The response to his latest remonstrations, though, was mainly bafflement.
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Much to their bafflement, the targets are often themselves left-leaning.
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A mix of bafflement and bad feelings still resides in Fredericksburg.
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Theatergoers expressed bafflement, having never heard of most of the movies.
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Many express bafflement about the condition and whereabouts of Detective Sgt.
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Palestinians reacted with anger and bafflement to Mr. Trump's policy shift.
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There's a lot of bafflement and confusion in the telecommunications policy area.
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The root of all this is not fundamental hostility, but mutual bafflement.
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Back to the cosmic bafflement pills, if the neighbors haven't taken them.
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It takes all of five minutes and will save you some bafflement.
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For starters, it's encouraged by Europeans' general bafflement and discomfort with Trump.
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Bafflement over what prompted his sudden about-face lingered throughout the day.
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Perhaps through novelty, or plain old-fashioned bafflement, they were selling well.
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One common reaction to the jacket was bafflement: What was she thinking?
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Sanctions experts expressed a mixture of bafflement and scorn at Tuesday's announcement.
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CreditCreditDelcan & Company Some level of bafflement attends tax-filing season every year.
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Our reinterpretation of their subculture is triggering bafflement among the local gabbers.
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He asked if anyone recognized these stars and was met with mostly bafflement.
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If any "Twilight" groupies linger in the dusk, their bafflement must be boundless.
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She told me all of this recently not in anger but in bafflement.
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The president's tweet prompted bafflement and concern among some legal and ethics experts.
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The interest is welcomed, but it is tinged with a degree of bafflement.
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They regarded me with obvious bafflement before they stopped noticing me at all.
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But the outrage "has now been replaced by surprise, doubt and bafflement," she wrote.
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For those who saw Graham as kind, normal and neighborly, it brought complete bafflement.
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In his book Mr Peterson describes his bafflement at the fictional languages of his youth.
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The film tilts a bit more toward the parental perspective, emphasizing David's pain and bafflement.
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He stared at his phone in bafflement and terror as thousands of threats rolled in.
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The tenor Jeffrey Thompson brought an affecting blend of virile sound and bafflement to Ulysses.
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When the rest of the world looks at America's gun problem, it's often with bafflement.
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" At one point, Bob Corker expressed bafflement at Trump's ruling out of entitlement cuts, saying "Mr.
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In news photographs and video, you catch other politicians glancing at the president in obvious bafflement.
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Her public comments have sometimes drawn outrage and, in one case concerning her views on cancer, bafflement.
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The anti-Assad opposition expressed bafflement, with a spokesman saying, "Nobody knows what is in Putin's mind".
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Secretary of State John Kerry, reiterating support for Turkey's government, expressed the bafflement felt by many observers.
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There are a bunch of differences between them, of course, and that's partially where the bafflement starts.
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Mr. Broderick parses these entangled responses with a mixture of bafflement, self-reproach and something like sacred wonder.
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The streets down there are the oldest in the city; a bafflement of alleys and little bunkered warrens.
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Nonetheless, we as Americans are blessed with the openness of communication, notwithstanding those moments of frustration and bafflement.
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In New York, the fear — or perhaps mere bafflement — buzzed from Bushwick, Brooklyn, to the Upper East Side.
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"Amongst us there was bafflement that something like this could happen in this age, supposedly in democratic society."
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If the first reaction to such news is gratitude for the generosity of strangers, the second should be bafflement.
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That all seems too convenient, given the comparative helplessness and bafflement we actually saw onscreen, from all of them.
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Hopefully we'll still have Twitter then, so we can at least continue to find peace in our shared bafflement.
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In short, Ali has to express three degrees of profound bafflement while rooting them all in one coherent personality.
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As with the EU's predicament, America's election campaign may provoke some Asian gloating, along with amusement, bafflement and disgust.
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Progressives promise free college, free health care, free child care, and scream in bafflement, What's wrong with you people?
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Why this is so, in this age of film and analytics and two dozen assistant coaches, is a bafflement.
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There was much rolling of eyes, shaking of heads and looks of contempt and bafflement in the Democratic ranks.
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The president's reported remarks dominated the news in Canada on Thursday morning and were greeted with bafflement by some.
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There were rumors, cryptic statements, seeming bafflement and frustration publicly from San Antonio — but only characteristic silence from Leonard.
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Meanwhile, queer or not, single people are treated with a mild exclusion and a bafflement that feels centuries past.
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Meanwhile, the non-infected people stare at the infected ones in bafflement, as the system grinds to a halt.
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He expressed a particular bafflement at Donald Trump Jr.'s apparent indifference in the face of a growing scandal.
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It's not anger that I feel when I see one of these flexible coffins, just bafflement and a little despair.
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TV executives responded to Tania Alexander, the programme's creator, with bafflement: who would want to watch other people watching television?
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Asked to explain the tweet, administration officials veered between bafflement and suggesting that the tweet should not be taken seriously.
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A number of experts, as well as at least one state official, reacted with a mix of alarm and bafflement.
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The decision to ban the drug has been met with bafflement and anger among top Russian athletes and sports physicians.
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The president's reported comments dominated the news in Canada on Thursday morning and were greeted with bafflement by some Canadians.
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Humor, anger, fear, worry, and bafflement — these are just some of the feelings that Carnwath's paintings provoke in this viewer.
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Farrow documents the bafflement and frustration he felt as he and McHugh devised strategies to continue with their news gathering.
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On Friday some social media users and McKnight's former Jets teammates expressed bafflement and anger after Mr. Gasser was released.
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The remarks, delivered at a news conference with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, caused anger and bafflement among Palestinians.
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The bafflement betrayed the British government's poor grasp of the differences between its electorate and political system, and those of Germany.
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There are also people who, much to the bafflement and jealousy of everyone else, have no appetite for sex at all.
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I don't know why this encouraged my bafflement or diffidence, but I just sat in my car waiting to be asked.
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But pockets of silence in the background will be just as unsettling, because they'll reflect a despair and bafflement beyond words.
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Just this week, TNT won four Sports Emmys because of "Inside the N.B.A." Even Smith expressed bafflement at the show's influence.
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At his best, Leo is a bafflement, shuffling and uncommunicative in his dysphasia, alternating between primitive grunts and, more rarely, words.
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Now in his 40s, he recounts the ordeal with a mixture of resignation and bafflement that it went on so long.
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He expressed bafflement at the idea of unpaid federal workers suffering financial hardship, wondering why they don't just take out loans.
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Gladys Rivera, 75, who lives across the hall from the woman, expressed bafflement that the child had been left in her care.
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When I and other foreigners expressed bafflement, our Nepali counterparts asked how such legislative disruptions would be dealt with in the West.
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Among the awed and mesmerized is the theater director Robert Falls, who will also admit to some bafflement, if not quite exasperation.
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The reaction in France's commentariat to his unwanted 662-page unburdening has been bafflement: No French president has ever behaved this way.
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Eccentric as it seemed to some, the performance reflected the continental establishment's bafflement and dismay at Britain's divorce from the European Union.
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He describes scenes of bafflement when Chinese farmers rent land in the Russian Far East, rising before dawn and working until after dark.
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But bafflement should worry anyone who may face a jury, particularly in a country where the state can execute a defendant (see article).
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Shareholders gathered for an extraordinary meeting just days after Ghosn's latest arrest in Tokyo, expressing bafflement and concern about growing financial misconduct allegations.
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"There's an added level of bafflement because this is not the United States that they've been living with for so long," Daschle said.
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That night, on the way to the San Jose Improv, Macdonald talked, with bafflement, of current "Saturday Night Live" cast members dating celebrities.
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She put words to his faith and to his pious fear, his bafflement at his worldly daughters, his love for his defiant wife.
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In February U.S. President Donald Trump falsely suggested there had been an immigration-related security incident in Sweden, to the bafflement of Swedes.
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The first two seasons settled upon a recurring theme of characters exhibiting poor or misguided judgment calibrated to inspire viewer bafflement and irritation.
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They expressed bafflement that Mr. Trump, an avowed supporter of Brexit, would seek to sabotage the most realistic path of negotiating Britain's departure.
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That these roommate groupings have managed to stay together for so long is a source of endless amusement (never mind bafflement) to friends.
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In Australia, where Ms. Damond, 217, grew up, there was agony and disbelief, the prime minister voicing bafflement, the tabloids in full cry.
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But a year later, Camus recalled his three months amid the city's "swarming lights" and frantic streets with a mixture of awe and bafflement.
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Boycotts, bafflement, anger, disappointment and frustration were all to be found in your replies, along with a handful of comments supporting Mr. Trump's approach.
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Responses to the news of a beloved film going franchise tend to range from cautious optimism at best to bafflement and rage at worst.
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He says, to her bafflement, that friendship's impossible: No man could coexist platonically with a woman, because he'd rather be having sex with her.
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Whenever I'm faced with a standard online form requiring my birthday, I stare in bafflement as I scroll down the long column of years.
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And yet she has spent the bulk of her time in two consecutive debates lustily assailing Michael Bloomberg, to the bafflement of political observers.
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I'm half convinced that Shakira waggled her tongue at the cameras, to the bafflement of Fox News, especially for her legions of lesbian fans.
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Why the Russian government might care about these unglamorous House races is a source of bafflement for some of the lawmakers who were targeted.
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Filled with texture and innuendo, the work included in Near & Dear celebrates the recognition, bafflement, and sheer delight artists discover by mining the familiar.
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But that came after a year or so of bafflement, a fruitless attempt to categorize a band that insisted on fighting back against such things.
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CPD Superintendent Eddie Johnson expressed exasperation and bafflement that Smollett, who is black and gay, would exploit fears of racialized violence to advance his career.
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Questions like "when does the Tesco near me close?" are met with bafflement, and some obvious functions — like a solid reminder system — aren't all there.
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He's got the No. 1 album in the country, much to the bafflement of a music industry used to artists who want what it wants.
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I idly praise him for this, and he's off, expressing bafflement at the people who do not verse themselves in women's — and especially black women's — art.
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But, where "Deer" was sarcastic in its bafflement—"Dear everyone who paid to see my band / It's still confusing, I'll never understand"—"The Maze" expands quietly.
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Ivezic's father Marin, a cybersecurity consultant, expressed equal bafflement, telling the BBC that the account was suspended in May, before the protests kicked off in earnest.
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So it is among the church's conservative cardinals: To talk with anti-Francis churchmen is to encounter not Machiavellian plots but despair and bafflement and impotence.
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Mr. Klarman expressed bafflement at how investors often shrugged off President Trump's Twitter outbursts and the retreating American role in the world during the past year.
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In their midst, aglow with a devastating mix of determination and bafflement, is Hester, a Sisyphus of the streets, forever struggling in vain to move upward.
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He was mocked on social media for much of the night as a perpetual also-ran, while pundits expressed bafflement over his inability to break through.
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In the Facebook message, Mr. Meade expressed bafflement over the claim of surreptitious filming, a sentiment he repeated in an email to The New York Times.
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The US ice dancers took bronze in Pyeongchang, to the bafflement of millions of onlookers who expressed ongoing confusion about why they were skate-dancing together.
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Trump's Thursday decision to impose a 25 percent levy on imports of steel and 10 percent on imported aluminum was met with widespread bafflement around the globe.
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A meeting in April between energy ministers in Rome ended without a consensus, as did an OECD ministerial meeting in June, to the bafflement of European diplomats.
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Laidlaw has professed tongue-in-cheek bafflement that people are connecting "Epistle 3" to Half-Life, but he's also offered a few more details about the tale.
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To the countess's ire and bafflement, I refused her request that I stay through the evening to help with coats and the dinner service, citing unbreakable plans.
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A voice-over of poetic dialogue between a man and a woman taken from the 1959 Alain Resnais film "Hiroshima Mon Amour" evokes feelings of desperate bafflement.
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The bafflement arose because before he joined Google last October, he was a sometimes-critical outsider who had written stories about the company for nearly two decades.
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Mr. Kaye's John is clearly one of us — appealing, a little tormented, a good-looking man with the bafflement and emotional distance of a Woody Allen hero.
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But to the bafflement and irritation of many people in St. Petersburg, Russia, their city has recently honored three people they would hardly call heroic or beloved.
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GIOVANNI RUSSONELLO Weaves' answer to political frustration and bafflement is equal parts wry distance and primal fury in "Scream" from "Wide Open," its album due Oct. 6.
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But it also gave rise to bafflement and skepticism when Will Smith's genie turned out to look like little more than Will Smith in blue body paint.
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While friends and family shook their heads in bafflement, we forged our relationship based on mutual respect, empathy and an overpowering love for those two beautiful children.
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And to many in the United States, where more than $22015 billion was spent on political advertising for the recent midterm elections, the reaction was total bafflement.
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The Consummate Problem-Solver, Under A Sheer Bodysuit A sheer, Swiss-dot bodysuit presents as much opportunity as it does bafflement: What do you even wear underneath?
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Part of the joy of "The Farthest: Voyager in Space," a documentary to air on PBS on Wednesday, is reliving those moments of bafflement and intellectual ambition.
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Steinke makes a neat collection of five centuries' worth of vile examples of the "male bafflement and repugnance" and "boilerplate misogyny" through which menopause has been perceived.
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In parts of Westminster and Fleet Street voicing nuanced opinions about Mr Blair meets with a mix of bafflement and distaste, like ordering veal at a vegan restaurant.
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Cosmic bafflement her psychologist called it, providing her a prescription that makes it and everything else go away for a while, but she left the pills at home.
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So while Pied Piper celebrates its 500,000th install, the crucial metric of daily active users is a woeful 19,000, suggesting that Monica's bafflement is shared by everyone else.
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The final product is truly a wonder to behold, and has been soliciting responses, ranging from delight to bafflement, any time Bird takes it out for a spin.
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Plus, by watching all the days at once you can see how Connors' response to his situation develops: from bafflement, to irritation, to hedonism, then suicide, altruism, and beyond.
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By arming yourself with information that is rooted in nutrition, biology, and science, you will make yourself much less vulnerable to industries that seek to profit from your bafflement.
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As we see from his angered bafflement at sustained questioning from a CBS interviewer about things like his wiretapping claims, Trump is unfamiliar with sequential, extended argument -- i.e. concentration.
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I was somehow nominated the stenographer and tapped furious notes—pausing to stare at the others in bafflement—as this loud and blunt man, Wayne Barrett, rattled off assignments.
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IF NIGEL FARAGE detected a little bafflement in the crowd at the Coliseum on the matter of his identity and relevance to American politics, he did not let on.
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Issa (Amadou Mbow), a young detective whose commander touts him as a rising star on the force, pursues the case in spite of mysterious health problems and growing bafflement.
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While I was in Woodstock this week, I found that the shock and grief in the community over the news of the nursing-home killings was compounded by bafflement.
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The whole mood of media Twitter when this news broke was bafflement, intrigue, and a lot of concern that there's some bad-news reason for Bob Iger's sudden decision.
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People seem to be liking and sharing it out of pure shock and bafflement by both the accident and the decision to post about it humorously on social media.
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Education Secretary Betsy DeVos sat down for an interview on CBS' "60 Minutes" that aired Sunday night — and it immediately set off a wave of criticism and bafflement online.
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On Thursday, just days before Trump could effectively end the primary by taking the winner-take-all contests in Ohio and Florida, the collective-action problem manifested as sheer bafflement.
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" A member of Reddit's "Elsagate" forum expressed uneasy bafflement at the constant repetition of colors and keywords: "I keep trying to make sense of all this, but there is none.
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I left The Greatest Showman having felt nearly the full range of feels a person can feel in a theater: trepidation, elation, fear, rage, conflict, bafflement, sugar high, swooniness, eyerollitude.
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But neither Kwon nor Jang particularly care about taking sides on the political spectrum: anger and bafflement towards the state of politics and socioeconomics in South Korea fueled their creativity.
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" Stetten explained Thursday that his DM came after she tweeted a "joke about pulling a muscle changing a tampon" and — to her bafflement — "he replied asking if I smelled bacon?
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In a Spin magazine cover story, Flint, who died this week at the age of 49, described his bafflement at the way British rave culture was being translated for Americans.
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She doesn't hide her bafflement at their politics, and she clearly felt comfortable enough with her subjects to argue back gently but persistently, probing for the bedrock of their views.
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But I would argue that the "Downton" passion is unique in that it admits any manner of opposed feelings — impatience, hilarity, agnosticism, scorn, bafflement — and still thrives and still endures.
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There are plenty of reasons for this bafflement, largely boiling down to the marginalization of women's literature and society's frequent cultural shaming of the hobbies of women and teen girls.
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He opens the main body of his book by recounting the bafflement of a visiting sociology professor who is informed that revolutionary sentiment is both rising and on the wane.
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More than 2,000 Canadians responded to a recent request from The New York Times for their reaction to Mr. Trump's actions with a mix of anger, betrayal, bafflement and sadness.
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After the numbers come out, something else will probably happen: Pundits will once again express bafflement about the apparent disconnect between the healthy American economy and the sour national mood.
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And the English village of Kidlington, above, has become a popular stop for Chinese tourists who snap photographs of its nondescript homes, bushes and streets, to the bafflement of residents.
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Plenty of people seemed to be sincerely grieving Harambe, while others were just deeply committed to the gag, as a way of ironically expressing their bafflement over the whole scandal.
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We also had to take a minute to express our heartfelt sympathies for — and total bafflement about — Mariah Carey's New Year's Eve debacle: so uncomfortable, so funny, so, so her.
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Maggs moves the story along at an increasingly brisk pace, and the cast captures both their characters' mounting panic and an almost Lovecraftian bafflement when confronted with monsters beyond their imagination.
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The Washington Post: The Daily News: The Wall Street Journal: The Los Angeles Times: USA Today: The Denver Post: Internationally, the result was met with a mix of disdain and bafflement.
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His person and career are a reflection of the Mets whole organizational deal: promise and hope, miserly ownership, gross vibes, and now just a sort of wandering and perpetual sense of bafflement.
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In abandoning his previous stand for perceived political advantage, Mr Couillard runs the risk of stoking inter-communal tension and creating bafflement among those whose job it is to apply the law.
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But security researchers expressed bafflement at the flubs and miscues in deploying the app, calling it a cautionary tale in how not to launch technology that's critical to Americans' faith in democracy.
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Dan, being a Gurney character, is not by nature a revolutionary, which is what gives his earnest bafflement such a poignant edge, as Mr. Gurney makes gentle and enlightening sport of him.
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The Innocent Man is a six-part deep-dive into two murders that rocked the town of Ada, OK in the 1980s — and whose legal outcomes have sparked outrage and bafflement ever since.
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To the bafflement of Olympic athletes and watchers, the water in the pool used for diving competitions, azure blue on Monday last week, mysteriously turned emerald green and stayed that way for days.
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Though the film's writing tends to make too much of Rebecca's bafflement and culture shock as she peers into the lives of the Lacks family, Wolfe never frames the Lacks as sheer spectacle.
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For if we can imagine the response of an Astrian citizen to our three-dimensional space, then we can begin to picture our own bafflement before geometries of four or even more dimensions.
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When the nuns at his Catholic school in Baltimore held him back, he skipped out of summer school and lined up with the sixth graders that fall, to the bafflement of the nuns.
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Responding to Southern's bafflement about the Cockney cast of "Loving," Green said that he wanted to show the "conflict," for Raunce, of being in Ireland—a neutral country—while England was at war.
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As Kenya Barris, the creator of ABC's "black-ish," and Anthony Anderson, that sitcom's star, watched the 2016 presidential election results at their homes, they exchanged texts of increasing bafflement throughout the evening.
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Representatives of other N.B.A. teams reacted to the disappearing video board with both wonder and bafflement, said David Manica, founder of Manica Architecture, which designed the arena along with the architecture firm Gensler.
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They admit to bafflement over some of Mr Trump's sallies, such as when he told Fox News that he could not accept a "50-50 deal" with China, but had to come out ahead.
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On Twitter, responses to the airline's January 4 announcement of the temporary restrictions ranged from bafflement to anger, with many questioning why other airlines weren't imposing similar bans despite facing the same weather conditions.
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The military brass can't figure out why she would propose bringing them together and releasing them into the wild, a bafflement that doesn't stop them from going ahead and letting her do it anyway.
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If you are less favorably inclined to Trump, his bafflement that the world is more complicated than he originally thought is a reason for serious concern about how and where he will lead the country.
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While Bezos's bit essentially amounts to a quick appearance during a tracking shot, the billionaire showed up on set with a whole lot of security in tow, much to the bafflement of star Chris Pine.
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"I had no idea about the division of Cyprus," Mr. Yebga said on a chilly night at his temporary home, echoing dozens of others in his situation who express bafflement at the complex political situation.
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Mr. Trump has professed bafflement that his numbers with black voters are not higher, telling allies he assumed he would fare better because the economy is doing well and unemployment among African-Americans has dropped.
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It makes for a hilariously surreal experience, with comedians making up ridiculous stories (and telling a few dirty jokes) amid some of the greatest art in the world — all to the bafflement of many fellow museumgoers.
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As far as name-fudging goes, "Wayne Tracker" is a total yawniker, and suspiciously so: It's a name that tries for don't-mind-me banality, but instead inspires what-the-hell-do-we-have-here bafflement.
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We can relate to her bafflement: Rather than release a standard coming-soon trailer, Paramount is teasing out its long-awaited (and certainly controversial) adaptation of the Japanese manga and anime franchise in 10-second glimpses.
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Although the show, whose concept was "kids dance and sing with a large purple dinosaur," was frequently the subject of widespread popular bafflement and ridicule, it was also a huge hit, running from 1992 to 2009.
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It was kind of a weird moment in a show that usually avoids this sort of confusion (or the quality of our online screeners is worse than what viewers will see on TV, prompting our bafflement).
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While his remarks led to bafflement abroad, his vaunted toughness had a different effect on many at home, where the criminal justice system is broken, violent criminals are rarely convicted and the police are often corrupt.
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On a scorching day in late August, to the bafflement of my husband, I tried on a high-necked, mutton-sleeved, fitted frock actually called the Prairie in the comfort of our apartment's central air-conditioning.
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The comedian Dan Telfer, who also saw "Buster Scruggs" last week and recommended to others on Twitter that they do the same, found his exhortation was met with bafflement: People hadn't realized the movie had opened.
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What's inarguable is that curative fandom tends to treat transformative fandom with a kind of bafflement verging on downright hostility — the same reaction, more or less, that most non-fandom groups have toward fandom in general.
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Still, it's incredible to think that just two years ago these Orioles were in a tight, exciting postseason race—that they were, to the bafflement of all, one of baseball's best teams for most of this decade.
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I had been planning on writing about some of the issues I had while writing my Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra review — specifically my bafflement that Samsung is once again asking reviewers like me to be beta testers.
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Ms. Warren's candidacy revolves around the idea of fighting for sweeping change, and her comeback to Mr. Delaney — expressing bafflement about why someone would run for president with a message of discouraging big ideas — packed a punch.
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The remarks, delivered at a news conference with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, spurred anger and bafflement among Palestinians, some of whom said the policy change would undercut the already slim chances of progress toward reconciliation.
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The level of bafflement these marketing campaigns produced, inviting queries about whether they were somehow being intentionally ironic (they weren't), was exactly the portrait of bleak nihilism that made Mockingjay so devastatingly fitting as a series ending.
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In past bodies of work, he has utilized devices such as a distorting mirror, a camera obscura, panoramic lenses, shutters speeds, and strobes to create perceptual experiences that parallel the psychological disturbances, bafflement and ambiguities of his subjects.
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European officials have expressed their bafflement over Johnson's claims that progress is being made on a deal, with Centeno the latest to affirm that he has not seen any new proposals from Westminster that could move negotiations forward.
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From the gross pre-election misjudgments to postelection bafflement, the best pundits are at a loss to accurately anticipate his response to matters like North Korean military aggressiveness or his moment-by-moment political gyrations and opinion reversals.
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Yet, as has been the case since Trump moved into the White House, moments of total bafflement keep piling up caused by White House malfunctioning and Trump's constant tweets, false or deceptive claims and off-the-cuff remarks.
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A meme involving the Hollywood Walk of Fame saucily questioned who our president is, while the late-week news that Hobby Lobby had been smuggling ancient artifacts, possibly looted from Iraq, briefly united us in amused bafflement once again.
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Hill, who had tried to talk me into doing an Ironman, was the top female finisher in the continuous division (117:46:42) and kept up a smiling demeanor almost the entire time, to the bafflement of everyone else.
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FOR A YEAR or more the Communist Party has feigned bafflement when asked to comment on evidence that it has detained without trial at least several hundred thousand Muslims, and perhaps more than 1m, in the far-western province of Xinjiang.
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Because the latest demonstrations look like a gift to Mr Trump, a gulf of bafflement has opened between those who hope to beat him at the ballot box and those who seem more eager to defeat him on the streets.
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This mishmash of services blossomed in the past decade and we have most recently settled on Facebook and Twitter where we share everything including political rants, anger at Comcast, bafflement at the "stupidity" of our fellow humans, and bad jokes.
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" Elsewhere she speaks eloquently of travel's power to transform: "The traveling writer is someone seeking … a sort of non-existence, the quest for which can lead, paradoxically, to the discovery of the self set free from the bafflement of context.
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The fiasco was not surprising — the tone-deafness and self-protectiveness of the Roman intervention, the bafflement and internal divisions of the American bishops, and the liberal-versus-conservative arguments that followed were all characteristic of Catholicism's crisis under Pope Francis.
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"In addition to winning the Electoral College in a landslide, I won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally," Trump wrote in a tweet in November 2016 that caused shock, bafflement and even derision.
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GAZA CITY — Palestinians reacted with anger and bafflement on Wednesday after the Trump administration apparently backed away from insisting that having two states — one for Israelis, one for Palestinians — was the only viable solution to the decades-long Middle East conflict.
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Days after Ghosn's latest arrest in Tokyo, shareholders gathered for an extraordinary meeting, expressing bafflement and disquiet about growing allegations of financial misconduct laid out before them - while seeking more clarity on how Nissan plans to recover from the scandal.
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Past EPA staffers have expressed bafflement at Pruitt's move, noting that there is already a SCIF on a separate floor of the EPA building for the rare occasions when one is needed (usually on a call initiated by outside agencies like the National Security Council).
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Editorial For most of this campaign, Donald Trump's admiration for Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, and his willingness to act as a Kremlin apologist on issues ranging from Syria to the computer hacking of individuals and political parties have been sources of bafflement and dismay.
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Several actors were visibly uncomfortable, including Tom Hanks, who looked on in bafflement for much of the monologue, and Jonathan Pryce, one half of The Two Popes, who was grim and unsmiling when Gervais turned his film into the punchline of a pedophilia joke.
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Over the years, his presentation has sharpened; the register of blunt, set-stopping anger is still available to him, but he usually cloaks it in bafflement at the outer world, rather than in exasperation at the particular corner of it that he comes from.
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He expresses bafflement, too, at the legislative inertia that greets the apparently endless stream of shootings, including the one at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012, when 20 six- and seven-year-olds and six teachers were shot dead in the small Connecticut community of Newtown.
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All of which is to say that despite Democrats' occasional protestations of bafflement as to why the GOP would so uniformly oppose a market-based approach to universal health care that Mitt Romney happily adopted in the mid-aughts in Massachusetts, there's no real mystery here.
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Judge Guida expressed bafflement over why it had taken so long for the arrest warrant to surface, but he dismissed the idea that Mr. Barrier's failure to appear in court in the "first three or five or six months" after his plea was Mr. Bergrin's fault.
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Ditto the instances in which one partner is very young: that Eugene O'Neill disinherited his daughter, Oona, after the 18-year-old married the 54-year-old Charlie Chaplin is understandable in the same way that the public's bafflement about Woody Allen taking up with Soon-Yi Previn was.
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" Frank Gaffney, another vocal anti-Muslim bigot and former adviser to Ted Cruz, has made similar comments, expressing bafflement at left-wing solidarity with Muslims: "the antipathy of the Islamists to homosexuality yet being supported by people who prize homosexual rights and have many of them in their ranks.
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Kimmel responded by opening his September 19 show with earnest bafflement that Cassidy — who had appeared on his show previously to assure Kimmel that he would fight to make health care affordable for anyone and everyone who needs it — is pushing a bill that expert analysis has concluded is astonishingly severe.
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Sure enough, many Americans will soon be waking up soon to a feeling similar to the one Remainers in Britain experienced on the morning of June 24th: bafflement at the failure of so many polls to predict the result, shock at the electorate's defiance of expert opinion, concern for liberal values.
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So you can imagine my bafflement when I finally sat down at my desk, sweaty and stressed out from my close brushes with death, and the first thing I see when opening up Twitter was this video of a newly finished bike parking garage in the Dutch city of Utrecht.
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The United Nations has estimated that more than 60 million people have been displaced around the world, the largest figure since World War II. Migrant-rights advocates expressed a mix of shock and bafflement at the Trump administration's announcement, asserting that nothing proposed in the Global Compact would be mandatory.
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The executive branch selections are so off the wall — at such variance with the way most Americans see the country — that objections to a high profile, lifetime, far-right appointment to the Supreme Court will tap into public sentiment that is now largely expressed as mere bafflement but soon enough will turn to real unease.
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The humiliation his wife puts her debilitated husband through (dressing him in garish women's clothing and makeup) derives from personal — and real — grievances, but it may also be seen as a symbol of the powerlessness being felt by middle-aged white men, for whom death rates have been increasing after years of decline, to the bafflement of researchers.
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As it opens, a haggard young British man (Mathew Baynton, whose performance really anchors this ensemble series) is addressing the camera, expressing bafflement as to why he and a few other misfits congregated in a bunker in Slough, England, appear to be destined to survive the extinction-level event that is moments from occurring: A giant comet is about to smack into Earth.
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You see this fame bubble in a lot of films of this nature — the Katy Perry, Lady Gaga and Justin Bieber documentaries come to mind — but I think there's an underexplored link between the loneliness that comes with uber-stardom and the subsequent decisions of an artistic, personal and public relations nature that these celebrities make, sometimes to the bafflement of their audiences.
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Following initial online bafflement that such questionable copy had made it to print, the state's secretary of social services attempted to convey in an interview with The New York Times that the state was indeed aware of the implication of overlaying the words on top of photos of South Dakotans: "I would say that we did expect a reaction," she said.
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He expressed bafflement at how in the dark many board members were about not just station selection, but about things like how the M.T.A. tabulated electrical delays, a topic that came up after an article in The Daily News appeared to show the authority massaging numbers to put the blame more squarely on Con Ed, which supplies electricity to the subway.
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Along with other business leaders, Ms. Nooyi had watched with bafflement over the weekend as Mr. Trump blamed "many sides" for an outburst of white supremacist violence in Charlottesville, Va. Ms. Nooyi spoke with Mary T. Barra, the head of General Motors, Virginia M. Rometty, the chief of IBM, and Rich Lesser, the chief executive of Boston Consulting Group, who were similarly outraged with the president's response.
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Bafflement in Washington about Trump's attitude to Putin is sure to be exacerbated by a Washington Post report that Trump did not follow briefing materials provided by his advisers which warned "DO NOT CONGRATULATE" -- a reference to Putin's re-election and which also called on him to condemn Russia over the attempted assassination of one of its former spies and his daughter in Britain.
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WM: And then, July 19th, fast forward — this went on all summer, by the way, these back and forths — Zadie Smith wrote a piece basically expressing a sort of bafflement at the response because a group of artists, including a woman named Hannah Black, wrote a petition, gave it to the Whitney, that basically called for not simply the removal of the painting, but its destruction.
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Both trust themselves as far as their own fingertips; Ferrante portrays the intricate social world of working-class Naples, but in a state of constantly renewed bafflement, while Knausgaard ("He broke the sound barrier of the autobiographical novel," the novelist Jeffrey Eugenides told a reporter for The New Republic) abandons almost all narrative pretense to describe his time on earth as straightforwardly as he can.
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The new episodes were greeted at first with bafflement (This Bates plot can't possibly last that long, can it?), then with fear (Oh, god, it's still a thing), and finally outright disdain (The Bates plot line has gone on longer than any plot line ever has before or will again; I will die watching Bates be tried for this murder and not once have I ever cared whether he did it).
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And any mystification or bafflement or anger that you feel about someone else's certainty — how it simply must be cynical, manufactured, malign — should be tempered by a recognition that your own certainty might have to be revised 20 years from now, that how you read the evidence in the heat of a polarized moment might not be the only way to read it, and that not every historical controversy or scandal gets settled cleanly or wrapped up in a neat moralistic bow.
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