Many around the world are shocked and mystified by the last week's events, just as they remain shocked and mystified by the Brexit vote.
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The same cultural elites who are mystified by the appeal of Donald Trump the presidential candidate have been mystified, for decades, by the appeal of Donald Trump the developer.
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I just am completely mystified why — it's your show.
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" But privately, Baker writes Obama "seemed mystified by the encounter.
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He pronounced himself mystified by the likes of Mr. Shkreli.
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"Where are all the men at?" asks one mystified visitor.
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Many analysts were mystified by the weekly draw in crude.
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Crime historians were mystified, struggling to think of similar cases.
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Understandably, their three mystified children asked them, but lips sealed.
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He remained on the bed, mystified by what had happened.
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It has this fog around it; people are just mystified.
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Until recently, the source of these episodes mystified military officials.
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We are still a little mystified by why this happened.
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It makes a portrait with Dickinson both demystified and mystified.
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"I'm mystified as to what the obsession is," she said.
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A scurrying encore left even the most obscurantist pianophiles mystified.
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Its director was mystified when Ms. Buck begged to stay.
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"I'm disappointed and mystified," Brooks said in a telephone interview.
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People at the airport were mystified at first by the ruckus.
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"I'm just completely mystified by it," Carmichael said of the situation.
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Why it matters: The rapid evolution of flowers mystified Charles Darwin.
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Price: Around $9 This particular pin has us a bit mystified.
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"People need to know enough to be mystified," Talan said Thursday.
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Pine seemed completely mystified during an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live!
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Chernow is as mystified by this trait as Grant's contemporaries were.
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But he would be mystified that she only sings old works.
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At some point I became a bit mystified by all of this.
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Those looking for a simple "and then!" plot summary might leave mystified.
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"They're usually mystified when their oversight causes performance to worsen," she says.
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LaMassa, an astronomer now at the Space Telescope Science Institute, was mystified.
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"I'm somewhat mystified and disappointed because I love the work," Brooks said.
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Letterman, 72, said he's mystified by what he described as Trump's transformation.
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But he said he is largely mystified about the president-elect's plans.
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Their thwarted attempts to meet in person leave them, and readers, mystified.
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We are mystified, or purport to be, by mass shooters, for example.
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While obviously a boon for public health, these massive improvements mystified epidemiologists.
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The truth of our bodies and our minds has been mystified to us.
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I'm mystified by the end-game of her interactions with Taylor this season.
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Yeah, I'm kind of mystified and I'm thrilled that it's resonating with people.
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Screenshot: Princeton IoT inspectorThis device briefly had me mystified and a little alarmed.
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Mystified by his strange new powers, Koen heads into the Zone seeking answers.
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Cybersecurity experts and members of Congress said they were mystified by the move.
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Maybe the message was too small to read, or they were simply mystified.
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" He was mystified by the fact that Charlene called Vern "the Incredible Hunk.
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"I'm somewhat mystified and disappointed because I love the work," Mr. Brooks said.
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But the consensus here is that we're a bit mystified by the debate.
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In the end, I think we often want to be mystified by art.
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When "Waiting for Godot" was first performed in Britain in 1953, audiences were mystified.
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"We are truly mystified as to how this could have happened," Mr. Dudley said.
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Chopra the elder remains somewhat mystified by his son's sports obsession to this day.
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"I totally am mystified by Ending Spending and their point of view," he added.
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When he went out on his own, the nuances of business casual mystified him.
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CreditCreditJesse Dittmar for The New York Times BETHESDA, Md. — The young surgeon was mystified.
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You choose a number that looks measured instead of guessed, intelligent instead of mystified.
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The unprecedented move, named after its 19-year-old creator, has even physicists mystified.
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He wondered, being a fan himself, why the depth of their devotion mystified him.
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Regardless of intention, the clips are illegible, generating primarily a voyeur's guilty, mystified confusion.
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For nearly three weeks, his symptoms — abdominal pain, fever, distressing gut trouble — mystified doctors.
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It's normal to read about characters who are mystified about why they can't connect.
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And we're all tiny Harry Potters, mystified by the magic in front of us.
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The intensity of her passion and the yearning that came with it mystified me.
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Now, when my professors treat me like any other student, I'm a little mystified.
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Mr. Zelensky and other Ukrainian officials were mystified and complained to visiting American lawmakers.
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The miracle of feeding the 5,000 with five loaves and two fishes mystified me.
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They zoomed in on the creature with an underwater robot camera — and were completely mystified.
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My siblings have enjoyed the books, though I think they're still mystified others enjoy them.
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"He started to use all the instruments in the room," SebastiAn recalls, clearly still mystified.
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National reporters were instantly mystified and intrigued by the use and meaning of the word.
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Wolff's reporting sheds new light on a relationship that has fascinated and mystified the public.
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I know in "Mystified" you sing about the "Bleecker speed freaks" and all that stuff.
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I crawled down below, mystified by the coincidence, the timing, the magic of maritime life.
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"We are as mystified as anybody about these false allegations," Birnbaum told me this September.
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"I hadn't rescued anyone from a burning building," said Ford, mystified by all the attention.
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Facts were entangled with fiction and images of the leaders were increasingly mystified and historicized.
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On Money The cryptic declaration from Beijing alarmed and mystified wildlife conservationists around the world.
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He was mystified, he said, by the absence of western novelists in the American canon.
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People are mystified," Michael Yoshikami, founder of Destination Wealth Management, said on CNBC's "Closing Bell.
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I have watched it a dozen times but remain mystified about the why and how.
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But they were mystified by what looked like a powder burn directly over the heart.
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He is struggling to win over key donors who have been mystified by the campaign's disorganization.
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Because as mystified as the reporter was with his patient, so I was with the reporter.
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And Foot Locker left Cramer completely mystified, as no one liked the quarter but Foot Locker.
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The investigation Paddock's violent transformation has mystified everyone -- his brother, investigators and the families he victimized.
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I can see a mystified student asking why a president was jailed for stealing pocket change.
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"It mystified all of us," Matthew Ryder, a barrister who worked regularly with Khan, told me.
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As in America, the surge leaves Van Nunen mystified as to what the cause might be.
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Political strategists are mystified by Trump's approach, noting that Republican voters are hardly fans of Putin.
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Jennings told the magazine Wired that he's "mystified" that no one has beaten his record yet.
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"I am mystified by all this stuff," Johnson told the Guardian in an interview on Tuesday.
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Mr. Kobach said he was mystified by his critics' opposition to the new electoral integrity commission.
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These families are hurting, mystified by what happened and grieving for the absence of the young women.
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And privately, Widman was mystified by the various and inconsistent ways that plaintiffs' childhood memories manifested themselves.
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Yawning has mystified researchers, and the list of reasons why we might do it is, well, exhausting.
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After the end, you'll probably remain a bit mystified and find yourself reflecting on its quiet scenes.
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But long before squirting was its own porn category, female ejaculation had mystified and fascinated sex experts.
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Seemingly mystified by the reasoning from City Hall, Mr. Sausville offered up a theory of his own.
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He scoured catalogs and listings, but when he tracked the right one down, the doctor was mystified.
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Breyer said in May he was "totally mystified" why the SEC waited until 2019 to file suit.
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What took place that day was incomprehensible, inexplicable, and at eighteen it left me bewildered and mystified.
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Carolyn Bourdeaux, the Democrat challenging Mr. Woodall, said she was mystified by his approach to the campaign.
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If you're not bothered — also tickled, irked, mystified and provoked — then you've fallen asleep on the job.
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But I'm mystified, as are many of his friends, by his recalcitrance in the Kevin Cooper case.
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Zigging instead of zagging, and the mystified reaction produces a larger response than a brand-new world?
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You get into a business because you're mystified by it, and then they pull back the curtain.
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Mr. Trump's seemingly contradictory comments to journalists mystified members of both parties in both houses of Congress.
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New York, he said, still mystified him in its grandness — as unlikely as his own rich life.
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Who is Ivo van Hove and why are theatergoers saying such (thrilling) (furious) (mystified) things about him?
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In the end, still mystified by how the dispensary made its money, Safe Harbor closed the account.
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And on the whole, they are mystified and horrified by what's going on in this presidential race.
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To this day, Mujica said he is mystified by how the latest caravan could have grown so large.
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When I saw Hundred Days, the audience seemed a little mystified — was this a musical or a concert?
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Chambers's murder mystified and frightened her small town, with neighbors looking at each other with fear and suspicion.
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How Washington works, I remain mystified by the process or lack thereof, so that's where I'll leave that.
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Friends and associates of Wexner were mystified by the trust Wexner placed in Epstein, according to the report.
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Other experts, although supportive of the agency, were mystified that federal officials could have committed so many missteps.
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Yet I remain mystified when people make assumptions about my upbringing having been in some chaotically lenient household.
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When he turned up at the agency's regional headquarters, he found 11 other anxious and equally mystified priests.
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You'll feel mystified by your relationships this morning, but things will chill out as the day goes on.
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First Words There is something about enormous tragedies that has always mystified humans, sending us scrambling for explanations.
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And you depart it all mystified by the absurd contradictions that Ms. Winfrey's achievements reveal about this country.
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Friends were mystified that I would be moving into his one-bedroom apartment, decidedly a single man's place.
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For those who are still mystified by the ketogenic diet, it's essentially an extremely low-carb, high-fat diet.
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Open one up and prepare to be mystified — to actually understand the thing, you'll need to do some math.
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Jeff Blumberg, the chief executive, says it is "mystified" by Mr Rolet's departure and would vote for his reappointment.
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I have long been mystified by LinkedIn, because of its spectacular uselessness (for me) as a professional social network.
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Back in the 1500s, Johannes Kepler himself was mystified by the lack of a planet between Mars and Jupiter.
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These folks will feel betrayed—if not downright mystified—by a Republican president who embraces Bernie Sanders-style policies.
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US State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert told reporters this week Washington is "mystified" by the continued blockade of Qatar.
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The London dealer Guy Sainty, who has long specialized in old masters, said that he is mystified and frustrated.
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"Local residents were mystified when the heavy cheesebox-shape structure floated," The New York Times reported in July 1952.
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I don't remember the last time I was so utterly mystified by what was unspooling in front of me.
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Mr. Rodrigues said that while he was mystified by the odor, he never reported anything amiss to the police.
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They would be mystified by the scant attention humanity gives to the life-forms on which our existence depends.
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We're with you, Jessica Biel — we're also all too often mystified by what's going on in our own bodies.
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Even after studying Hollywood censorship for years, Lewis is mystified by what the MPAA slaps with an R rating.
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Want to do the one that really mystified me before I caught on (read that as: asked for help)?
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One relationship has mystified Bachelor viewers all season, but Peter Weber and Victoria Fuller's relationship is still a thing.
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Diana is erudite but unworldly, witty but never ironic, supremely self-confident and utterly mystified by the modern world.
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The fact that I still remained part of the population that had not seen GoT mystified those closest to me.
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At that point, the feminist movement had de-mystified and un-tabooed notions of women's sexuality within the academic sphere.
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Monica McLemore, a nurse at Zuckerberg San Francisco General, is mystified about what, exactly, officials want her to even document.
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The decision mystified many on the United States side, and even led some within the Mexican government to grow impatient.
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How to brew a great cup mystified me for years — until I decided to get to the bottom of it.
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"Having peeked at what's under the 'redactions' I'm mystified as to why PHAC wanted this information kept secret," Satter wrote.
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The story, of a young girl thought to be possessed by a demon inside her London home, mystified a nation.
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But at times, he sounded as mystified as I was about how all the pieces of Lee's killing fit together.
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Alas, if Twitter's anything to go by, the internet was more mystified than enchanted -- and in some cases, downright terrified.
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That's something I'm completely mystified by, a fantasy of currency, of cash, that you cannot touch and yet it exists.
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But supporters of the bill are still mystified that a relatively uncontroversial measure has so far failed to move forward.
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"It's incredible," she told Inverse, mystified after roughly calculating the insanely high amounts of force involved in landing the jump.
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Economists have long been mystified by the impulse to discriminate, given that shutting out any group deprives society of advances.
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Investigators were mystified: The teenagers did not know each other, live in the same neighborhood or attend the same school.
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It is both gratifying and frustrating when your colleagues are just as mystified as you are by a tough case.
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I've always been mystified by how the president's enablers, who understand his venality and incompetence, justify their behavior to themselves.
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But Amazon's aggressive stance toward the Trump administration's refugee order has left concerned employees mystified as to its relationship with Breitbart.
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Four others had been granted house arrest; it mystified the parents of the teenagers that their daughters would stay behind bars.
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As early as 2012, onlookers stared mystified by these slow moving white objects in states like Tennessee, Virginia and South Dakota.
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His absence has mystified Cubans and dented the high expectations Mr Castro's liberalising drive once fomented, both at home and abroad.
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For years, America's liberal gun laws, and the unwillingness of Congress to change them, have mystified people in many other countries.
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And Dan Barron of New York wasn't sure what he was tasting, but he pronounced himself "entranced, mystified" by the Bourgneuf.
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He appeared somewhat mystified by the phenomenon; to Cecily's ears, the words were as loud and panicking as a fire alarm.
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He, too, seemed mystified: "Crazy if you ask me," he said, adding that he had called the agency to learn more.
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In 20083, the government was still mystified—that year, more than a thousand Chinese arrivals were registered, and only three deaths.
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As for Mr. Mujica's assertion that plans for future cuts should be developed now, Mr. Brezenoff seemed mystified by that logic.
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The sudden withdrawal mystified and worried other lawyers in the division, who wondered what implications it held for their own cases.
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What starts as a home-invasion psychological thriller ends in flaming nightmare surrealism, stuffed with themes that divided, and mystified, critics.
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I was also a little mystified for a moment over EMS starring in 'Mad Max' (oh, I mean "lead characters," sorry).
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I'm still mystified as to why Apple doesn't put quick access to a Wi-Fi network selection screen somewhere in there, though.
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AN ALIEN ARRIVING on Earth might be mystified by the bits of paper, plastic and metal that humans treat with such reverence.
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"I'm mystified what I'm supposed to do," Lindsay said in court as Sandusky listened intently, occasionally whispering to co-counsel Andrew Salemme.
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Facebook expressed concern about this happening, but its spokespeople purported to be as mystified as I was as to how it happened.
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A sheriff's deputy shot him dead during the attack, and his family in Saudi Arabia said it was mystified by his actions.
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This news came as a major shock to many people who had been mystified by the crimes for more than 40 years.
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He used that pitch, changed speeds and worked the corners effectively on Sunday when he mystified the Atlanta Braves at SunTrust Park.
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Scientists refer to these shifting dunes as "singing" or "booming" sands, which for centuries mystified explorers from Charles Darwin to Marco Polo.
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The intended audience, most of whom will have been born long after 1981, will be mystified by some bits of the musical.
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"My basic question is what took you so long," Breyer said, adding he was "totally mystified" why the SEC waited until 2019.
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Yet today, as a 67-year-old retiree living in her native Sweden, she remains a little mystified by her own fame.
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When my co-founders and I were incorporating BuddyGuard, however, I was mystified by how time-consuming and bureaucratic the process was.
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It also pointlessly mystified the process whereby consumers acquire the most basic, unsimplified details about their home internet's price, speed, and capacity.
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"'We've been frozen,' Jim Himes, a Democratic representative from Connecticut who is a member of the Committee, said... "We're all still mystified.
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" Which probably started with me going, "Who the fuck am I and why am I in this horrible position and I'm mystified.
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"That mystified me even after President Trump became president, 'cause I discovered that he wouldn't criticize him even in private," Comey said.
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Even as he has pushed ahead energetically with initiatives at Tronc's publications, Mr. Ferro's actions have mystified and irritated executives at Oaktree.
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I'd be mystified by the story's ending if I didn't have a copy of the script, and plenty is murky in between.
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Some were mystified about how to reach the right audience with the ads, since Snapchat did not provide traditional ad-targeting tools.
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He said he and many other observers have been appalled and mystified by the tone set by Trump in the GOP primary.
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"I was mystified when the White House dissolved the office, leaving the country less prepared for pandemics like covid-19," she writes.
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Bret: I understand his weakness with African-American voters but remain mystified by why he isn't polling better with the younger electorate.
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Her family was mystified as to why she was on the metro in the middle of the day, according to Moskovsky Komsomolets.
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The Sumeli sisters said they were mystified by Mr. Erdogan's approach to Mr. Trump, and by his other recent diplomatic moves, too.
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A number of iOS app developers have been mystified by a new wave of app rejections related to their use of Apple's emojis.
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As a kid, Shona McAndrew watched mystified as her brother played a game that was something along the lines of crotch-grabbing chicken.
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When I asked Galef and Smith whether they worried that the group's association with Yudkowsky might be off-putting, they seemed genuinely mystified.
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"I'm frankly mystified that the Democrats stripped this provision from the bill," he said in a statement Wednesday after the bill passed Congress.
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On Tuesday, the State Department said it was "mystified" that the countries had not been more forthcoming with demands after implementing the blockade.
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But Rios is mystified that so many in the security community believe that stealing records is as far as hackers would ever go.
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Many Republicans remain mystified why Trump does not play his best card more often by building his political message around the strong economy.
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When his son hired a woman, Barbara A. Res, as his head of construction in the 1980s, Fred Trump was mystified and annoyed.
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In northern New Jersey, which has a vibrant Muslim population, the newspaper The Record reported that the burkini ban had "mystified" many locals.
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My friends in New York, many of them Elizabeth Warren or Bernie Sanders supporters who see Mr. Biden as deeply uninspiring, were mystified.
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But I always find myself mystified as to how I was able to do these workouts multiple times a week without getting bored.
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They certainly didn't look like James Bond, would have been mystified by an Aston Martin and had no Agent 2718 among their ranks.
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As Doyle directs it and Erivo plays it, Celie is mystified by the women around her who manage not to be subjugated survivors.
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I was also mystified by that "N" and "Q" for the "H" and "J" that probably confounded at least a few other people.
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But she is mystified by her grandchildren's tastes for things like Star Wars and says she hardly dares read them her own stories.
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Mystified, he sequenced the mitochondrial DNA of the boy's other family members, including his sisters, parents, grandparents, and siblings of his parents and grandparents.
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I avoided (and felt mystified by) their dedicated aisle in Whole Foods, assuming Equinox trainers were the only shoppers to venture into the area.
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The curious case of what exactly Melania Trump gifted Michelle Obama in a robin's-egg-blue Tiffany's box mystified the masses on Inauguration Day.
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"My basic question is what took you so long," Breyer said, adding he was "totally mystified" as to why the SEC waited until 2019.
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" As we drive past the van he shouts out of the window at the mystified looking driver: "DO YOU WANT YOUR ARM RIPPING OFF?
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But I'm glad he tried, and that millions of people got to be mystified and enchanted for a moment, chins pointed at the sky.
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The case terrified residents and mystified the police for months, and ended only when Jayme staged an escape after almost three months in captivity.
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In Brazoria, a coastal county south of Houston with about 350,000 people, the bee slaughter has captivated residents and mystified fire officials and deputies.
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All my life I've been mystified by and envious of people with a clear sense of purpose combined with an undeserved sense of confidence.
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"I&aposve always been mystified how companies can have bake-offs among three executives, teach none of them anything and select one," Schwarzman said.
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"I&aposve always been mystified how companies can have bake-offs among three executives, teach none of them anything, and select one," Schwarzman said.
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Why the U.S. Department of Transportation approved Norwegian's application has mystified aviation stakeholders given that it is a flagrant violation of existing trade agreements.
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"We're mystified and confused by the fact pattern you laid out and the conclusions that you reached," Chaffetz said at the opening of the hearing.
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The Morning Joe star and former Florida congressman released his first EP on Friday, Mystified, which features five new songs from Scarborough and his band.
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This evening, you'll find yourself mystified about the direction of your career due to Neptune beginning its retrograde in Pisces—tap into your creative side.
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"In 19993, this murder shocked New Yorkers, mystified law enforcement, and the killers eluded justice," Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. said in a statement.
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Edward Castano and his wife, Johanna Uribe, were mystified when the orchard didn't send its usual email that the first peaches were ready for picking.
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"He's speakin' fuckin' Frenchy," Niall said about one of the players, a small fellow with a face like a horse, who was always looking mystified.
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"We believe that in the future, on-skin electronics will no longer be black-boxed and mystified," MIT Media Lab researchers wrote on their site.
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At least three of the cases were fatal, and Sammarco was mystified — and alarmed — when autopsies revealed that something other than heroin was the culprit.
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I'm the sort of simpleton who remains mystified by the controls of our car's electronic displays, six months after my wife, Mary Ellen, bought it.
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Many Korean War veterans seem mystified that aside from endless reruns of "MASH," their deeds have been given such short shrift in our national culture.
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Examining it, you feel a mystified wonder, and perhaps a slight misgiving about the inventor's soundness of mind, remembering what happened to Wile E. Coyote.
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The combination of such vulnerability and daring as strangers — some truly mystified — stared had the effect of transforming her seemingly frail body into something otherworldly.
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Buzz "second man on the moon" Aldrin is back to his legendary form after pulling a mystified face at Donald Trump's weird speech about space.
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The goings-on of her guts have also been a recurring theme in some of the mystified press around her bubbling, chromatic debut, Whack World.
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Being of one thing does not prevent the understanding of, embrace of, encouragement of or even just lovingly-passive-and-mystified acceptance of something different.
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Cathleen's mother, Nora (Julianne Nicholson), an occasional churchgoer, smokes and swears and sleeps around and is utterly mystified by the intensity of her daughter's faith.
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Some are village leaders who are comfortable chatting about their relatives' ability to talk to the volcano but mystified by the scientists' interest in it.
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The 12 landscapes in The Magic Hour are limned with reverence, but there's also the microscopic gaze of someone as curious as he is mystified.
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But the striking deformity at the center of the epidemic, microcephaly, is not new: It has pained families across the globe and mystified experts for decades.
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It has mystified and disconcerted Facebook users by showing them an old boss, a one-night-stand, or someone they just ran into on the street.
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Dubovik's attorney, Pashkov, said he was mystified as to why the youngest defendants are being kept in jail while four additional defendants are under house arrest.
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We can't promote articles like these, directing readers to outlets where we don't make royalties and then stand mystified that no one takes our career seriously.
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When I called the company's headquarters in Connecticut, the woman who answered the phone seemed mystified by the concept of a journalist wanting to ask questions.
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The late Justice Antonin Scalia, a conservative stalwart, and Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a liberal juggernaut, shared a camaraderie that mystified many, and for good reason.
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That's especially true of a plot in which Will dates a much-younger guy who seems mystified that coming out was ever such a big deal.
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Big decisions like announcing a balanced budget and going after the tobacco industry were made in secret, with staff mystified where it was all coming from.
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But less than 10 seconds into the start of the hearing, Mr. Chaffetz lit into the F.B.I. director over a decision he said that "mystified" him.
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I remember how confused I was by hashtags when I first got on Twitter, and how mystified I was by people posting throwback photos on Instagram.
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I craved such an escape myself—but I was also mystified by the show's reception, because the first season struck me as both treacly and exhausting.
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When you meet him, Magnus always seems to have the very slightly mystified air of a man who's not sure if he's just seen a bat.
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"I'm mystified by the detractors," said Pamela Norley, the president of Fidelity Charitable, which made D.A.F. grants worth some $4.5 billion during the 2017 fiscal year.
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Like Alisson, they do not just believe that the stereotype is untrue; they are somewhat mystified as to how it gained credence in the first place.
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Though initially mystified, she recognized what was going on when they met, and he peppered her with questions about her trips abroad and her foreign contacts.
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Mr. Assad has been condemned by the West for using chemical weapons against his own citizens, and the possibility of his visit has mystified some observers.
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The show's host, Al Letson, explains that he was mystified, upon learning about Mr. Rustin, that he had never before heard of such an important figure.
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They were further mystified by the seemingly logic-defying decision to have young actors ranging in age from 16 to 25 play the grown-up characters.
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I had fun but was mystified not to see any kids out on their bikes, my cohort's sole means of transportation until we graduated high school.
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"I'm mystified by the detractors," said Pamela Norley, the president of Fidelity Charitable, which made D.A.F. grants worth some $4.5 billion during the 2017 fiscal year.
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Jason Chaffetz, the Republican chairman of the House Oversight Committee, said at the hearing on Thursday that he was "mystified and confused" by the conclusions Comey reached.
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But Mullin was mystified: The performance's fidelity was far too fine to be a 260-inch wax disc recording, the prevailing radio recording technology at the time.
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" The garrulous, somewhat manic Bolsonaro defends his opinions with the unshakeable conviction of a man mystified as to why others do not feel the same way. "Torture?
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"Everyone was mystified as to what his appeal was," Robert Morosky, one of the company's former vice chairs, told Vanity Fair in a 2003 profile of Epstein.
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If you thought that the Kardashians' wardrobes have been entirely de-mystified thanks to several closet tours and the fact that they're photographed practically daily, think again!
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The 298.7-year-old was mystified when he first saw to-go cups, a symbol of the behavioral chasm that exists between the United States and Europe.
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"I am mystified because these tactics seem always to contribute more to restricting consciousness, aggravating intolerance and pigeonholing cultural identities than many a Nazi bookburning," Bounds wrote.
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Above: Lead image of Sherlock, played by Peter Farley, from the 2015 release of 'Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective: The Case of the Mystified Murderess', available on Steam.
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Establishment Republicans mystified by the party's grassroots activists and rank-and-file members, in short, should consider taking a look at their own campaigns and policy rhetoric.
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"I'm just mystified, to be honest," said Lee Hanley, a wealthy donor who hosted Neugebauer and Cruz's inner circle in 2014 when they plotted Cruz's presidential strategy.
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Still, many Hill Republicans are mystified why Trump hasn't taken a more "professional" approach, as Graham described it, to the myriad of tough policy issues before them.
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But he says he's mystified by the fact that the Republicans critical of Trump are, so far, largely shying away from mounting a 22019 run against him.
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It reminds me of #TheDress, which looked black and blue to some and white and gold to others, with each side mystified by what the other saw.
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Even Canadians now accustomed to Trump's complaints about Canada were mystified at the harsh comments from his advisers, comments that were clearly condoned by the President himself.
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"I'm so mystified by your endorsement of Trump for our President, that for me it moves from 'different judgment' to 'bad judgment,'" said the email to Thiel.
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As adept as he is in math, he said that he was mystified by the way rich Americans had mopped up so much wealth in recent decades.
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Actors, one realizes, like to work, which is why "Miss Atomic Bomb" leaves one very much admiring the players even as one remains mystified by the play.
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Yet former White House advisers from both parties have been mystified at the ineptitude of Mr. Trump's team in dealing with the fallout from Mr. Porter's situation.
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Still, many Democrats are mystified by what seems like the Clintons' inability to respond to questions about Mr. Clinton's past that are inevitable in the #MeToo era.
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He has told friends that he is mystified that he is taking the fall for actions he carried out on behalf of Mr. Trump, who remains unscathed.
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The result wouldn't have been out of place at an elementary school arts and crafts fair, and Lindsey admits she was kind of mystified by the whole thing.
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In the article, Gessen called an early version of Harbach's novel "a little light ... a little like a Disney film," and described being mystified by its sudden transformation.
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The company's terse tweeted responses to impassioned pleas from its creators have left everyone mystified about what, if anything, the company stands for, aside from minimizing bad press.
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"I'm mystified as to why she can't get to those 52, 53 percent numbers in some of these states, given the disadvantages we're handed every day," Conway added.
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And yet a fundamental and seemingly unstoppable narrative force that seems to envelop every detail in a nimbus of resonances keeps the mystified reader turning page after page.
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It's why veteran Republicans operatives remain mystified that Trump's orbit is going the drip-drip route rather than disclosing all at once what's known about meetings with Russians.
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Because that's another area that is ... I think they keep it mystified for very good reason, to keep you away from, they don't want people asking dumb questions.
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An alleged hacker has mystified the cryptocurrency world after inexplicably returning $17 million USD worth of ether—Ethereum's in-house cryptocurrency—almost a year after it was stolen.
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For philistines mystified by the value attached to so many artworks that to an untrained eye look worthless, Mr. Cenedella comes across as a reassuring voice of sanity.
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" As to the uproar over the push by Emily's List, Ms. Edwards said she was mystified: "I'm a pro-choice Democratic woman, and Mr. Van Hollen is not.
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Bastian maintained that he was "mystified" as to why Boeing has sought to oust the narrowbody jet program through a complaint against Bombardier to the U.S. Commerce Department.
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Fans of the director may be a little mystified by what at first seems like something of a commercial sellout, by a director known for more challenging material.
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The restaurant, which was the first firm in Cuba to be wholly owned by a foreign one (state-owned Beijing Enterprises Group, or BEG), has long mystified habaneros.
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Radiohead's snub last year mystified many observers who saw other 1990s alternative heroes like Nirvana, Pearl Jam and Green Day enter the hall the instant they became eligible.
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Mr. Sirota is meticulous, mathematical and alphabetizes everything; she was a "flighty artist," she said, who was mystified by physics and had never alphabetized anything in her life.
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I have never been a Clinton hater; indeed, I've always been a little mystified by the scale of Republican dislike for the most centrist of recent Democratic leaders.
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Lucy, the dog, is fawned over whenever she walks outside, though the family is still mystified whenever tourists ask to take a picture with her, which happens frequently.
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Some Democrats pointed to a May 2017 email in which Ross told aides he was "mystified" that action hadn't taken place on his request to include the question.
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The omnibus, like many bills before it, was drafted in secret before being dropped on a bunch of mystified senators who were simply told to vote for it.
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Think about Barack Obama being vilified for his love of arugula, Mitt Romney's car elevator, or George H.W. Bush being mystified by the scanner at a grocery checkout.
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"I'm so mystified by your endorsement of Trump for our President, that for me it moves from 'different judgment' to 'bad judgment,'" Hastings reportedly told Thiel in the email.
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By mid-March, it had been weeks without any update on the project, and the state officials I had been talking to were mystified as to what was happening.
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A quick look at all those guides to Snapchat for the mystified older set will confirm the trend, and on Twitter, it's clear that some people are not happy.
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Observers have been mystified by the Obama White House's decision to spark a Democratic Party civil war over the DNC chair race so soon after its clobbering in November.
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As you may have seen recently, Joe Scarborough, the MSNBC TV man who hosts the show Morning Joe, has been promoting his rock band's new EP recently called Mystified.
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She found a vegan community in Osaka through Facebook, and she says her parents, who were at first mystified and skeptical, are now mostly accepting of her vegan lifestyle.
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We can see how a cat might learn to open a drawer, but we're mystified as to how a cat could learn to close the drawer from the inside!
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Coming from any other camera, you'll be mystified by the lack of immediate inputs, only to realize that the Leica T's touchscreen interface works very much like a smartphone's.
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When they found that the woman had the Presenilin 1 mutation, but had not yet even developed a pre-Alzheimer's condition called mild cognitive impairment, the scientists were mystified.
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Though I am mystified as to what can have been going on, I am certain that take-it-or-leave-it is not how friends speak to each other.
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Thousands of people milled around hundreds of exhibitors, including Armageddon Gear (beer bivy sacks), WMD Guns (not nuclear weapons), and RCBS Precisioneered Reloading supplies ("leaving varmints mystified since 1943").
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"I'm so mystified by your endorsement of Trump for our President, that for me it moves from 'different judgment' to 'bad judgment,'" Hastings reportedly told Thiel in an email.
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Clinton's allies privately say they are mystified by her choice to make the Wall Street speeches, given the likelihood that they would become an issue in a presidential campaign.
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I was truly mystified why some passengers on the trains were looking at their phones and laptops instead of out the windows, like I did for hours on end.
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Destiny 2: Black Armory came out in December, and along with it a series of hidden puzzles that energized and mystified the game's niche sub-community of puzzle obsessives.
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Fifty years after its public unveiling, the untitled Picasso sculpture that sits in the center of Daley Plaza continues to elicit a wide range of interpretations from mystified passersby.
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In the first chapter we'd hear from Mimosa's original owners and learn the answer to a riddle that has mystified us for years: Why did they name her Mimosa?
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Patricia WellerEmmitsburg, Md. To the Editor: I am mystified by President Trump's threat to shut down the government if Congress does not fund a wall along the Mexican border.
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A reckoning is still likely: A group of co-producers and investors, mystified by how the show could go under, are planning to pursue an audit of the production.
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Soldiers in Puerto Rico said in interviews that they had done nothing wrong and were mystified by the nighttime raids that they say could have easily ended in bloodshed.
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The detective passes through plenty of dinky towns as she makes her way across the prairie, mystified by all the nuclear missile silos left over from the Cold War.
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"I'm quite mystified as to why this has not been given the significance that it should have received," Leo Glavine, Nova Scotia's culture minister, told the CBC this month.
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Bro is still mystified that anybody considers her an expert just because a man plowed his car into a crowd where Heyer was protesting the "Unite the Right" rally.
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Hear the Aztec 'Death Whistle' That Mystified ScientistsIn the 1990s, archeologists in Mexico City unearthed a 500-year-old skeleton near an ancient Aztec temple—a victim of human sacrifice.
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Sally recalled, still mystified, that sometimes in summer a nun would wake the children in the middle of the night because an ice cream truck had come by with leftovers.
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His comments came a day after the State Department said it was "mystified" that the Gulf states had not yet offered the grievances that prompted a diplomatic break with Qatar.
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I didn't want to talk about my "mental health," so I glossed over it with my parents, who were as mystified as I was about what I was anxious about.
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"We are mystified and confused by the fact pattern that you laid out and the conclusions that you reached," House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz said Thursday.
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Trump seems genuinely mystified that the tactics that won him impressive victories over able, experienced opponents in the fight for the GOP nomination are failing him in the general election.
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Since it was discovered in 1900 by divers off the Greek island of Antikythera, a complex clockwork device dubbed the "Antikythera Mechanism" has mystified everyone from archaeologists to UFO enthusiasts.
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A teen-age " SKAM " fan named Daniel Mo was at first mystified by the show's structural complexity, given that its story lines could have been told the old-fashioned way.
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Cypriot immigration and police officers seemed as mystified as he was, he said, by a note in their computer systems that described him as a wanted criminal requiring immediate arrest.
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His willingness to overlook Russia's annexation of Crimea, its armed intervention in eastern Ukraine and, until now, its support for President Bashar al-Assad's government in Syria mystified many experts.
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"Most Americans are indifferent to or mystified by liberalism and conservatism as political ideas," argue Donald Kinder and Nathan Kalmoe in a recent book on the ideological innocence of American voters.
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Six-times major winner Becker, the former coach of Djokovic, has kept a close eye on Murray's season and is mystified about what has gone wrong for the 30-year-old.
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Just as miraculously, we have the ability, even the obligation, to judge what we have made, to argue about why we are moved, mystified, delighted or bored by any of it.
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LGBTQ family law experts who spoke with VICE were mystified that social conservatives appear so dedicated to stigmatizing same-sex couples that they've abandoned all pretense of concern for child welfare.
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Republican bigwigs in Congress sounded more like angry callers to a talk-radio show, declaring themselves "mystified" by the FBI's conclusions, without explaining precisely how the bureau had misapplied the law.
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As a native Canadian, he is somewhat mystified by America's gun culture, particularly the lack of "guardrails" other nations have erected to prevent people with evil intentions from inflicting great carnage.
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LONDON, Nov 28 (Reuters) - Bank of England Governor Mark Carney said he was "mystified" by developments regarding London Stock Exchange Chief Executive Xavier Rolet and wanted clarity "as soon as possible".
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"No expert who claims to understand the arguments has succeeded in explaining them to any of the (very many) experts who remain mystified," Matthew Emerton of the University of Chicago wrote.
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I spent most of that Christmas watching from the sidelines, mystified by the arcane instructions, as my mom worked to crack the code and bring the heap of plastic to life.
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I was misdirected by one of the theme entries, had "class" for CLUBS, and was mystified by PIE PAN because I got stuck on the shoemaking "cobbler" instead of the dessert.
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The revelation mystified members of his Alternative for Germany (Alternative für Deutschland, or AfD) party, which is staunchly opposed to Islam and holds that the religion has no place in Germany.
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The call for a vote on the paragraphs mystified representatives from the Netherlands, whose representatives pointed out that no one had objected to the language while the resolution was in committee.
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Cybersecurity experts and members of Congress said they were mystified by the move, though some suggested Mr. Bolton did not want any competitive power centers emerging inside the national security apparatus.
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Bret: The other day, in Canberra, I spoke with some Australian government officials who seem to be considerably more mystified by what's going on at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue than in Pyongyang.
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Numerous debate viewers were mystified by an answer Biden gave in Thursday's Democratic debate, which suggested "mak[ing] sure you have the record player on" could ensure children learned more words.
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An infrastructure plan may be a safer harbor for Mr. Trump — a measure many in Washington are mystified that he did not try to pursue at the outset of his administration.
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Spotty, awkward 15-year-olds predated the 1940s, but only then did mystified adults coin the label "teenagers", fuelling all sorts of products and services, from bobby socks to the music industry.
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They've also helped overwhelm the United States Patent and Trademark Office, which, not unlike an Amazon shopper, has for years found itself mystified by pseudo-brands as it continues to approve them.
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John Cornyn, a member of the Intelligence Committee and the number-two Republican in the Senate, told BuzzFeed News on Thursday that the talk of a "secret society" had left him mystified.
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This question has mystified scientists for years, but a new study by researchers from the Wellcome Trust-MRC Institute of Metabolic Science and the University of Cambridge has finally provided the answer.
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" And two months before that, Ross questioned an aide by email: "I am mystified why nothing have been done in response to my months old request that we include the citizenship question.
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" So everyone was completely mystified about why one child was so successful in school and the other, well, "my mother said when his teachers saw her coming, they would cross the street.
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I, for one, am mystified how the LGBTQ community could ever come to such a conclusion, since the only place they could find his support was on the man's own freaking website.
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By the look of my notes, I attempted to refine my runs: I got both "The Mummy's Curse" and "The Mystified Murderess" down to double digits, close to Holmes' twenty-something results.
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The President is trying hard to reshape a political battlefield that is stacked against him, as sources suggest he is increasingly mystified that his tactics have not turned the tables on Democrats.
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Science itself has advanced considerably, which means a lot of the paranormal phenomena that mystified us in the 1990s—human cloning, for example—have literally become scientific fact in the intervening decades.
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Mr. Trump's remarks, the latest example of his penchant for racially tinged remarks denigrating immigrants, left members of Congress from both parties attending the meeting in the Oval Office alarmed and mystified.
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Republicans are increasingly mystified by their own grass roots, an electorate they thought they knew, and distressed that a wave of turnover in their ranks could fundamentally change the character of Congress.
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Once again, the driver is Wolfgang, but this time he's a hedge fund manager, and we now realize the small speaking object that mystified Saul back in 1988 is Wolfgang's mobile phone.
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As Johnson's music began to find an audience in the years after his death, however, critics — many of them white and mystified by black culture in the South — leaned into the legend.
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Each time, tables that began as discrete pairs and trios ended as friends, walking out together into the night — poorer, depending on how many drinks they downed, but giddier, and more mystified.
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Even as players sanitized their fury by professing that they didn't lose because of the officials' oversight, they were mystified that it happened at all, to them, at such a critical moment.
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Ms. Zimmer seemed mystified by Ms. Morales's statements, saying she had met her only once before the newscaster showed up at a meeting about the Rebuild by Design process and challenged the engineers.
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Immediately the rumors began to fly, and as the story leaked, Salesforce shareholders were mystified by Benioff's interest in Twitter, not seeing the value in that data that seemed so tantalizing to Salesforce.
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They ride off into the night in a limo, while Chet watches the taillights fade into the distance, looking sad and also a little mystified that Quinn might get her fairytale after all.
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Everyone else, however, can be forgiven for being mystified -- not only by what's happening in the movie, but why material that feels so generic, at least as adapted here, merited such extravagant treatment.
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Ted Cruz allies 'mystified' over super PAC sitting on $10 million "It will be absolutely clear to everyone that this is a two-man race," Cruz said told reporters Monday in Peoria, Illinois.
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If you've only ever bought chicken breasts pre-cut and wrapped in plastic in the supermarket, you're probably going to be a little mystified at the idea of butchering a whole bird yourself.
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Sinosphere BEIJING — "Well, of course I kept my name when I married," said Yang Huiping, mystified at being asked about it as she polished the glass doors of an apartment block in Beijing.
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VINALHAVEN, Me. — For years before Robert Indiana died, his deepening isolation on this remote island, more than an hour's ferry ride off the Maine coast, had mystified some longtime friends and business associates.
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His comments on North Korea also mystified Washington -- since if he had spoken to Kim, it would mark the first time a sitting US president had ever talked to a North Korean leader.
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Thus, I am mystified by your front-page article implying that Michael Bloomberg's support for a remarkable range of liberal causes is largely a sham recently cooked up to get him elected president.
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When the fall collection begins arriving this summer, the fleeces will be sized XS to L, rather than the women's 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 sizing that mystified some of her male customers.
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But Dr. Scarlette Gotwals, a veterinarian and director of flight operations for Horse America, a shipping agent, said she was mystified as to why Ark has not been embraced by the horse industry.
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Among the critics questioning why it took so long to sue was U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer who, in May, said he was "totally mystified" by why the lawsuit wasn't filed until this year.
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That series of self-inflicted wounds has congressional Republicans mystified and scared, desperately trying to figure out what Trump will do next and, as importantly, what it all means for their own political prospects.
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Now, Kelly has changed the dynamic: He's a chain-of-command military guy who was initially mystified, and then horrified, when he learned about the relentless campaign against McMaster, coming from Breitbart and others.
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Wedbush analyst Michael Pachter was another skeptic, saying he was "mystified by the investor love affair with Netflix's India opportunity", pointing to price differences in Netflix's monthly plans versus cable TV in the country.
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Meanwhile, Hippolyte's stepsister, called Strophe (Agata Buzek), wanders around in crystal-studded jeans and glittery heels, looking bored and mystified by her mother's attraction to her stepbrother, as least until all hell breaks loose.
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Much as July loves her husband's work, she remains mystified by the gap between his actual childhood—"You could hug Mike for a long time, and it wouldn't be enough"—and these glowing portraits.
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" — would have mystified me otherwise, as I was stuck on the common meaning of "tear into", which would never have given me HANKIE, and 83A — "What might cost you an arm and a leg?
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In the aftermath was the haunting question that mystified anyone who is a parent, as well as those who knew the families best: How could the conspirators have done this to their own children?
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It mystified many around the league, not to mention her own team at times, to see the 6-foot-8 Griner, a largely unguardable player in the post, disappear for long stretches of games.
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She was an amazing woman that we're all very much mystified by, and there's a freedom to taking on a character like that because no one really knows how she felt behind closed doors.
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But nachos recently mystified a group of diners—they had been made with the creamy cheese sauce known as queso, and there was so little of it that it was mistaken for sour cream.
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Residents and politicians on both sides of the border say they are mystified by the proposed budget cuts, which they say would do massive damage to waters still reeling from decades of industrial contamination.
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I'm still mystified by its true nature, whether it is an itch to scratch, an exercise in power, in pleasure, a form of togetherness, of renewal, an act of reckless hope, slavery, or freedom.
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French foreign minister Jean-Yves LeDrian said he was mystified by U.S. policy on Syria after Trump's decision to withdraw troops because it would only benefit Iran, which Washington wants to be tough on.
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The 12 landscapes comprising The Magic Hour, which mostly depict sea grape trees, are limned with reverence, but there's also the microscopic gaze — and indeed awe — of someone as curious as he is mystified.
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Mystified as ever by the rise of Josh Smith whose work resembles the efforts of a tipsy van Gogh in an art bar, seeing this show, my inner critic is confronted with mostly disagreeable choices.
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The former general was seen as an advocate of Trump's plans to seek to ease the estrangement in relations with Moscow -- a stance that has mystified both Republican and Democratic foreign policy experts in Washington.
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"They're just as flummoxed and just as mystified and just as up in the air about this race as anyone else," said Shmuley Boteach, a rabbi close to Adelson and several other prominent Jewish donors.
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From songs of heartbreak like "Tangled Up in Blue" to social commentary like that in "A-Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall," Dylan has inspired and mystified the masses, and, in particular, the masses of dads.
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Yes, I was mystified and baffled by this one as it arose because I was like, how the hell could you mistake me for someone who would be down with any kind of white supremacy?
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Their seeming normality coupled with the barbarity of the crimes, their insult-to-injury behavior during the trial, their mocking disdain for the grief of the victims' families— 10 families in all— that mystified me.
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According to anthropologist Harold E.L. Prins's catalog essay, Penn's images appear to conform to an unfortunate late 1960s bias that mystified and romanticized tribal culture, ironically in an effort to counter typically patronizing colonial attitudes.
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Byzantine tangles of water pipes and gas lines and electrical cords that would have mystified a contractor somehow managed to pump the atrium with warm air and fresh water, insulating it from the Detroit winter.
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But in a strong rebuff to TCI's Hohn, BoE Governor Mark Carney said on Tuesday the LSE's succession plans should remain in place and that he was "mystified" by the spat, effectively sealing Rolet's fate.
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In Berlin, German Chancellor Angela Merkel was mystified by May's metamorphosis from a quiet "remain" supporter to what seemed like a passionate crusader for a hard break from Europe, according to people in her entourage.
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I get the same questions when I visit my brother in Canada or on my business travels to other countries, where many people remain perplexed, maybe even downright mystified, by Americans' defense of gun rights.
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European elections have usually mystified voters in the bloc's 28 member states, yet the results could be pivotal this time, as far-right parties hope to use the races to increase their power in Brussels.
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Billed as a coming-of-age tale in a vast, mystical world, it's an exploration game with a Moebius-influenced art style that is just, well, we get mystified every time we look at it.
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" Bob Oehrig, executive director of Arrive Ministries, one of Minnesota's refugee resettlement agencies, told the newspaper he was somewhat mystified by the vote, saying Beltrami is "not a county that's really had any refugee resettlement.
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Both sides felt betrayed, and Trumps flip-flops left Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell mystified to the point where he said earlier this week that he could not figure out Trumps position on the issue.
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In private discussions since the inauguration, a mystified Senator Mitch McConnell, the Republican majority leader from Kentucky, has said that Mr. Trump appears uncertain of precisely where he stands on a number of critical issues.
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In the old days I was always mystified about how Yankee fans stirred up the same excitement year after year despite their constant winning, and as my teams became increasingly Yankee-like the mystification remained.
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Rapa Nui National Park, Rapa Nui, Chile Rapa Nui, known to some as Easter Island or Te Pito o te Henua, is renowned for its behemoth moai sculptures that have fascinated and mystified anthropologists for centuries.
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At the same time, it doesn't sound that bad or that outlandish — certainly not embarrassing, which is what Jackson calls it and her, mystified by the idea that someone would ever aim to make a bop.
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The tactic mystified former Hong Kong police officers as they watched coverage of hundreds of protesters, mostly students in hard hats and masks, roaming the plush, multistorey complex, vandalising furniture and daubing graffiti over the walls.
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The tactic mystified former Hong Kong police officers as they watched coverage of hundreds of protesters, mostly students in hard hats and masks, roaming the plush, multistorey complex, vandalizing furniture and daubing graffiti over the walls.
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At a hearing in Washington on Tuesday, the chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board said he was "mystified" by the withdrawal last year of a proposed federal rule on screening train crews for sleep apnea.
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"I am mystified that nothing has been done in response to my months-old request that we include the citizenship question," he groused in a May 2017 email to an aide tapped out on his iPhone.
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Eddie's lyrics had the same partly precise, partly mystified quality: "Where did our love go?" he had Diana ask, and the question made you turn your head and join the effort to locate that lost jewel.
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"We are mystified that the Gulf states have not released to the public, nor to the Qataris, the details about the claims that they are making toward Qatar," State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said during a briefing.
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Friends and colleagues were mystified that Wexner had handed such sweeping control of his affairs to Epstein, who at the time he was made power of attorney was working as Wexner's personal financial adviser, The Times said.
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The U.S. State Department bluntly questioned on Tuesday the motives of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates for their boycott of Doha, saying it was "mystified" the Gulf states had not released their grievances over Qatar.
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The decision to let the Australian Bureau of Statistics handle the postal vote instead of the Australian Electoral Commission has also mystified some politicians, who say the bureau has never been asked to do anything like it.
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I had LUCKY "die" instead of HIT for a long time and was mystified by the two anagrammed clues at V. and W.; finally enough letters popped up in each clue to get me ORANGES and ONAGERS.
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Earlier this week, US State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said Washington was "mystified" by the failure of Saudi Arabia and its allies to justify the ongoing isolation of Qatar, a key US partner in the fight against ISIS.
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Cleveland coach Tyronn Lue lamented the lack of rebounding by his team and admitted to being somewhat mystified by yet another slow start to the second half after the Cavs closed the first half on a solid run.
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WASHINGTON, June 20 (Reuters) - The U.S. State Department said on Tuesday it was "mystified" that Gulf Arab states had not released to the public or to Qatar details of the grievances that prompted their boycott of the country.
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State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said Tuesday that the U.S. is "mystified" that Persian Gulf countries including Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have not released information to back up claims they have made against Qatar.
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His rhetoric was considered by most lawmakers to be a political disaster and forced Republicans to go on defense to verbally distance themselves from the president, whose warmer stance toward Putin has mystified members of his own party.
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If you're mystified, recall a situation where you were wronged and then given an insincere apology; conversely, think about a time when an apology was demanded from you for something you considered perfectly just or at least innocuous.
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I'm mystified why worn clothing of this style, which seems like it would have been worn by common people would be presented as art objects, and I noticed this clothing or its like displayed by a few galleries.
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Despite nearly four years of preparation and an early look at Team New Zealand in Bermuda, where Oracle beat the Kiwis twice in round-robin races, Spithill sounds slightly mystified about how Oracle has fallen so far behind.
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It mystified even the most senior experts on Cuba, who questioned if Havana's intelligence agents had pulled off an unauthorized stunt to end President Barack Obama's reconciliation efforts, or, more likely, if new eavesdropping technology had gone awry.
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So like so many juiced gymnasts, the Russians have bent over backward trying to show that they have thoroughly revamped their doping agency and that they're truly mystified why so many of their athletes took performance-enhancing drugs.
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"We are mystified and confused by the fact pattern that you laid out and the conclusions that you reached," said Chaffetz, adding that "the Average Joe" would have been led off in handcuffs had they done what Clinton did.
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I'm quite mystified how Facebook is going to reliably distinguish among EU and non-EU users, in order to build separate tiers of GDPR-compliant granular, revocable opt-in consent controls from another tier of opt-out consent controls.
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A day earlier, State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said the United States was "mystified" by the failure of Saudi Arabia and its allies to justify the ongoing isolation of Qatar, a key US partner in the fight against ISIS.
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In "Mystified," he sings: So tell your Asian girlfriend what you want to, Tim I won't be coming over tonight And tell those Bleecker speed freaks that you hang out with I won't be going down without a fight.
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Seth Rogen -- Franco's frequent co-star -- shares producer credit, and appears as one of the crew members, who are happy to garner a paycheck but positively mystified over what sort of movie their director is making, among other things.
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In 1983, when I had an after-school job helping set up the store — we recorded the stock in blue ballpoint pen, in spiral notebooks — I was mystified by the constant arrival of large-format books from European publishers.
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The first disappointment came at a campground on Prince Edward Island in 1972, where my special eclipse camera — two feet long and taking five-inch-wide film — mystified the other campgoers, who didn't even realize an eclipse was coming.
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Considering the Afterlife Reading James Wood's review of "This Life," by Martin Hägglund, I was mystified by his argument that the main consideration in defining personal morality is whether one views existence as finite or eternal (Books, May 20th).
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"How striving for perfection could end this way" mystified and preoccupied him, Mr. Winterkorn told a parliamentary committee charged with investigating the scandal and with determining if the German government had been aware of it before the news broke.
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She remains mystified why this scene between two toxic lovers would draw more ire than, say, "a man up North taking his children to the White Walkers," she said, referring to one of the show's many outlandishly horrendous people.
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Few musicians in jazz have generated as much mystified interest as Lennie Tristano, the pianist, composer and instructor who in the 1940s and '50s helped create the sound known as cool jazz, but rarely emerged from behind the scenes.
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" White House and allies wanted it About two months after taking office in May 2017, Ross emailed an aide: "I am mystified why nothing have (sic) been done in response to my months old request that we include the citizenship question.
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Nutman said he's "mystified" that Allwood and her colleagues focused on the far end of the site A outcrop, which his team avoided because of the severe tectonic deformations and chemical weathering observed in this particular part of the rock formation.
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But the international outcry has mystified many in Poland, where the law is perceived as an effort to have Poland recognized as a victim of World War II, during which it was invaded by both Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union.
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There he found a group, smaller and lighter-skinned than the other Africans he had encountered, who, mystified by the odd men appearing out of the infinity of the sea, chased them back to their boat under a hail of arrows.
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Jessica Vilca, who runs a small ceviche restaurant across the street from the baseball park, looks forward to extra business but is mystified by baseball and the other sports that will be played in the Andrés Avelino Cáceres sports complex.
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Bowie warbles the story of Major Tom, an astronaut who becomes so attached to his ship — and so mystified by the enormous distance between his "tin can" and the blue Earth below him — that he decides to just float forever.
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That explanation has mystified immigration and refugee lawyers who say that because of existing vetting procedures, no traveler from the seven countries affected would be able to plan a trip to the United States without starting the process months in advance.
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"I will tell you, I'm mystified as to why she can't get to those 52–53 percent numbers in some of these states given the disadvantages we're handed every day," Kellyanne Conway told host Anderson Cooper on CNN's "360" late Tuesday.
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When told that was very unlikely to happen -- companies like Disney generally don't double down on bets that, at this point, are projected to lose them money -- she sounded mystified, wondering how they could let the story end where it did.
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"Now that it's been over two weeks since the embargo started, we are mystified that the Gulf States have not released to the public, nor to the Qataris, the details about the claims that they are making toward Qatar," Nauert said.
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And yes, I had some male friends, even some best friends, but they were faggots, and everyone knows that the very best faggots are practically girls, or at the very least as repulsed and mystified by men as the average lesbian.
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DENVER — When President Trump pardoned two cattlemen from the high desert of Oregon this week, both convicted of setting fires on federal land, even their lawyer was mystified as to how the case got the attention of the White House.
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"Good thing I've decluttered my house Marie Kondo style, because now I can take advantage of her online shop and fill it up with needed things like 4kHz Chakra tuning forks and computer brushes," wrote one mystified man in Australia.
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Trump mystified the nation by wearing a green Zara jacket with the words "I Really Don't Care, Do U" written on the back as she boarded a plane to Texas to visit with migrant children separated from their parents in McAllen, Texas.
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Investigators trying to solve the murder of a Westchester County socialite on her family's 2750-acre horse farm have yet to unravel a killing that has captivated and mystified residents in one of the New York City region's most affluent and tranquil communities.
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I didn't expect that I'd be walking into a chilly forest scene with actual birch trees reaching up toward the sound stage's ceiling and actual snow drifting down, alongside a mob of young Californians who seemed legitimately mystified to be suddenly encountering winter.
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One GOP strategist said he was mystified by the idea that a former anesthesiologist — someone who dealt with life-and-death situations and had little margin of error in his practice — would allegedly tackle a fellow doctor and cause such severe injuries.
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Given that there only seemed to be a few people around, I was mystified as to how all those shops and places to eat stayed in business — surely rent in a station as busy (and nice) as Gare du Nord couldn't be cheap.
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As I browsed its many stalls of Welsh-themed goods—"Made In America, With Welsh Parts" said one T-shirt (but what parts?)—I came across a diverse array of characters all joined in their desire to promote Wales to the mystified Americas.
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"Now that it has been more than two weeks since the embargo started, we are mystified that the Gulf states have not released to the public nor to the Qataris the details about the claims that they are making toward Qatar," Nauert added.
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Some House Republicans used their allotted time to ask witnesses about a multitude of conspiracy theories involving Democratic servers and Ukrainian op-eds, a move that likely pleased regular Sean Hannity viewers and mystified ordinary Americans who haven't followed the story closely.
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In an interview, the panel's leader, Edmond Mulet, a veteran United Nations diplomat, also said he was mystified as to why the Russians had tenaciously defended the Syrian government when, in his view, the proof of its chemical weapons attacks was overwhelming.
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"I've been sort of mystified at the notion that we should somehow ignore what are by most accounts completely unrehearsed, un-poll-tested utterances from the mouth of the person who's about to become president of the United States," Ms. Davis says.
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During a candid hourlong conversation that included a tour of his lovingly restored red-and-white Chevy Silverado flatbed truck (model year 1988 — the same year he switched his party registration from Democrat to Republican), he sounded mystified at the uproar he created.
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The Energy Department is the government's expert when it comes to conservation, so it mystified auditors when they discovered that an effort to make the department's National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) more energy efficient was missing its goals by millions of dollars.
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And in the case of Mollie Tibbetts, the jogger found dead in an Iowa cornfield this month, it was a neighbor's home security camera that offered a key clue on the suspected killer after mystified investigators searched for answers for nearly a month.
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He would never question his place in the world, and would be utterly mystified if someone tried to explain that experiencing racism wasn't just a slur, but also a feeling of isolation, in which you believe yourself to be ahistorical, a person without a people.
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"[People are] truly mystified that it took this long for all of this to come out, and that includes both media and executives in town," Min told CNN, adding that previous attempts by alleged victims and reporters were stonewalled by legal threats from Weinstein's team.
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He was also just a totally enthralling athlete to watch, one of the most entertaining and infuriating players of his era, a dude who complemented his size and athleticism with breathtaking skill and off-kilter train of thought that mystified the staunchest of defenders.
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Despite the utter shock and confusion that engulfed the Dolby Theatre at the Academy Awards on Sunday night after Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway incorrectly declared La La Land the winner of the Best Picture prize, it seems Beatty remains as mystified as anyone.
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"Now that it has been more than two weeks since the embargo started, we are mystified that the Gulf states have not released to the public, nor to the Qataris, the details about the claims that they are making toward Qatar," Nauert told reporters Tuesday.
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This account—which, according to the authors, clears up nine anomalies of the case—is not widely accepted, but it's good enough for Schnabel, who relies upon it for his film, although the resulting scene is so oblique that most viewers will be mystified.
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Yet even those who are mystified by Mr. Roth's performative extracurriculars give him credit as a businessman who has aggressively wooed the shows he wants, is generous to artists working in his theaters and has overhauled customer service practices in a change-averse industry.
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"I made a promise to the voters of my district that I would be a no — no under any circumstances," said Representative-elect Max Rose of New York, adding that he was mystified that journalists continued to ask him whether he would change his position.
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Chris Cillizza, a political commentator at CNN, recently wrote that Trump's series of self-inflicted wounds has congressional Republicans mystified and scared, desperately trying to figure out what Trump will do next and, as importantly, what it all means for their own political prospects.
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Tillerson's comments came in a short statement a day after the State Department bluntly questioned the motives of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates in announcing their boycott of Qatar on June 5, saying it was "mystified" the Gulf states had not released their grievances.
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"Now that it's been over two weeks since the embargo started, we are mystified that the Gulf States have not released to the public, nor to the Qataris, the details about the claims that they are making toward Qatar," Nauert told reporters at a press briefing.
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"To have evidence as to where your risks are and to use resources based on where your evidence shows you the risks are found ... So of all the areas to use that resource, I'm a little mystified as to why this is the one they're focusing on."
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" My younger and cooler colleagues were similarly mystified by all the fuss; one had nothing to say about Cornell except that: "My friend did text me the other day that he saw, and I quote, 'a fat old man' in a Temple of the Dog t-shirt.
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Asked about the incident, Harris said she was somewhat mystified by the interruption given that she had just spoken at length during the discussion with Breed about racial disparities in healthcare outcomes and her efforts to eradicate racial injustice through her work on criminal justice reform.
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Newspapers, television stations, social media and all manner of national communications were awash in vitriol at the idea of a meeting between the two men, while political analysts on both sides of the border said they were mystified about why Mr. Peña Nieto invited Mr. Trump.
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HERAT, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Two Afghan girls refused visas to the United States for a robot-building competition said on Tuesday they were mystified by the decision, as the contest's organizers said teams from Iran and Sudan as well as a de facto Syrian team had gained visas.
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"You've said that you want Apple to be as good at design as Sony," I reminded him, but added that I was mystified as to why Sony, the company whose flagship product was a toy robot dog, was seen as the be-all and end-all.
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Nearly a month after he was fired by the Trump administration, Preet Bharara, the former United States attorney in Manhattan, remains mystified by the circumstances of his ouster, saying he had never been told why President Trump changed his mind about wanting him to stay on.
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There are numerous examples of unsolved classical problems, like Enigma messages from World War II. Whether or not Kryptos will ever be decoded, Sanborn hopes that the mystery of the sculpture will persist across time, echoing the inscrutable paradoxes of science that mystified him as a student.
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"There seems to be an obsession with something that has in fact been a legislative practice for decades," said Senator Diane Savino of Staten Island, who received $2500,000 for a position that another senator filled, adding in a recent interview that she was "mystified" by the controversy.
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So it went on Friday, and so it goes for Mr. Rubio in the final days of the Iowa campaign: Almost everyone he meets is eager to help, and almost everyone he meets is mystified about why he is trailing Ted Cruz and Donald J. Trump in the polls.
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Cramer Remix: Beware the Fed's impact here Cramer: Oil patch could save itself, as banks did Cramer: The shake-out in restaurants has begun Cramer was also mystified when Whole Foods didn't jump after it reported the last quarter, but that all changed in the past 48 hours.
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Amid these controversies, many conservatives agree with Ted Cruz that America has "gone off the deep end" (a petition urging a boycott of Target has drawn 1.25m signatures); a phalanx of liberals backs transgender rights; but, judging by the erratic opinion polls, lots of Americans are simply mystified.
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A huge carving of a monkey with its tail twirled in a spiral; vast, geometric images of a condor and a hummingbird; an immense spider — the 2,000-year-old Nazca Lines in Peru have awed and mystified modern viewers since they were first seen from the air last century.
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For the mystified as well as the merely curious, we offer answers to your burning questions, compiled with the help and insights of the show's creator Byrne and the creative team, including the 11 multitalented merrymakers onstage with him at the Hudson Theater, where the show continues through February.
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In her book "How to Raise an Adult," the former Stanford freshmen dean Julie Lythcott-Haims reports that officials at Teach for America have been mystified in recent years by the volume of parents who intervene on behalf of their adult children, whom the group employs as teachers.
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Dominika is expected to just shake off her assaults, and when she confronts one of her assailants in a later scene, she mostly humiliates him, in a way that ultimately leaves the audience a bit mystified and confused as to her true aims rather than delivering easy catharsis.
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"Now that it's been more than two weeks since the embargo started, we are mystified that the Gulf states have not released to the Qataris, nor to the public, the details about the claims they are making toward Qatar," Heather Nauert, a State Department spokesperson, told reporters Tuesday.
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But in her years away from politics, the former Alaska governor and Senator John McCain's Republican vice-presidential pick in 2008 seems to have spawned a whole new series of idiosyncratic expressions and unusual locutions — to the point where even Mr. Trump seemed occasionally mystified as he tried to follow along.
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The New Yorker's Evan Osnos, meanwhile, who recently reported extensively from inside North Korea, notes that officials there are "mystified" by Trump's threat to unleash "fire and fury," underscoring the inherent risks of employing what President Nixon called the "madman theory" as a means of gaining leverage against rogue states.
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On June 22019, the U.S. Department of State announced it was "mystified" by the bullying of the State of Qatar by, among others, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, who had broken diplomatic relations, closed all borders, airspace and sea lanes in an attempt to shut down their neighbor's economy.
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"Now that it has been more than two weeks since the embargo has started, we are mystified that the gulf states have not released to the public nor to the Qataris the details about the claims they are making toward Qatar," Heather Nauert, the department's spokeswoman, said in a news briefing.
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This one is about Coleen Rooney and Rebekah Vardy, on the surface, but it is also about trust and sleuthing and the blurring of lines between public and private, and it reads a bit like a John le Carré novel, except one in which George Smiley is on Instagram Stories. Mystified?
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And while she said her essay did attract responses from people mystified by this kind of coverage, she said she hasn't seen a similar public backlash to these stories at large outside of Twitter, and that may be because there isn't another notable, dissenting space where people can voice those reactions.
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Some of the president's advisers were mystified, therefore, that the White House would repeatedly send him to a state irrelevant to his re-election for a candidate he scarcely knows, Eddie Rispone, after they had just been scalded in their attempt to rescue Mr. Bevin in another safely red state.
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In an age of social media oversharing, Bey's considerably private South African life left fans mystified as to why one of the most respected rappers on either side of the millennium line had essentially dropped out of their own lives, and his re-emergence only to announce his departure hardly soothed any concerns.
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The official is mystified that the president might trust Russia to honour a deal that would exchange Crimea for help with IS. The same official especially fears a bad arms-control deal, noting the genius Russia has for drafting treaties that curb the West's weapons systems while leaving its preferred technologies untouched.
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" Jim Manley, a Democratic strategist and former aide to ex-Senate Majority Leader Harry ReidHarry Mason Reid2020 Democrats fight to claim Obama's mantle on health care Reid says he wishes Franken would run for Senate again Panel: How Biden's gaffes could cost him against Trump MORE (D-Nev.), pronounced himself "absolutely mystified.
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But the cost for Kurds, longtime American allies in the fight against the Islamic State, is severe: Even Pentagon officials were mystified about where tens of thousands of displaced Kurds would go, as they moved south from the Turkey-Syria border as required by the deal — if they agree to go at all.
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LONDON — When a giant fatberg was discovered in the sewer of a small coastal town in southwestern England last year, the company that manages the pipes was so mystified by the greasy mass of solidified fats and waste materials that it enlisted the help of scientists to discover what it was made of.
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Kamala Harris said she was mystified by the President's seeming indifference to the families affected by the Odessa tragedy, as well as the millions of Americans under hurricane evacuation orders, and the families of some 20163 people who were missing after a dive boat caught fire Sunday night off the coast of California.
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Located off the south coast of the main island, the largest of the nation's 4,000-odd offshore cays and islands, it has been specializing in oddity ever since Christopher Columbus weighed anchor here to find provisions on his second voyage in 1494 and was mystified by its monstrous crocodiles and raucous bird life.
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One thing that is made abundantly clear throughout the doc is that even during the years in which he was a widely publicized suspect who was awaiting/escaping/evading trial, Bundy had endless opportunities to give interviews, declaim his innocence, and laugh and joke with the lineup of mystified reporters who entered his orbit.
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In the fast-fading world of Bush-era figures, who are mystified that even the appearance of a once adored former president and two former first ladies failed to sway voters last week, some are quietly saying it is time to accept a new reality: that Mr. Trump is the face of the Republican party.
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Schumer's Gorsuch opposition strategy Many in New York who have watched Schumer progress to his current position of power and influence are mystified that this pragmatic politician would lead a Supreme Court confirmation opposition battle that will most likely result in a loss and the destruction of the Senate's long-honored tradition of filibuster.
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A week after Melania Trump mystified the country by stepping out in a green Zara jacket with the words "I Really Don't Care, Do U" emblazoned on the back en route to a visit to a migrant children's shelter, the first lady is attempting a similar trip — in a different ensemble and with a clearer message.
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The Fed considers all of these price drops "transitory," but there have been enough in a row for the central bank to miss its inflation target five years running, and fresh economic projections this week indicate policymakers remain mystified about why prices are not rising, given unemployment is at a 17-year low and the economy is growing steadily.
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"Let's hope that he allows the process to speak for itself and he doesn't overwhelm the message and he allows the committee to be the point of the spear on this thing," said John Feehery, a longtime Republican strategist in Washington who supports Trump but said he has been "mystified" but Trump's actions since he became the presumptive nominee.
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Viewed in that light, Honnold's free-solo of El Capitan represents a miraculous opportunity for the rest of us to experience what you might call the human sublime — a performance so far beyond our current understanding of our physical and mental potential that it provokes a pleasurable sensation of mystified awe right alongside the inevitable nausea.
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Paul Molloy, a musician and transplanted New Yorker, said he was somewhat mystified by the laborious intricacies of the caucus system, especially after Ms. Fielder explained all the different ways she planned to convey the results to party headquarters — by calling a hotline, by texting in a photo of the voting sheet, and by delivering it in person.
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" Yawkey was a sportsman, Smith wrote, not a businessman, and that set him apart: "He had little in common with other club owners and they were mystified by him, if not downright suspicious, because he was a strange fish who was in baseball not to make a buck or feed his ego but because he happened to love the game.
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Every sign has this relationship to another sign: Sagittarius is bewildered by you, Scorpio, Capricorn is dumbfounded by Sagittarius, Aquarius is bemused by Capricorn, Pisces mystified by Aquarius, Aries is at sea with Pisces, Taurus is baffled by Aries, Gemini is intrigued by Taurus, Cancer is curious about Gemini, Leo wonders about Cancer, Virgo is perplexed by Leo, and yes, even Libra gets puzzled—by Virgo.
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Semele is restless for Jupiter's guidance; Athamas (the vibrant countertenor Christopher Lowrey) genuinely loves her and can't understand her reticence; Cadmus (the sturdy, robust bass Soloman Howard) is mystified by his daughter's emotional turmoil but doesn't want to push her too hard; and poor Ino, Semele's sister (the deep-voiced mezzo-soprano Elizabeth DeShong), who actually loves Athamas, is a bundle of conflicting emotions, including resentment of Semele.
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When I first spoke with him, this past November, he talked of the preceding two years with a faint air of mystified amusement at his own fortune: as if a minor meteor had streaked through the window of the majority leader's office, narrowly missing his head before exploding against the two-century-old marble fireplace, and then also turned out to be filled with candy and hundred-dollar bills.
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Alternating between scenes of glassmakers, fish caught in a net, a reoccurring black-and-white board of many interconnected shapes and lines ("the mesh" of the title?), a closely framed shot of a hand carefully making notes, a nearby projector that cycles through images, and numerous other formerly ordinary, but now mystified scenes, "The Mesh and the Circle" is possessed by the importance and mystery of everyday actions.
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A sudden act of violence at a fast-food outlet does not feel earned, and comes across as gratuitous provocation, but the play is almost redeemed by a bizarre conclusion that left the audience as mystified as any I've ever seen: In a kind of dark-arts séance, a deafeningly loud doom-metal song is performed live while Samantha attempts to conjure her possibly imaginary unborn child and her father (Bruce McKenzie) dances like a pained cartoon bear.
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The music video for Scarborough's first single, "Mystified" features quick cuts of Joe and Mika sitting together with America-themed footage projected onto their faces, then Joe, suited up, playing the guitar in black-and-white, with "BREAKING NEWS" flashing on a green screen in the background, an atomic bomb explosion, then Donald Trump, back to Joe and Mika, American flag, war footage, hot girls on spring break, Edward Snowden, clips of OJ Simpson's infamous white Bronco quickly dancing around the screen as Joe sings, "I won't be going down without a fight," and so on.
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Some of these "orders" are self-injunctions that inform Xie's verbal mimesis, as though it could be governed by the principles of the visual arts: To draw ink-lines across the lids To dip into small pots of pigment To brush two-dozen times To flush with water and tame with oil To refrain and to spill in appropriate measure To drink from the soft and silvery pane To extract the root of the solitary so as to appear The writing of poetry is notoriously mystified, almost occult in its resistance to rules or step-by-step methods.
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