight” and The Pleasures of Overthinking Motherhood 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z With so many choices and tribes to consider, it must be positively baffling to be a teenager awakening to the myriad paths before you. I fancy both boys and girls, but don’t know what that makes me | Dear Mariella 2020-01-19T05:00:00Z Last-minute debacles like the “Rebecca” financing are rare on Broadway, but it was the other stranger-than-fiction subplots — mystery investors, computer hacking, malaria — that continued to baffle other theater producers and executives. ‘Rebecca’ Cancellation Sets Investors’ Lawyers in Action 2012-10-01T22:20:30Z Forrest keeps repeating this evocative but baffling phrase, convinced there must be something in there for him to rate. Rate Culture 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z Even the kid who dumped Martine looks baffled by her desperation. 'Yellow Handkerchief' Review: Kristen Stewart Road Trip 2010-03-04T23:55:00Z I just remember being baffled by how universally every comedian wanted to kill their wife. Lindy West reclaims the "witch hunt": On comedy, feminism and why terrible men think they're victims 2019-11-09T05:00:00Z If not, there is unfortunately little to recommend this bafflingly vapid work, choreographed last year by Adam Hougland, the company’s resident artist, to a commissioned score by Mr. Frampton. Dance Review: Cincinnati Ballet at the Joyce Theater 2014-05-08T20:58:00Z However, despite being baffling, there is still something intriguing about it. This week's new DVD & Blu-ray 2012-08-24T23:05:00Z It's baffling at times, annoying and perpetually open-ended. Endless fascination: in praise of novels without neat conclusions 2012-11-23T11:25:25Z But the diagrams are likely to baffle many readers. Hunt for a Good Beginning. Then Write It. 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z Some 24 hours after his death it was baffling to attend a performance – of Nabucco – without some acknowledgment of him. Sunken Garden; Nabucco; Mark Padmore & Graham Johnson – review 2013-04-20T23:08:33Z Fosca, played here by Donna Murphy, was every bit as suffocating as before, and maybe even more baffling. 20 Stephen Sondheim Songs to Listen to Right Now 2021-11-28T05:00:00Z But more often that not, King's minimalist interview style was baffling. Larry King ends CNN stint with nostalgia, family 2010-12-17T04:08:22Z And it seems that fellow group members were equally unimpressed, with the post receiving hundreds of comments from baffled people. Wedding reception’s 'luxury' menu slammed: 'I thought this was hospital food' 2019-06-10T04:00:00Z The stage setup was elaborate with what looked like at least two different sound systems and rows of acoustical baffles, and the result in this notoriously difficult-to-amplify hall was unusually sensitive. 'The Reef' concert had a chance to catch a new wave of fans by pairing surf sounds and scenes 2016-02-17T05:00:00Z Critically it’s been a dud, with reviewers baffled by the absence of humour. Bricking it: why the Lego movie franchise is on shaky foundations 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z The quarter-of-a-century-old art heist mystery remains one of the most baffling in history, and the Boston Globe piece is worth a read. Over two decades later we’re still learning about the mysterious Gardner art heist 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z But how you can celebrate “Mamma Mia!” — not what I’d call the epitome of delicacy — and decry “Come Fly Away” as crass is frankly baffling, unless you are judging these works by wholly different standards. Isherwood and Macaulay Spar Over ?Come Fly Away? 2010-03-31T22:26:00Z I remain baffled that Andrew and I did not broach the subject as we did everything else, carefully and together. I’m a psychotherapist, but therapy didn’t ease my grief 2020-02-02T05:00:00Z Scott wanted to include hints that Deckard was a replicant, but with all the changes and revisions, it’s no wonder that audiences were baffled. In "Blade Runner," who are the androids and what do they dream of? 2018-08-26T04:00:00Z Mr. Polenzani brought baffled tenderness to the opening songs, in which Jan is distressed by his longing. Review: A Tenor Offers a Subtle Model of Adventurousness 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z Most others find this appetite both baffling and disgusting. How The Killer Inside Me hurts women for fun 2010-06-07T11:55:00Z They understand its baffling flights into unreason; they see past the wild connections to the human frailty that inspires them. How Conspiracy Theories Shape Art 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z As a liberal-minded academic, I sometimes find their political views baffling. Sheltering in place: For students in Donald Trump-loving coal country, “school choice” isn’t a solution 2016-12-31T05:00:00Z But on this night he was deeply affecting as Wagner’s clueless youth, who chances upon the sanctuary of the desolate knights of the Holy Grail and is baffled by their sacred rituals. Review: A Conductor Delivers a Magnificent ‘Parsifal’ at the Met 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z Her methods are utterly unorthodox and extremely confusing, but she succeeds where others fail in ferreting out the baffling crimes. Classic Crime Novels That Still Thrill Today 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z It would be cool, needlessly baffling, like Ford Madox Ford. I do, again: ‘There is nothing as deadly serious as a second marriage’ 2018-05-05T04:00:00Z That helps explain the durable appeal of Collodi’s story, and it also makes del Toro and company’s decision to set the tale in Fascist Italy all the more baffling and disappointing. ‘Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio’ Review: Puppets and Power 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z It is a bizarre and baffling turkey, one of the most purely puzzling features to be released this year so far. Hereafter ? review 2011-01-27T22:15:02Z The question of why shows like Last Week Tonight and The Daily Show have not been replicated in Britain is one that continues to baffle. John Oliver: ‘I’m used to audiences not liking me’ 2018-02-24T05:00:00Z Goldberg performs an exegesis on many phrases that would otherwise baffle us. ‘The Yid’: A ragtag group of Russians team up to assassinate Stalin 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z Even later, as I befriended guys just as baffled by masculinity as I was, I didn’t connect my growing discomfort in my body to the reality of their physical differences. Trans, but not like you think 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Fadiman told me that the criticism of the book has always baffled her. Joyce Maynard’s Second Chances 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z “I’ve been baffled for a while about tipping in a sushi restaurant,” someone posted on my online food discussion recently. Perspective | Can food opposites meet over the same meal? 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z It's baffling, yet the inventiveness of the choreography still grips. Scottish Dance Theatre ? review 2011-03-22T19:15:01Z Even the “Teen Zone” was bustling, baffling to me when I thought back to the far less productive ways I chose to spend my Friday afternoons as a teenager. In a Year of Abrupt Transitions, a Trip to Tahiti. And Calgary. 2019-12-31T05:00:00Z I battle with depression and anxiety and a host of other disorders, but my strongest weapon is a dark and baffling sense of humor. Jenny Lawson on ‘Furiously Happy’ and when it is okay to call her ‘crazy’ 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z The incongruity of this makes no more sense to us than it does to Jefferson, who’s baffled by the moving pictures, the disembodied music and especially the highly romanticized vision of his life. ‘Thomas Jefferson Dreams of Sally Hemings’ reimagines his illicit affair 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z Quite why nightclubs must change their habits for new neighbours is as baffling as trying to imagine what oasis of tranquility the new residents expected. Clubs picks of the week 2013-02-02T06:00:17Z Cabiya hilariously documents the zombie’s interactions with these women, whose behavior increasingly baffles him. Best science fiction and fantasy novels this month 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z Again, she is dancing for men who seem baffled by her and oblivious to her. Anna Karina: an actor of easy charm and grace whose presence radiated from the screen | Peter Bradshaw 2019-12-15T05:00:00Z Horne sat, baffled for a moment, before heading back up the hill and briefing Schrader. Here Is What Happens When You Cast Lindsay Lohan in Your Movie 2013-01-13T17:37:08Z That these pieces were so little known baffled Mr. Serkin. A Pianist’s Final Message: Overlooked Works by a Son of Bach 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z The end of “Strict Scrutiny” leaves us baffled on that account. It's tough to explain what makes the aggravating "Morning Show" mess appealing 2023-10-21T04:00:00Z So it’s baffling that two new adaptations of horror classics — “Frankenstein” and “Dracula,” running in repertory at Classic Stage Company — are not. Review: ‘Dracula’ and ‘Frankenstein’? Nothing to Be Scared Of 2020-02-17T05:00:00Z At Sparrow Pond, summer rains caused more sediment to flow in, while the baffle prevented water from rising. With beavers in the suburbs, park officials look to balance needs of humans and ‘nature’s engineers’ 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z But then "Cloud 9" speaks most profoundly to a modern audience, baffled by too many choices and facing perhaps more formidable internal obstacles than external ones. 'Cloud 9' is a time-tripping feminist classic nimbly done by Antaeus Theatre Company 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z It received mixed, somewhat baffled reviews, and sold only 877 copies, making a loss for its publisher. David Lodge: rereading Anthony Trollope 2012-12-14T22:55:04Z This baffles me — and I am an inveterable sniffler and blubberer at sad films. Oscars 2011: The Academy and the elderly genuflect to The King's Speech 2011-02-28T09:20:46Z That, after two seasons of bouncing around from one baffling situation to another violently traumatic one, Elliot will work through his issues and realise something about himself. Mr Robot: from show of the zeitgeist to TV's biggest disappointment 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z He, on the other hand, is baffled by my piecemeal approach, advising me to sketch the entire painting first. At this B&B in Lexington, Va., you paint your own vacation 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z Then they vanished from the area, never to return in such huge numbers, leaving fishermen bereft and baffled in their wake. Net worth 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z A year later, baffled Americans were discussing how Brits were now having a serious debate about whether gammon was a racist word. From woke to gammon: buzzwords by the people who coined them 2019-12-25T05:00:00Z Indeed, Lost in Showbiz has a theory, and is frankly baffled at being the first to advance it. Simon Cowell and the Witches of Eastwick 2010-07-15T18:59:00Z Instead, they said, bafflingly, that lots of shots on the show were fake. The Question at the Heart of “The Good Wife” 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z For a time, post-cold war American politics seemed to baffle Murdoch, too. Murdoch's Politics: How One Man's Thirst for Wealth and Power Shapes Our World by David McKnight – review 2013-02-20T07:01:01Z Stewart then went to work on him with the skeptic's scalpel, and McCain, seemingly baffled by the facts of the war so readily brandished by Stewart, withered before our eyes. Vintage chat: Moyers and Stewart 2011-05-18T16:30:00Z The Lais are baffled by their daughter’s career path; her sensible siblings have chosen accounting and dentistry. She Stayed Silent When a Producer Turned Sexual Predator Went After a Friend 2022-08-14T04:00:00Z Two years after Edward Snowden gift-wrapped the greatest offering to prog-rock paranoiacs since Orwell, Muse’s reliance on reheated Cold War leftovers is baffling. Muse meets ‘Drones’: More prog-rock paranoid fantasies 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z The sparrow takes her to a tree that resembles Yggdrasil, the World Tree of ancient Norse myth, where she is asked the baffling Endless Question: "Is a tree red?" Charlie Jane Anders' 'All the Birds in the Sky' has the hallmarks of an instant sci-fi classic 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z Watters’ reference to “kill shot,” however, baffled some people in television news. Fauci says Fox’s Watters should be fired for comments on him 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z Their seeming inability to understand the world they've been presumably living in all this time, "reduces the original characters to a baffled trio," according to The Guardian. "Emily in Paris" is aging well 2022-01-01T05:00:00Z To put it mildly, it's a bit baffling and contradictory. DC's 'reservoir dogs' attack Chuck Hagel with oxymoronic ads 2013-01-24T21:32:43Z Like many, Jon Stewart was baffled by the television anchor’s shock and opened Tuesday night’s “Daily Show” with a reminder that Ferguson was just a few short months ago. Jon Stewart blasts Wolf Blitzer for shock over Baltimore riots: “Ferguson was just a few months ago!” 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z In other words, the naked woman who baffles and disturbs us, the viewer, does so because she manages to examine us just as we do her. The surprising high-art theory behind Kim Kardashian’s “Selfish” 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z Shelley is both flattered and baffled by the wealth of bands that claim to be influenced by the Buzzcocks. 30 years later, Buzzcocks still in a punk state of mind 2010-06-01T19:49:00Z She was, after all, a feminist who satirised the overly solemn and self-defeating aspects of feminism, such as Betty Friedan's baffling determination to start fights with Gloria Steinem. Nora Ephron: how I'll miss her 2012-06-27T15:55:01Z The show’s feminist credentials are just as baffling. Stop! You're hurting me! Why GLOW's wrestling women aren't just an offence to fashion 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z The uninitiated will be baffled, especially when a one-eyed Samuel L Jackson turns up halfway through as Nick Fury and starts banging on about Shield. You review: Iron Man 2 2010-05-04T11:23:00Z As a young Labour backbencher throughout the four years of his prime ministership, I viewed him with a kind of baffled admiration. Edward Heath: The Edward Heath: The Authorised Biography by Philip Ziegler 2010-06-18T23:15:00Z Tracy Morgan stars as Tray, a former drug dealer who returns to his gentrified Brooklyn neighborhood after a 15-year prison stint and is baffled by how much has changed. What’s on TV Tuesday: ‘The Last O.G.’ and ‘Legion’ 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z Though the frissons it set off in its Berlin opening were said to travel around the world, it has often baffled American interpreters. | 'The Threepenny Opera': ?Threepenny Opera? With Berliner Ensemble at BAM - Review 2011-10-05T16:50:18Z Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson are longtime friends whose relationship is severed in the most baffling way, and Farrell’s constant attempts to mend the rift push their petty grievances into the realm of tragedy. The Eight Film Festival Movies That Got the Biggest Awards Boost 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z But he has given some bafflingly blatant performances of the staples. The New York Philharmonic Returns, in the Midst of Transitions 2021-09-19T04:00:00Z And this baffling new syntax has a meaning: workers of the world, unite. The Artists Who Redesigned a War-Shattered Europe 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z And this makes the choice to bury the best original song choices in the pre-show baffling. "Nomadland" wins big at the 2021 Oscars, which made history — and some unfortunate choices 2021-04-26T04:00:00Z Only one restaurant in Sacramento earned a star; the same goes, bafflingly, for San Diego, home to some of the most phenomenal Japanese and Mexican food in the United States. The Michelin Guide’s Not Entirely Welcome Return to L.A. 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z Let’s deal with the tough stuff first: as the episode begins, Anna is still hiding the truth of her injuries from the baffled Mr. Bates. ArtsBeat: ‘Downton Abbey’ Recap: A Warning From Mr. Bates 2014-01-27T03:00:44Z “I’m a feeding therapist,” he said, clearly anticipating and then enjoying my baffled expression. The Tipsy Diaries: Sweet on Tiki, Flower of Cocktails 2011-03-31T14:00:29Z He was a smart, worldly man, and I was baffled as to how he could have fallen for a scam. The internet scammer who loved me (not) 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z Suggestions about changing times and the polarizing effects of the civil rights movement seem insufficient when it comes to explaining such a radical change, and the reader, like Scout, cannot help feeling baffled and distressed. 38 Years on Books: The Essential Michiko Kakutani Reader 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z Throughout that lonely ordeal, I was baffled, dazzled, angered and awed. Review | A.R. Moxon’s ‘The Revisionaries’ might be the weirdest novel of the year 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z Now the final image is of the baffled face of a wounded woman trying to figure out just how it all went wrong, as the spotlight on her fades to black. Review: A Thoroughly Modern ‘Sweet Charity’ Who Abandons Hope 2016-11-20T05:00:00Z Do they remain professional and rise above the baffled din? 'I was overwhelmed with joy': match the Cats cast member to their quote 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z Each generation’s definition of good music seems to include the fact that it offends, or, at least, baffles, the generation before. Motherlode Blog: Sex, and Kids, and Rock and Roll 2011-09-08T17:07:06Z Residents in Maine were baffled when a large 25-foot rubber duck randomly appeared in one of the state’s harbors. Mysterious giant rubber duck in Maine harbor disappears 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z The result is a wild, crazy, word-drunk piece that intoxicates and baffles, but is destined to lodge in the memory. Penelope 2010-07-26T20:31:00Z The audience listens closely as a baffled and increasingly bitter Hirabayashi tries to reassure himself that the Constitution really means what it says. Review | When U.S. citizenship is anything but self-evident 2018-03-05T05:00:00Z Mr. Santos said that when he was approached about doing the pilot, which is being produced by Overbrook Entertainment, Will Smith’s company, it baffled him. Anthony Santos Has New Album and TV Project 2011-11-13T05:00:12Z I was baffled when it did, I just wasn't expecting it. Mercury Prize 2013: The nominees 2013-09-11T17:04:21Z Eventually, Vonnegut succumbed to that bafflingly common condition among the wealthy: being broke. Kurt Vonnegut: Letters edited by Dan Wakefield – review 2013-04-18T07:01:01Z But Greg Allen, 44, a filmmaker in New York who also writes a blog for new fathers called daddytypes.com, said he found the trend baffling. At Parties, Revealing a Baby?s Gender 2012-04-07T07:27:49Z Still baffled, we asked an expert – Graham Shirling, a biomedical scientist working for blood cancer charity Anthony Nolan – to make sense of the violent liquids and aliens. 2012: the year of the dumb blockbuster 2012-12-29T00:07:33Z James Bond film composer Arnold said he had seen many of the shows that had closed and was "baffled" by their failure. High hopes for Dagenham musical 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z It baffles her why no one spoke for her: why the female casting director who witnessed the camera-between-the-legs incident didn’t intercede, why friends disapproved of Mr Hideous only afterwards. Thandie Newton: ‘I wake up angry – there’s a lot to be angry about’ 2016-09-04T04:00:00Z You get Europeans talking about how baffling it is that Africans are prone to violent conflict, as if Europeans haven’t been going at it just as horribly throughout the whole Christian era. Philip Gourevitch: Memory is a disease 2012-09-26T20:31:00Z This 11-minute video began as cringe-comedy performance art, with Mr. Cruise bored and baffled, and Mr. O’Brien, quietly driving, as a hostile, frighteningly intense version of himself. The Most Riveting Host in Late Night (and the Most Overlooked) 2017-11-05T04:00:00Z It clearly captured the Academy's imagination, perhaps because it shows the movie business saving the day, but the reverence in which it is held is a bit baffling to me. Oscars 2013: triumphs, tears, tumbles – and the odd surprise 2013-02-25T07:54:29Z Non: Nick Fraser So much passion about the outcome of a game leaves me baffled and finally angry. Is France in the grip of an existential crisis? 2010-06-26T23:05:00Z It's pretty baffling to hear how successful it is in Australia and Israel. Ray Romano to perform at Garden of Laughs event 2013-01-24T17:11:08Z That sensation arises often in this canny documentary about a baffling topic. ‘People’s Republic of Desire’ Review: A Virtual Craze Makes Actual Cash 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z In six years of editing this column, I have received so many stories from the baffled and the frustrated that even tsunami metaphors can’t convey the volume. Modern Love: GPS on a Path to the Heart 2011-02-11T01:08:11Z It was deemed baffling when new in 2009, and overly cool on its second outing a year later. La Bohème – review 2013-04-30T17:40:06Z Friends and co-workers were baffled: Why the hurry? Don’t touch my breasts, hon 2012-10-08T01:00:00Z She’s always on hand to discreetly dispose of a body or to help concoct an alibi — even as she’s baffled by her sister’s motives. Helping Out Family Is Taken to Extremes in ‘My Sister, the Serial Killer’ 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z I’m just feeling it, feeling baffled, dismayed, leveled with, winked at. ‘The Melt Goes On Forever’ Review: David Hammons Makes, and They Take 2023-05-04T04:00:00Z Everyone was baffled, and it was many, many months before I heard back from production. "Red Notice" star Chris Diamantopoulos swears he wasn't trying to break up Jim and Pam 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z The singer loved the song, but Archie Bleyer, who ran the Cadence record label, wouldn’t release it as a single, fretting that homespun phrases like “my huckleberry friend” would baffle the kids. Andy Williams: A Farewell Song for the "Moon River" Man 2012-09-26T22:34:50Z It instils a kind of pleasurably baffled awe: how did someone arrive at the conclusion that a song should sound like this? m b v – review 2013-02-04T18:22:24Z As one battlefield nurse observed, “The science of healing stood baffled before the science of destroying.” ‘The Facemaker,’ a Grisly but Inspiring Story of Surgery During World War I 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z “The Bachelor” concluded in very baffling fashion last night. 'Bachelor': Brad's screwy finale; next Bachelorette announced 2011-03-15T13:39:47Z He baffles Simón in particular and resists almost all of his attempts to give him an education. J.M. Coetzee’s Jesus Sees the World as Don Quixote Does 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z In one bleak but hilarious scene, a young waitress is baffled as four lonely businessmen sitting at separate tables break down into tears one after the other. Depardieu charms as anti-hero in French tragi-comedy 2010-02-19T22:53:00Z Bannister knows the police are baffled by the shooting of a federal judge in a remote cabin and duly squeals on a fellow inmate who he says confessed to the murder. Crime fiction roundup - review 2012-12-21T08:00:01Z Wonder is both these things and more; an unselfconscious performer whose natural-born ability couldn't be better summed up than when he, bafflingly, told the audience: "If you're a hater, drink hater-aid and die!" Stevie Wonder at Glastonbury 2010 2010-06-28T00:37:00Z When I asked her what about me seemed so scary, she appeared baffled. I am not your exotic unicorn: going on Tinder as a queer, dark-skinned black woman 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z It’s all the more baffling, then, that his most notable film roles to date have been playing an elf and an intergalactic villain. ‘Driven’ Review: California Scheming 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z “When Brian and I split, she called me to wish me luck,” Kerry wrote in her column in New! magazine, bafflingly. Need to spice up the reunion tour? You can rely on Mel B 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z So I'm always baffled by that kind of reaction. Charlie Brooker answers your questions: 'I get angry to amuse myself' 2013-02-06T19:01:10Z Their haunted, baffled expressions as Melissa sings mirror our own responses to this young woman, whose presence offers a passage to a world most of us don’t know at all. | 'The Kid': A Gay Couple Adopting, From New Group@Theater Row 2010-05-11T04:18:00Z I went on opening night, baffled how this thing, against all odds, exists. This play was all ancient Greek to me. But I liked it 2010-10-19T13:21:00Z “I said, ‘Rachel, quite frankly I’m as baffled as you are, but the studio people asked for this. Rachel Griffiths Joining ?Other Desert Cities? 2011-10-09T02:57:18Z As Ms. Ambrose’s Eliza completes her metamorphosis, increasing in stature and radiance and vocal power, he grows more baffled and petulant, more protective of his privilege. Review: Whose ‘Fair Lady’? This Time, Eliza’s in Charge 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z Every other day near the lock gates, there are baffled boys in flat caps with ropes hanging from their hands. Ten years living on a boat: 'It's a fun life – I'm not a watery hobo' 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z The end of “Strict Scrutiny” leaves me baffled on that account. It's tough to explain what makes the aggravating "Morning Show" mess appealing 2023-10-21T04:00:00Z He said that many major institutions were hesitating on the Minecraft approach because the game baffled some officials. Can You Save London From the Inferno of 1666? 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z I fell asleep in front of Mamma Mia!, a show the teenage me found entirely baffling and geared towards, as I explained tactlessly to my mother, "women of a certain age". The Spice Girls were my gateway drug to feminism 2012-12-13T11:41:11Z In one of the intervals a drunken and particularly odious music critic boasted to a baffled ice-cream lady: "This is my 16th Ring cycle, you know!" Wagner: beauty in the eye of the beholder 2011-07-14T15:01:01Z Often, when I speak to other women who took the same path I did, we are baffled by how we got here and what to do now. Can women over 50 “lean in”? 2013-03-23T15:00:00Z Cornelia felt their story would be helpful to parents who found themselves as baffled by autism as they had been. How Disney gave voice to a boy with autism 2016-12-03T05:00:00Z They’re slightly baffled by their daughter’s life but are kind, gentle and unflaggingly supportive. ‘The Souvenir Part II’ Review: Life, as She Imagines It 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z A joke falls flat. Letting ourselves down in some fashion is such an integral part of daily life that the paucity of literature on the subject is baffling. Falling short: seven writers reflect on failure 2013-06-22T07:00:00Z He hopes to understand the thing that, at times, baffles him the most: Australian irony. In ‘Amnesty,’ an Immigrant’s View Conveyed With Authority and Wit 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z Since their power-pop reinvention they efficiently churn out a series of singalongs, and it's frankly baffling so few people have caught on yet. Guns N' Roses fail to ignite Reading festival 2010 2010-08-28T15:09:00Z In an accurate gauge of the mood of the day, all the participants, black and white, look baffled and terrorized by the bloodbath they’re part of. Art Review: An Era?s Injustices Fuel an Artist?s Activist Works 2010-12-09T22:20:00Z She keeps telling him: “You know nothing, Jon Snow” and, looking at his ceaselessly baffled face. What happened when our TV critic watched 67 hours of Game of Thrones? 2019-04-14T04:00:00Z Several alleged military maneuvers and their related entanglements are especially baffling. 'Burning Blue' treats 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' era awkwardly 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z Haidt, a lifelong liberal, was baffled at why so many poor and working-class voters kept supporting conservative politicians when it was clearly against their interest. So, you think reason guides your politics? Think again 2012-05-17T19:15:01Z She's still hardly told anyone about her terminal cancer, so her family are baffled when she buys herself a sporty new car while trying to teach her son a lesson in responsibility. Tonight's TV highlights 2011-02-24T08:00:03Z The lead characters of the tale are named in the title, though in an order of importance that might baffle some historians. John Singer Sargent’s Drawings Bring His Model Out of the Shadows 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z Sharpton was baffled by the match until he had lunch with Lucas last year and found him “outraged” and “totally beside himself” about the rejection of “Red Tails.” George Lucas Is Ready to Roll the Credits 2012-01-17T16:33:29Z That another American would be baffled by the EU’s Court of Justice “right to be forgotten” ruling a few weeks ago is probably no surprise. 'Right To Be Forgotten': Google Releases A Form That Is Not About Forgetting At All 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z On entering the theater, I reflected on the fact that I knew women who found him attractive, which baffled me. ‘The Whole Audience Was Vibrating’: Your Memorable Performances 2020-06-22T04:00:00Z But most of all we’re baffled by an act that scrambles our categories of justice. On Writing About Suicide and Not Finding Catharsis 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z "It baffles me," Anthony Hicks told the Tribune as he stared at a copy of the deed during a recent interview. Fugitives enrich themselves from abroad 2011-11-02T14:00:00Z Young Thug, “Jeffery” Coaxing a baffling array of sounds from his words, rap’s most dazzling expressionist continues to juice the English language in stunning and stylish ways. The best music of 2016: YG, Beyoncé, Maren Morris and more 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z It doesn’t bother Nguyen, but he is occasionally baffled when, on occasion, his friends don’t bring the girl to Nguyen’s apartment and instead act like Lucy is theirs. Analysis | Dogfishing: When online daters pose with adorable pets that aren’t theirs 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z Though the movie is a fictional take on the crisis, it gives a glimpse at the eerie goings-on in a town where the behavior of young people have baffled and agonized their parents. Hannah Murray on Her Wish for Gilly on "Game of Thrones" 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z Is it, bafflingly, the inchoate Never Let Me Go, probably his weakest novel? Famous for the wrong book 2011-07-19T10:16:27Z Utterly baffling, yet never less than intriguing, “Zeros and Ones” lingers in the mind. ‘Zeros and Ones’ Review: Plague and Paranoia 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z This baffles her even more than snack food. The Price of Beauty 2010-07-13T07:00:00Z This would certainly explain his latest film, The Professor, and its newly released, genuinely baffling trailer. Professor Johnny Depp says goodbye to the rules, hello to himself 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z James Burrows, the director whose credits include many of the huge multicamera hits of the past two decades, has been baffled for years about the decline of the multicam format everywhere but CBS. New Sitcom Tries Old Form: Laughs Allowed 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z There wasn't much else in the way of unscripted eccentricity, apart from Kevin Spacey's accomplished but frankly baffling impersonation of Bill Clinton. Baftas 2011: Peter Bradshaw on the winners and losers 2011-02-14T14:57:24Z I admit that I’m somewhat baffled by this line of reasoning. ‘Better Call Saul’ Season 3, Episode 6: Brick by Brick 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z They look like claims adjusters from Charlotte, or software programmers from San Jose, but ask them who-what-where-they-came-from and these baffled party people will only ever reply, “WHAT??” Perspective | Is Tiësto the Wayne Newton of the 21st century? 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z It’s a baffling twist in an episode full of them. 'Empire' Season 2 Premiere Recap: Gorilla Suits, Lesbian Financiers and Chris Rock 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z At Cannes its ambition baffled a few reviewers but it found favour with the nine-member jury, chaired by Robert de Niro. Malick's drama triumphs in Cannes 2011-05-22T21:18:05Z What better chance for the Government to show a baffled public what they mean? The tragic battle for Hastings 2010-10-09T23:07:00Z Grace's grateful trust in other people's support is both charming and disarming, and she is quite baffled by British cynicism. 'So I'm a transsexual and this is what's happening' 2012-07-22T19:30:00Z Pattinson was greeted by screaming fans and admitted he is still baffled by the attention. VIDEO: Crowds swoon at Pattinson premiere 2011-05-04T09:57:35Z And then in a baffling move, Netflix – the same company that began streaming "Crash Landing on Your" two years ago to great success – is planning an American remake. Hollywood, please stop adapting K-dramas. It's not just unnecessary, it's racist 2021-12-19T05:00:00Z Her testimony, spanning three days with about 10 hours of brutal cross-examination, was at times baffling. Is Harvey Weinstein a rapist? As trial concludes, jury will be faced with a complicated case and a heavy task. 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z I had a girlfriend once who used to joke about her penchant for “light strangulation”, which I found completely baffling. My girlfriend wants me to spank her. Should I feel guilty? 2018-07-01T04:00:00Z But the most baffling statement of all was the lack of appreciation for Jenny Beavan’s best costume design win. Leonardo DiCaprio leads political charge at 2016 Oscars 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z Pouring their wizardry into special effects and well-choreographed fights, the warm-weather action films rarely challenge the viewer with grand notions or beautifully baffling imagery. REVIEW: I Love Lucy — and Luc, and Scarlett 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z He doesn’t drive, so when not hitching a ride with a local studio assistant, he traversed Eden by bike and on foot, which baffled residents. How a French Artist Turned a Stay in North Carolina Into Conceptual Art 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z And her unconventional sales approach is reverberating through international art markets, baffling dealers and art experts. Picasso’s Granddaughter Plans to Sell Art, Worrying the Market 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z The world outside the racetrack is baffling to Paras, in terms of both its human and animal inhabitants. Review | Jane Smiley’s new novel gives voice to her favorite animal, the horse 2020-11-30T05:00:00Z But the subjects of his character’s investigation have motivations that often appeared baffling, like DiCaprio’s Ernest, so loving and attentive to his wife. How Scorsese, DiCaprio and De Niro Made ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z Like the Lambs’ retellings, this “Lear” extracts a streamlined narrative essence from a play that often in production baffles audiences, with all the subterfuges, disguises and shifting allegiances. Theater Review: ‘King Lear’ in an Enchanted Setting Along the Hudson River 2013-08-18T21:51:45Z A minor character's girlfriend provides a third viewpoint, changing as the story unfolds from a baffled victim to a seat-of-the-pants seeker after motives. 'Kraken': China Mi?ville's fantasy of London in a squid-obsessed apocalyptic frenzy 2010-07-25T04:46:00Z The annual conundrum known as the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame nominees list was announced Thursday, and it's as baffling as ever. Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 2015: 11 other acts that should be in 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z An Italian historian traces the rise of Roman autocracy to Pompey’s baffling acquiescence when Caesar defied Senate orders to disband his troops. New & Noteworthy, From John Sayles to Julius Caesar 2019-12-31T05:00:00Z One, which may be overshadowed by Fanning's almost frightening ability, is Nivola's turn as Ginger's father, Roland, the former conscientious objector baffled by the liberal ire in the face of his new relationship. Sally Potter: 'I dreamed about the nuclear threat most nights' 2012-10-04T19:30:02Z Yet before this moment, bafflingly, we had been invited to think of Hans as a kind of a good guy: droll, considerate, wise. Seven Psychopaths – review 2012-12-06T15:29:02Z This new special is for only the super “Wicked” fans because despite several lovely performances, there’s a baffling inertness to this “celebration.” How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z In comparison, Ceiling/Sky is a baffling ugly duckling: seven characters tell their intertwining stories through song, in a variety of jazz, blues and Motown styles, to a text by June Jordan. I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky; Icarus at the Edge of Time; Don Giovanni 2010-07-10T23:05:00Z The lack of Captain Marvel is a bit baffling, since she’s in the same boat as the Black Panther and Spider-Man: due for a solo Marvel movie soon. 12 more female superheroes who could have fixed “Captain America: Civil War”’s woman problem 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z New York regulators are not the first to be baffled by the oxymoron of a vending machine full of fresh food. Fresh-Food Vending Machines Will Be Graded Like Restaurants 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z The man on the receiving end of the prank was beyond baffled by her confession that she “must’ve called a thousand times.” This Woman Texts Adele's 'Hello' Lyrics to Her Ex 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z Julie’s improvisational, sometimes reckless approach to work and love — the independence that intoxicates and baffles her — expresses a time and a place as well as her specific temperament. ‘The Worst Person in the World’ Review: Oslo, Her Way 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z For me what is baffling is the utter disjunct between private passion and public policy. Michael Gove and George Osborne love Wagner. So why doesn't passion turn into policy? 2012-11-13T12:38:00Z Its muddled dramaturgy baffled critics, and it developed a reputation as a neon-lit spectacle of little substance. The Met Opera Spirits ‘Rigoletto’ to ‘Babylon Berlin’ 2021-12-24T05:00:00Z Each woman holds her ground — take, for example, the episode about polyamory, in which Willow seems to baffle her co-hosts — but the inter-family good will prevents the show from ever erupting into true tension. Hollywood’s First Family of Putting It Out There 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z “It’s sort of odd, because I still am kind of baffled by silk,” he said in an interview near his Greenwich Village studio. ‘The Rite of Spring,’ Basil Twist’s Spin on Stravinsky 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z Hello, Joaquin, The Master has won much acclaim, yet it's also baffled people a bit. Joaquin Phoenix: 'I feel like Santa Claus' 2012-12-13T22:00:33Z The onslaught of news and drama and baffling presidential tweets kept coming and coming, wearing at her hope. Did they make a difference? One year later, Women’s March attendees look back. 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z “They are excited. And they are also a little baffled by its existence.” The Obamas fall in love in first trailer for Southside With You 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z We are, I tell my baffled family, going to use only natural soap products – for everything, from laundry to hair. 'I have three seconds before she draws blood': life with extreme eczema 2016-05-21T04:00:00Z It's kind of baffling that "Blood of Elves" is a relatively short and straightforward book, yet the show managed to not even cover all of it, to leave out huge chunks and outright disregard others. Why "The Wheel of Time" succeeds as an adaptation (and "The Witcher" fails) 2022-01-08T05:00:00Z Some love it, some are baffled by it. 'It's OK to embarrass yourself' ? Nick Cave and the return of Grinderman 2010-09-02T22:00:00Z And there is a twinkle in the eye of the Maltese priest that Melamid has not put there, just as the rappers appear both morose and yet faintly baffled. Alexander Melamid and Yinka Shonibare 2010-05-29T23:05:00Z Jamie seems baffled by this reaction, unable to grasp why he isn't as popular in America as he is in Britain. Jamie Oliver, like me, is finding out what Americans think of pushy Brits 2010-03-28T00:07:00Z Just plain baffling is the peppy bravado of “Time of Your Life,” “Tippy Toes” and “Living in New York City,” three ditties that may or may not be catering to the “Jersey Boys” demographic. Robin Thicke ignites discussion with ‘Paula,’ but these songs aren’t worth talking about This baffled my relocation agent, who insisted I would be happier left by myself to run errands. How to Parent Like They Do in Denmark 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z The question of who was behind the scheme baffled the publishing industry, but just as perplexing was another question: Why? Why Would Someone Steal Unpublished Manuscripts? 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z Ridiculously precocious and cripplingly self-conscious, he’s contending with depression and addiction largely outside the attention of his parents, who are too baffled by their own crossroads. Review | Jonathan Franzen’s ‘Crossroads’ represents a marked evolution in a dazzling career 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z The Detroit rapper also took the award for “Best Hip Hop,” an honor which he appeared to find slightly baffling. Shawn Mendes, Eminem and U2 among winners at MTV Europe Music Awards 2017-11-12T05:00:00Z The media expressed disdain, Jewish groups were horrified and his lead actor - though a bit baffled by the reaction - quit. Hitler film exposes India's interest in dictator 2010-06-25T11:46:00Z Instead, it opts for a bizarre shock that's baffling at best and deeply tone-deaf at its worst. The bonkers twist in Netflix's "Behind Here Eyes" is an unresolved mess of problematic narratives 2021-02-20T05:00:00Z I found both of them a bit baffling at first. Holding out for a hero: Soweto Kinch on Joe Harriott 2011-07-21T21:30:01Z So her exhibit in the International pavilion contains Fray Foam Home, a baffling but charming cloud of coloured stuff, by Andrés Jaque Arquitectos, somehow abstracted from the contents of a typical home. Brilliant biennale 2010-09-04T23:06:00Z Jenner’s optimism about Cruz is baffling, considering that he’s specifically railed against those same rights for transgender students that Jenner supports. Caitlyn Jenner’s absurd faith in Ted Cruz: Supporting the anti-LGBT evangelical hoping he’ll come around on trans issues is ridiculous 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z Preview audiences were baffled by the wisecracking tone of a screenplay credited to Huston and Truman Capote; it’s been interpreted sometimes as an absurdist spoof of “The Maltese Falcon,” which Huston had also directed. Humphrey Bogart in ‘Beat the Devil’ at Film Forum 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z The question of whether to get rental car insurance baffles many travelers, and while there is no hard and fast rule for every situation, I learned a valuable lesson the hard way. 5 lessons learned while writing about frugal travel 2017-02-13T05:00:00Z Although Friedman admits he’s impressed with the strength of Millennial “optimism and idealism,” he is “baffled” by our pragmatism. Millennials will save us! 2013-02-16T19:00:00Z You see how three of them escape, which is extraordinary — and so brisk that it’s baffling; you have to guess how the other two elude their traps. Dance Review: Pilobolus Puts 4 Decades of Dance on Display 2013-07-10T21:43:59Z The choice to use Bradbury and Woodward alone is baffling enough, but the changes don't end there. The All New Gadget Show: give us the old one back please 2012-11-13T14:07:56Z Even more baffling is why users have become so emotionally invested in being a mayor, as there are few, if any, tangible benefits. Who Elected Me Mayor on Foursquare? I Did 2010-08-19T00:13:00Z The timing for what happened next was baffling. The Rock ’n’ Roll Casualty Who Became a War Hero 2013-07-02T09:01:01Z On the other hand, they bafflingly exclude the best drama on TV, Breaking Bad. Golden Globe TV Nominations: Another Round of Hits and Disses 2011-12-15T14:21:46Z Christopher Nolan has a long leash nowadays, and this latest excursion into the headtrip realms of Inception/Memento/Interstellar looks pretty baffling from the trailers. The most exciting movies of 2020 – blockbusters 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z My decisions are sometimes questioned or compared to those of white counterparts in the same field and often people are baffled by my Blackness and how I can show up authentically in these spaces. Unapologetic Black women are taking back our power 2020-09-26T04:00:00Z After a forgettable performance by Simone Battle, Mr. Reid was baffled. ArtsBeat Blog: 'X Factor' Watch: Squabbling and Dancing (and Some Singing), All of It Live 2011-10-26T05:30:17Z The baffling insistence that we lump working mothers into a single category upon which survey respondents are expected to opine renders the resulting numbers of little more than academic interest. Motherlode Blog: What’s Wrong With the Breadwinner Moms Study 2013-05-30T14:13:35Z I would not have guessed, had a label not told me, that the instrument used to accompany fatalistic songs that depict life as baffling and brief. Small Shows at the Metropolitan Museum 2010-08-05T22:21:00Z He describes the baffled horror of initial outbreaks and then tracks calmly backward. Books of The Times: ‘Spillover,’ by David Quammen, on How Animals Infect Humans 2012-10-02T22:11:49Z Local references based on French/Flemish linguistic and cultural barriers in Belgium may baffle audiences elsewhere. Oscars 2012: Foreign film nominees 2012-02-22T08:32:55Z A child’s perspective mingles freely with the poet’s mature voice, both baffled by the paradoxes of so much beauty and so much destruction. Poet Dunya Mikhail fled Iraq — but still carries home with her 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z It’s baffling to see how Mr. Neenan switches between musical idioms and situations, and yet his stage world grows and deepens. Review: Ballet Memphis Shatters Basic Rules 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z All five were baffled by the omission of classical ballet and tap from the routines, while the jive and international rumba are included. So You Think You Can Judge Dance 2011-08-07T02:00:07Z No prizes for spotting a 21-year old Gary Burton – a jazz-vibraphone genius in waiting – in front of the baffling snow scene behind this lazy summer music. 50 great moments in jazz: Stan Getz's Jazz Samba 2010-08-17T15:13:00Z But it does illustrate the bafflingly contentious nature of what is in essence a very simple programme. World Cup 2014: why Gary Lineker is a man of two halves 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z Models sometimes work the same baffling expression ad nauseam. A Look That?s Worth a Million Hits 2010-12-01T23:40:00Z The scale of their success may still be baffling, but on One Direction's new album it at least sounds like they made an effort, says Alexis Petridis 1. ZZ Top: Dalís of the Delta 2012-11-08T19:00:00Z Interior walls incorporate an elaborate system of wood baffles in Douglas fir and spruce, which work in tandem with folded and deconstructed ceiling planes for maximum sound manipulation and quality. UCLA’s Music Center debuts two pavilions by Kevin Daly Architects 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z Imagine two nightmarish worlds — each a combination of police state and theocracy — in which doomed characters struggle against capricious bureaucracies and baffling customs. ‘Is That Kafka?’: a new book reveals a pool-playing moviegoer afraid of mice 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z I'm genuinely baffled as to the reason for this stonewalling from DCMS. Miller's tale 2012-11-26T12:28:00Z Ryan finds this baffling, and the question of whether the postal system is still vital is a filigree of present-day news that makes this novel pulse with relevancy. ‘This Is How It Is Now’: Ramona Quimby, Meet Ryan Hart 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z When I spent time with the women, I remember feeling baffled that they were not more exhausted, given all they had taken on with their show. The “Broad City” Finale: Abbi and Ilana’s Conscious Uncoupling 2019-03-31T04:00:00Z It's a nervousness that would have baffled or irritated Verdi, Wagner or Puccini, but Britten, in 1945, wasn't alone in feeling it. A History of Opera by Carolyn Abbate and Roger Parker – review 2012-12-13T07:53:01Z He is in constant pain, with shortness of breath and an abdominal complaint that is baffling his doctors. John Tavener: 'The days of seven-hour pieces are gone' 2013-07-01T18:00:01Z It baffled many upon its release, listeners thrown by its strange rhythms and peculiar lyrics, but over the following decades it would acquire towering cult status. My favourite album: Astral Weeks by Van Morrison 2011-08-03T15:14:47Z Hollywood professionals say they’re baffled by the circumstances and production crews have quickly stepped up safety measures. Crew member: Baldwin careful with guns before fatal shooting 2021-10-24T04:00:00Z We first met DM Stith, one half of the Revival Hour, in this column back in February 2009, when we couldn't decide whether his music was "bafflingly beautiful or extravagantly unlistenable". New band of the day – The Revival Hour (No 1,403) 2012-11-26T17:04:38Z As the members of Murakami’s lonely hearts club band discover in these affecting stories, life, however baffling, is better shared. ‘Men Without Women,’ a new story collection by Haruki Murakami 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z Looking back at the earlier columns I see that when I wasn't preoccupied with looks, I was quite bafflingly angry. Charlie Brooker: Why I'm calling time on Screen Burn 2010-10-15T13:54:00Z It opened: “The scene at the ball now baffles all description.” Biden’s Inaugural Will Draw Stars, but Not the Crowds of Years Past 2021-01-13T05:00:00Z It's an emotional end, adding unexpected heartbreak to a film that may have seemed almost baffling at first viewing. Blade Runner: No 3 2010-10-21T10:52:00Z He is baffled by waitresses, clerks and fortunetellers. Tom Wilson, Cartoonist Behind ?Ziggy,? Dies at 80 2011-09-21T04:30:45Z Levi, the father in question, could make neither head nor tail of the piece, and was certain that his orchestra and its subscription audience would be equally baffled. Finding the Awesome in Bruckner’s Eighth 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z It’s the greater scientific ones that continue to strike baffled awe in the minds of those who should know best about how minds work. Review: In ‘Incognito,’ the Brain Is Dramatic and Mysterious 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z Our system of tax benefits to donors, which Hunt has talked about reforming, is almost universally decried as bafflingly complex. Will philanthropists save the arts? 2010-10-21T19:30:00Z It's popularity privately baffles the network and the show's producers -- how many times can you watch geeks blunder around a house in night vision thinking they just heard something? The 5 most inexplicably popular reality shows 2010-05-12T04:38:00Z It’s a great chance to remind yourself of all the weirdness or to be baffled by it all for the first time. The TV binger's guide to surviving the 2016 holidays 2016-12-23T05:00:00Z Even when I was younger, their relationship perplexed and baffled me. The poems and punch-ups of By Grand Central Station 2013-03-06T19:29:01Z Even Stevens’s close friends were baffled by his speech. George Stevens made the Kennedy Center Honors. Here’s why he lost them. 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z Some of it is stylish and smart, much of it is baffling -- all of it is fodder for Internet chatter. Grammys' most memorable red carpet outfits 2011-02-14T01:45:00Z In one case, a rival circus put together an entire pamphlet full of insults directed at Bailey, with lines like "J.A. Bailey, you are a thoroughly exposed, convicted, baffled, beaten, desperate and crazy fraud." Joe Exotic channels the spirit of America’s 19th-century tiger kings 2021-11-25T05:00:00Z If it does, it may well be because Cayley Robinson's art now appears bizarre to the point of baffling, as opposed to quite easily understood. Frederick Cayley Robinson: Acts of Mercy 2010-07-24T23:06:00Z But I was a bit baffled by being asked to go on it in the first place. Sheridan Smith uncut: "I've played mainly slappers and chavs" 2012-12-30T00:05:26Z Despite a definite visual stylishness, the film is more baffling than intriguing. "Pornography: A Thriller" a multiple misnomer 2010-04-19T06:01:00Z Some of you also happen to be people who, for baffling reasons, find ways to keep abusers employed. Does CBS care about #MeToo? 2018-06-16T04:00:00Z The heat collected in the baffles is then circulated throughout the heater’s immediate area with a fan. Great space heaters for your buck 2012-11-18T17:00:00Z "I've been a little baffled by the volume of positive response," says Rule, "and the almost complete absence of critical response." A user's guide to art-speak 2013-01-27T19:00:02Z Indeed, coolness was emphasized in Romeo Castellucci’s production, fixated on exploring the opera’s Jungian undercurrents, even if that resulted in some baffling stage imagery. At Salzburg, an Unlikely Operatic Trio of Women Finding Their Way 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z It’s a major achievement that far outshines the much-publicized “Then We Came to the End,” his entertaining but weightless debut, and “The Unnamed,” a baffling, downbeat aberration. Joshua Ferris’s ‘To Rise Again at a Decent Hour’ 2014-09-15T04:00:00Z Instead, bafflingly, Norman decides to throw a lot of other, less engaging, plotlines into the mix. A Novel of Two Marriages, One Haunted by the Other 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z A bizarre, baffling, occasionally infuriating but sometimes brilliant listening experience culminates in a crazed electronic pounding of ESP, Buzzcocks' 1978 classic about telepathic communication. Matmos: The Marriage of True Minds – review 2013-02-14T21:35:01Z In 2002, Michael Kinsley wrote a very funny and completely true essay on Slate that described his wife’s addiction to “Law & Order” reruns, which he found utterly baffling. The TV Watch: ?Law & Order?: Soon to Be Gone but Not Forgotten 2010-05-16T21:40:00Z In staccato English, he mused about his hometown and seemed baffled by the popularity of a place he still considers a backwater. Living Like a Local in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z In June, Paltrow, 44, conceded on Jimmy Kimmel Live! that she is sometimes baffled by the unconventional products and practices her brand promotes. Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop faces new false advertising claims 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z So it leaves you feeling a bit baffled and deflated – how can we possibly be so towering a threat that Hollywood would strive so energetically, so rigorously, for our belittlement? Why Wonder Woman is a masterpiece of subversive feminism 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z I was frustrated and baffled by her mind-set. ‘The Big Sick,’ South Asian Identity, and Marriage 2017-07-23T04:00:00Z “It’s protecting us. It’s baffling that we remove it.” ‘I feel liberated’: the women celebrating their body hair 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z "The whole thing depends on subtle factors of quark-quark interactions," we are told at one point, and those without a strong interest in theoretical physics will find some of the science baffling. Back to the Hugos: The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov 2011-01-06T15:34:14Z Titchner says his latest work was inspired especially by Led Zeppelin's untitled fourth album, whose sleeve was decorated with intentionally baffling runic symbols, and by US black metal band Wolves in the Throne Room. Home of Metal turns the Midlands up to 11 2011-07-10T20:30:02Z The Detroit rapper also took the award for “Best Hip Hop,” an honor which he appeared to find slightly baffling. Shawn Mendes, Eminem and U2 among winners at MTV Europe Music Awards 2017-11-12T05:00:00Z Except, the baffling thing is that McCarthy actually wrote The Counselor. The Counselor: Hard-Boiled Hokum 2013-10-24T09:45:41Z It's baffling as how we got here, but at the same time, when you take a step back, it's actually not that crazy. If you're not interested in adventure Ducks Eatery is not for you and neither is chef Will Horowitz 2019-03-09T05:00:00Z Because the fact is, all of those annually, if bafflingly, popular suggestions are wrong. The ultimate festive film? No, it’s not Die Hard | Hadley Freeman 2018-12-22T05:00:00Z In the early weeks of his apprenticeship, he’s baffled by his new master’s kindness. Review | In ‘Washington Black,’ a 19th-century slave escapes on a balloon 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z Some of the variations become quite tumultuous; the piece both hooked and baffled me. The Case for Greatness in Classical Music 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z Ms. Brook, named Allure magazine’s Beauty Blogger of the Year in 2013, said her innovation came from frustration with the highlighting and contouring products on the market, which “baffled” her. Skin Deep: Beauty Bloggers Parlay Social-Media Success into Entrepreneurship 2014-02-19T22:48:52Z In a perceptive program note, the scholar Ruth Smith suggests reasons Handel’s audiences would have been baffled by the piece. Review: ‘Theodora,’ Once a Handel Flop, Is Celebrated Anew 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z She looks sad-eyed and baffled into the camera: “We don’t really know.” Is the cruise industry finally out of its depth? 2020-04-19T04:00:00Z There’s a baffling amount of this kind of thing throughout the podcast. “Public Official A,” Reviewed: The Sins of Rod Blagojevich Are the Sins of Our Time 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z Were you an eager fan – or did you agree with the Telegraph critic Dominic Cavendish, who was largely baffled by the project and admitted that he was confused by "what the Puck was going on"? Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dreaming: what did you think? 2013-06-24T12:35:00Z But after I’d thought about all this for a while, my urges to both blind rage and line-by-line demolition gave way… to a baffled irritation, focusing on one big question: Couldn’t he have asked us? Why are believers ignorant about atheists? 2012-06-30T17:00:00Z And then there are films that have had a longevity that baffles even the most devoted 80s fans. Times move pretty fast! Rewatching 80s favourites in the age of #metoo 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z But “Magic Mike” is a more abstract and self-consciously artistic view of the male-stripper subculture than the marketing campaign suggests, and opening-weekend audiences eager for cheerful nastiness may find themselves baffled. “Magic Mike”: Channing Tatum’s stripper romance 2012-06-27T21:10:00Z Although Mr. Pittu does his determined best to provide this strange, hazily written character with an emotional core, the play is so meandering that it continually baffles engagement. Theater Review: John Guare’s ‘3 Kinds of Exile,’ at Atlantic Theater Company 2013-06-12T02:00:12Z Sir Thomas Browne, a brilliant 17th-century polymath, coined "literary" and "medical", but his prose is so full of fiercely peculiar words that his books today seem baffling. Author, author: Henry Hitchings on neologisms 2011-02-05T00:05:32Z From there, it’s unfortunately a hop, skip and a fisheye-lens away to a bafflingly misjudged drama about Mina’s obsession with vegan diets and isolationist parenting. Review: ‘Hungry Hearts,’ a Drama About Love and Obsession 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z "You're kind of 'twilight'…" he says, and when she, baffled, takes that to refer to the vampire movie, he corrects himself: "Well, no, then, kinda Cocoon." The Green Hornet ? review 2011-01-13T22:22:01Z Not surprisingly, women often find this sexual hypocrisy baffling and logically inconsistent. "Cheating’s OK for me, but not for thee" — inside the messy psychology of sexual double standards 2021-07-05T04:00:00Z Dumb ideas and baffling choices are never in short supply. Review: ‘The Huntsman,’ a Study in Hollywood’s Overstuffed Playbook 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z He was baffled by my east London accent. ‘I liked going to New York as a drug trafficker’: Duane Jackson 2015-08-16T04:00:00Z And it's still a little baffling to me. Lauren Hough on her new book, our underpaid workforce and how "every American" can relate to cults 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z His reply seems to baffle even himself: “I don’t know,” he stammers, before repeating himself for emphasis. ‘Perry Mason’ Season 2, Episode 3 Recap: ‘King Kong’ Ding-Dong 2023-03-20T04:00:00Z These days, her parents are rather baffled by what their daughter does. Vera Farmiga: 'I demand a lot from myself' 2011-03-27T00:05:25Z Personality typologies seem to multiply with each publishing season, growing ever more baffling. Whatever Happened to Just Being Type A? 2017-10-07T04:00:00Z Cumming is often described as "prolific", which is true but also a euphemistic way of saying that his career has been baffling. Alan Cumming: King of off-message 2011-01-24T21:30:00Z It’s just a baffling part of the human psyche that I don’t feel competent in trying to unravel. How Reddit’s Ellen Pao survived one of ‘the largest trolling attacks in history’ 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z Perhaps that decision isn’t so baffling when you consider that omitting all but a few live tapes means dedicating fewer than two discs to the war, the defining period of Furtwängler’s life. A Conductor’s Impossible Legacy 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z And after every fix of him, I am baffled by my own weepiness and despair. Addicted to a younger man 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z At the time, Dave was my boss and the editor in chief of Salon, and I remember feeling mildly baffled when he told me he was writing a book about congressional redistricting. How to un-rig an election: In "Slay the Dragon," citizens fight back against gerrymandering 2020-04-04T04:00:00Z This novel is profoundly sad, but there are also lighter moments, like Jude’s sessions with his baffling yet strangely effective therapist and his decision, as a self-convinced murderer, to lawyer up. Ann Hood’s New Novel Plumbs Sibling Guilt and Sorrow 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z The campaign’s attempt to manifest the president’s “witch hunt” complaints as a themed campaign event was buffeted by merch, which is as conceptually baffling as the event. The Trump campaign held a Halloween ‘Witch Hunt Party’ and tortured a metaphor to death 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z But elsewhere, the prevailing assembly-line, build-it-yourself model baffled me; there were too many mix-ins and toppings, including oddball interlopers like corn and kale, and the marinades were more like heavy sauces. Home to Hawaii in Search of Poke 2018-01-08T05:00:00Z And, more bafflingly, a sequence from Hairspray beamed live from a Royal Caribbean cruise ship, and an introductory routine courtesy of the musical Book of Mormon, which wasn't even eligible this year. Step aside James Corden, the night goes to ... 2012-06-11T11:21:45Z He’s not exhausted by the changing world so much as baffled and in awe of it. Louis C.K.’s New Special Mines Comedy From the Middle Ground 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z He shook his head, baffled; our public display of our love appearing to cut him deeply, causing rippled lines across his dark forehead. Who’s Allowed to Hold Hands? 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z Staples was built with more regard for the Lakers than live performances, yet, bafflingly, that's where the most successful artists book their gigs. High tide of music to wash over L.A. this summer 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z And given the current ethnic tensions in Europe, it was baffling to see Mozart’s young Neapolitan officers, who arrive in disguise to woo each other’s fiancée, dressed as typically “exotic” Albanians, in silly costumes. A Salzburg Festival Rich With Dreams and Power 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z For those baffled by German terminology, she explains the origin of the important terms and where German wine laws are heading. 6 Books for Thinking, Drinking and Changing the World 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z Besides, assessing greatness is the last thing on your mind when you are listening to an involving, exciting or baffling new piece. The Greatest 2011-01-21T14:04:41Z The back-and-forth between these generations is the book’s real subject, and Mailer’s at times baffled, at times bemused, at times delighted registry of the differences makes for many of the book’s most vivid moments. The Strange Prophecies in Norman Mailer’s “The Armies of the Night” 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z Alameddine is baffled when readers express surprise he could inhabit the mind of a character who doesn’t resemble him. Refugees Are Suffering. This Novelist Won’t Look Away. 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z Although just how the granny crochet patchworks, in wool or printed onto leather — or maybe plastic, fitted this scenario was baffling. Special Report: Fashion: Burberry: A Crowd Pleaser 2011-02-21T18:29:01Z After the sink drains, remove the sink baffle and clean it by hand or in the dishwasher. How to stop fireplace smells from stinking up the place during summer 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z When luggage disappears, passengers are often pulled into a baffling world of forms, phone lines with prerecorded messages and endless waits. Perspective | Don’t lose it over lost luggage 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z Metro further elaborated on the new dating trend, describing the continous communication from paper clipping former flames as “never malicious or rude… just designed to bait and baffle.” 'Paper clipping' is reportedly the newest annoying breakup trend 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z The Wire's Idris Elba arrives as Charles Miner, a man with no time for any of Michael Scott's baffling business ideas. Tonight's TV highlights: Madagascar 2011-02-16T00:04:00Z "That last winter was the very devil," he says, shaking his head in wonder, his hybrid accent – part American, part Australian, part London-English and now part Leitrim-Irish – a thing of baffling cadences. 'Reality has surpassed satire' 2010-08-21T23:04:00Z I found the whole exchange baffling—but with a pre-teen’s self-consciousness about asking a stupid question, I just bit my tongue. Witnessing the Moon Landing in Ireland, at the Start of the Troubles 2019-07-20T04:00:00Z These newcomers may be slightly baffled by the Jolly Spaghetti. Inspiring Loyalty, and Serving Chickenjoy at Jollibee 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z Perhaps the most baffling miss here is that the film omits some major developments that have happened in the story since 2018. ‘Make People Better’ Review: Clear Science, Confusing Storytelling 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z Many segments seem amorphous, squeezing variations from an already squeezed-out idea, with exits and endings that are arbitrary or baffling. Only Connect: Finding a Way Into Kinetic Light’s ‘Wired’ 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z This exclusion of a valued ally is more baffling than a picture of Mussolini posing on horseback from which a man holding the horse was removed – leaving just the noble equestrian Duce. Iran's self-aggrandising 'fake' fighter plane and a history of doctored photos 2013-02-13T12:22:04Z There are many factors to which one can attribute the failure of this film, not least the baffling decision to release the film in only one UK cinema. My verdict on Uma Thurman's Motherhood 2010-03-31T08:00:00Z When I did confess, the reactions were often baffled and pitying, or scornful. I was a teenage bride 2012-08-15T00:00:00Z Rylance’s acceptance speech at some of the award ceremonies baffled audiences. Mark Rylance Talks Poetry and Ice Fishing 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z Their rebellions can go viral, but remain undetected at home as parents are mainly baffled by the tech the kids are using. 'Your child is going to experiment': what teenagers really think 2014-06-14T04:00:00Z No less baffling was the performance of Bird York’s In the Deep from the same film, which was performed in front of a burning car and several grieving dancers. A brief history of the Oscars in viral moments they want you to forget 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z I was baffled as to why the lower leaves of a rhododendron had been pulled off and carefully piled up to make a little tower. Teenage parties – a parents’ guide 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z This mingling and trading works so well that it’s baffling when the production swerves into a glow-in-the-dark section in which the dancers arrange their objects into a smiley face. Review: Flamenco Within and Beyond a Boundary 2022-06-22T04:00:00Z If someone has been behaving someway for years, and never got called out on it, I can understand how they are now baffled about what happened and how to correct. Disgraced by Scandal, Mario Batali Is Eyeing His Second Act 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z In April, the county installed a “beaver baffle” — a pond leveler. With beavers in the suburbs, park officials look to balance needs of humans and ‘nature’s engineers’ 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z And after returning, he drew some baffled reviews for performances troubled by uncharacteristic rough patches. Review: Maurizio Pollini Finds His Verve at Carnegie Hall 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z Fascinated and baffled, he met the choreographer and thought of making a film with her. Wenders' Pina: Dance Crazy 2011-12-29T09:58:22Z Why a person would want a stranger to be able to enter their home, albeit in a limited felt-encased three-wheeled robot, is baffling. The best and boldest new must-read books for May 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z And he looked at me a little baffled, then he laughed. Badge is Beals' honor 'Code' 2011-03-21T00:43:00Z Meanwhile, the expertise of the cartel’s counter-intelligence systems baffled the CIA and the Drug Enforcement Agency. Narcos season three and the lies we tell about the drugs war 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z Must neglect be the price paid by brilliant art that lies outside ready marketing categories, that baffles conventional critical thinking, that manages to be, paradoxically, mortality-haunted and hopeful? At 88, Agnes Denes Finally Gets the Retrospective She Deserves 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z The chapel’s ceiling was almost immediately plugged up to protect the paintings — most recently with a huge black umbrella-like baffle that radically altered the space. Rothko Chapel to Be Seen in New Light 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z The idea that an experienced jurist had no legal opinions on it seemed baffling, and yet this is what he insisted. Perspective | ‘Civility’ vs ‘hysteria’ at the Kavanaugh hearings, and what they truly mean 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z And the ending, in which Stone ponders what he learned from Lansky — “We measure ourselves through the eyes of the ones we love” — is a baffling detour into soppiness. ‘Lansky’ Review: A Mobster Burnishes His Legacy 2021-06-24T04:00:00Z Smith writes often in “M Train” about her dreams, which are baffling, as another person’s dreams always are. The Theology of Patti Smith 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z He stops for a moment, baffled by his own eloquence. Robert De Niro and Al Pacino: 'We’re not doing this ever again' 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z The point, we soon learn, is that Edith is going through menopause, something that baffles Archie, particularly when she reacts harshly to his familiar request that she stifle herself. An Appraisal: Behind Jean Stapleton’s Ditzy Edith, a Giant of Theatrical Skills 2013-06-02T18:34:19Z As the son of a minister, I find myself baffled by this phenomenon. What Fox News could learn about the "War on Christmas" from the Lower East Side 2018-12-15T05:00:00Z “He makes me laugh because he seems a bit baffled by the fact that people think his writing can be a bit bonkers.” In ‘The English,’ Emily Blunt and Chaske Spencer Saddle Up 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z The most baffling thing about “The Bright Book of Life” is that there is absolutely no context provided for it — Bloom’s rambling, perplexing preface is less than helpful. Harold Bloom Is Dead. But His ‘Rage for Reading’ Is Undiminished. 2021-01-23T05:00:00Z Full of bad haircuts, baffling fashion choices and ranting teens, it not only captures the moment perfectly but it also shows how little things change. This week's new DVD & Blu-ray 2012-08-03T23:05:26Z But on the more mysterious matter of the film’s terrible latter half — particularly a baffling reveal about the series’ greatest villain, Ernst Stavro Blofeld — she and Wilson are maddeningly silent. Review | Behind the scenes of James Bond: A new book offers a look back at the longest-running movie franchise 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z With 25 albums to their name, they have often followed up their biggest moments with radical shifts in style that thrilled loyal fans but baffled more casual listeners. Now Sparks Can Confuse Fans on the Big Screen 2021-06-18T04:00:00Z Historians are baffled by the place and it’s become Poland’s Area 51, a magnet for treasure hunters chasing everything from Nazi gold to U.F.O.s. A Quest to Reclaim a Family Home Unearths a Past Buried by the Holocaust 2021-03-16T04:00:00Z “Swan Lake” always requires a hearty suspension of disbelief, but the twists here are baffling. Review: Hungarian National Ballet Opens With a Stale ‘Swan Lake’ 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z Seriously, though, it remains baffling that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences doesn’t trumpet that there’s more to this often-mocked organization than its really big show. Manohla Dargis and A. O. Scott on the Oscars 2012-02-18T02:03:03Z We hear in her always the sensitive, curious, slightly baffled girl she was. ‘The Empathy Diaries’ Is a Beautiful Memoir About the Life of the Mind and the Life of the Senses 2021-03-01T05:00:00Z Fermat’s Last Theorem, as it became known, became the most persistent and baffling puzzle in the history of mathematics. Amir D. Aczel, author of ‘Fermat’s Last Theorem’ and other best sellers, dies 2015-12-12T05:00:00Z I’m not sure what I expected, exactly, but it was bafflingly low-key, a dozen or more people quietly working on the next show—the very core of the brand. When SpongeBob SquarePants Was Just a Sketch on a Beach in Baja 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z It baffles me why there's not more of a pushback against it, the fact they can get away with it this easy. A Minute With: John Oliver on channeling rage into comedy 2014-04-16T12:10:28Z Mr. Martins’s record with new choreography is similarly baffling. Taking the Pulse of New York City Ballet Without Peter Martins 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z In a segment aptly titled “Come On Bobby, It’s Not Happening,” Wilmore, much like his Comedy Central colleague Jon Stewart, found the approach baffling: “What is this, ‘To Catch A President?’” Larry Wilmore mocks Bobby Jindal’s ultra-creepy campaign announcement video: “What is this, To Catch a President?” 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z But the more detail they offer to knowledgeable wine consumers, the more baffling they seem to the uninitiated. How to Read a Wine Label, in 12 Easy Lessons 2020-09-28T04:00:00Z Where I get particularly baffled is over things you eat the insides of. So, should you wash your chicken or not? 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z Meanwhile, Jost is baffled to see someone come out of a near-death experience having learned nothing: “It’s like watching a guy smoke a cigarette through a hole in his throat.” Saturday Night Live: Jim Carrey, Mike Pence and a very pesky fly 2020-10-11T04:00:00Z The baffling convenience prepared me for life in London, where mask use is much more sporadic than in Hong Kong. Welcome Home! Now Go Straight to Quarantine (or Not) 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z Performances of this remarkable piece are relative rarities, perhaps because its constant shifts of mood and flights of fancy can seem baffling. Review: Young Concert Artists Is Back, With a Superb Pianist 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z The emotional complexity of this statement is so baffling to Trump that he has to end the conversation then and there, describing Wynn as “a very strange guy.” Donald Trump, “American Psycho” muse: How the “Art of the Deal” elitist became a poor man’s Patrick Bateman — and now he’s a real threat 2016-05-14T04:00:00Z Eating any large cut of meat without rice is baffling to him. For Arab Americans, It’s Not Thanksgiving Without Hashweh 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z "My dad rang me the other day and said there's a fridge magnet with one of my quotes on it being sold in the town hall gift shop," he says, slightly baffled. The best pop for 2011 2011-01-03T08:00:03Z More baffling: Why was the piano music accompanying some sections, played by Hank Mason, attributed to Dana Wachs, a.k.a. Review: To Open Performance Space New York, ‘visions of beauty’ 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z Kenshaw's reluctance about public exposure is only one of the many baffling things Fleming deals with. 'In Harm's Way': Ridley Pearson's Fleming and Boldt team up to solve a murder 2010-08-05T20:27:00Z They baffle him, because he immediately remembers what he has actually done, the acts of violence he’s committed for which he’s being thanked, and it just doesn’t make sense. Q. and A.: Kevin Powers and Ben Fountain, National Book Award Nominees 2012-11-13T17:21:36Z But more baffling is his repeated insistence that writers must find the “one right order” in which to arrange their words. Adam Gopnik on the charms and struggles of being a young writer in New York 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z But when accepting R&B album, she seemed almost baffled that it was eligible. Grammys 2019: Cardi B, Lady Gaga and Kacey Musgraves Make It a Year for Women 2019-02-10T05:00:00Z It was all the more baffling when it was later revealed that "JT Leroy" was not a young man but a female stand-in. The public role of the private writer 2010-08-11T09:31:00Z North, who had no idea what her husband was showing, passed with a baffled shake of her head. Bridge: The Danger of a Little Learning 2011-07-08T22:57:51Z This overture, taken with the fact that the narrator’s about to visit an old friend succumbing to cancer, may baffle readers for its impenetrable bleakness — apt as that may be for our present straits. Review | Sigrid Nunez’s ‘What Are You Going Through’ is an ambitious novel about the meaning of life and death 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z Yet what still baffles me about this erudite father is that he seems not only unable to help Paul, but almost unwilling to try. A Father’s Love, Whether He Says Too Much or Not Enough 2020-04-29T04:00:00Z "I am baffled by the chairman’s remarks," Fries told the crowd. FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler faces frosty crowd at INTX 2015-05-06T04:00:00Z When she shook her head no and looked baffled, Mr. Colbert explained: “Well, you know the game ‘Guitar Hero?’ 2010-02-12T21:05:00Z There is less baffled loitering and fruitful lingering. The Drowned Man: A Hollywood Fable; The Machine; The Masque of Anarchy – review 2013-07-20T23:06:09Z At times, Walker's work is a drag, music that will baffle your lover and alienate you from the optimists that populate your life's sunlit porches. Scott Walker and Sunn 0)))'s dark 'Soused': Judge it for yourself 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z "At first Steve was a bit baffled at what I was suggesting he might supply," she remembers. Kinky Boots inspiration comes out of the shadows 2013-06-18T01:19:17Z These days she finds it baffling when the press in her hometown want to talk to her. Anna Kendrick: 'It's all about that fatal flaw' 2012-05-24T19:30:00Z But inspiring greater ire than the art is the exhibition's truly baffling catalogue. Charles Saatchi's catalogue of disasters 2010-06-08T19:00:00Z The condition spread and hospitals were overwhelmed; the disease control centre was baffled. The Bay – first look review 2012-09-26T09:23:35Z A Brooklyn furniture maker was baffled by her request to build a sink vanity without a sink. Elizabeth Jaeger, Former Model, Reshaping Her Career 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z The "Minister for Rock" – as the paper depicted him – was genial, sensible and perhaps slightly baffled at being presented as the political equivalent of a Martian. Tom Ewing 2010-04-15T21:45:00Z Still, when Guerin refers with baffled wonder to "girls in the world staying wealthy by taking selfies" during "LA Threshold," it's hard not to sing along. Thundercat continues his run on 'The Beyond / Where the Giants Roam' 2015-06-27T04:00:00Z I do not recall ever being quite so baffled by a writer before. Maybe This Time by Alois Hotschnig- review 2011-08-25T09:00:02Z Tell your friend that his behavior baffles you, and ask him why he reacts the way he does. Ask Amy: Elderly caregiving seems like neglect 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z I have friends who bafflingly threw their weight behind Jill Stein early on. Not voting for Hillary? You’re dead to me 2016-11-07T05:00:00Z This is one of several scenes in "Toy Story 3" where kids may feel slightly bored or baffled while the parents in the audience sniffle quietly. "Toy Story 3": Loads of calculated summer delight! 2010-06-18T00:20:00Z On the silent page, her poetry can seem baffling, like a musical score awaiting the orchestra; at other times, it demands close reading. Poetry ? review 2011-07-15T21:55:06Z The world seems richer, but also more baffling. Perspective | The World Cup will show us soccer is more than just thrilling. It’s art. 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z Even more baffling was the dislocated Allegro, which lost spirit and drive until an audience-pleasing burst of sound emerged from the trombones in the coda. L.A. Phil concert favors theatrics over polished music-making 2016-11-27T05:00:00Z They were baffled at the sight of two apparently unattached women sharing the honeymoon suite. How I Lost the Fiancé but Won the Honeymoon 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z As doctors take on stubborn, baffling neurological disorders such as PTSD, autism and Alzheimer’s disease, they are turning to esoteric treatments that require journeys to unexplored frontiers. ‘Brain zapping’: An experimental treatment for PTSD that war veterans say has changed their lives 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z The contemporary world baffles these men; they are idiots, more or less holy. The Boulting brothers: holy fools 2013-07-26T13:00:19Z So when the episode was shelved, when it was about to air, there was a lot of confusion and I was a little bit baffled. Q&A with Tracee Ellis Ross: ‘The career I have is about storytelling, but I’m more than an actor’ 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z And how pigs got involved is equally baffling, since eating pigs is forbidden in the Old Testament. Ham or Lamb? The Easter Choice May Be Changing 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z Not quite as zany as the Ayres, perhaps, but it was quirky and baffling enough. In the Alps | Classical review 2010-03-19T22:50:00Z It's a monstrous and baffling replica of the dashing gentleman. Your weekend reading: hoaxes and imitations, and a 12ft tall Mr Darcy 2013-07-14T00:50:17Z It baffles me how he gets his reading done.” Lorin Stein, the Paris Review?s New Party Boy 2011-02-25T19:58:16Z Flying back to Elmira, N.Y., with the kids marks the first time Jackie’s been on a commercial jet for quite a few years, and she acts baffled when she gets to the Hertz counter. Pick of the week: The beauty queen and the time-share tycoon 2012-07-06T00:10:00Z They are often asked why they don’t drive each other crazy, a suggestion that seems to baffle them. Fashion Photographers Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin Polish Their Brand 2013-12-31T20:40:47Z The results are baffling searches and chaotic returns. Spotify?s Classical-Streaming Service Takes Baby Steps 2011-08-27T04:00:27Z It’s no more surprising than catcalls on the street, which is to say, it’s a bit baffling. I’m tweeting “The Great Gatsby” 2013-05-10T23:43:00Z I didn’t mean that the way I usually do when reviewing a baffling show. Streaming TV Isn’t Just a New Way to Watch. It's a New Genre. 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z The book reverses the common theme of a perplexed Westerner baffled by the habits and rituals of an Asian country. The Brexit Romance: Finding Love in Irreconcilable Times 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z Karen also finds distraction from grief in her official day job when two baffling cold cases land on her desk. Val McDermid’s ‘Out of Bounds’ shows how a female detective gets the job done 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z Pundits were baffled that Pelosi had interjected herself into a Senate primary, and assumed it was because she is still fiercely loyal to the Kennedys, whom she has known for decades. The Markey-Kennedy Senate primary battle is one Democrats wish wasn’t happening 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z Particularly if they're the American brides in Four Weddings US, whose budgets and attitude to catering are frankly baffling. Weddings and TV: a happy union? 2010-09-24T12:56:00Z The owner of an “impenetrable mass of stolen property,” Lionel is baffled by legitimate wealth. ‘Lionel Asbo,’ by Martin Amis 2012-08-18T00:06:07Z At 68, both his parents dead, he finds himself baffled, even flailing for the first time in his life. In ‘Forest Dark,’ Nicole Krauss Plays With Divided Selves 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z All of this probably would have baffled the authors themselves, none of whom lived to see that they were laying the foundations of something called Asian-American culture. The Stories We Tell, and Don’t Tell, About Asian-American Lives 2019-07-17T04:00:00Z Protesters, however, said they remained baffled by the Met's decision. Controversial 'Death of Klinghoffer' goes on at Met Opera House despite protests 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z He seems baffled to be asked, but readily agrees. Spies, Chopin and a Libya rescue 2013-01-14T07:00:03Z “I remember him pointing out how the bombing had revealed part of the old Roman wall and being absolutely baffled. Romans?” ‘A Writer Writes’: Penelope Lively’s Fiction Defies the Test of Time 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z Former inhabitants from earlier days look round, baffled by the boutiques and spas that have replaced the old shops and pubs. TV recview: The Secret History of Our Streets; The Strange Case of the Law 2012-06-27T21:00:01Z Stone, one of the two architects of the original Museum of Modern Art, replaced the front of the townhouse in 1956 with an imposing, even pitiless facade of round concrete baffles. Pierre Klossowski Drawings Explore Eroticism and More 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z First broadcast on Polish TV in 1970, How to Gain Money, Women and Fame? delighted domestic audiences and baffled critics before dawdling into the realm of cult novelty. Janusz Kondratiuk: Poland's answer to Woody Allen 2011-03-24T16:39:35Z “So it baffles me why she would think it’s okay to wear the same color as the BRIDE?” Bride threatens to send a wedding guest away if she wears ‘off-white’ outfit 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z “The interview never took place, never happened, never said any of those words, completely untrue, 100% fabricated, I was quite baffled when I woke up this morning,” he said. The Rock says Daily Star fabricated 'snowflake' criticism 2019-01-12T05:00:00Z “De Guiche is a man baffled by the fact that he’s gotten everything he’s ever wanted, and yet he’s so unhappy,” Mr. Page said in an interview amid rehearsals this month. Patrick Page, Onetime Green Goblin, on Playing in ‘Cyrano’ 2012-09-23T04:38:14Z Read on for a sampling of silver-screen futures, and how they have crystallized into our baffling, surreal present: Moon Nazis and sex in space: what can we learn from movies set in 2018? 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z If a new piece baffles you, even bothers you, what’s wrong with that? Just Why Does New Music Need Champions? 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z Across the room, Chimurenga Shia is smiling at her daughter, an expression that suggests baffled wonder. At 15, Daniela Shia-Sevilla’s writing has already wowed the literary community 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z For a moment I stared at him, furious and baffled. The worst gig we ever played: musicians on their on-stage lows 2011-08-04T22:00:01Z The trouble was that Shannon's conceptual clarity depended on divorcing information from meaning, a proposition that to this day baffles everyone who is not an engineer. James Gleick: 'Information poses as many challenges as opportunities' 2011-04-09T23:05:59Z Mr. Stiller seems a bit baffled by the enduring popularity of “Zoolander” and its clueless leading characters. ‘Zoolander 2’ Creates a Model-Slash-Juggernaut 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z The awed and baffled mind runs close behind. Introducing the greatest aboriginal artist unknown in America 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z The crowd also looked like the America that baffles so much of the world in the midst of a pandemic. Perspective | Trump’s rally looked like his vision of America: Limited and pitiless 2020-06-21T04:00:00Z The other women looked somewhat baffled, or even annoyed, but eyed the cupcakes. The evangelical women who visit strippers to 'show God loves them' 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z The novel is largely retrospective, and the drama of the present day, while pivotal, receives far less ink than the path that led Hamid “from baffled revolutionary to aging captive of a life gone wrong.” He Tried to Change the System, Then Became It 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z Their husbands are the two non-politicians left in the race, but Mary knows the ropes better and stepped in when Evelyn seemed a little baffled by the spin room after the Atlanta debate. The surreal lives of 2020 campaign spouses: What happens when your loved one wants to be president 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z “We reached, and we had the wherewithal,” Mr. Weinstein said in an interview, after a fan baffled him by asking to take an iPhone photo with him. ArtsBeat: Cannes Film Festival: The Harvey Weinstein Show 2013-05-18T00:52:08Z I bet a few baffled husbands will be unwrapping fine-gauge knits this Christmas. Matt Cardle: my X Factor crush 2010-12-02T11:06:00Z There have been tales of physical and mental illness and baffling behaviour. A call for help for Vini Reilly 2013-01-04T17:14:21Z The rise of the Libertines was baffling but inevitable. The Libertines: by no stretch of the imagination a great band 2010-08-18T11:54:00Z Beethoven was persuaded by his publisher to replace the gritty, dissonant fugue, which understandably baffled listeners, with a more digestible finale. 2010-02-15T22:28:00Z Yet Mike Makowsky’s script throws in a baffling third act that mixes with the rest of the film the way prune juice mixes with white wine. Review: ‘I Think We’re Alone Now’ Finds Peter Dinklage at the End of His World 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z The unmasking of Frank provides a moment of clarity in a baffling film. Clip joint: Unmaskings 2012-09-26T11:19:30Z Yet when Swank prevailed in what had been a tight months-long race, confidently taking the stage to accept her statuette from a happily baffled Roberto Benigni, no one was especially surprised. Boys Don't Cry at 20: in praise of the divisive transgender drama 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z Decades before Cunningham discovered how to choreograph on a computer, his dancers were likened to robots by some baffled observers. Arts & Leisure: Merce Cunningham Dance Company Ends Its Legacy Tour 2011-12-22T14:31:38Z Just as Francescho’s story is laced with insights about the nature and power of painting, George’s story offers its own tender exploration of the baffling and clarifying power of grief. Book review: ‘How to Be Both,’ by Ali Smith Staffers were good at many lobby duties, from helping those baffled by self-check-in to making lattes, but were less reliable on basic directions and restaurant recommendations. Hotel Review: CitizenM in Manhattan 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z As puzzled as Bush was by the shark-filled plot, he was even more baffled to learn that it was the third movie in a series. Here's Jeb Bush's Underwhelming Review of 'Sharknado 3' 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z In one beautiful, baffling scene, Russell climbs a tree at night to spy on a man and woman in their apartment, and Cornack allows the image to settle until it becomes inexplicably moving. ‘Butt Boy’ Review: Compulsion as Comic Noir 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z It turns out this somewhat baffling character is McKinnon’s way of coping with the pressures of the world. Saturday Night Live: Jim Carrey, Mike Pence and a very pesky fly 2020-10-11T04:00:00Z As Iowa journalist Robert Leonard talks to voters around his state, he finds himself baffled at the national portrayal of Joe Biden’s dominance in the presidential campaign. Perspective | Joe Biden and the ‘electability’ delusion — and why the media keep making the same mistake 2019-06-14T04:00:00Z Magnum, who doesn’t recognize them — what kind of Tigers fan is he? — is baffled. Critic?s Notebook: All-Star Lineup: Major League Baseball?s All-Cameo Team 2011-12-24T01:37:18Z Caspar Harlan’s three daughters, on the other hand, seem more baffled than uncomfortable, dismissing the movie as a bourgeois melodrama that is “so cheesy and really banal.” Nazi Film Still Pains Relatives 2010-03-02T04:04:00Z “The masses hated monochromes, and it continues to baffle people,” Ms. Blazwick said. At Malevich Exhibition, a Journey of Ideas 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z So is the title, a baffling red herring. Sundance 2013: Magic Magic – first look review 2013-01-25T09:35:00Z It’s probable that Bausch, here and elsewhere, intended to restore to dance some of the poetic ambiguity that was so striking and baffling in Graham’s choreography in the 1940s. Dance Review: Pina Bausch’s ‘Orpheus and Eurydice’ From Paris Opera Ballet 2012-07-22T20:20:07Z The opening scene, as any of the show’s superfans will happily inform you, watches Tony eyeing up a sculpture in a therapist’s waiting room with baffled rage. David Chase on why he wrote The Sopranos: 'I needed help. I needed therapy' 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z The disparity between narration and movement becomes funny, baffling, suspenseful. Review: ‘Spectator’ at the Japan Society 2015-11-15T05:00:00Z He leaves home and walks until he collapses, experiencing bouts of what the security guard at his law firm calls “the walking thing” and one baffled doctor diagnoses as “benign idiopathic perambulation.” 2010-01-13T22:45:00Z But while the decision to call it a day is baffling from a creative point of view, it's not clear that it's down to viewing figures either. Was the BBC right to kill off Being Human? 2013-03-08T13:02:15Z Severus is likened to “a new C.E.O., brought in to effect a restructuring,” while the Colosseum was “as revolutionary as Facebook or Twitter,” a simile no less baffling than it is anachronistic. The Bizarre Lives of Rome’s Emperors 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z Permission to laugh had been granted, and a bond had temporarily been forged between a previously baffled audience and the beleaguered souls onstage. | 'Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark': Good vs. Evil, Hanging by a Thread 2011-02-08T03:01:17Z It’s baffling to think that the 1981 Hungarian film “Son of the White Mare” is just now making its U.S. debut. ‘Son of the White Mare’ Review: Vibrant Myths From Hungary 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z Wong doesn’t just find zero appeal in that — she seems baffled by it. Ali Wong’s Raunchy New Stand-Up Set Brings the Laughs We Need 2021-08-11T04:00:00Z As liberated gay men in the 1970s once baffled their pre-Stonewall forebears, the new gender outlaws, to borrow a phrase from the transgender writer Kate Bornstein, may soon be running ideological circles around their elders. Generation LGBTQIA 2013-01-09T21:10:18Z The part that baffles me is which part of curling begs for chemical assistance. Antidepressants work – but we need to talk, too | Rhik Samadder 2018-02-25T05:00:00Z Photograph: Ray Tang/Rex Features When viewing the tiny, hand-coloured etchings of figures being burned alive and hair being washed in blood it is fine, the curators say, to be bemused and baffled. Tate Britain makes room for William Blake art found in railway timetable 2010-08-12T06:00:00Z It’s more baffling that his primary subject until now has been Santa Claus. Books Of the Times: A New Look at Charles Manson, by Jeff Guinn 2013-08-06T21:46:25Z It’s initially baffling that Knoll pointedly sets the film in 2015, the year her book was published. ‘Luckiest Girl Alive’ Review: Lean In, to Outrage 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z “So it’s a little baffling that they would decide to go backward on that and say we’re going to do less of this and not really capitalize on their own investment in the franchise.” HBO Max Pulls Nearly 200 ‘Sesame Street’ Episodes 2022-08-20T04:00:00Z All I needed now was a baffling mystery to solve. Operation Diamond: can you crack the code? 2012-05-20T23:05:00Z This year’s ceremony, though leaner than previous editions, was still punishingly long thanks to some truly baffling choices by producers. How to make the Oscars great again – a four-point plan 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z They were hooky, baffling, funny and full of wisdom and insight. Sophie Hannah: By the Book 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z The bill’s origins are both shadowy and baffling. 70 year-old introduces a bill to restrict 70 year-olds’ careers 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z Who in their right mind would abduct a ginger kid?" and the frankly baffling: "Could have just started the greatest Facebook argument ever. Matthew Woods deserves support as much as airport tweeter Paul Chambers 2012-10-12T08:20:03Z He then moved on to a genuinely baffling series of tweets to his followers — including at one point, specifically a 16 year-old Oakland Raiders fan — about his ongoing media grudges. Stop your Trumpsplaining, the president-elect’s tweets are not simply a “distraction” 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z But the system has also baffled customers, with decades-long followers of acts like Springsteen and the Cure saying they were locked out. Live Music Is Roaring Back. But Fans Are Reeling From Sticker Shock. 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z It’s likely that hometown hero Bryan Adams will be making an appearance, and if there’s anything life has taught me, you can never predict when Celine Dion will do something baffling in a ridiculous costume. 2010-02-12T14:01:00Z I find this baffling — as if chopping up prose has no effect. The Shape of the Void: Toward a Definition of Poetry 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z “I’m not angry, I’m just baffled as to how it got this way.” Dear Northerners: We get that this weather is no big deal for you. Now please shut up. 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z The current meme craze baffles him, but he’s enjoying hearing what people do to his song. Remixing Smash Mouth’s “All Star” has become an art form, and its writer is loving it 2017-07-09T04:00:00Z “I did!” he said, sounding slightly baffled at the memory. Art Is Fleeting, but Red Grooms Is Forever 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z He liked self-promotion but hated interviews; he even crafted a comedy segment—that he performed about a dozen times—on how to baffle interviewers with mounds of contradictory answers. The night Mark Twain brought Huck Finn alive 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z It’s a little baffling why this didn’t do better at the US box office: it’s just so easy to like. The best films of 2016 ... that you probably didn't see 2016-12-25T05:00:00Z During a recent visit, baffled by options, we depended on the friendly and knowledgeable waiters to decipher the menu. A Peruvian Legend Goes Old School at a New Lima Taberna 2018-02-03T05:00:00Z There is a fine line between genius and madness and in Burroughs's frenzied attempt to produce both he totally baffled this reader. The Great American Novelist tournament 2013-01-22T12:51:05Z The two previous times I had encountered Franco in person were baffling – not just because he was so odd, but because he was odd in such different ways that he seemed like two different people. James Franco: ‘I was certainly taking myself too seriously before. But who doesn’t?’ 2017-11-23T05:00:00Z Every time I shoot a student/teacher scene, I’m baffled at how the scripts never change. I was a horrible hooker: Schoolgirl outfits, wealthy execs and Hawaii — Asa Akira remembers her two escort experiences 2014-05-11T22:30:00Z By then I was 14 and still just as baffled. Dominique Morisseau: The First Time I Imagined I Was Pregnant 2017-08-21T04:00:00Z The average mall moviegoer might be baffled or sedated by his films’ tumid, dreamlike melancholy. The Movies' Grandest Oldest Man: Manoel de Oliveira Dies at 106 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z It’s increasingly unusual for an artist to make something that seeks to charge and infuriate and baffle an audience in such an unrelenting way. No Compromises 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z It was a baffling other language, one I did not care to learn. My Steubenville 2013-03-28T00:00:00Z Little did I imagine she'd not too long before endured an utterly baffling, infuriating relationship with a man who was nothing he'd seemed to be. Swept off her feet by a con artist: What Abby Ellin knows now about being "Duped" 2019-01-20T05:00:00Z In between torturing her snotty older sisters and empathizing with her eccentric, bookish father, Flavia always finds time to help the local constabulary with curious and baffling cases. Sleuths for our time: smarts, not guns 2013-01-11T00:47:17Z When faced with a biographer who is so disinclined to analyse and so bafflingly incurious, he evaporates. Declaring His Genius: Oscar Wilde in North America by Roy Morris Jnr – review 2013-02-15T14:01:01Z And yet the success of this new film is the tiniest bit baffling as well. Oscar nominations: king for now, but Colin Firth could run into a boulder 2011-01-25T16:18:14Z He’s willing to recount, however, the ways in which his career choice often left friends baffled. How a Tiny Literary Magazine Became a Springboard for Great Irish Writing 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z Some of the novel's closing scenes, when Huck and Tom delay freeing the slave Jim and place rats and snakes in his shed, have baffled historians as cruel and gratuitous. Mark Twain remains censored, and uncensored 2011-01-07T19:08:15Z Ms. Elliott, a feminist activist, was somewhat baffled by her daughter’s girlish tastes. Liz Goldwyn, Hollywood Royal Family Member, Takes to Filmmaking 2014-01-12T02:48:43Z Conway’s ability to completely baffle journalists on television is fascinating to watch. We rank Kellyanne Conway’s 5 best interviews 2017-07-10T04:00:00Z Ms. Jolie said, “It baffles me that with so many people we’ve had to ask, ‘Don’t you want to meet such an extraordinary group with such an extraordinary history?’ ” Angelina Jolie?s First Directing Effort Is Serious 2011-12-06T23:28:47Z More often, however, he seems to be authentically baffled: by MacGowan's suicidal drinking and his remarkable constitution. Here Comes Everybody by James Fearnley – review 2012-06-14T07:00:01Z These range from the arcane and baffling to walks and cycle rides aimed at opening up fresh perspectives of the miasmic city. Best of the London Festival of Architecture 2010-06-16T11:56:00Z The band's first UK tour in years typifies their mercurial but baffling career. Earth, Wind & Fire 2010-07-25T21:30:00Z Or maybe you’re just sitting there baffled, wondering how it is that you ended up partnered with someone who says “Let’s put a pin in that” with alarming regularity. Couples Have a Working-From-Home Revelation: That’s What You Do All Day? 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z Mr. Rudd is, once again, the wry, baffled straight man — more or less as he was in “I Love You, Man” — paired with a wilder, more unpredictable buddy. | 'Dinner for Schmucks': Steve Carell Stars in ?Dinner Game? Remake 2010-07-29T16:26:00Z The notion that adoption is something close to a catastrophe — a tear in the fabric of the natural order — may baffle or alienate viewers whose experience suggests otherwise. | 'Mother and Child': Annette Bening in Rodrigo Garcia?s Study of Motherhood 2010-05-06T23:30:00Z To people who haven’t been through what you’ve been through, such a statement may seem curious and baffling; to people who’ve experienced what you have, it is dead-on clear as day. Is my brother a pedophile? 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z The scene in which Binoche retreats to the ladies' room to get herself glammed up with lipstick and earrings was hugely praised by critics: I found this enthusiasm really quite baffling. Cannes film festival 2010: a triumph of politics over art 2010-05-24T13:13:00Z The spare bedroom, previously a walk-in closet, still holds Ms. Pallatto’s clothes; they act as acoustic baffling when the space is used as an isolation booth for vocals or bass. Chicago News Cooperative: A CD Label That Plays to Sounds of Chicago 2010-12-12T05:15:00Z Here we see pragmatic, baffled Judith – crisply performed by Kristin Hutchinson – packing to leave Hitler's prewar Germany. The Jewish Wife 2010-07-30T21:01:00Z It might sound like a bafflingly bizarre way to spend time on the Internet. A whisper, then tingles, then 87 million YouTube views: Meet the star of ASMR 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z In another poignant touch, the offstage chorus here becomes a roster mostly of bookish-looking, baffled present-day witnesses to the events, trying to fathom what happened. ‘The Passenger’ at the Park Avenue Armory 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z The latter, in particular, was seen as a course correction by many who had been baffled by Ms. Rampling’s exclusion last week from the Screen Actors Guild and Golden Globes nominations. ‘Big Short’ Gains Awards Momentum but a Big Test Nears 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z My father-in-law yells “good morning” across the parking lot every time I see him at work and waves with an enthusiasm that baffles me. My In-Laws Are Suffocating Me. Help! 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z So this game allows you to plunge yourself deep into the machine's baffled robotic head and try to make sense of a universe full of two kinds of objects: cats and not cats. Will Iran shoot itself in the foot with a video game about Rushdie? 2012-06-30T23:05:50Z For their part, the filmmakers remain offscreen and silent, a baffling decision given Turner’s deep, palpable distress. ‘Wildcat’ Review: Rescue and Rewild 2022-12-29T05:00:00Z At least that is what he seems to be doing in this often baffling production. Music Review: Anna Netrebko in ?Manon? at Metropolitan Opera 2012-03-27T22:50:54Z The attitude to clothing in Cats is baffling from start to finish. Cats: the fur, the tails, Judi Dench's cannibal coat – discuss the film with spoilers 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z Perhaps most baffling of all was a set of slowly rotating bleachers, whose function was unclear: art work or seating? An Art of Loopholes 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z And while he's capable of being incredibly funny, there are times when he's simply baffling. This week's new comedy 2010-07-23T23:06:00Z For a recovering alcoholic and addict, Jay is bafflingly unable to turn that same lens on his emotional life or question the relationships between romantic passion, obsession and compulsion. James Frey Has Written His First Adult Novel in a Decade 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z What baffled them was more fundamental: they hadn’t received American help at all. America’s forgotten war 2012-11-23T15:00:00Z As Ms. Castro said: “If one finds one’s husband collapsed but still alive, does one not call 911 immediately? Carrie’s behavior was so baffling to me.” Middle Age Doesn’t Happen ‘Just Like That’ 2022-01-05T05:00:00Z It's a complex experience; at times baffling, at times astounding, but never less than engrossing. BBCSSO/Volkov ? review 2011-08-15T14:08:29Z It's an alliance as baffling to the outsider as the vastness of Pendulum's appeal. Pendulum 2010-05-31T20:30:00Z Once complete, The Graduate baffled early screening audiences, prompting the movie promoter Joseph E Levine to suggest a tour of college campuses to help build “word of mouth”. Here’s to you, Mrs Robinson: why The Graduate unites warring generations 50 years on 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z And he marries the result — in a way that is at once baffling and oddly intuitive — to an English interpretation of the holy book of Islam. ‘American Qur’an’ is an old/new masterpiece 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z One of the main reasons we lack an effective way to prevent hair loss is that we still understand bafflingly little about the molecular mechanisms that underpin human hair growth and loss. The new growth in hair loss research 2019-09-07T04:00:00Z And then you slide down the ladders of glamour: Mike Gapes taking a baffled Lemar from Fame Academy out for a Harvester. Can Cardi B and Bernie Sanders fix politics? Er … 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z When she first served them at a class at the Mexican Cultural Institute in the District, “People were just baffled,” says cookbook author and public television host Pati Jinich. Why this stuffed pepper dish wears the colors of the Mexican flag 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z “The Green Knight” is always interesting — and occasionally baffling — but at the end it rises to a swirling, feverish pitch of feeling and philosophical earnestness. ‘The Green Knight’ Review: Monty Python and the Seventh Seal 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z I won't pretend to have seen even half his film roles, which encompass at least five languages and six countries, but if the brooding, baffled Ulrik isn't his best performance it's definitely up there. "A Somewhat Gentle Man": Hilarious darkness from the frozen north 2011-01-14T01:30:00Z “How the Hertz people in Paris could have failed to mention diesel to American renters still baffles me.” Perspective | Don’t make these car-rental mistakes on your next vacation 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z Because who could say for sure with us baffling humans? Review | ‘Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams’ is a companion anthology to the new TV show 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z For reasons that are still baffling to James, her work went viral. The Evolution of E L James 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah”—a hymn to souls too carnal to grow old, too secular to give praise, and too baffled to mock faith—recently turned thirty. Leonard Cohen's Montreal 2015-02-28T05:00:00Z What are these baffling monsters up to anyway? Exclusive 'Ant-Man No. 1' cover reveals an Evil Scott Lang? 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z On its release in 1954, however, “Beat the Devil” baffled audiences, who didn’t get the in-jokes and plot twists and turns. ‘Beat the Devil,’ the Bogart Flop That Spawned a Cult 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z But by the end of this nonpareil show’s two intermissionless hours, you are as lightheaded, exhausted, baffled and invigorated as if it had been you. Review: ‘The Encounter’ Is a High-Tech Head Trip Through an Amazon Labyrinth 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z Some plot threads are unclear, and the coda is entirely baffling. Your guide to SIFF 2011 2011-05-18T20:00:54Z And I will be baffled, as always, by the mysterious mental workings of @rg_bunny1, who has posted another slice of downtown Bohemian arcana that remains one of his enduring fixations. The First of the Year 2022-01-03T05:00:00Z Still, it’s not such a terrible thing to be baffled, especially in the presence of genuinely compelling artists. Review: In ‘The Exalted,’ Puzzling Stories Inspired by a Rich Life Cut Short 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z Lucas said he is still a little baffled that his native San Francisco did not want the museum there, or at least did not want it on his terms. George Lucas museum to feature more than 'Star Wars' 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z It baffled many in the mid-'90s that as a practicing Muslim woman I did not wear a veil. We need diverse influences: Artist Shahzia Sikander on her multicultural past and our future 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z We can then see why Diana's natural popularity utterly baffles and enrages the rest of the royals even as it raises their standing in the world. "The Crown" returns with Princess Di & Margaret Thatcher testing the Queen's humanity 2020-11-14T05:00:00Z Hamelle said, adding Galliano himself was baffled to see his behavior in the video. John Galliano to attend anti-Semitic trial 2011-06-21T10:40:33Z Growing up, I would always meet adults who had left Louisville and moved someplace like LA or New York and then moved back, and I was so baffled. How to survive—and thrive—in "The Heartbreak Years" 2023-10-01T04:00:00Z Bits of it are complicated enough to baffle even the most committed viewer. Your next box set: Roswell 2012-06-07T17:00:01Z Early reviewers called it “strange,” “disagreeable,” “baffling,” “disjointed” and even “inexpressibly painful.” Perspective | Two centuries after her birth, Emily Brontë’s gifts keep giving 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z It’s baffling what Mr. Hillcoat thinks he’s doing with this imagery. Review: In ‘Triple 9,’ an Appealing Cast Can’t Rise Above the Violence 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z Asked why, Mr. Niami shrugged, looking slightly baffled by the line of questioning. Who Wants to Buy the Most Expensive House in America? 2017-12-23T05:00:00Z He connected with Murda through the security guard at their mutual jeweler, and was baffled when Murda insisted on playing him beats. Murda Beatz, an ‘Alien’ in Rap, Can’t Stop Making Hits 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z Listening to “Reply All,” I always feel rejuvenated—enlightened about various baffling enigmas of contemporary life and amazed that Goldman and Vogt are willing and able to make sense of them. Three Podcasts To Listen to In August 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z Look at the female characters – beautiful, remote, usually unattainable and invariably baffling. The Inbetweeners maps male sexuality 2011-08-19T13:30:02Z It was greeted with countless belly laughs and a standing ovation from 5,000 prommers, many of whom seemed slightly baffled that it wasn't being filmed for broadcast. Prom 2: My Fair Lady/John Wilson Orchestra – review 2012-07-15T13:25:08Z But mostly, it’s all head-scratchingly obscure, as if Ms. Markey were still a young girl intentionally trying to baffle her elders by speaking in a secret coded language. Review: ‘A Ride on the Irish Cream,’ Erin Markey’s Tale of an Odd Affair 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z But the grotesque, ghoulish aesthetic she devises, while effective in places, can seem just baffling and quirky in others. Drama, in German, in the Shadow of ‘Leopoldtstadt’ 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z Again and again, it is more quirky than funny, and more baffling than either. Film review: The Brothers Bloom 2010-06-03T22:00:00Z Julie thinks she will delight Felix by converting to Judaism, but most of what she accomplishes is to baffle the rabbi who tries to tutor her. Books of The Times: In ‘After I’m Gone,’ One Man Leaves Many Questions 2014-02-16T22:04:16Z And then this week, on Jimmy Kimmel Live, he gave a truly baffling interview. Next question: rewatching the most awkward movie press tours 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z The discovery baffled me, and I dismissed the day as an artifact of the 19th century. Amid Upheaval, Juneteenth Takes the Cultural Spotlight 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z I spent a few years living in Rome and was always baffled with some of the top-rated restaurants on sites like TripAdvisor or Yelp. How to Actually Eat Like a Local While Traveling 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z Before I transitioned, my short hair and men’s clothes frequently baffled people. My Voice Got Deeper. Suddenly, People Listened. 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z The unfortunate American, consumed with indignation and determined to punish the impostor, is baffled by it. A novel by Hilaire Belloc with twenty-two drawings by G.K. Chesterton 2012-06-05T06:30:00Z And finally for their baffling decision not to overlay it with a thundering Daft Punk beat Disney's admittedly gorgeous Tron: Legacy loses out to Universal's charmingly rubbish 8-bit Scott Pilgrim intro. Clip Joint: Bespoke studio idents 2013-03-13T12:20:59Z It is truly baffling that all the talented, acclaimed actors involved actually read this script and then agreed to devote their time to this movie, especially given its uncomfortably flagrant misogynistic streak. Review: `Playing for Keeps' one of year's worst 2012-12-05T19:49:17Z Or maybe Jessica Rabbit is a better reference, since this is a movie by Robert Zemeckis, who puts some of his longstanding preoccupations on vivid, sometimes baffling display. ‘Welcome to Marwen’ Review: Playing With Toys and Putting Away Childish Things 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z The sophisticated results seemed to baffle audiences hoping for another “Salome” or “Rosenkavalier.” Strauss Joins Sibelius?s Vacation 2011-07-22T15:31:19Z Sincere and contrived, amateurish and slick, this new one adds a baffling footnote to his résumé. | 'Snow Flower and the Secret Fan': Ties That Bind: Life-Sustaining Friendships Transcending Life?s Brutalities 2011-07-14T23:41:45Z The reader who needs to be told that Benjamin Britten was a "mid-20th-century English composer" is likely to be baffled by the information that Scriabin's has affinities with Stravinsky's Firebird. Noise by David Hendy and The Story of Music by Howard Goodall – review 2013-03-08T10:01:01Z That “most beautiful thing” is a shoe, says the small-scale British manufacturer who is about to die unexpectedly, leaving his baffled and disinterested son his struggling factory. ‘Kinky Boots’ at Kennedy Center struts, kicks and empowers — just by the book 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z To keep himself sane, the good-natured Mr. Holroyd begins to emit, like a man in the middle of baffling crazy sex, “extravagant cries of encouragement as we hurtle along.” Books of The Times: In the Fast Company of Women on the Edge 2011-08-04T22:16:36Z However, regarding his return flight, Weiss said he was baffled as to why United would send him an email touting their middle-seat policy, only to not follow through. Doctor flying with United Airlines shares photo of packed flight, says passengers were 'scared,' 'shocked' 2020-05-11T04:00:00Z I'll be there: this is certainly more promising than Murder on the Home Front, the same channel's baffling period murder-mystery thriller of the previous evening. TV review: Life of Crime 2013-05-11T07:00:39Z Pamela Helen Stephen's sumptuously sung Queen of Carthage appears to suffer from a split personality, as there are multiple doppelgangers mirroring her movements in Collins' stylish but slightly baffling choreography. La Voix Humaine/Dido and Aeneas – review 2013-02-15T15:28:34Z It's a vibrant finale to an evening that baffles and beguiles in equal measure. Tomorrow, in a Year 2010-08-02T21:15:00Z Guiltily I eyed — then ignored — the generous desk allotted for work, choosing instead to lounge in a terry-lined robe and play thumb war with the baffling remote control to a 32-inch LCD TV. We’ll Never Be Royals, But ... 2018-04-21T04:00:00Z I was at first baffled and then intrigued by the eccentricity and audacity of Evans. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: 21 Great Buildings Throughout History 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z Such was the case with the 2012 world premiere of Anne Washburn’s “Mr. Burns: A Post-Electric Play,” a stunning apocalyptic vaudeville inspired by “The Simpsons” that baffled as many theatergoers as it enchanted. He built a ragtag theater into an American trendsetter. Now Woolly Mammoth’s founder is retiring. 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z Hoffman is woefully unfunny, though perhaps not as bad as Harvey Keitel, who gets a pointless and baffling cameo as a lazy construction worker. Meet the Parents: Little?Fockers ? review 2010-12-23T22:24:00Z Set in a near-future U.S. blighted by disastrous climate change and a baffling, incurable new disease, the book is narrated by Joy, a young woman abandoned as an infant by her mother. Laura van den Berg's 'Find Me' captures a memorable apocalypse 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z The first live Superstar final took place yesterday and it was a flawless demonstration of genuinely baffling decision-making. Superstar: a new low note for TV talent shows 2012-07-16T12:04:20Z The movie has since gone on to snag 10 Oscar nominations including Best Picture, although Villeneuve himself was notably absent from the Best Director category in a somewhat baffling snub. "Dune: Part Two will have “much more Harkonnen stuff” 2022-03-12T05:00:00Z But the blackest comedies can baffle readers not trained, or just unwilling, to recognise the comic in human extremis. Howard Jacobson: In praise of bad boys' books 2012-10-05T21:55:17Z The title, though, has a dual meaning; and it’s in Bill’s furiously baffled response to his wife’s abandonment of her parental responsibilities that the movie finds its footing and its humor. Review: In ‘Bitch,’ a Desperate Housewife Finds Her Bark 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z Good news then for Game Of Thrones fans baffled by the lack of a region two release date for season 2, as Blinkbox has the whole thing available to buy online. Catch-up TV Guide: From Hairy Dieters to Radio 1Xtra's Stories 2012-08-17T23:05:15Z Watch through your fingers as he takes on acts of baffling foolishness, such as sticking his arm in a bear trap. TV highlights 07/03/2013 2013-03-07T07:00:15Z But another attraction of Quartermaine's Terms, in which Atkinson plays the title role of a baffled bachelor teacher, is the fact that other parts in the play require no actors at all. Waiting in the wings: when off-stage characters take over 2013-01-28T16:57:44Z Only now, there was less of the applause she usually received; instead, there were baffled readers telling her to just log off, already, just stop creating. Perspective | The messiness and meaning of Caroline Calloway 2019-09-13T04:00:00Z Like the BBC's Outcasts, it misunderstands the appeal of shows like Lost, thinking audiences just want baffling mysteries that move further away from resolution. Tonight's TV highlights: Raymond Blanc's Kitchen Secrets 2011-03-14T07:59:01Z But their demands are plain enough: pull out your troops from the demilitarised zone in the Korean peninsula, or the prez gets it, which makes the final plot turn baffling. Olympus Has Fallen – review 2013-04-18T14:29:02Z But apparently none of these people have ever seen this kind of movie before, and are utterly baffled when their Faustian bargain goes bad. "Rise of the Planet of the Apes": Can James Franco make peace with chimps? 2011-08-03T21:30:00Z But the plot is clunky and the characters’ motivations are so baffling that even they seem confused by them: “Why are you doing this?” Jennifer Aniston: 'A lot of guys are narcissists. They think every woman wants to sleep with them' 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z It is set in an alternate universe, and, more specifically, a medieval environment, while still keeping intact a big part of our world's history – something that, at times, can be quite baffling. The Left Hand of God by Paul Hoffman - review 2013-03-02T09:00:00Z “I’m only 11,” she later tells her support group, baffled. Three Views of the Crisis in Women’s Health 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z How Kol amassed support is still baffling to me, given that he seems to just kill political foes without consequence. ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Season 1, Episode 8: A Little Harmony 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z Many commentators on the problems of Mid Staffordshire have been baffled by an apparent contradiction. We love the NHS too much to make it better 2013-03-09T06:31:01Z You can enjoy these elements while puzzling over the narrative, which seems to baffle even the characters. Theater Review: ‘Chang in a Void Moon’ at Incubator Arts Project 2014-04-01T22:05:43Z The Civil War ghosts that haunt the room are “garrulous outraged baffled.” Riff: How William Faulkner Tackled Race — and Freed the South From Itself 2012-06-30T04:00:04Z Some critics in Britain wrote about the book in baffled tones, lobbing superlatives that were not always complimentary. Prince Harry’s Memoir Has Record Breaking Sales 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z They wore white pants and white “CHOOSE LIFE” T-shirts, nearly glowing on a white stage, singing “Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go,” and it was utterly dazzling, a little baffling. George Michael’s Pop Paradise 2016-12-26T05:00:00Z And she talks the part, too, speaking in long twisty paragraphs that, like a stopped clock giving the correct time twice a day, occasionally answer my questions – and frequently seem to baffle her translator. Lucrecia Martel: 'The Oscars are a joke' 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z Toland’s ceramic piece, “African Teen with Albinism,” delivers her inimitable mix of grotesquerie and profound empathy with its young female subject’s painful, baffled expression. ‘Sea Change’ and allusions to climate change among artworks at local galleries in January 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z Originally staged on Broadway in 1980, “The Lady From Dubuque” is one of those midcareer Albee plays that got little love from critics, who found it posturing, pretentious and baffling. Theater Review: ?Edward Albee?s The Lady From Dubuque? at End Stage Theater 2012-03-06T03:00:39Z That is, until relatively recently, when her signature forms — columns, lens-discs and spheres not just activated by light but somehow harboring and releasing it as well, bafflingly, from layers within layers — started being widely celebrated. The Confounding Lightness of Helen Pashgian 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z Gogol tells this baffling tale with disarming simplicity. Music Review | ?The Nose?: Picture This: A Nose Goes Missing 2010-03-07T00:53:00Z Anne awakens in the middle of the night and stares into space — and then assures the baffled Georges that nothing is wrong. Cannes 2012: Amour ? review 2012-05-20T14:26:48Z The avant-garde composer Christian Wolff played the first shift of “Vexations,” which is both simple and bafflingly difficult. What It’s Like to Hear the Same Piece of Music for 19 Hours 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z It is almost bafflingly big and, given how bafflingly big it is, strangely little known. Pop and Jazz Fall Preview: 105 Albums, Shows and Festivals 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z Which makes it all the more baffling that a team of some of the top comedy writers and producers in the country signed off on that bit. About Samantha Bee, Ivanka Trump and That Word 2018-06-02T04:00:00Z Neither response is bold, and, whatever their reasons, our elected leaders’ paucity of endeavor baffles and enrages me. Fifty Years After Apollo 11, the View of Earth from the Moon 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z He spoke about his upset over the bad reviews with Nigel Smith here: Related: Xavier Dolan to his critics: 'I feel there’s a rather baffling misunderstanding' Cannes 2016: follow the ceremony as the winners are announced - live! 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z When “Merce” left viewers a bit baffled, that usually felt like our loss. Jonah Bokaer’s 3,000 ping-pong balls take stage at American Dance Institute 2016-02-28T05:00:00Z The baffling news follows Richards' stepping down from his brief tenure as a new co-host of the game show after numerous pieces of his controversial past were unearthed by reporters and diligent, sleuthing fans. "Jeopardy!" is bending over backwards to keep Mike Richards on board – but will it do any good? 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z When Han Kang’s surreal, violent novel “The Vegetarian” was published in South Korea nearly a decade ago, literary critics found it baffling. ‘The Vegetarian,’ a Surreal South Korean Novel 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z The musical or comedy category from 2011 must be the Globes’ most baffling this millennium, if not ever. Perspective | The 10 most baffling Golden Globe wins and nominations of the millennium. (Remember ‘Salmon Fishing in the Yemen’?) 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z In the right hands, the many baffling others may yet yield up their reluctant magic. The genius of Edward Albee and the inner voice that brought difficult truths to the stage 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z Miss Weaver, a rich heiress who baffled her family by publishing and defending Joyce, was put under police surveillance. Dirty words 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z “Yeah! Is that a bad thing?,” he said, reading Sawyer’s baffled expression. “Have an open mind and an open heart”: Bruce Jenner’s incredible Diane Sawyer interview 2015-04-25T04:00:00Z He followed his instincts, borrowing elements that intrigued, challenged, baffled and even amused him. Review: Ligeti Forward Celebrates a Master Modern Composer 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z The opera is sung in English – baffling at the Komische where the long-standing policy has been to sing everything in German, and even more baffling when much of English diction is so poor. American Lulu – review 2012-10-08T17:00:02Z It’s kind of baffling when people are baffled by religious movies opening well. Onward Christian soldiers: War Room triumphs at the box office 2015-08-31T04:00:00Z “I just don’t think that’s the logical end point of this spectrum,” she said, baffled. The Unmitigated Chaos of America’s Attempt at Color-Coded Covid Guidance 2021-04-02T04:00:00Z The two formed a deep friendship after making “Maverick” more than two decades ago, though their bond baffles outsiders. Jodie Foster Is Still Afraid of Failure 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z The jewellery from Tillya Tepe is like nothing known from any other part of the world: Chinese, Indian, Bactrian, Siberian and Greek styles are jumbled and fused together into a glorious but baffling kaleidoscope. The hill of gold 2011-02-19T00:05:32Z The pre-emptive backlash is all the more baffling to Phillips because he hopes it inspires conversations: About guns, about violence and about the treatment of people with mental illness. Happy now? Everyone is talking about ‘Joker’ 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z Reading “The Trade,” I was often stymied by the lengthy and ultimately baffling “cast of characters” to which he constantly refers. A Freed Hostage Audits the Murky Business of Captive Negotiations 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z Charlie’s first instrument was a banjo, but, baffled by the fingerings required to play it, he removed the neck and converted its body into a snare drum. Charlie Watts, Bedrock Drummer for the Rolling Stones, Dies at 80 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z The Brazilians were baffled by Levine’s punctuality, and more baffled by his distress at their lack of it. Members of the Uptighterati hate lateness: are we wrong? | Oliver Burkeman 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z As a teenager, I found the story, with its nested narrators and tangled family tree, baffling and dull. Perspective | Two centuries after her birth, Emily Brontë’s gifts keep giving 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z He quoted the baffling commentary of art “experts” and showed auctions at which prices soared into the millions. Morley Safer, longest-serving correspondent for CBS’s ‘60 Minutes,’ dies at 84 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z So baffled and horrified were they that they shelved it for over a year, quietly releasing a re-edited version in a handful of theaters in England and the US. Rolling back: why we should welcome Mick Jagger's big screen return 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z This is a book that is as hypnotic, if sometimes baffling, as watching the hyper-slow Psycho. Point Omega by Don DeLillo | Book review 2010-03-21T00:07:00Z It’s no wonder that Martin, who wakes up in a hospital without any identification days after his brush with the big sleep, looks baffled. | 'Unknown': Me, My Doppelg?nger and a Dunk in the River 2011-02-17T23:44:40Z “Enigmatic” means critics were baffled by it, but suspect it’s quite good. Cannes 2015: all the winners - live! 2015-05-24T04:00:00Z But the more casual viewer must have been baffled. ArtsBeat Blog: 'X-Factor' Recap: Now You See the Judge, Now You Don't 2011-09-29T14:24:58Z Season 2 moves on to a new, equally baffling crime. Review | If only all psychological crime dramas were as easy to watch as ‘The Sinner’ 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z Sofer’s second novel traces a man’s path from “baffled revolutionary” in Iran to complicit actor in a ruthless regime sure he can undermine the system from inside. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z It's baffling why the producers didn't they give the finalists the star treatment prior to the last episode if for nothing else than to build anticipation. How "Physical: 100" should level up in light of its anticlimactic finale 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z And yet, there was something bafflingly off about her appearance at the 60th annual Grammy Awards on Sunday. Pop Keeps Changing. And the Grammys Turn a Deaf Ear, Again. 2018-01-29T05:00:00Z Montagu was sufficiently multifaceted to baffle MI5 during much of World War II, and the war itself had an ancillary effect of spreading the popularity of table tennis. Books of The Times: ‘Ping-Pong Diplomacy,’ by Nicholas Griffin 2014-01-02T22:23:15Z Gloucester's police force, anyway, are baffled by him. Tinchy Stryder 2010-07-31T23:02:00Z Aiming spells fares less well, the faintest hint of action leaving Kinect baffled, so it's a shadow of past Fables, but possibly the least dreadful Kinect game. This week's new games 2012-10-12T23:05:47Z And, to be honest, I’m a little baffled by the excuses it generates. Travel Troubleshooter | United Airlines approved his colleague’s refund — so why not his? 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z I’m not saying “End” was a perfectly constructed episode; I’m still baffled by that byzantine court case, the one with Sutton Foster making a wasted cameo. Goodbye to “The Good Wife” 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z With the exception of Omar, the hijackers are undifferentiated, almost spectral figures, whose language and behavior baffle and terrify the crew. Movie Review: ‘A Hijacking,’ a Modern Piracy Drama, Unfolds at Sea 2013-06-20T22:51:37Z With our knowledge of Burns’s quick slide into obscurity, it is hard to be anything other than baffled and irritated at his overweening egoism. Books of The Times: David Margolick’s ‘Dreadful’ Explores a Gay Novelist’s Anguish 2013-07-31T21:30:19Z “No, I’m not. Just because I’m wearing lipstick and being ridiculously camp, how is that sexualising my gender? I’m having fun with it, I’m excited about this. Questioning that so negatively is completely baffling.” Workin’ it! How female drag queens are causing a scene 2017-07-10T04:00:00Z And, frankly, this display of reserved statesmanship must either baffle or irritate supporters of the insurrection. Perspective | Nancy Pelosi held it together 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z Jois left without a word just as Sam was starting high school, baffling him and sending another teenage brother, Jared, into a spiral. ‘Sam Now’ Review: When Mom Leaves 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z Ms. Bagnall’s baffling story about a trio of oddball outsiders is stricken with a galloping case of romantic whimsy and falls short of its serio-comic aspirations. Review: ‘Funny Bunny,’ About a Trio of Outsiders 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z One of these was the Miss a Meal Movement, asking Indians to sacrifice one meal a week — a baffling request for a country hanging by a thread after centuries of colonialism. The legendary story of Thangam Philip: food scientist, nutritionist, chef and mentor 2021-01-31T05:00:00Z Or, to be more illuminating, Mr Betjeman giving his impression of the popular poet baffled by his own success but determined to enjoy himself none the less. From the archive, 18 July 1960: The first Lake District Festival is launched 2012-07-18T06:30:00Z But it was all too baffling to be angry about, and the food was good. How I learned to travel: A nightmare drive down the Pacific Coast Highway conjures childhood memories 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z My girlfriends, most of whom were in sororities, were baffled by the number of closeted men in their ranks. My fraternity years as an out gay man 2015-01-11T05:00:00Z Beck, 20, is a deeply affable former soccer player who, of all of the current crop of TikTok crossover stars, appears most baffled about how to amplify it. TikTok Made Them Famous. Figuring Out What’s Next Is Tough. 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z His way baffled a lot of people, because there weren’t a lot of people like him. Superb Oddities: Robert Gottlieb Reviews a Biography of Edward Gorey 2018-12-31T05:00:00Z Three years after Arendt’s baffled pronouncement, a Mexican anthropologist named Santiago Genovés took up the cause. “The Raft” Chronicles an Extreme Experiment with Human Nature 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z “There was no consistency, and it was just baffling to me. How do I improve?” Leaning In? Won’t Help if Guys Are Leering, Writes Ellen Pao 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z “What is it,” he asks, “that has left endless generations of academics, certified geniuses, utterly baffled when it comes to speech?” Tom Wolfe’s ‘The Kingdom of Speech’ Takes Aim at Darwin and Chomsky 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z Using sophisticated programming languages, like Processing, they are distilling colossal quantities of baffling data into seductive digital animations — or visualizations — many of which then change in real time to reflect what is actually happening. An Early Triumph in Information Design 2010-05-23T16:00:00Z It sometimes baffles him that he is perceived as a bogeyman by millions of movie-goers, although he allows that something about his appearance is suggestive of villainy. Christopher Walken: ‘I don’t need to be made to look evil’ 2016-04-16T04:00:00Z But it’s a fame she clearly finds a little baffling: it’s a fair bet no one has taken up fell running in a bid to become rich or famous. Faster, higher, longer: how female ultra-athletes started to beat men 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z A huge, disreputable, grisly hit, the film's impact was immediate, but its initial critical reception was largely baffled. Oscars: That didn't get nominated? 2011-02-18T16:49:00Z His hairy monsters, weird animals, knowing children and baffled adults threaten to leap off the paper. Quentin Blake at 80: the illustrator's magical art 2012-12-14T22:55:10Z When characters aren’t forging swords or fighting dragons, they are bafflingly static. Review: In the Met’s ‘Siegfried,’ Singers Transcend the Staging 2019-04-14T04:00:00Z In the finale, we learn a bit about what the Borg have been up to, though I remain baffled that no one brings up Jurati or the whole Good Borg thing from last season. ‘Star Trek: Picard’ Series Finale Recap: Saying Farewell 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z If I'm going to be honest, I was frankly baffled by people who seemed to be so invested in my selection of a job. ‘America has never fully lived up to its ideals,’ says Biden adviser Symone Sanders 2020-06-05T04:00:00Z Perplexed: It is somewhat baffling that after your lengthy narrative, which is all about “Sally’s” terrible behavior toward you, your problem isn’t with her, but your husband. Perspective | Ask Amy: Social media dust-up affects the whole family 2020-10-23T04:00:00Z It is baffling, thrilling, eccentric, intriguing, thoughtful, mischievous and seductive. DESIGN: An Italian Designer's Homage to His Native Country 2010-08-29T15:30:00Z I am really baffled by what happened in court. ‘The Night Of’ Season 1, Episode 4: Friends or Foes 2016-07-31T04:00:00Z That’s if you don’t count Morgan looking genuinely baffled as to what he’s doing here at all. ‘The Unholy’ Review: ‘There’s Something About Mary’ 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z As someone who writes about wine and spirits, I’ve always been baffled that our government allows companies to slap the word “Champagne” on a $6 bottle of plonk. The Grapes of Wrath 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z This forced the gallery to put on thematic rather than chronological displays, some of them quite baffling. Home of the brave 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z After they’ve done that, all you have is a bunch of sad, baffled people wondering what happened and what they could have done. She tried to run me over! 2012-08-23T00:00:00Z It's baffling that a studio would want to slap a film it's trying to sell with the most boring, forgettable name conceivable. The right and wrong ways to name a movie 2011-02-11T14:50:00Z Stewart was of course baffled by this stunt — and the climate change denialism that it stems from. Jon Stewart blasts GOP senator for saying that snowballs disprove global warming 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z To South American eyes, she explains, British political marches look bafflingly dull – “people just walking, and walking very slowly at that” – while in Chile, protest is more of a performance. ‘The rapist is you!’: why a Chilean protest chant is being sung around the world 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z The characters and fragments of stories came at you like dream figures, and were often as baffling. Review: An Immersive ‘Seeing You’ Sends Its Audience to War 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z Moments later, I am wandering baffled around Welcome Island in my guise as "Leo Soir", and I see a young man in a tight white T-shirt. Going out by staying in: where to watch the arts online 2010-07-25T20:31:00Z He added that Davis's line of questioning left the Prime Minister "a bit baffled that his interrogator should descend to such a level". Davis Newsnight debut pulls 500,000 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z Despite their influence, choreographers have been persistently and often bafflingly sidelined. A Labor Movement for the Artists Who Make Popular Culture Move 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z TER: I’m baffled by the people who say, “I’m just not going to vote.” Elizabeth Warren and Tracee Ellis Ross on the Road to Activism 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z Around the same time, a professor at nearby Northwestern University Dental School named Rosemary Wells found herself similarly baffled. Don’t tell the kids: The real history of the tooth fairy 2014-02-09T14:00:00Z Butlin, listening to a live radio broadcast, was baffled by the audience's helpless guffaws. Roger Butlin obituary 2011-08-17T17:52:04Z “In a rare feat, Galbraith combines a complex and compelling sleuth and an equally well-formed and unlikely assistant with a baffling crime in his stellar debut,” said Publisher’s Weekly, in a starred review. This Detective Novel’s Story Doesn’t Add Up 2013-07-14T13:48:23Z The whole piece is worth a read, especially to the baffled Americans who can't wrap their heads around England's devotion to Bush. Friday Coda: Fly Lo, Aphex Twin, Tracey Thorn, U2, Apple and more 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z She set her hooks in me the first time I visited, and I am baffled by my failure to shake her. The Personalities of Natchez 2010-04-07T20:54:00Z As a 130-minute freak out sustained by the high-wire performances, it was thrilling, at times exhausting, at times baffling, but almost always interesting. Review: ‘Die Monosau’ Revives Chaotic Energy in Berlin 2023-02-20T05:00:00Z This baffles Lena—Lila is never afraid of anything—but they run back home, and Lena gets a beating. Elena Ferrante’s New Book: Art Wins 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z Many of the responses were initially baffling to me. Perspective | What book has the most disappointing ending? Readers have many opinions. 2020-10-17T04:00:00Z The French are all inscrutable, but each one is baffling in a particular way, depending on gender, class, generation and temperament. In William Maxwell’s Fiction, a Vivid, Varied Tableau of Midwestern Life 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z Maybe not as baffling when put in the context of the character’s progenitor: a consulting detective from Victorian England who is, as Mr. Laurie put it, “arguably the most famous literary franchise ever.” Hugh Laurie Directs an Episode of ?House? 2010-04-11T22:24:00Z I'm sure that, to many people, writing a play is as baffling as songwriting is to me. Once the Musical: how I fell for its honesty 2013-03-17T17:00:01Z The book baffled reviewers, however, and sold poorly. Nearly a Century Later, We’re Still Reading — and Changing Our Minds About — Gatsby 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z The government’s recent actions are not only baffling to air travelers, he says, but they also violate an American legal right to freedom of transit through the navigable airspace. Travelers are less certain about the airport screening experience than they’ve been in years 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z Which is why it baffles me that North by Northwest is regularly eclipsed in assessments of Hitchcock's oeuvre, not least by the all-conquering Vertigo, which has been fetishised by critics since the 1960s. My favourite Hitchcock: North by Northwest 2012-08-03T16:45:00Z However, AP's Mark Kennedy disagrees, calling the decision to move the audience "baffling". Rocky makes strong debut on Broadway 2014-03-14T10:12:48Z Almost without fail, the sketches escalate quickly, jump the tracks and end up in genuinely baffling places. I Think You Should Leave: is this the funniest Netflix show yet? 2019-05-10T04:00:00Z For Apple, fame seemed — seems — baffling and mortifying. Perspective | ‘Tidal’ made Fiona Apple a star 25 years ago. Its success nearly overwhelmed her. 2021-07-21T04:00:00Z Simon Mayo says he is "baffled" by Naomi Watts' decision to finish an interview about her new movie Diana ahead of time. VIDEO: Naomi Watts cuts short radio slot 2013-09-13T16:29:49Z If Solanas is present in the image, it is as a question mark, the object of Warhol’s baffled gaze. “Valerie” Is an Extraordinary Love Letter to a Radical Feminist 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z The Vatican newspaper has declared that Homer is part of the pope's flock - a claim that is leaving "The Simpsons" TV producer baffled and amused. In excelis D'oh! Vatican says Homer, Bart Catholic 2010-10-19T17:32:00Z These ominous portents are borne out by the production itself, which is baffling in its ineptitude. Not kerCHING, just thud 2011-02-14T21:35:14Z That editorial drew baffled reactions, but the question remains, When it comes to politics, how long can Taylor refuse to come to the phone? 10 Cultural Battles That Ruled 2017 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z It is inevitable, however, that it will leave visitors baffled, just as scholars and critics have been baffled by his work for half a millennium. Piero di Cosimo, a misunderstood master, at the National Gallery of Art 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z In delis, he’d stare at the cases of juice, baffled by unfamiliar flavors like mango and tangerine, unable to choose. Modern Love: Breaking Free From the Nesting Doll 2013-08-01T20:02:45Z But — blasphemy — readers starting with “Utopia Avenue” are bound to feel baffled or irritated by a number of highly elliptical allusions. Review | In David Mitchell’s splendid ‘Utopia Avenue,’ a ’60s rock band finds its groove 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z They employed it to marvel at the baffling behaviors of white folks, like a predilection for pumpkin spice anything. White Filmmakers Addressing (or Avoiding) Whiteness Onscreen 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z Bizarre images crowd the stage during almost every minute of this baffling production. Katharina Wagner Envisions a New Bayreuth Festival 2010-08-13T17:37:00Z Bertolt Brecht's epic may be about a bafflingly long and pointless 17th-century conflict, but it is also a play for our time. Mother Courage and Her Children – review 2013-03-03T14:55:09Z That the Grammys have honored her so thoroughly so early in her career must feel baffling to the pioneering rappers of decades past. The Grammys Discover Youth 2021-03-15T04:00:00Z One would think this revelation of character would set me free — a solution to my baffling career problems! — but I’m devastated. Am I a TV writer yet? 2013-05-03T00:00:00Z It’s like Henry Darger’s paintings: In terms of craft and technique, everything is off-kilter and crudely rendered, but the otherworldly world it imagines is unsettling and bafflingly strange enough to redeem its stylistic shortcomings. ‘The Sasquatch Hunter’s Almanac,’ by Sharma Shields 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z It is at once baffling and riveting, with two gargantuan outer movements surrounding a shorter middle one. Review: ‘Let Me Tell You’ Has Its New York Premiere 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z There may be filmgoers and critics who remain baffled by the franchise's popularity. The Twilight saga: a modern-day marketing fairytale 2012-11-16T11:29:25Z And I think the audience was absolutely baffled.” In Transit Blog: Making Sense of Wallace Stevens (With Help From Some Experts) 2012-02-24T19:23:06Z “He seemed to have reached the baffling conclusion that the lack of a personal relationship could be an asset,” the book continues. Books of The Times: Afghanistan as Obama and Others Game It 2010-09-22T22:53:00Z Nor did he want the reception of his recent paintings, which had so baffled the art establishment, to be muddied by the appearance of political cartoons. Perspective | Anger at Donald Trump may turn great artists into political cartoonists. It’s happened before. 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z But mostly their choices are meaningless or downright baffling. Sandra Oh saved the Golden Globes: The good, bad and ugly of the 2019 awards 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z We stood behind baffles that had windows on them, and everybody had eye contact with everybody. You Must Hear This! Rhinoceros’ “I Will Serenade You” 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z It was displayed at the Paris Salon in 1874, where attendees were somewhat baffled by its intentions. Norton Simon Museum awaits Manet's 'The Railway,' part of loan exchange 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z This shortfall seems relatively baffling when you consider women's interest in literature. Has Virago changed the publishing world's attitudes towards women? 2013-03-14T08:00:02Z When “Buggy Baby” made its premiere in London, in 2018, critics were left baffled but impressed by the hallucinatory tale. In ‘Buggy Baby,’ Shadows Creep In 2022-06-07T04:00:00Z People stopped dancing and we got a lot of baffled expressions. Wild Belle a brother-sister combo on the rise 2012-09-11T04:53:00Z Or perhaps it was during the government shutdown, when Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross was baffled when federal workers went to food banks to feed their families. Why does everybody suddenly hate billionaires? Because they’ve made it easy. 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z "It’s also pretty baffling to me that she just assumed her father was paying without even asking first." Bride-to-be demands parents pay for lavish wedding after not speaking to them for years 2020-12-20T05:00:00Z He felt angry for years, baffled and even resentful of his own survival, never speaking of them but deeply affected by the scenes he witnessed. Hiroshima survivors exhibition marks 65th anniversary of first atomic bomb 2010-08-05T16:34:00Z Anyway, this song from another planet drifted in under the duvet; ethereal opening chimes segueing into an eerie, almost mechanical beat; and then a bizarre, baffling middle-eight. Old music: Julian Cope – Charlotte Anne 2012-11-08T12:44:42Z The technical instructions for assembly that often baffle us today presented equal difficulties in the 18th century, when the problem was not a flat-pack wardrobe but a towering, snorting steam engine. The Arts of Industry in the Age of?Enlightenment by Celina Fox | Book review 2010-03-20T00:06:00Z Some commenters were as baffled as the police: What was going on here? Perspective | In pain and rage, a protester approached police. And then he danced. 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z But they are also risky, baffling, beautiful images. The Tree of Life ? review 2011-07-09T23:05:43Z When I first invited them for the feast, they were baffled: do we bring presents? what are we celebrating? is it a religious day? what in the world is pumpkin pie? How Americans in Europe are celebrating Thanksgiving 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z A Pair of Ideal Landscapes,” a collaboration between Ms. Robertson and the choreographer Esmé Boyce, musing about time, was simply baffling. Review: Satellite Collective Mixes Media and Messages at BAM Fisher 2015-09-07T04:00:00Z But this supposed adaptation would be less baffling if it made more than vague gestures in the direction of the poem’s narrative, or really any narrative at all. Review: Cirque du Soleil Chases the Holiday Spirit 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z Mikhail Lobukhin might play the lovelorn puppet with too much facial emphasis, but the baffled tilt of his head and the drumming stiffness of his jumps are movingly eloquent of Petrushka's trapped soul. Bolshoi: Russian Seasons 2010-07-30T20:31:00Z As a self-confessed wine bore, I find this baffling. How to Love Wine by Eric Asimov – review 2012-11-22T08:00:02Z Our weeklong “sexperiment” really did jumpstart our sex life, even if my daily progress reports baffled – and in some cases horrified – my friends. Our ‘sexperiment’ and other methods of improving our sex life 2017-04-01T04:00:00Z Brout says she went from being baffled by her daughter’s behavior to recognizing it in herself. Many people find the sound of chewing annoying. But for some, it produces panic or rage. 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z But this wasn’t his finest work, and I am baffled. Cannes 2015: baffling set of prizes take the edge off a great competition line-up 2015-05-24T04:00:00Z It's been a slow-burner, but the signs suggest Fringe could be here to baffle and entertain for a while. After Lost 2010-05-25T13:03:00Z On one occasion, Plasters recalls, her baffled parents discovered her shadowboxing in her bedroom. “A Lady for President?” Third Graders Respond 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z O’Hara doesn’t have much success in helping sort out the motivations of the others, particularly Meehan’s baffling Jeffrey, who, I suppose aptly enough, joins Ben in making the dissident group’s garbled transmissions. ‘Totalitarians’: Woolly takes a risk and stumbles badly with a murky political satire However, Middlebrooks was most recognizable as a Miller delivery man who was often baffled by craft beer drinkers. Actor Windell Middlebrooks, Miller High Life delivery man, dead at 36 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z Their relationship isn’t cold — it’s downright blazing at the start, but Westmead’s stranglehold on his desire leaves Poppy hurt and baffled, and their marriage settles into loneliness and longing. In These Romance Novels, the Characters Are Sexy, Hot and Toting a Ton of Emotional Baggage 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z The more naive and conservative Avery, who narrates both novels, is Watsonian, slightly baffled by his friend’s acuity, and a stand-in for the reader scrambling to catch up to the plot’s twists. ‘The Infidel Stain’ evokes a chilling time in Victorian England 2016-03-20T04:00:00Z Soggy, overwrought ensemble drama Crash has gained a reputation as the most baffling best picture winner in Oscars history. A brief history of the Oscars in viral moments they want you to forget 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z The year's most baffling film, Christopher Nolan's Inception, came away with three awards – for sound, production design and an accolade it was a shoo-in for: special visual effects. Baftas 2011: The King's Speech sweeps the board 2011-02-13T21:56:35Z As far as the full English goes, it's often its timing rather than contents that other countries find so baffling – beans before lunchtime?! What Jamie Oliver's Brazilian gaffe tells us about our deep emotions over food 2014-08-04T04:00:00Z Uncannily, even the bus was white but, unlike in the film, you could see the reactions of passersby, who often stopped on the street corner, baffled. On the white bus to Wythenshawe – council housing by design 2012-05-22T16:16:13Z And unlike the often baffling gifts people give you when they try to guess at what you might like, getting a box of cookies is usually pretty welcome. How Donald Trump ruined Christmas: I won't celebrate this year, and he's why 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z Fixing something necessary and yet broken like our stupid, impersonal, expensive, and utterly baffling health care system does not. Marie Kondo, Mary Poppins and magical adulting fantasies for a hostile world 2019-01-12T05:00:00Z In stocking feet, you immediately and viscerally–experience the luxuriousness of the pale-hued apartment, whose fine, thin carpets act as bafflingly plush landing pads. A New York City Apartment Receives an Architect’s Touch 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z Friends were also baffled at how easily I could handle other stressful-seeming situations. My fear of flying 2012-12-16T17:00:00Z Di Rosa seemed somewhat baffled by the criticisms of his work, even as he refuted them. The Campaign to Remove a Shocking Painting from the French National Assembly 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z As “I, Tonya” skips here and there and thickens the plot, it becomes increasingly baffling why the filmmakers decided to put a comic spin on this pathetic, dispiriting story. Review: ‘I, Tonya.’ I, Punching Bag. I, Punch Line. 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z Instead, she surprised her publisher and picked “The Winter’s Tale,” one of Shakespeare’s most baffling, jarring and uneven plays. Novelists Reimagine and Update Shakespeare’s Plays 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z Penn & Teller: Fool Us The challenge of baffling the comedy-magician duo continues in this new episode. Wednesday's TV Highlights: 'Legends' on TNT 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z Stillman’s baffled by the Marmite reaction his work tends to get. Whit Stillman: ‘I find it remarkable that people hate my work’ 2014-09-15T04:00:00Z Ms. Farley and Ms. Polizzi are not noticeably different people when the cameras are off, essentially guileless and as baffled by their fame as everyone else seems to be. Stars of MTV’s ‘Snooki & JWoww’ Enjoy the Attention 2012-06-27T12:00:00Z All of which may help to explain the otherwise baffling existence of “Pan,” a hectic and labored attempt to supply the boy who never grew up with an origin story. Review: ‘Pan’ Proposes Peter and Captain Hook’s Origin Stories 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z As for "Goodbye to Language": Movies that deliberately try to baffle its viewers, critics included, don't usually join the conversation. How Godard's movie beat 'Boyhood' at National Society of Film Critics 2015-01-05T05:00:00Z He spends the whole film looking smug or baffled, possibly smaffled. "Abduction": Taylor Lautner's chest gets a movie 2011-09-23T17:45:00Z But as an entertainment experience for the person who has to control all of the jumping and running and spinning involved, it breaks down and fails in bafflingly basic ways. Video Game Review: Mickey Moves Onto Yet Another Screen 2010-12-13T16:32:00Z Bannon acolytes may not be persuaded to abandon their leader, even as he squirms under Morris’ baffled tone, and everyone else is left wondering if the bad guys have already won. “American Dharma” review: Errol Morris’ Steve Bannon doc is the most disturbing movie of th... 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z By the time the trend reached a Canadian Garfield-themed restaurant — which posted a baffling image of the cartoon cat’s eyes squinting languidly atop a black square — the movement had been recast as a farce. 8 Ways a Modern Civil Rights Movement Moved the Culture 2021-05-20T04:00:00Z Today, the site is a leading purveyor of contemporary fashion — and its power baffles people in the industry. Fall Fashion: What Do Girls Want? 2010-08-25T21:53:00Z One viral tweet from her son later, the two began building a squirrel table business whose success baffles her. Everyone Gather Round the Squirrel Table. (Chipmunks Too!) 2020-12-11T05:00:00Z As for this movie, it is a bit scrappy and all over the place, and there is a baffling plot-hole, or plot-eccentricity, concerning the nature of Cross's final confrontation. The Bourne Legacy – review 2012-08-09T14:30:01Z Such decisions come directly from the top, and call me naive, but that’s beyond baffling. Does CBS care about #MeToo? 2018-06-16T04:00:00Z The creative writing moment/movement baffles me and it intrigues me. Jeanette Winterson: teaching creative writing 2012-05-18T21:50:01Z The performance baffled the audience and the comics on the dais at first; once it gained cornball momentum, it seemed to be a brilliant spoof of the old-world roots of insult comedy. Norm Macdonald, Comic Nonpareil. (That’s a Word He Might Use.) 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z I have to say, I was always baffled by their relationship. My Rear Window 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z He often jammed with Sonny Rollins, and with piano iconoclast Cecil Taylor, and if the wider public was baffled by him, he was revered by those in the loop who understood his art. 50 great moments in jazz: The shortlived cry of Albert Ayler 2010-09-27T16:53:00Z “I don’t know if I’m just baffled by Italy or just by life itself,” he said while strolling toward Milan’s main Central Station. In ‘Italian Ways,’ Tim Parks Again Tries to Explain Italy 2013-06-07T21:25:53Z OK, I’m still far from understanding this baffling British pastime, but it sure was fun. Europe’s wide world of traditional sports 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z Marian is entirely baffled about the labyrinthine rules of the social class while Peggy has both the blessing and the burden of sitting on its borders as an observer. "The Gilded Age" is a glittery confection that's more "Dynasty" than "Downton Abbey" 2022-01-25T05:00:00Z But by the end he seemed to have become as happily baffled by his fate as he was by the band of brothers who brought that fate to him. George The Fifth 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z Pain that imprisoned her and either baffled doctors or was shrugged off by them. 'The Pain Chronicles' explores the world of chronic pain 2010-09-01T22:42:00Z I'm a little baffled by how strongly he chafes at things that are, to me, pretty typical of office life. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: It’s not a peer-group decision whether or when to have kids 2021-05-14T04:00:00Z And most baffling of all, what should he tell his son and daughter, ages 9 and 11, who find themselves suspended between two homes? Review | ‘Fleishman Is in Trouble’ — and so is modern marriage 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z The Kremlinology of Oscar predictions remains as baffling as ever, reinforcing pessimism about how the Academy’s members define artistic quality—or, rather, how they define how they want to be seen defining it. The Baffling 2016 Oscar Nominees 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z It's really really really bad, and yes, indeed, baffling in its badness. Readers' reviews 2011-02-03T22:30:02Z Dylan was the perfect crutch for anyone less articulate — or scathing, or baffling — than he. Books of The Times: ‘The Dylanologists,’ David Kinney’s Look at an Obsession 2014-05-04T21:57:27Z How this translates to Allen's show being "stolen" is baffling…unless it's not about the show, or the truck, but partisan politics. "Last Man Standing" bids farewell, while Tim Allen keeps on truckin' with his right-wing shade 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z One of the most baffling elements of Grace’s story for older women was when she described Ansari sticking his fingers down her throat: how was that supposed to be seductive? Carnality and consent: how to navigate sex in the modern world 2018-02-14T05:00:00Z He's the world's most famous detective, instantly recognizable in his deerstalker cap and known for his brilliant use of logic, forensic science and disguise to solve baffling crimes. Sherlock Holmes' teen years under a magnifying glass 2011-02-26T00:28:04Z Her trajectory might appear baffling, but it aligns with the mind-bending physics of the Trump era, in which ideology is second to notoriety, allowing peripheral performers proximity to the presidency. Kimberly Guilfoyle was once half of a liberal power couple. Now she’s basically a Trump. 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z Photograph: Picture Perfect/Rex Features ▶ Final bow wow: The Artist's Uggie is quitting showbiz because of a mystery illness that has baffled experts and cost his trainer thousands of dollars in vets' bills. Outtakes: the week's film news in brief 2012-02-09T20:00:13Z Picasso, in the bafflingly dense “Still Life with Chair Caning” of 1912, showed what was possible for an artist ready to slip between real and fake, found and painted. Made You Look: The Cubist Art of Deception 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z But the best views were of a baffling Swedish fashion trend: American flag patterns on young people. Frugal Traveler Blog: Scandinavia on $125 a Day 2012-08-24T18:02:01Z He is mysterious and incredibly baffling at times. Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo- review 2013-07-13T11:00:00Z JR The commercial success guaranteed by triumph on TV talent quests might well be one of the more baffling phenomena of our epoch but it shows few signs of slowing. TV listings and previews: plan your week's viewing - 29 October - 2 November 2012-10-29T08:00:00Z Even more bafflingly, she blames herself for inviting Wallace’s crude banter. Sexism and Genius Collide ‘In the Land of Men’ 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z If “Designated” goes the “Quantico” route of turning into baffling nonsense, I will be very sad. What You Should Watch Now That Fall TV Has Arrived 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z The Spanish Ghanaian guy to my left who has only a smattering of English, looks baffled. Wash, clean, scrub: Can Jay Rayner hack life as a kitchen porter? 2015-08-23T04:00:00Z And finding a way out of a confusing and baffling life situation gives you something to offer other people. Taylor, still 'hungry' at 63, hits Carnegie Hall 2011-04-11T20:51:09Z The Thai police looked baffled but, thanks to his FBI training, he could guess that Lisa must have done something completely predictable and stolen someone's passport. Desire by Louise Bagshawe 2010-04-12T23:05:00Z Just baffled about why anyone would want to bring campsite cooking out of the wild. Upscale Food and Gear Bring Campsite Cooking Out of the Wild 2017-06-26T04:00:00Z Giving his first ever interview, Jesse, 32, sips a coffee outside a small cafe on Hollywood Boulevard, a baffled agent in tow. Extra special 2011-04-01T23:04:00Z When we get momentarily baffled in a Smith novel, we don’t, like Samuel Beckett’s Vladimir and Estragon, sit and scratch our hindquarters. Ali Smith’s ‘Summer’ Ends a Funny, Political, Very Up-to-Date Quartet 2020-08-17T04:00:00Z There was uproar, followed by a faintly baffled clarification. Jeremy Irons: ‘I have the natural tendency of a benign dictator’ 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z The shooting at Orlando’s Pulse nightclub, the largest mass shooting in American history, continues to baffle and upset people. Mass shooters often chase fame and suicide: “These are not people who want to … live with the crimes they commit” 2016-06-14T04:00:00Z I was totally obsessed with Champlain, and of course his navigation and sailing skills, which totally baffle me. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: The American Border (Not That One) 2018-07-29T04:00:00Z Parents who read bedtime stories to their infants are often baffled by their offspring's entreaties. Letters to Juliet is corny as Kansas. Great! 2010-06-14T09:45:00Z James told OC Weekly that she was baffled by the comments about her, given that she was actually “really nice” to the officers and even complimented one on her hair. Video captures California cops making fun of amputee’s “f*cking nub” and chowing down on pot candy 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z No one who hears it is going to be baffled or horrified or struck by the thrilling sense that pop music has been pushed into new, uncharted regions. David Bowie is back – with a 'beautiful, elegiac ballad' 2013-01-08T12:22:26Z I find this both baffling and annoying as I'd far rather see two characters, say, doing a karaoke version of Oklahoma! Why the outrage over The Killer Inside Me? Domestic violence really is brutal 2010-06-09T08:00:00Z As for Yeshua, the believed Messiah, he’s a smiling cipher given to dematerializing mid-confab, leaving behind enigmatic pronouncements and baffled followers. Review: ‘Risen,’ a Tale of Conversion Starring Joseph Fiennes 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z As plenty of queer and trans writers have pointed out, the lack of representation of trans people in sci-fi and fantasy genres is baffling, considering there's almost nothing more magical than transgender identity and existence. Lady Loki and the opportunity for trans representation in Marvel 2021-06-19T04:00:00Z Fans looking to learn something about The National will find that this baffling guerrilla-style film is only tangentially about the Brooklyn quintet. ‘Mistaken for Strangers’: Rock doc moves to a different beat 2014-04-10T20:58:58Z And in fact as "Foxcatcher" unfolds it concerns itself to a considerable extent with quintessentially American issues of wealth, power, class and entitlement, not to mention the baffling complexities of masculine interaction and dependence. 'Foxcatcher' a gripping story of seduction, rejection, murder 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z Having exchanged Bahamian poverty for Jim Crow-era America, barely literate, he claimed, and baffled by segregation, Poitier discovered that acting was therapy, a way to express the many personalities roiling inside him. ‘Sidney’ Review: A Lovingly Assembled Career Portrait 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z It is a decision that baffles most and shocks some, not least Lewis's wife Rachael. The Aftermath by Rhidian Brook – review 2013-05-31T09:00:02Z Increasingly, the narrative goes from enjoyably unpredictable to bafflingly random. Ward Just's novel 'Rodin's Debutante': converging lives, loose ends 2011-03-09T23:49:04Z When school and work don’t satisfy — and girls are too baffling to even contemplate — he throws himself for a time into mixed martial arts. Review | Atticus Lish’s new novel is about manhood, but don’t expect to find any social commentary 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z One has a sense of peering in, fascinated but no less baffled than the characters. ‘Goodnight, Beautiful Women’ — lucid, sensual stories 2016-05-30T04:00:00Z My boyfriend finds this amusing, but then struggles to climax, so I think he is baffled by the whole thing. I laugh maniacally when I orgasm – and my boyfriend can no longer reach climax 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z Instead, the nonprofit recommends people use "a well placed slinky or baffle" to deter squirrels and unwanted critters from bird feeders. Woman stops squirrel thief by using Vaseline on bird feeder: 'They're so greedy' 2021-06-22T04:00:00Z In Blindspot‘s pilot, it even manages to baffle the FBI!” Why China Is going Crazy Over NBC's New Spy Drama 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z Her predecessor, Colin Powell, sounded baffled last week when a BBC interviewer brought it up. The real US policy toward Nelson Mandela 2013-12-12T12:35:00Z Despite his background, David is baffled by the world into which his son descends – the naive parent staring distraught across the generation gap. Beautiful boys acting ugly: why cinema can't kick its drug habit 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z That framing device initially baffled some of the show’s cast, including Malek. Mr Robot: 'Edward Snowden is a huge fan of our show' 2015-10-17T04:00:00Z It's easy to see why some might consider passing a funeral cortege on the way to the theatre unlucky, but other superstitions are baffling. Should Alan Cumming beware the curse of Macbeth? 2013-04-16T15:03:45Z It’s borrowed from a hokey mnemonic you may dimly remember from math class — or you may not, in which case it will probably just baffle you. Review: ‘Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally,’ a Phone’s Tale 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z Consider the fidget spinner: endlessly whirring between the fingertips of “Generation Alpha,” annoying teachers, baffling parents. Prozac Nation Is Now the United States of Xanax 2017-06-10T04:00:00Z The main work on Tuesday night was Shostakovich’s awesome and often baffling Symphony No. 4 in C minor. The Mariinsky in Two All-Russian Programs at Carnegie Hall 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z In the 1950s and ’60s the literary world began to baffle him. Books of The Times: ‘P. G. Wodehouse: A Life in Letters’ 2013-01-30T21:01:45Z It presents us with a figure far more baffling than an unreliable narrator: an anti-reliable author. Books of The Times: Rick Moody?s ?Four Fingers of Death? Dips Into Absurd 2010-08-16T22:24:00Z The retrospective running at Hong Kong City Hall Oct. 7-13 should redress the balance and baffle a new generation with its village views and country charm. Ma Jir-Bo's Hong Kong 2010-09-16T13:40:00Z It may be an old trick but, like much else in the evening, it leaves you in a state of baffled pleasure. The Invisible Man ? review 2010-11-24T21:45:00Z Then, with an air of baffled wonder: “I was the only one who wanted to be a spy.” Review: Retracing the Path From Middle School Nerd to Rock Goddess 2022-10-23T04:00:00Z Rigorous methods of composition can sometimes result in bafflingly disjointed sounds that resemble a nonsensical sentence. Music Review: Peter Serkin Brings Musical Abstraction to 92nd Street Y 2014-05-12T21:40:29Z Before the professor, a finance manager baffled me when he said, “I’ll learn sign language for you.” A Love Language Spoken With Hands 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z It is, however, a remarkable and eclectic and somewhat baffling work of art. Artists and non-artists collaborate on Rogers Park project 2011-07-01T17:08:00Z It’s baffling why any credible filmmaker would involve himself with this project.” Documentary accusing Michael Jackson of sexually abusing boys to premiere at Sundance 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z All this predates her memoir, Brave, which was published in 2018, despite nefarious sabotage attempts that remain baffling to hear about. Rose McGowan: 'I won't be free of Harvey Weinstein until he's dead – or I am' 2020-02-28T05:00:00Z Morgan’s character was outwardly baffled and infuriated at the gentrification of the Brooklyn he not only knew but ran as a crack dealer 15 years ago. "The Last O.G." thrives in its tastier second season 2019-04-02T04:00:00Z Clearly, with recent police infiltration of the green movement, any self-respecting subversives would do well to look at this system, which baffled the French authorities in Algiers. Movie tips for revolutionaries 2011-01-31T17:29:33Z The viewers find it baffling and obtuse and they boo at the end. Cannes diary: day seven 2012-05-22T13:56:07Z “Rectify” captures the baffling range of what humans are capable of — tremendous grace, true compassion, unconditional love, but also heinous crimes, lifelong deception and poisonous violence. What You Should Watch This Weekend: ‘The Little Prince’ and the Olympics 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z The D.J. and his sound engineers equipped the basement with equalizers and black fabric baffles to modulate reverb, so that his rippling percussion and expansive rhythms leave your heart beating and your ears ringing. Dia Beacon Reopens With a Sonic Boom 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z When Ben Brantley reviewed an earlier version of this show at the Atlantic Theater Company, he called it “enthrallingly baffling.” 10 Plays and Musicals to Go to in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z We are baffled by it all, all the time. The Bachelor season 20, episode 7 recap: 'Why do I keep doing this to myself?' 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z I am still baffled that Mindy Kaling was not nominated for her show, certainly one of the better "sitcoms" on mainstream TV. Golden Globe Awards Winners Include ‘Boyhood’ and ‘The Grand Budapest Hotel’ 2015-01-11T05:00:00Z I stared at it, both gobsmacked and baffled. The Mystery of Magic’s Greatest Card Trick 2021-05-23T04:00:00Z The strategy behind these careers is, to myself and many outsiders, baffling. Critic’s Notebook: New York City Ballet Is Changing, but Questions Remain 2012-06-15T21:27:12Z The themes are also becoming more bafflingly abstract. 'I've never seen tent rage like it!' How Bake Off lost its way 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z Those of us with teenaged daughters of our own are all the more disturbed and baffled. To prevent abuse, we have to teach our kids not to not be “nice” 2017-07-17T04:00:00Z The closer researchers looked, the more baffling the cancer cell became, especially once they realized that the disease wasn’t something imposed from outside. Review: In ‘Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies,’ Battling an Opportunistic Killer 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z We are both baffled about her digging in on the subject. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Fiance’s mom distinguishes a great relationship from a grand one 2020-12-03T05:00:00Z It's pleasant enough, but the recent thing of putting it in every dried-fruit bake/cake/pudding/snack I find baffling. The Great British Bake Off 2020: episode two – live 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z Khadjia, a minor character beautifully played, puts a human face to a religious and cultural belief that plenty of westerners find baffling. Review: The Big Sick Treads the Minefield of Cross-Cultural Love, and of Just Being a Grown-up 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z But there’s a stubborn rigidity to Irene’s self-assurance and how she engages her reality, and she is by turns surprised, baffled and angered that other people’s actions and desires don’t always conform to her own. ‘Passing’ Review: Black Skin, White Masks 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z On paper, these elements sound exasperating, baffling and banal – and that's certainly how they were received by some. Cannes film festival: Kiarostami's scenes from a fake marriage 2010-05-18T21:00:00Z I take the view that we all have permission to be a little baffled by quantum information science and algorithmic information theory. James Gleick: 'Information poses as many challenges as opportunities' 2011-04-09T23:05:59Z I'm always baffled by the fact that there is so much resistance to teenagers being treated as children in the criminal justice system. Lawyer and activist Bryan Stevenson on building racial justice: “This work is just beginning” 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z So we’re in the baffling situation where lots of us buy coffee, but it appears that not that many of us actually enjoy drinking it – the proper stuff, anyway. Chai latte: the all-conquering beverage causing a storm in a coffee cup 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z It baffles me when I hear an audience laugh at a Gilbert and Sullivan song; such enjoyment requires a taste for archness that eludes me. Stephen Sondheim: Gershwin great? It ain't necessarily so 2010-11-24T21:31:00Z Another time she answered something I said by blurting out 'O.K.' in a tone that declared she was both baffled and disgusted by what I had just said. From Hasselbeck to McCain, "The View" needs the "right" hook when casting its conservative co-host 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z In a baffling turn of events that feels like something out of another era, they hide their ensuing relationship from Gerri, setting up a lukewarm chain reaction of betrayal and redemption. Great cast but 'Very Good Girls' could be better 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z His most recent movie, "Around a Small Mountain," is beautiful but baffling. 'Around a Small Mountain': Step right up for a beautiful, baffling circus tale 2010-08-26T20:08:00Z And what if older generations still look on young people’s increasingly complicated sex lives, with their baffling terms and outrageous practices and alien moral codes, in despair? Carnality and consent: how to navigate sex in the modern world 2018-02-14T05:00:00Z He sent her an email entreaty that acknowledged his amorous intentions, but she barely responded and her radio silence left him feeling baffled. They Wrote Their Love Story While Scripting Others 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z Though it baffled many audience members and home viewers alike, Mr. Rylance’s recitation brought him in contact with Mr. Jenkins, and the two men began to work on the earliest drafts of “Nice Fish.” ArtsBeat: Mark Rylance Play, Written With a Favorite Poet, Is Coming to the Guthrie 2012-04-16T22:17:41Z For baffling reasons, Mr. Williams fibbed about his war zone derring-do. George Stephanopoulos and the Line Between News and Entertainment 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z The music uncannily blends restless animation with somber contemplativeness, conveying that the natural world, though baffling and brutal, is alive with lust, yearning, ecstasy and danger. Music Review: An Impish Creature That Won?t Be Fenced In 2011-06-23T22:21:40Z Here's a simple rule: if the mainstream media — as represented by, say, Daily Mail columnists — are baffled by, or contemptuous of, it then it's probably worth paying attention to. Why Twitter is the quickest way from Q to A 2010-05-08T23:07:00Z Without ever becoming a violent criminal spree or a baffling head-scratcher, it’s simply a melancholy, 10-episode rumination on loss and friendship. Review | ‘Lodge 49’ reminds us that sometimes TV shows — like life — can just be weird 2018-08-05T04:00:00Z McGregor asked Shaw what she meant when she wrote that people should try to eat only “clean proteins”; meat that was “not deep-fried” was her rather baffling reply. Why we fell for clean eating 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z As a technical feat, “Actual Size” is full of pleasures; the baffling part, given the Hitchcock, is its scarcity of suspense. Review: ‘Actual Size Plus,’ Sally Silvers’s Hitchcock-Inspired Work 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z Brief flashes of inspiration occur, often at baffling moments. Review: ‘The Most Incredible Thing’ Brings Hans Christian Andersen’s Fairy Tale to Life 2016-02-03T05:00:00Z Foley says he’s baffled by the way airlines gradually removed legroom and then tried to charge extra for it in an effort to profit. Gripes about air travel have some people swearing off certain carriers 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z I was suddenly found myself making small talk someone who was as baffled by the situation as I was, and found it just as awkward. Cara Delevingne should be cut some slack – TV interviews are seldom fun 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z The show is thus a noir-ish satire about greed and acquisitiveness, adorned with stylishly clownish costumes and bafflingly contradictory dialogue delivered on the fly as the 10 actors concentrate on their slick, tightly controlled movement. Can a sleepy Chinese town become a cultural mecca? 2013-06-08T23:00:00Z But his latest movie, set in Tokyo, really is bafflingly and even exasperatingly truncated. Cannes 2012: Like Someone in Love ? review 2012-05-21T11:08:22Z Do you even remember Hoffman as irascible Oakland A’s manager Art Howe in “Moneyball,” baffled by Brad Pitt’s crazy ideas? Philip Seymour Hoffman: As great as Bogart? 2014-02-03T13:30:00Z A highly divisive band, known best for its obsessive, vagabond following, Phish remains a baffling success in the music industry. Trey Anastasio and the art of improvisation 2011-09-05T20:01:00Z The cinematography is breathtaking, the gear secretly fascinating, the determination both inspiring and baffling. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z She played a baffled, miscast actress marooned in Philip Seymour Hoffman's never-ending play in Charlie Kaufman's never-ending Synecdoche, New York. Dark star 2011-01-08T00:05:01Z And it’s baffling that the Met has lagged so badly in hiring female conductors. For the Met Opera, the Pandemic Could Be a Necessary Reset 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z As so often with Busoni, the mix of styles is baffling. Busoni: Clarinet Concertino; Flute Divertimento; Rondo Arlecchinesco, etc – review 2012-07-19T21:01:00Z His very name is cryptic and a little baffling — less rather than more — and almost a kind of joke. Art Review: An Artist Who Makes Much Out of Very Little 2011-06-30T22:05:51Z To Western readers baffled and horrified by the jihadist group’s extravagant and relentlessly spectacular brutality, that statement may sound senseless. ISIS: Making sense of the spectacular brutality and viral engagement fueling the new state of terror 2015-03-22T04:00:00Z My mother, who prefers cargo shorts to cashmere sweater sets, was baffled by my behavior. How the Clique Books Taught Me to Hate Other Girls and Myself 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z With his unique blend of gruffness, softballing and baffling non sequiturs, he's consistently managed to perplex his guests right into revealing their own hubris, insanity and creepiness. Larry King's memorable moments 2010-06-30T14:31:00Z And she's a sympathetic and similarly baffled parent, trying to work her way through toddler tantrums while meeting other mums at different stages of bringing up their kids. TV highlights 08/08/2011 2011-08-07T20:59:01Z It’s that very blindness, that insensitivity, when you consider how humane and compassionate his photographs are, that is most baffling. Perspective | Great art isn’t always made by good people, but this is getting ridiculous 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z At the same time, experts admit they are baffled by much of the painting's content and are enlisting help in unlocking a series of classical puzzles. Cracking the Tintoretto code 2010-06-09T06:23:00Z And, most baffling of all, why was Jessica pretending to have one too – couldn’t she just borrow Elizabeth’s? In praise of my cousins – all 39 of them 2015-08-01T04:00:00Z Just how those pieces fit was sometimes baffling. Heavy new QOTSA album looks at life after death 2013-06-03T15:25:08Z The rest of the world may find British behavior baffling, Ms. Walters says, but “we almost invariably understand.” Review: ‘Very British Problems’ Keeps Calm and Carries On Through Discomfort 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z I’m more than a little baffled that anyone would green-light such a horrifyingly bad name, even if it is the same name as the original series. 'The Slap' Is The Worst Name For A TV Show Ever 2015-03-07T05:00:00Z Spectators might be baffled, maddened or bored, but Rainer was not interested in gratifying her audience. Step-by-step guide to dance: Yvonne Rainer 2010-12-24T13:12:31Z She asked for a photo, and, slightly baffled by this turn of events, against all reason, I sent one. The internet scammer who loved me (not) 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z The longer I stand there, the more baffling the question seems. These faces from the ice age give the lie to our idea of civilisation 2013-02-08T07:00:11Z But there followed an ovation, which baffled them. Dance Review: Cunningham and Cage?s ?Roaratorio,? a ?Legacy Tour? Revival 2010-06-07T22:15:00Z She invokes those words of Hardy, one of her heroes, in inviting us to see how these two seemingly baffling series of numbers are related. | 'A Disappearing Number': Simon McBurney?s Play at Lincoln Center Festival 2010-07-16T22:29:00Z In a newspaper interview in 2008, Spinetti said he was baffled by actors who turned down work or refused to tour, telling drama students to learn "the three Rs: redundancy, rejection and resting". Beatles film actor Victor Spinetti dies 2012-06-19T12:05:30Z That series was a poetic and baffling testament to the force of human connection, involving interpretive dance and a telepathic octopus. ‘A Murder at the End of the World’ Review: P.I. Meets A.I. 2023-11-13T05:00:00Z When it was first published, in 1943, “Two Serious Ladies” received lukewarm, even baffled, reviews. The Madness of Queen Jane 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z Listening back today, this might be the most baffling component of Jawbreaker’s collapse. Review | Has Jawbreaker mastered the punk rock reunion show? 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z There's no distancing oneself from this fellow baffled traveler. Beckett classic 'Happy Days' on superb ground at Boston Court 2014-09-15T04:00:00Z For the first time in my life I felt the baffling, frustrating and debilitating effects of fatigue: inability to concentrate, loss of memory, tiredness, apathy, you name it. You don’t know $#% about CFS 2012-07-25T00:00:00Z The London courtroom was packed for Miller's appearance and there were roars of laughter when a time delay on the videolink left Miller baffled by one of Langdale's questions. Actress Sienna Miller angry at British phone-hacking case details 2014-01-31T17:55:21Z It’s not just the content of “Too Many Cooks” that is so baffling and intriguing—it’s the content delivery system. Making viral TV: How “Too Many Cooks” and “Over the Garden Wall” work their hypnotic magic 2014-11-14T05:00:00Z Viewers who tuned into the interview were baffled. Morrissey takes yet another bizarre swipe at Obama’s race: “He doesn’t look overly African black” 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z How the audience was maybe one-third amorous men and two-thirds baffled onlookers trying to make sense of what we were seeing. Perspective | Stormy Daniels and the bosom of chaos 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z Here, as throughout this disappointing movie, what’s missing is the one thing that defined the silent era at its greatest and to which Chazelle remains bafflingly oblivious: its art. ‘Babylon’ Review: Boozing. Snorting. Grinding. That’s Entertainment!? 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z “The amount of white people who get to skate by just being mildly complicit in violent white supremacy just baffles me.” Seattle’s Ijeoma Oluo calls out the elephant in the room in ‘Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America’ 2020-11-27T05:00:00Z And, indeed, there are many baffling elements to Axton’s story that would benefit from an expert’s assessment. What if the Thief Who Steals Your Identity Is Your Mom? 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z It's a piece of ineffable eccentricity, baffling and skirting around brilliance. Fruitful Ties and Bone Dust – Edinburgh festival review 2012-08-21T17:00:02Z Far more baffling — criminal, actually — is that Brown’s voice is absent, entirely, from “In the Great Green Room” until the final page. A Sleepy Biography for the Author of ‘Goodnight Moon’ 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z Last year, that meant the Gothams were the first to attempt a big awards show over Zoom, and like the telecasts that would follow, the ceremony was airless and full of baffled cues. The Gotham Awards Find a Big Winner in ‘The Lost Daughter’ 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z For the benefit of those who were slightly baffled by the whole thing, we'll begin with a quick summary of the comments beneath last week's Beady Eye interview. Readers' reviews 2011-02-24T23:15:01Z Holed up in one of David’s spare apartments crammed with repossessed furniture, he finds civilian life and particularly civilian life in the United States baffling. The comedic clash of an American businessman and an Israeli innocent abroad 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z We are all baffled as to why my mother absolutely insists that they join us whenever I ask her to get together. Perspective | Ask Amy: Online relationship might be a catfish 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z It’s not only his awakening that baffles medical science; he is also in fine physical shape despite a dozen years of immobility. Review: In ‘Beyond,’ a Man Awakens From Coma. Has Superpowers. Eh. 2017-01-01T05:00:00Z Still, “This Was the End” will reward a thoroughgoing knowledge of the Chekhov original and may baffle the unfamiliar. Review: ‘This Was the End,’ a Spectral Riff on Chekhov 2018-06-10T04:00:00Z Early on, Wilson asks a stranger if he has strong thoughts on scaffolding and the response is a baffled no. The Best Half-Hour of Comedy in 2020 Is About … Scaffolding? 2020-11-02T05:00:00Z It makes the dozens of arrests of government officials, including Saul, that come swiftly afterwards even more baffling. Homeland season six finale recap – America First 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z Marc Anthony’s controlled yelps soften the edges of Will Smith’s dad raps, while Bad Bunny coolly murmurs, a little bit gleeful and a little bit baffled. The Playlist: Lady Gaga Dives Into a Fresh Era, and 15 More New Songs 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z She still baffles us, still frightens us, but she compels us, too, in her ability to develop an imaginary of something else. I Love Dick on television marks the rise of the female loser 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z The bus swerved again, and as she careened toward me, I’ll never forget her baffled laugh as she told me that her mother lived just on the other side of town. Notes from a trailing spouse: “Just like I pictured it” How does a city pick its people? 2017-06-11T04:00:00Z An image posted alongside these words was equally baffling: a GIF showing members of the Atlanta Hawks celebrating a teammate’s dunk. Rudy Giuliani and the Butt-Dialler Within All of Us 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z It’s baffling because, on land, these people would never dream of placing their shoeless feet on, say, a restaurant table. Perspective | Airline passengers do the strangest things 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z Principal Lebonsky and the other adults, who Ben says have lost their senses of humor, are baffled by the anonymous pranksters and are less than amused. KidsPost Summer Book Club: ‘Pickle’ 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z Most bafflingly, the Alaska scene is set to vividly Mediterranean music. Paul Taylor Opens With Humor Intact, but Poetry Missing 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z Those people catch the specific, politically valenced meaning of the Trumponym “founder,” even if it baffles all the rest of us. Trump, the University of Chicago, and the Collapse of Public Language 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z Some of the patrons are baffled, some enthusiastic, some noncommittal, a mixed bag of responses that seems a bit deflating. Film: A Fresh Look Back at Jean-Luc Godard?s ?Breathless? 2010-05-21T17:18:00Z I read the book when I was 28 and rather baffled by life. My hero: Caitlin Moran by Annabel Pitcher 2013-01-11T20:00:12Z She took a baffled look around and told me that she didn’t know. A Place Beyond Words: The Literature of Alzheimer’s 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z And I don’t want to get entangled in the arguments over jobs, the virtues of density, the baffling antipathy of a substantial portion of the general public toward modernism. A 21st-Century Renaissance for Ford Foundation Landmark 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z But in determining how much money it would earn, they were baffled. Tom Cruise Controls the Weekend with Oblivion 2013-04-21T18:29:58Z The midwest is a place that baffles many people on the coasts of America as well as those who observe the great, rolling expanse of the self-described "heartland" from the safety of abroad. Gillian Flynn: chronicler of the midwest's dark side 2013-03-24T00:06:17Z Now teenagers, the children still don't know what happened; so when Freddy comes back to play inside their skulls, they are both terrified and baffled. A Nightmare on Elm Street Review: Freddy's Not Dead Yet 2010-04-29T23:55:00Z That, in any case, is the opinion of a smitten but baffled lover, who goes on to observe of Joan’s photographs, “It’s like they give us a true part of you, but only a part.” Review: In ‘Joan,’ a Photographer Tries to Focus Her Past 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z In an episode of Russell Brand’s “The Trews,” posted online this week, the comedian was baffled by comments made by Fox News’ Jeanine Pirro — especially when she advocated for violence. Russell Brand went on a truly epic rant against Fox News and Rupert Murdoch 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z I’d say maneuvering is one of the more challenging rowing skills, but all rowing skills baffled me. There’s much to know before you row 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z But do expect to hear some tasty stories about magic tricks of yore, and to see some pretty baffling modern-day magic by Mr. Cohen as well. Television Review: ‘Lost Magic Decoded,’ With Steve Cohen 2012-10-17T21:55:03Z Many of the pundits widely dismissed Paul's showing, a stance that baffled Maddow. Television networks bring something new to Iowa 2012-01-04T11:19:08Z Most baffling of all, there’s no discussion of Bellevue’s famous services for survivors of torture. Review: ‘Bellevue’ Celebrates a Hospital Not Crazy, but Compassionate 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z From start to finish this is an intriguing but baffling sonata. Music Review: Hungarian Tradition, African Lilt 2011-05-27T23:00:24Z The collection of personal ephemera seemed a little baffling and elegiac at first, but, taken together with the paintings on view, they offer a window onto Henry's emergence as an artist. Review: Howard House's second Henry show offers a window onto artist's emergence 2010-03-15T04:01:00Z But in what would be a baffling paradox, were this anyone but Berlioz, the Requiem is subtle and chastened more often than grandiose and bombastic. Music Review: Making a Mighty Sound for Berlioz, but Delicately 2011-02-14T23:29:09Z But in the big picture, it remains kind of baffling. Yet another Yi-Fen Chou: Secret white guy “Jesús Ángel García” apologizes for adopting a Latino pen name 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z It baffled a lot of people, but it earned a lot of respect too, and most importantly, it paved the way for a cavalcade of complex, troubled roles from high-prestige directors. How to stage a Hollywood comeback 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z The inclination to defend a cult leader against the charge of “mind control” is somewhat baffling. How Cults Corrected America 2019-04-24T04:00:00Z I totally understand the first two, but the whole no-gifts things baffles me. Carolyn Hax: Does an ailing grandma turn a European jaunt into a guilt trip? 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z Whatever the cause, it is a baffling, and concerning, sight. Hiking the authentic Great Wall of China, without the crush 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z Some were there as proud soldiers of QAnon, a baffling conspiracy theory that has flourished in the Trump era. Evening in America: What it felt like on Trump’s Fourth of July 2019-07-05T04:00:00Z Everything about the match — the shots, the baffled announcers, the wardrobes — is painful to watch. Review: Golf Channel Drama and Adult Swim Duffers 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z Just as baffling, just as easy, was the way he said, in his gentle voice, that he loved me, he missed me, he was glad to talk to me. My Brother Tom’s Schizophrenia 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z I’m more baffled by Trump’s interactions with the entertainment side of the broadcast equation. The Real Role TV Entertainment Played in Donald Trump’s Victory 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z Though he’s probably baffled as many people as he’s entertained, Turkington has achieved legitimate success in this odd role. What’s it like to live as one of the ‘worst’ comics in the world? Gregg Turkington is finally talking about it. 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z He was a photographic Rorschach test: Some saw his large, carefully turned out figure as strikingly manly, some as feminine and some as a baffling composite. Review | Surprising influences on Oscar Wilde’s greatest works 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z I never had any maternal instinct and it always baffled me why I was expected to have children. Toyah Willcox 2013-03-22T13:00:01Z Malick's offense was to include, early in the film, a 17-minute segment encapsulating the history of the cosmos in glorious, often abstract imagery; it baffled and thus angered many moviegoers. 30:Minutes or Less: Jesse Eisenberg and Aziz Ansari in a Go-Nowhere Fargo 2011-08-11T21:05:00Z McCabe’s accounts of his baffled interactions with Jeff Sessions, the former attorney general, would be high comedy if they were not so dire. In ‘The Threat,’ Andrew McCabe Issues the Latest Warning Call About Trump’s America 2019-02-16T05:00:00Z This baffling, lysergic rabbit-hole of oddballs in a deeply weird town redefined what television could be – more like a film than TV, more like a novel than a film. #TeamLogLady! How the world finally caught up with Twin Peaks 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z Yet the show, a disconnected suite of mediocre hip-hop routines riddled with baffling elements, seemed less about that process than still involved in it, and at an early, inchoate stage. Illstyle and Peace’s ‘IMpossible IZZpossible’ at BAM Fisher 2015-01-18T05:00:00Z Still, the notion that Stephanopoulos would give money to a charity linked to a politician he was likely to be covering in the future was baffling to former colleagues. ABC's Stephanopoulos under fire for failing to disclose donations 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z She wonders, “Did I all her life keep a baffle between us”? Books of The Times: ?Blue Nights,? by Joan Didion ? Review 2011-10-31T18:26:44Z It invariably get a laugh when the audience sees New York pedestrians acting baffled by actors performing near hot dog carts. The Demolition Artist: 3 Critics Debate Ivo van Hove 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z Like you, my friends are baffled by what appears to be an overnight change. Perspective | A parent of a teenage boy wonders: What happened to my kind kid? 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z Most baffling was the omission of Mica Levi’s score for “Under the Skin,” which, like Greenwood’s work for Anderson, moves from seething dissonance to eerie simplicity and back again. Composing for Hollywood 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z Audiences were sold a sci-fi with George Clooney and were baffled by what seemed to be a lugubrious and elusive tone. What the F? How Mother! joined the 'bad movie' club 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z Yet he was far from the only researcher baffled by the events unfolding in the region. To the Poles — Before They Started Melting 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z The object piques in him an enchantingly baffled curiosity about our vanished era and its consumerist ways. Don’t Eat the Breakfast Cereal. It’s Made of Plastic. 2020-11-01T04:00:00Z But first there was the baffling tenderness between a man and his Tide. The Sociopathic Comedy of Brett Davis 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z Reporters on the beat, however, are somewhat baffled by the agency’s aggressiveness, especially because Pruitt’s replacement, former energy-industry lobbyist Andrew Wheeler, is more low-key than his predecessor. The environment for reporters covering the EPA just got a lot more toxic 2019-07-12T04:00:00Z I've always been baffled when artists get angry about poor reviews. The critic who hit the stage 2010-05-13T21:00:00Z He was always baffled by the world, but nonetheless his customary stance was bewildered readiness for action. Clive Dunn in Dad's Army: stoicism, charm and furtive sausages 2012-11-07T18:38:12Z No one who buys The Wörld Is Yours is going to do so in the hope of being surprised or baffled: these days Motörhead's musical appeal rests on their immutability. Mot?rhead: The W?rld Is Yours ? review 2011-01-06T15:00:01Z A few pedestrians passed by the dented machine, completely baffled. | Tribeca Film Festival Directors’ Most Memorable New York Minutes 2014-04-22T18:50:30Z These 30-something folks, comfortable in their circumstances and their skins, are allowed to be smart of heart if baffled by the 21st-century courtship game. Think Like a Man: Men and Women Behaving Bedly 2012-04-19T17:07:29Z Combine it with the darkness, the slowness — and I haven’t even gotten to the baffling lack of tension or surprise. The dancer and the robot: In ‘Huang Yi & Kuka,’ longing is cold comfort 2015-09-26T04:00:00Z In fact, she was baffled from Day 1. Teyonah Parris Didn’t Get ‘WandaVision’ at First, Either 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z Its broadcasting booth is illuminated by a single glowing bulb, and its walls are covered in egg-carton-like soundproofing baffles. Review: ‘Radio Dreams’ Builds a Spiritual Home for Stateless Souls 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z “It was so meaningless and pointless, and such a baffling event that it got me thinking about the why of it,” he said. In Broadway’s ‘Grey House,’ Something Nightmarish This Way Comes 2023-05-17T04:00:00Z I’m baffled that museums today, worried about adaptability, so rarely opt for fixed and varied spaces, rooms with character. Review: A New Whitney Lets New York City Pour In 2015-04-19T04:00:00Z Such approaches to theater continue to baffle me. ArtsBeat: He's Having a Baby: 'Birthday' in London 2012-06-29T18:30:51Z The effect was often baffling, intermittently lovely and frequently very funny. 3 Classic Novels. 22 Minutes. Why Not? 2011-05-23T22:34:30Z Sitting at a table in the museum’s Center for Poetic Thought in Brookland’s Arts Walk corridor, museum leaders admitted that the single-room institution, poised to turn 15 next year, has baffled donors and visitors alike. A poetry museum that eschews having a home 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z But anyone who watched City Ballet in his lifetime will remember that some of his casting indicated an extraordinarily catholic — and sometimes baffling — idea of how his roles could be reinterpreted. Stars’ Variety Shines in City Ballet Balanchine Program 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z A double-height library, with a curtain wall and bright orange acoustic baffles, anchors the street. Chicago Finds a Way to Improve Public Housing: Libraries 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z Comedians said they were baffled by the council's decision to pull funding. Manchester comedy festival scrapped owing to lack of funding 2012-08-10T14:05:55Z A Procession of Modernism, Neo-Classical Strains Added Some music is simply ahead of its time, baffling its first-time listeners with its daring and unfamiliarity. Music Review: Tactus, Student Ensemble, at the Manhattan School of Music 2012-02-08T22:58:19Z It’s often baffling, possibly offensive and frequently bizarre, but always arrestingly brilliant. Notable fiction in 2016 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z The Daily Telegraph’s critic called it “infuriatingly baffling” and “mightily pretentious,” adding, “I doubt the show’s ambience will play out well with E.N.O.’s core audience.” Daniel Kramer Quits at English National Opera 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z Just as fascinating too – a rare glimpse into a world that is not only unfamiliar to most of us but also totally baffling. TV review: Agony & Ecstasy: A Year With English National Ballet; Caroline Quentin: A Passage Through India; Horizon: Predators in Your Backyard 2011-03-08T22:05:01Z With T3, many reviewers have retreated from their previous horrified stance to baffled resignation. The New Transformers: Turn On the Dark 2011-06-29T21:00:00Z Certified Copy is the deconstructed portrait of a marriage, acted with well-intentioned fervour by , but persistently baffling, contrived, and often simply bizarre – a highbrow misfire of the most peculiar sort. Film review: Certified Copy 2010-09-02T21:35:00Z There are maverick performers and then there's Claudia O'Doherty, a comedian whose off-the-wall shows will leave you amused, baffled, provoked and delighted. This week's new live comedy 2012-08-17T23:05:31Z “Così” explores the baffling truth that romance may be more arbitrary than we like to admit. Review: As James Levine Sues, the Met Opera Opens a New ‘Così’ 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z We watched as the Kardashians became a baffling but irrefutable empire and spawned a new genre of television in which the venal was celebrated, the petty encouraged. Bruce Jenner's story is his alone to tell, so why all the wild talk? 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z She tells of matrilineal tribes, like the Iroquois and the Cherokee, baffling and enraging male colonists, who refused to honor “petticoat government.” ‘Woman’ Is an Ambitious Attempt to Capture Four Centuries of Being Female 2022-03-09T05:00:00Z Her ink-and-pencil planning maps for the festivals are so detailed as to baffle the eye. Charlotte Moorman, Tradition Disrupter, Is the Focus of Two Shows 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z It is also baffling why, even after the mistake was made, they refused to downgrade you to coach, and again, the airline declined to comment further. Help! The Law Says Lufthansa Owes Me Money, but I Can’t Collect. 2023-02-21T05:00:00Z With the local police baffled, Jack Whicher, a detective from the Metropolitan police, arrives to investigate and, with the contemporary testimonies carefully reassembled, we follow his investigation. Guardian bookclub: The Suspicions of Mr Whicher by Kate Summerscale 2012-12-28T22:55:11Z It is the America of today that left Bush baffled and defeated. 'Destiny and Power' sheds light on George H.W. Bush and the country we've become 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z Philadelphians freaked out, and baffled workers at the national park were flooded with outraged calls. April Fools’ Day is a garbage holiday. Here is its terrible history. 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z To channel Warhol’s true notion of a tape-recorded play, “WARHOLCAPOTE” will need to baffle its viewers as well as please them. Eavesdropping on Warhol and Capote 2017-08-30T04:00:00Z But Guston flew the coop and circled back to representation, baffling many of his admirers. Philip Guston’s About-Face, in a Bracing Show at Hauser & Wirth 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z I think what baffles comics is the apparently random way in which a joke from a show full of similar jokes seems to jump out and take on a life of its own. A laughing matter: Comedians Steve Punt and Shappi Khorsandi debate whether comedy is too cruel 2011-01-22T08:31:01Z Some of the family scenes are touching, but it's full of bathos, too – see a baffling scene involving a giant false nose. TV highlights 29/05/2012 2012-05-28T18:59:01Z Instead, Mr. Mallon emphasizes the man’s power to baffle even those closest to him. Review: ‘Finale’ by Thomas Mallon Moves Past ‘Watergate’ and Into the Reagan Era 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z “Search,” the couple’s most successful collaboration, is a series of quirky characters channeled by a philosophical bag lady, Trudy, who is trying to explain the human race to benign but baffled aliens. Why Lily Tomlin said yes to 'Intelligent Life' without her 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z Audiences were baffled and more than 200 people, about a sixth of the audience, walked out before the end of the film’s premiere, says Benson. Kubrick’s 2001: the film that haunts our dreams of space 2018-04-15T04:00:00Z The editing is always seamless, the music selections are always perfectly placed, and his list is always baffling. A Video Countdown of the Year's 25 Best Movies 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z But it’s long baffled me that culturally minded people who are very curious about new paintings, new novels, new plays, new films, new dances, even so-called “modern” dances, will be so closed to new music. Who Should Lead the New York Philharmonic? Readers Respond. 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z What was it that so delighted my friends and baffled me? Wagner: beauty in the eye of the beholder 2011-07-14T15:01:01Z The alien in turn, at first baffled and disgusted by humans, grows increasingly attached to his Earth family. The Humans by Matt Haig – review 2013-05-15T07:00:04Z I find this photo caption baffling: "The women representing standard-issue beauty...are incredibly thin." ‘I Feel Pretty’ and the Rise of Beauty-Standard Denialism 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z While Stan simmers in front of the television, Joy putters about, baffled by her four towering, worrisome children, whose failure to produce a single offspring enrages her. Liane Moriarty’s New Novel Is a Family Saga and a Mystery 2021-09-12T04:00:00Z At its 1943 premiere, this work baffled audiences and the autocratic Soviet officials who oversaw culture, mainly because of the final movement, a quizzical Allegretto. Jurowski Leads London Philharmonic at Carnegie Hall 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z “What am I doing?” he repeated, as if the question baffled him. Teaching the People’s Republic 2012-09-03T13:00:00Z On it, a statement by Ritchie seems to turn the rock star’s tentative, frankly baffling campaign for America’s most prestigious legislative body into something all too real. Kid Rock on possible Senate run: “It’s game on mthrfkers” 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z By combining raw footage, interviews and re-enactments with an upbeat soundtrack, it baffled and intrigued from start to finish. Clip joint: Top film trailers of 2012 2013-01-02T16:34:10Z There were typically baffling qualities to some of his performances here. Music Review: At Carnegie Hall, Maurizio Pollini Celebrates Chopin 2010-04-30T20:20:00Z He was distant and joyless and bafflingly uncurious about his children's lives. Pater Familiar: Watching Andrew Cuomo's pandemic briefings finally let me grieve my father 2020-08-30T04:00:00Z “I made the mistake of looking down and saw all these narrow stairs,” says Simmons, who was baffled that her husband — typically the one more afraid of heights — was not suffering from vertigo. | Tabitha Simmons Finds Romance in the Andes 2013-08-20T13:00:35Z They say wisdom comes with age, but some subjects, such as romance, remain baffling even for those with decades of life experience. 'Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel': Love is an age-old riddle [video] 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z Authorities "will decline to extradite, and it just baffles me," Fernandez said. Border-crossing fugitives a national problem 2012-01-29T06:00:00Z The guards charged in Valdez’s death were bafflingly acquitted by a jury in a North Florida town where FSP was a leading employer, despite evidence of their boot prints on his back. Battling censorship behind bars 2013-05-07T13:00:00Z One baffling aspect of the story is why Weaver would risk his family and career to approach strangers on Twitter with unsolicited sexual offers. The fall of John Weaver, a Lincoln Project co-founder whose political career was shrouded in mystery 2021-02-12T05:00:00Z But his coded emotional settings seemed elusive, even baffling, as did his stylistic relationship to current art. Howard Hodgkin, Whose Paintings Were Coded With Emotion, Dies at 84 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z "I'm baffled by this sudden announcement as nothing seen in this picture wasn't in the screenplay eighteen months ago," Millar said. 'Kick-Ass' creator baffled by Carrey's rebuke of film's violence 2013-06-24T22:36:40Z In detailing the desperate need for heroes that everyone displays around this troop of baffled and increasingly drunk young men, it investigates one of the fundamental cravings in our society. Choose July's Reading group book 2013-06-26T13:35:35Z There is a fine cast, headed by the impressive American contralto Meredith Arwady as Griselda, the king’s baffled and anguished queen. Music Review: One Cruel King, by Way of Vivaldi 2011-08-10T22:00:40Z While the unabashed peppiness of the superstar may baffle older generations, JoJo’s millions of followers on various social media platforms, consumer-product empire and sold-out concerts are reason enough to believe she is just getting started. What’s on TV Saturday: ‘The Amazing Jonathan Documentary’ and JoJo Siwa 2019-08-17T04:00:00Z It's more fun to honor those films and filmmakers who've gotten the Internet most bafflingly wrong. Pervs and thieves on the Internet: A Hollywood history 2011-03-29T22:30:00Z And as failures of empathy go, this one is utter and baffling. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Should a single try to burst her friends’ couple bubble? 2019-03-05T05:00:00Z Lindsay Lohan's investigation into Indian child-trafficking and Ross Kemp's self-aggrandising reports from the war in Afghanistan being two of the most baffling examples. Celebrity experts: time for a rain check 2011-04-08T11:49:31Z Roosevelt was one of the towering figures of the 20th century, but he and his accomplishments scarcely register in this amorphous, bafflingly aimless movie. Movie Review: ‘Hyde Park on Hudson,’ With Bill Murray and Laura Linney 2012-12-06T13:00:00Z Clara Schumann’s 200th birthday this year attracted a baffling lack of attention, but at least it gave us a bold debut recording from a young pianist worth watching. The 25 Best Classical Music Tracks of 2019 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z Leto is a creature so distant, so baffling, we simply must gaze at him in wonder. Gal Gadot and friends singing to us about self-isolation? That’s a bit rich 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z Within this process I was discovering the meaning of a word I’d always been baffled by. The healing power of hunting 2015-11-15T05:00:00Z Cuiffo, who has an amiable if strained smile, a precise gait and spiky hair, is stymied if not baffled by this request. Is Originality Even a Worthy Ambition Anymore? 2023-06-28T04:00:00Z But these are the principles that surfaced again and again, and that now seem to me most useful for navigating times as baffling and stress-inducing as ours. Oliver Burkeman's last column: the eight secrets to a (fairly) fulfilled life 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z The problem baffled me, and blocked the progress of my novel, until I suddenly saw the answer. David Lodge on HG Wells 2011-03-11T10:00:01Z Malcolm was also baffled by some of what Fisher said, at one point remarking, “I had no idea what she was talking about.” In the Hands of Janet Malcolm, Journalism Becomes Art 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z Equally baffling is how so many filmmakers manage to get Boston wrong. Thank your lucky stars you don’t have Eddie Coyle’s friends 2017-08-05T04:00:00Z He scorned rich and unsophisticated collectors who paid astronomical sums for his paintings, and he was baffled by an American admirer who asked for a paintbrush as a souvenir of their meeting. Monet’s last, desperate effort to create the world’s most beautiful paintings 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z But I was baffled at the same time.” Art, Reagan and blackface: Edgar Arceneaux examines controversial performance by Ben Vereen 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z Jessica is baffled by the sound and other, vaguely similar phenomena, but she doesn’t seem to be delusional, or even unduly troubled. ‘Memoria’ Review: In Search of Lost Time 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z I passionately believe God comforts us in our times of greatest distress – but why he intervenes sometimes and not at others remains baffling to me. Why I prayed for my testicles 2016-12-24T05:00:00Z Mr. Stevens remains a little baffled by his nomination, and the intensity of being part of an awards campaign. The Agony, Absurdity and Ecstasy of the Oscar for Best Song 2018-02-14T05:00:00Z “He wasn’t part of that professional-counselling landscape. It’s baffling to me that no one was vetting him.” The Unseen Student Victims of the “Varsity Blues” College-Admissions Scandal 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z The rest of the us may scratch our heads, baffled by the attraction, but it's never going to fade. 2010-01-11T19:56:00Z He got doused and naturally was angry and baffled. Am I an unconscious tease? 2012-09-07T00:00:00Z The third founder, Frank Bender, a forensic sculptor known for an uncanny ability to craft facial likenesses from skulls that had baffled law enforcement, died in 2011. Murder on the menu 2012-11-22T14:00:00Z It’s a somewhat baffling confession coming from a man whose name has become synonymous with literary excess, a writer whose six-volume autobiographical novel, “My Struggle,” obliterated the usual distinctions between literature and life. In Searching Essays, Knausgaard Extols the Freedom and Limitations of Art 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z The Johnny Depp-Amber Heard defamation trial was, from gavel to gavel, a singularly baffling, unedifying and sad spectacle. The Actual Malice of the Johnny Depp Trial 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z Then she became massively famous and I was pleased to see her acknowledged but mostly baffled because I'd not experienced her work. Russell Brand on Amy Winehouse: 'We have lost a beautiful, talented woman' 2011-07-24T22:14:47Z For the second half of the 1930s, Shirley Temple was a box-office sensation, a fact that’s at once understandable and baffling. Escape With Me Into the Trippy World of 1930s Musicals 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z Asked to write a 3,000-word article about the organization, the author baffled his editors by handing them an 80,000-word manuscript. 9 books Hunter S. Thompson never published 2021-11-06T04:00:00Z I was baffled by the question of where I should live. How I Solved It: New York or Lahore? 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z Space is big and empty, stations are confined, weightlessness is baffling, durations are distorted, and relationships are skewed. Movie of the Week: “Mission to Mars” 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z The absence of creative thinking about holiday entertainment in the theater is baffling. ArtsBeat: Theater Talkback: A Holiday Wish for Better Holiday Theater 2010-12-23T00:24:33Z Performances of the stand-alone piece are rare, and though it's thrilling to hear the familiar, dark themes begin to stir, it's also a little baffling when they stop. Hall?/Elder - review 2010-10-04T20:45:00Z An explanation, including the words “Carrie” and “Badlands” and possibly “acting legend”, was forthcoming, but the baffled celebrity was none the wiser. The miracle of Sissy Spacek – why it's time to rediscover her genius 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z “A beaver baffle will also be included so beaver families can make the pond their home in the future,” noted the project’s flier. With beavers in the suburbs, park officials look to balance needs of humans and ‘nature’s engineers’ 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z This comes to mind because Tesco chief executive Dave Lewis seems bent on making shopping in his stores less baffling than it used to be. Why too much choice is stressing us out 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z “She evaporated!,” her baffled assistant, who was with her at the time, tells the police. ‘Sister Aimee’ Review: Bible Belter 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z What they point to is anyone's guess. 4M2 reinforces the stereotype of contemporary dance as bafflingly cryptic, if not outright opaque. Dance 3 | Dance review 2010-03-16T23:05:00Z She is baffled by all the political fighting that goes on. Meeting Tracey Emin 2012-05-25T23:05:29Z In a small, isolated and geographically idyllic mountain town, the dead begin to return, initially as baffled and horrified as their living loved ones. A&E's eerie 'The Returned' veers far from usual zombie tale 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z Two decades later, in 1999, we had an even more baffling experience. Putting the F-word in BBFC 2010-09-30T21:30:00Z He’s on the West Coast to rehearse and film videos with his band, the Voidz, whose equally enthralling and baffling sophomore album, “Virtue,” dropped last month. ‘The essence of life is kind of a nostalgia anticipation sandwich’: Philosophy 101 with Julian Casablancas 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z Not all patrons were aware of the avian theme; a few seemed baffled as to why the foyer and bathrooms of Alice Tully Hall were filled with recorded sounds of chirping birds. Music Review: Emerson String Quartet at Alice Tully Hall 2012-08-14T22:06:47Z As baffling dream sequences go, it's in a league of its own. Your next box set: Berlin Alexanderplatz 2010-08-06T05:45:00Z It’s a stance that baffles her non-Cuban friends and colleagues, she said. The Cuban-American Generation Gap 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z Even now, after reading some parts several times, I'm baffled by the concept of different timelines. Vortex by Julie Cross - review 2013-03-12T12:00:00Z The latest from the Japanese director Takashi Miike, “Shield of Straw,” might have received a less-hostile reception Monday morning if it were not in the main competition, where it has, bafflingly, been slotted. ArtsBeat: Cannes Film Festival: Miike’s Honest Cop, Winding Refn’s Wallpaper 2013-05-22T15:14:03Z Playing Alan Wake, I kept encountering a great concept suffocated by bafflingly narrow and unimaginative design and embarrassingly derivative and rote storytelling. Video Game Review: Remedy Entertainment?s Alan Wake for Xbox 360 2010-05-19T21:51:00Z His discontent in the face of this attention is the most baffling section in the movie, one that has the ring of a point being made. When Jewish Artists Wrestle With Antisemitism 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z In a Cunningham dance, the mind can wander, experience different rates of change, be baffled, engrossed, astonished, bored. ‘Cunningham’ Review: Exploring Space, Time and Dance in 3-D 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z Singers from the Royal College of Music and soloists joined the early music ensemble Florilegium, directed by Ashley Solomon, in this bold endeavour which was magical yet baffling. Dido and Aeneas; English Music festival – review 2013-06-01T23:07:11Z I think her cheerful equanimity is authentic – and if I find it at times exasperating, I suspect she would find this baffling. Sophie Kinsella: 'You can be highly intelligent ? and also ditzy and klutzy' 2012-02-12T20:00:11Z They are charming and ingratiating, clearly in love and genuinely baffled that they’re still together. Characters Protesting the Times, When the Real Problem Is Time Itself 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z It can illuminate the breadth and depth of my ignorance — of some macroeconomic phenomenon, of some collective delusion among a large group of people, of some baffling technological endeavor. There’s a GameStop Book, Already 2021-09-04T04:00:00Z There are Eureka moments, disasters, personal battles, amazing discoveries, baffling mysteries, power struggles, quirky findings, weird insights, you name it. Roger Highfield on science writing: 'Grab them with your first sentence' 2013-03-20T07:00:01Z With his high-pitched voice and crestfallen features, Pearson conveyed Stanley's baffled vulnerability. Richard Pearson obituary 2011-08-02T19:32:58Z It's just one of many baffling shortcuts in this colorful but imperfect play. Making love, not war: 'The Dodgers' relives the drama of the Vietnam draft 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z “Personally, I’m drawn to stuff that baffles me,” she said. An Artist Having Fun While Waiting for Catastrophe 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z It’s still baffling how such a piece made it to air only a few years ago: Ronny Chieng on Andrew Yang: “There aren’t enough Asian people in positions of power” 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z The little girl sitting next to me at a preview screening was baffled. ‘Paddington,’ an Adaptation of Michael Bond’s Books 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z Babel, his 2006 film on these lines, was bafflingly regarded with saucer-eyed awe at Cannes, despite the fact that it was a tower of tripe, a pillar of piffle and a column of codswallop. Cannes 2010: Hollywood movies bookend a blue-chip lineup 2010-04-15T16:49:00Z The ease with which Martin swung from one mode to another almost up to his death in 1854 is baffling. Art Review: John Martin's Greatness and High Kitsch 2011-09-30T11:30:09Z On Twitter, some users were in baffled awe of the downsizing expert’s pivot to consumption. Marie Kondo Wants to Sell You Nice Things. What’s Wrong With That? 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z Now Carrie is reduced to a stunned silence as she tries to make sense of this baffling development. 'Homeland' recap: Plot twist propels drama toward season finale 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z But it baffles me that it’s still an issue. Table For Three: At Lunch With Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Eric McCormack 2013-07-26T15:41:22Z Eileen is a charming innocent who wants to be an actress; Ruth is an aspiring writer who is more savvy and hard-boiled and baffled by her younger sister’s ability to attract attention. Donald Saddler, Dancer, and a Choreographer on Broadway, Dies at 96 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z Correll’s followers seemed equally baffled and offended, but at least a few agreed that the sandwich was worth this type of fandom. Philadelphia restaurant receives 'kidnapper-style' letter demanding return of sandwich formerly on the menu 2020-08-24T04:00:00Z The average Star Wars fan will surely be baffled by the returns of Luke and the Emperor in The Rise of Skywalker. The Rise of Skywalker: why no one ever really dies in Star Wars 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z It’s always baffling to me that people can’t get that basic concept.” | The Singer-Songwriter Bill Callahan Makes a Foray Into Dub 2013-08-06T16:12:51Z I often shake my head at myself, amazed and baffled that I’ve asked to do this a second time: to stand at the precipice and jump. Waiting to love my child 2013-05-07T23:45:00Z Now that she is past this first performance, she may better realize her conception of the character, who evolves from a feisty tomboy to a baffled goddess deeply moved by Siegmund’s love for Sieglinde. Opera Review: A ?Walk?re? Still Obsessed With Its Big, Expensive Toy 2011-04-23T18:40:58Z In the 4th century, Saint Ambrose was baffled to see Saint Augustine read silently; Alexander the Great silently reading a letter from his mother left his soldiers befuddled. Perspective | Forget all those reading lists. During a quarantine, any book will do. 2020-05-06T04:00:00Z Mark Murphy, the executive director of Redcat, the downtown Los Angeles arts center where “The Room” will be staged for 10 performances, said he was “baffled.” Pinter Estate Shuts Door on ‘The Room’ 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z Though inevitably frustrating to listen to at times, “Last Seen” is also perfect binge material, with the host Kelly Horan’s hypnotic narration guiding listeners through a juicy, baffling, stranger-than-fiction tale. 7 Podcasts About the Art of the Scam 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z It's still surreal and just baffling to me that the thing that I was working on aligned with real life in such a way. "My Dark Vanessa" author: Canceling Nabokov's "Lolita" is "missing the point" of society's problem 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z In Europe, the response has been more baffling. My hopes for peace 2010-05-01T23:09:00Z "Old Sam," a beloved elder in her large and close-knit family, leaves Shugak an inheritance that includes a baffling directive: Find my father. New crime fiction by Dana Stabenow, A.D. Miller and Flavia de Luce 2011-02-10T00:32:04Z Now any sphere of endeavour can now be taken to those bafflingly convoluted lengths in the name of telly – lengths that would make most right-thinking individuals question the very sanity of the world. TV highlights 04/08/2011 2011-08-03T20:59:01Z Ms. Holley wanted a career change, but she was often baffled by the digital jargon that Yahoo executives used when they interviewed her for the job. After a Magazine Folds, the Beat Goes Online, Minus the Glitz 2010-03-18T02:08:00Z In its mournful and death-steeped view of Monrovia’s somnolent and baffled residents, Wiseman’s film struck me as a documentary version of a zombie film. “The Dead Don’t Die,” Reviewed: Jim Jarmusch’s Fiercely Political Zombie Comedy 2019-06-17T04:00:00Z Sherlock is as unimpressed as he is genuinely baffled that anyone would need to know the basics of the solar system. Sherlock finale 2010-08-08T21:30:00Z I'm baffled by this reaction.What right do these people have to demand their money back? Why Charlie Sheen's audience is worse than he is 2011-04-04T12:30:00Z This story’s baffling central character is a glamorous and troubled woman in late-1950s England, who moves from job to job, changing her look and identity, compulsively embezzling money from employers. Review: ‘Marnie’ Stays in the Shadows in Nico Muhly’s Opera 2018-10-21T04:00:00Z Seconds later, I was out on the sidewalk in front of the theater, feeling a little baffled and irritated: Wait, Dumbledore said what to Snape and what to Harry? "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2": An action-packed curtain call 2011-07-14T00:01:00Z I was baffled by the grim mugs in the designer portfolio. On the Runway: The Power of Dress 2011-08-04T17:12:00Z Long explained that "Microbrachius" means little arms, but said scientists have been baffled for centuries by what these bony paired arms were actually there for. Humans should thank ancient Scottish fish fossils for joy of sex 2014-10-19T04:00:00Z I spoke to my dad, who was baffled. Experience: ‘I discovered my hairdresser was my brother’ 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z The film, by Steven Okazaki, is not much more than a home video of a recording session, baffling but with an intimate feel. Movie Review: ‘Guitar Innovators: John Fahey and Nels Cline,’ a Portrait 2013-08-15T22:10:15Z The latest film from the Argentine director Martín Rejtman is, for me, the sleeper of the festival, though its oblique narrative style and deadpan tone may be more baffling than beguiling for some viewers. A Brief Look at 10 New York Film Festival Features 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z Some have baffling messages on them, as well. Haruki Murakami Unpacks His T-Shirt Collection 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z And so by that math, Kramer vs Kramer seems nearly a century old, ending with a custody judgment and a denouement that are baffling for two loving parents who live in the same city. Kramer vs Kramer at 40: a flawed film that remains a deserving classic 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z The "what the what" folder is for stuff that's just too baffling to deal with. Craig Taylor: my desktop 2013-06-12T07:00:00Z We see nothing save him unzipping, her vaguely baffled expression, then, in long shot, the car creaking gently. Laura Linney: 'America's very puritanical' 2013-01-13T20:00:00Z But Mr. Laufenberg’s sensitive, visually arresting production offers a searching exploration of Wagner’s complex, often baffling final opera. Review: A Sublime and Provocative ‘Parsifal’ at Bayreuth 2016-07-26T04:00:00Z This is especially baffling in the energetic “World Between Two Worlds” number, in which detained immigrants perform a “Stomp”-style stepping and clapping routine that abruptly ends when a guard takes one of them away. Review: ‘The Visitor’ Lags Behind the Times 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z "Comrade, don't you realise," the po-faced children tell a baffled restaurateur. A Chinese Life by Li Kunwu and P Ôtié – review 2012-10-12T07:00:01Z |
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