| 单词 | baffling |
| 例句 | 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 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 Instead, it used stepping switches, electronic devices that scrambled the message in baffling ways. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z 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 It was utterly radical and, for many musicians and listeners at the time, baffling. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z The ecosystem on this lifeboat was decidedly baffling. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Valley just shrugged, still looking bafflingly smug, and Seven wanted to scream. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 How on earth did they find the inspiration to create such bafflingly intricate music? The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z 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 I found his behavior completely baffling and totally disrespectful. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z It was baffling to see her friend dabbling in this exotic faith. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z 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 I followed, wanting her to interpret the baffling spectacle I had seen. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z After that, we reach the most baffling chapter in Elizebeth’s working life. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z It is perhaps one of the most baffling phenomena in history. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z His memory loss was baffling in its complexity. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z And suddenly my behaviour seemed to me utterly baffling. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 It is truly baffling that we were ever friends. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z He seemed to absorb the baffling paradoxes of quantum theory with ease. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The words and actions of white people were baffling signs to me. 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 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 She loves me but finds me baffling and unfeminine, and probably a troublemaker. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z This, spoken in a cool, tranquil tone, was mortifying and baffling enough. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Of all the things she said to me, this was maybe the most baffling. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z 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 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 The young man seemed to find this remark rather baffling. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z “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 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 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 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 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 Le Havre became the most important showcase of post-war avant-garde architecture in France, but most of the locals found it baffling, even brutal. | Le Havre in a New Light 2011-12-21T20:37:21Z The band's first UK tour in years typifies their mercurial but baffling career. Earth, Wind & Fire 2010-07-25T21:30:00Z It is something you gain,” pronounced Ms. Versace, who bafflingly cited the writer Norman Mailer as her inspiration. The Greatcoat Fights Back 2013-01-13T18:36:27Z “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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 He created a baffling, eclectic mythology, peopled by characters of his own invention who stood alongside figures drawn from the Bible and the classical tradition. William Blake's passionate humanity 2010-08-12T15:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 results are baffling searches and chaotic returns. Spotify?s Classical-Streaming Service Takes Baby Steps 2011-08-27T04:00:27Z 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 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 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 “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 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 As baffling dream sequences go, it's in a league of its own. Your next box set: Berlin Alexanderplatz 2010-08-06T05:45:00Z 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Look at the female characters – beautiful, remote, usually unattainable and invariably baffling. The Inbetweeners maps male sexuality 2011-08-19T13:30:02Z 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Just how those pieces fit was sometimes baffling. Heavy new QOTSA album looks at life after death 2013-06-03T15:25:08Z 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 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 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 “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 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 The story is baffling, however, something involving a trip to outer space as well as back in time. Arts & Leisure: How Do You Make a Whole Show Fly? 2011-06-08T12:00:00Z 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 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 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 "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’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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Some plot threads are unclear, and the coda is entirely baffling. Your guide to SIFF 2011 2011-05-18T20:00:54Z 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Is it, bafflingly, the inchoate Never Let Me Go, probably his weakest novel? Famous for the wrong book 2011-07-19T10:16:27Z 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 "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 Gogol tells this baffling tale with disarming simplicity. Music Review | ?The Nose?: Picture This: A Nose Goes Missing 2010-03-07T00:53:00Z 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 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 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 moment is frankly baffling in its brutality, even if it’s interpreted as demonstrating another kind of barbarity in past eras, or as early evidence of Mikolasek’s dark side. ‘Charlatan’ Review: The Miracle Worker 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 And yet, bafflingly, she does not recognise David Bowie's Heroes when it comes on the car radio. The Perks of Being a Wallflower – review 2012-10-04T20:45:01Z 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 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 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 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 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 It seems baffling that a jury and multiple judges could watch that tape and not think it was coerced or that something went terribly wrong there. Making a Murderer Creators: Juror Feared Being Framed by Police 2016-01-05T05:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 From start to finish this is an intriguing but baffling sonata. Music Review: Hungarian Tradition, African Lilt 2011-05-27T23:00:24Z 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 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 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 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 In Europe, the response has been more baffling. My hopes for peace 2010-05-01T23:09:00Z 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 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 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 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 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 “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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 It is baffling, then funny, and then quite poignant to witness. Review: In ‘The Private Life of Mrs. Sharma,’ a Search for Release 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 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 It's baffling, yet the inventiveness of the choreography still grips. Scottish Dance Theatre ? review 2011-03-22T19:15:01Z 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 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 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 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 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 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 Despite a definite visual stylishness, the film is more baffling than intriguing. "Pornography: A Thriller" a multiple misnomer 2010-04-19T06:01:00Z 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 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 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 “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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 “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 It's a complex experience; at times baffling, at times astounding, but never less than engrossing. BBCSSO/Volkov ? review 2011-08-15T14:08:29Z 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Not that people had turned to more artistic options: endless and baffling soap-opera versions of the Hindu epics, the Ramayana and the Mahabharata, were what gripped a new and socially diverse television audience. Amit Chaudhuri: 'How I learned to love Bollywood' 2013-07-25T19:00:01Z 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 What follows is a list of books that have helped me gain some understanding of a place that remains as fascinating and baffling to me as the day I first set foot there. Ben Fountain's top 10 books about Haiti 2013-05-15T14:34:17Z 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 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 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 “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 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 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 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 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 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 Some have baffling messages on them, as well. Haruki Murakami Unpacks His T-Shirt Collection 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z 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 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 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 The timing for what happened next was baffling. The Rock ’n’ Roll Casualty Who Became a War Hero 2013-07-02T09:01:01Z 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Colorful Post-its with baffling messages such as “cucumber” and “Java” are stuck on walls where clusters of staff congregate in stand-up discussions. British Fashion Gets a Web Dynamo 2013-02-04T11:43:14Z 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 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 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 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 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 All I needed now was a baffling mystery to solve. Operation Diamond: can you crack the code? 2012-05-20T23:05:00Z 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 Now Criterion has come out with Resnais’s subsequent film, “Muriel, or The Time of Return,” which has been baffling people since it showed at the first New York Film Festival, in 1963. The Film That Yields Nothing on a Second Viewing—or a First 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z 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 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 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 “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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 they are also risky, baffling, beautiful images. The Tree of Life ? review 2011-07-09T23:05:43Z It’s often baffling, possibly offensive and frequently bizarre, but always arrestingly brilliant. Notable fiction in 2016 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z 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 Beneath the veneer of baffling musicality, it's evident there's nothing new under the sun, no matter what galaxy you're in. Coheed and Cambria: Year of the Black Rainbow 2010-04-08T22:30:00Z 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 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 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 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’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 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 The reader is moved to understand the helpless rage, and final violent actions, that are Okonkwo’s response to the enormous, and perhaps baffling, political and economic power that came with Christianity and Colonialism. Chinua Achebe: The man who rediscovered Africa 2013-03-22T14:45:00Z The effect was often baffling, intermittently lovely and frequently very funny. 3 Classic Novels. 22 Minutes. Why Not? 2011-05-23T22:34:30Z 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 The question of what women want has been baffling people for years. 7 weird things that turn women on 2015-01-05T05:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Most others find this appetite both baffling and disgusting. How The Killer Inside Me hurts women for fun 2010-06-07T11:55:00Z 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 But the performances and script are baffling, verging on the risible. Travellers ? review 2011-01-13T22:04:00Z 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 When you consider that the black maid dominates the entire right side of the painting, the lack of attention paid to her is baffling. Review | Two revelatory exhibitions upend our understanding of black models in art 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 His current domination of the polls is both troubling and baffling. Mad Men: how Don Draper and Walter White prepared us for Donald Trump 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z 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 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 Except, the baffling thing is that McCarthy actually wrote The Counselor. The Counselor: Hard-Boiled Hokum 2013-10-24T09:45:41Z 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 So they work on us in baffling ways. She’s afraid of sex 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z 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 The unmasking of Frank provides a moment of clarity in a baffling film. Clip joint: Unmaskings 2012-09-26T11:19:30Z “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 Again and again, it is more quirky than funny, and more baffling than either. Film review: The Brothers Bloom 2010-06-03T22:00:00Z 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 They were hooky, baffling, funny and full of wisdom and insight. Sophie Hannah: By the Book 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z 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 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 "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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Models sometimes work the same baffling expression ad nauseam. A Look That?s Worth a Million Hits 2010-12-01T23:40:00Z 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 “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 Fierce, at times chaotic, “Slingshot” is a book some readers will find alarming or baffling — and a book other readers may need. Dead Fathers, Feminist Icons and Other Poetic Obsessions 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 It's really really really bad, and yes, indeed, baffling in its badness. Readers' reviews 2011-02-03T22:30:02Z 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 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 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 What’s most baffling, in fact, is that this sort of thing keeps happening to people whose very job description involves talking into live microphones or otherwise living in public. Is This Thing On? Why Social Media Keeps Taking Down Media Celebs 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z “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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 As a self-confessed wine bore, I find this baffling. How to Love Wine by Eric Asimov – review 2012-11-22T08:00:02Z 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 For us – my sisters, my mother and me – the door closing on Dad’s career marked the beginning of a new era: one that was by turns agonising, baffling, heartbreaking and, I must confess, comedic. How Alzheimer’s took my brilliant dad, Lord Goodhart, in increments 2017-05-20T04:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 The result is by turns caustic, coy, baffling, impish, embarrassing, insightful and, as the pseudonym suggests, frank. Review: In ‘Black Exhibition,’ a Playwright Exposed 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 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 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 It was a baffling other language, one I did not care to learn. My Steubenville 2013-03-28T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 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 He is mysterious and incredibly baffling at times. Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo- review 2013-07-13T11:00:00Z 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 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 Some plot threads are unclear, and the coda is entirely baffling. Your guide to SIFF 2011 2011-05-18T20:00:54Z 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 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 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 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 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 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 In his work, Zed tries to bring coherence to the baffling anarchy of experience. ‘Mogul Mowgli’ Review: Rapping for Dear Life 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z 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 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 "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 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 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 Two decades later, in 1999, we had an even more baffling experience. Putting the F-word in BBFC 2010-09-30T21:30:00Z 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 For reasons that are still baffling to James, her work went viral. The Evolution of E L James 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z 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 grim detail, Conant describes the suppurating wounds and baffling symptoms that afflict hundreds of the wounded and which eventually kill a good many of them. War — What Is It Good For? Chemotherapy, Apparently 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Bean's intense glare currently can been seen on billboards and building wraps promoting "Legends," in which he plays undercover FBI agent Martin Odum, who is thrown into a baffling mystery about his true identity. This time, Sean Bean's character will live — at least for now 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 “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 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 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 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 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 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 Furthermore, it’s baffling that a person so deeply immersed in movies and media either didn’t know or had forgotten about Schneider’s comments, and Bertolucci’s subsequent half-apology. David Edelstein, the “butter scene” in “Last Tango” and the darkness of the internet 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z 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 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 What are these baffling monsters up to anyway? Exclusive 'Ant-Man No. 1' cover reveals an Evil Scott Lang? 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 “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 So is the title, a baffling red herring. Sundance 2013: Magic Magic – first look review 2013-01-25T09:35:00Z 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 The disparity between narration and movement becomes funny, baffling, suspenseful. Review: ‘Spectator’ at the Japan Society 2015-11-15T05:00:00Z It's an alliance as baffling to the outsider as the vastness of Pendulum's appeal. Pendulum 2010-05-31T20:30:00Z 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Multiple knowns and unknowns shape the careers of actors — the choices that they make and the good and baffling ones that are made for and despite them. ‘The Contractor’ Review: The Pine Identity 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z Having grown up in Salem, she understands the flinty personalities of New England, that baffling tension between self-reliance and community spirit. A thriller with heart: Hannah Tinti’s ‘The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley’ 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z 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 Bachelor” concluded in very baffling fashion last night. 'Bachelor': Brad's screwy finale; next Bachelorette announced 2011-03-15T13:39:47Z 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 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 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 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 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 But first there was the baffling tenderness between a man and his Tide. The Sociopathic Comedy of Brett Davis 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 There have been tales of physical and mental illness and baffling behaviour. A call for help for Vini Reilly 2013-01-04T17:14:21Z 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 viewers find it baffling and obtuse and they boo at the end. Cannes diary: day seven 2012-05-22T13:56:07Z 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 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 He soon became a towering figure there, his path-breaking works both intriguing and baffling listeners, including his former teacher Haydn. ArtsBeat: Top 10 Composers: The Vienna Four 2011-01-10T17:10:24Z 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 |
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