Arie has a certain mystique, as befuddling as that sounds.
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The banks had increasingly complained that stress tests were befuddling.
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The world is chaotic, and terrifying, and befuddling, and uncertain.
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I hope you find that as befuddling as I initially did.
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" He also called it "befuddling" that with Trump "facts don't matter.
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At once befuddling and mesmerizing, Kylie's selfies are a thing of wonder.
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Watch The Daily Show's take on the the racist befuddling holiday above.
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Like the sensates themselves, we had to puzzle this befuddling bonanza out.
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The seemingly infinite number of fast-food breakfast choices might be befuddling.
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But the Trump administration's delay in releasing the ban is befuddling many.
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Another reason why the 23-day period might seem more befuddling than usual?
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Sling TV's interface has always been under-developed and somewhat befuddling to subscribers.
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The Laundromat is unwieldy at times, and its final scene is truly befuddling.
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The album's second single, "Dumb Blonde," is perhaps the most befuddling among them.
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"They have always been somewhat subjective, arbitrary, capricious, befuddling, and bemusing," he said.
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Equally as befuddling is the visual marketing for many of Facebook's original shows.
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So there you have it, the befuddling tale of Zardulu and the Pizza Rat.
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Overall, I found the HBO show's handling of this storyline to be very befuddling.
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Melvin Way's finely crafted, befuddling works demand to be understood on their own terms.
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It's not going to bury its story beneath sub-menus full of befuddling statistics.
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For anyone, finding a job in Silicon Valley can be a mysterious and befuddling process.
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Slightly less befuddling than the videos's unbearable awkwardness — can you sit through all five minutes?
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"Dude I suck at quizzes," wrote the former Parks & Recreation actor of the befuddling results.
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Science has barely begun to explore a universe brimming with befuddling objects, planets, and galaxies.
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Aesthetes find his game, with its reliance on the patient befuddling of his defenders, maddening.
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Wall Street is buzzing over Broadcom's befuddling strategy to acquire a low-growth software company.
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Badminton's very existence is befuddling, honestly, but the product is the ultimate competitive test of reflexes.
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Perhaps the most befuddling of all the "No Scrubs" covers comes from none other than Weezer.
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Without shared evidence or explicit reasoning, a theory is just a befuddling spectacle — spitballs taking flight.
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But given the befuddling diversity of economic mantras and economists, that suggestion risks mixing apples and oranges.
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His decision to show Chris a fake idol and claim it was the real idol was befuddling.
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And how do you interpret the burgeoning, befuddling theory that she is somehow in cahoots with Tyrion?
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Yep, you can read that befuddling sentence as many times as you like, it'll still be true.
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It is befuddling to imagine a foreign country systematically undermining a US presidential election over social media.
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What's particularly befuddling about the company's omission is that Atmos is supported by other, cheaper set-top boxes.
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Of course, Facebook's mysterious and befuddling algorithm ensures that only a fraction of the members see a given post.
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Their absence was glaring — and befuddling given the CEOs' boundless enthusiasm for self-aggrandizing magazine covers and celebratory keynotes.
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The story of JonBenét's assault, ransom, and murder has become one of the most befuddling cases of modern crime.
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So often, though, weather maps serve only to confuse and obfuscate, with weird lines, befuddling isobars, and garish colors.
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And maybe more camera angles and a close-up or two will reveal the mysteries behind this befuddling hairdo.
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The whole thing is monumentally befuddling, not just because of its convoluted body-swap premise, but because, uh, why?
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Among the youthful deputies, common positions are worked out in advance on applications like Telegram, befuddling the old-timers.
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Bornstein's cascade of lies is strange and befuddling, like many of the scandals that have defined the Trump presidency.
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Perhaps you've even looked them up, only to find Wikipedia entries and Quora threads as befuddling as the terms themselves.
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This led to a befuddling question: why would cannabis use lead to such an increased need for those other drugs?
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Though he long enjoyed befuddling interviewers by citing different years of birth, the one deemed the most reliable is Sept.
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She wasn't kidding — which is why the fact that they sell an oil-based remover with this is especially befuddling.
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Every self-respecting British person has a kettle at home, and the fact that most Americans don't is totally befuddling.
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You don't need to be Jerry Seinfeld to know that social interactions in today's politically correct climate can be befuddling.
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The only befuddling aspect of wine is trying to find a place to purchase interesting bottles without breaking the bank.
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Or were the sounds more directly distracting people, drawing their attention away from the onrushing ball and befuddling their reactions?
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Which is why, like the complicated chemistry and befuddling bioinformatics that power them, genetic tests can be difficult to understand.
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But the sudden, cross-continental expansion of their service has pushed Carlos and Roby into some unfamiliar and befuddling situations, too.
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The president, however, has been waffling all summer on gun legislation, befuddling lawmakers and the media as to what he supports.
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Guilty of adding to the noise surrounding financial markets, which is clearly befuddling investors as they try to negotiate these schizophrenic swings.
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Or perhaps you've skimmed past them, pausing long enough only to ask yourself this single, befuddling question: What the heck is Quibi?
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" And we're like ... And I looked up the stats a few years ago because I was like, "This is befuddling to me.
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Nitrous oxide from vehicle exhaust destroys some of the airborne aromas of flowers, befuddling bees so they have difficulty finding their blooms.
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Befuddling, confusing, deeply ugly, and incredibly un-fun, I surely won't be the only critic to recommend 'Cats' be put down immediately.
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Befuddling, confusing, deeply ugly, and incredibly un-fun, I surely won't be the only critic to recommend Cats be put down immediately.
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All the young creatives I know listen to critically-befuddling US musicians like: Young Thug, Lil Yachty, Chief Keef & Shake 070 right now.
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Facts will emerge — some shocking, even — that help us all get a clear read on befuddling situations and decide how best to respond.
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In a mess of befuddling plots and flashback shenanigans, her performance as the single-minded, fierce Maeve was the highlight of the show.
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More than a dozen spinoff titles have expanded its world, sometimes with befuddling titles or convoluted plotlines while also jumping around in time.
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On Tuesday, Cowboys owner Jerry Jones was asked about the ongoing negotiations and employed a somewhat befuddling analogy to describe his current situation.
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By following these three simple guidelines, we can collaborate to help solve a problem that's befuddling the geniuses who built Facebook and Twitter.
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It was the richest contract in NBA history, and for people who had only a peripheral knowledge of Conley's existence it was befuddling.
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As a befuddling year comes to its grinding close, it's hard to remember, much less catalog, everything that has barreled down the pike.
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West's comments about the president — and the president's comments about him — have been a bit of a befuddling subplot of the Trump era.
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It was a departure from her typical wardrobe of luxury, designer duds, with little thought to the repercussions its befuddling apathetic message might cause.
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Yet Donald Trump, in his march toward the Republican nomination, has made a befuddling series of corkscrew turns on guns, depending on his audience.
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Also befuddling: How is Alondra, in this single room that the three of them share, unable to find where Keaton has stashed her coat?
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You are abdicating your responsibility to protect the citizens and the country that you serve, and it is as befuddling as it is inexcusable.
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Spot is so unprecedented and so befuddling in its deftness that even Boston Dynamics isn't totally sure what the robot will be good for.
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I also had "new to" instead of NEW AT, which made a letter string of S-R-T-N in 8D, which was befuddling.
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Given those major cost drivers, the notion that the level of reimbursement for hospital-based outpatient services constitutes an unnecessary bonus payment is befuddling.
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Or maybe he just finds that square head befuddling and irritating, an upsetting reminder that the line between man and machine is, truly, razor thin.
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With a celestial schedule that sounds more like an if/then world problem than anything we'd read in a horoscope, this Sunday is justifiably befuddling.
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RATING: ONE POPEYE Before he made the All-Star Game through fan voting last year, Kyle Lowry was, year after year, a befuddling coaches'-excludee.
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KAISER KARL AND OTHER SUPERLATIVES Though he long enjoyed befuddling interviewers by citing different years of birth, the one deemed the most reliable is Sept.
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Monday night, the group of former contestants that make up BN were throwing shade in Rachel Lindsay's direction, as Bustle pointed out, which is befuddling.
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His journey from doctor to herbal healer to doctor, looking for a cure, becomes a symbol for the befuddling process of navigating the legal system.
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But even if sex roulette isn't happening on significant scale, it's still befuddling that anyone would treat the prospect of HIV infection as a game.
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Within a single state, there can be layers of befuddling complexity, with certain rules in place that help gay families and others that restrict them.
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Dense, pale-crusted sourdough bread is served with cultured butter that tastes alluringly briny, a detail I found befuddling until it hit me—sea salt!
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It's befuddling: Micro USB or USB-C are just as capable of transmitting power and data as Mini USB, so it can't be a technical limitation.
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The variables that determine who gets nominated (like submitting for categories, crafting "For Your Consideration" campaigns, and publicity pushes) often lead to befuddling nominations and win.
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Sanford told Politico Magazine the same year that Trump had "fanned the flames of intolerance," and said it was "befuddling" that "facts don't matter" with Trump.
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This is hard to do when you're famous; busy schedules and the befuddling power dynamic that comes with such high status can be impediments to intimacy.
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The fact that some truly befuddling science and technology-related policy decisions continue to ooze out of Washington has only added to Curtis's sense of urgency.
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Exacerbating the befuddling optics of the event was the fact that students, outside a select handfull, were asked to stay in their dorms during Trump's appearance.
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He told Politico Magazine the same year that Trump had "fanned the flames of intolerance," and said it was "befuddling" that "facts don't matter" with Trump.
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In the ensuing hours, a befuddling back-and-forth followed, featuring a mysterious retraction, an apology and a pair of statements parceled out by company spokespeople.
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Consumer prices likely rose just slightly in July, continuing a sluggish, and befuddling trend that puts the Federal Reserve's ability to raise interest rates in doubt.
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Nothing is more at odds with his vision than his befuddling support for a $1 trillion program to rebuild the American arsenal over the next 30 years.
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In fact, the disproportionate sea ice loss between the Arctic and Antarctic has been befuddling climate scientists for years, although several theories stand to explain the discrepancy.
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His latest movie, "Knight of Cups," by legendary director Terrence Malick, is filled with mystery, exploring the befuddling past of a Hollywood screenwriter, played by Christian Bale.
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The cultural transformation and re-transformation of Miami Beach (specifically its southern tip, South Beach) is a story that's fascinating, poignant, garish and, in some ways, befuddling.
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Fultz is befuddling the basketball world with his sudden inability to find the hoop, with videos of 76ers practice showing the #1 pick can't even draw iron anymore.
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On top of the grind of daily play and the ever-increasing amount of items to collect, Destiny was hobbled by befuddling design choices and maddening technical constraints.
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Think about all of the hiccups that can mar a night spent dancing: a befuddling coat check system, an expensive bar, the presence of obnoxious or aggressive patrons.
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Open Book In an election season widely seen as stranger than fiction, we decided to turn to fiction to see how it might illuminate today's befuddling political climate.
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Ms. Laporta's testimony was especially helpful to prosecutors because she was able to crystallize financial transactions that were otherwise befuddling, even to courtroom spectators steeped in the case.
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Some $7.5 billion of new US trade tariffs on the European Union, which went into effect Friday, underscore one of the most befuddling aspects of the Trump presidency.
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Seattle came right back in a befuddling bottom of the second inning that included a blown steal attempt and at least three catchable balls that fell between players.
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Northam, a Democrat who was elected as Virginia's governor in 2017, has offered a befuddling response since the photo from his 1984 medical school yearbook became public on Friday.
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One of the most befuddling teams in the tournament field (at one point, the Sooners were ranked fourth in the country), they lost 11 of their last 15 games.
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ChesnuTT toured once more, hosting question-and-answer sessions and eschewing his most famous material, certainly befuddling those in the audience that came to hear "Looks Good in Leather".
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For most of us that means standing in a long security line, with ever-befuddling lists of safety procedures, only to get to an economy class seat with minimal legroom.
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"It's somewhat befuddling that the possibility of no government shutdown is driving prices up," said Oliver Pursche, vice chairman and chief market strategist at Bruderman Asset Management in New York.
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The most befuddling title since "XO Tour Llif3," Bad Bunny's naming convention makes perfect sense to those willing to take a moment and solve the riddle—Por Siempre, or Forever.
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On the eve of the Helsinki summit, which Trump has arranged as a very intime pas de deux, it is still befuddling and alarming to watch him kowtow to Putin.
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That Street Fighting Men's jacket copy brands Rodriguez a "feminist" is befuddling — when, exactly, did the women's liberation arguments espoused by counterculture newspapers grow stale for these "giants" of comix?
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Maybe you've seen this befuddling music video in which Joey Fatone throws Fall Out Boy action figures into a trash can but they escape and start hip-thrusting at Barbie dolls?
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A penchant for befuddling mathematical, scientific, and literary arcana can rather daunt a viewer, with installations that invite the perusal of books ranging from the hard and social sciences to poetry.
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In an initially befuddling moment on the first day of the trial, Sekulow pivoted into a harangue against the House managers for complaining about "lawyer lawsuits"—complaints they hadn't actually made.
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LG is also offering a software option for controlling display settings like brightness, contrast, and split-screen mode, meaning that you won't have to fiddle around endlessly with a befuddling button setup.
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The ensuing news cycle has been befuddling to say the least, as reporters, White House staff and members of Congress scramble to make sense of Trump's increasingly misleading and unfounded claims of persecution.
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The ongoing tangle of shade "feuds" Chyna has entered into is a befuddling mess — involving Kanye, Amber Rose (Chyna's BFF and Kanye's ex), and apparently all of the Kardashian-Jenners, save for Kendall.
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One of nature's most befuddling quadrupeds, the common wildebeest has the thick, horned bust of a buffalo, the spindly legs and wispy tail of a horse, and the scraggly whitish beard of a wizard.
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But while I understand what it means to be a parent — the happily ontological noun — the verb form can be paralyzingly befuddling, as if you turned "wife" from a state of being to an action.
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Schultz, who said in an interview with 60 Minutes that aired on Sunday that he is "seriously thinking of running for president," has engaged in a bit of a befuddling media blitz in recent days.
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Bannon's capacity for triggering opponents and befuddling neutral observers with slickly argued but intellectually disingenuous rhetoric is now, in his capacity as a kind of glorified freelance political operative, the most effective element of his act.
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There has been little from the prime minister beyond platitudes — "as terrorists evolve their methods, we have to evolve our responses" — to explain the move, aside from a befuddling reference to the British approach to antiterrorism.
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Even the little ways that Gretchen and Jimmy twist the story of Gemma and Jake for the benefit of entertaining (or perhaps befuddling) the wedding planners nod to why the two are so perfect for each other.
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Which raises a few befuddling questions, including: Why, after so much work plastering every inch of this home with what must be thousands of dollars worth of cat paraphernalia, would anyone decide to pack up and leave?
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When he's not murmuring befuddling things like "unicorn city" (though we'd like to live there) to perplexed Refinery29 staffers, Cozart also makes cameo appearances with some of our favorite YouTube stars, including Grace Helbig and Mammie Hart.
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In one of the more befuddling decisions in Super Bowl history, Seattle, needing 1 yard to score a touchdown and take a last-minute lead over the Patriots, decided to pass on second down rather than run.
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It's a befuddling design choice, because once you, as the customer, have gone through the process of buying a $399 smartwatch and paying a monthly fee, I don't think you'll need another reminder of what you're paying for.
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But 2017 was proving to be pivotal for him and a motley band of other sidelined investors seeking redemption—think the Winklevoss twins—as they tethered themselves to the year's most befuddling financial event: the rise of cryptocurrency.
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So what we take away from that is surprise: if we're going to lay on early pressure, do it by befuddling the opposition defence with the ol' switcheroo: chuck Gary Cahill up front and play Vardy as sweeper.
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Some aspects of the site are a little befuddling; a "Classics" section features both the 1977 horror picture "The Hills Have Eyes" (arguably a classic) and the 1986 affirmative-action blackface comedy "Soul Man" (absolutely not a classic).
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A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2017 and a crafter of "playful, thoughtful, befuddling, enchanting" music, as my colleague Zachary Woolfe has put it, Kate Soper curates this concert under the New York Festival of Song umbrella.
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President Donald Trump brought his chaotic style of governing to the NATO summit in Brussels on Wednesday and Thursday, irritating and befuddling allies with charges and jibes before declaring success for convincing his counterparts to pay more for their mutual defense.
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" NetEase: "It's a Chinese internet play that I have been skeptical on and not correctly skeptical ... and this one is a befuddling stock to me about why it goes up other than the fact that it has a good dividend.
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OK, so the solutions can be more oblique, cerebrally befuddling and occasionally adroitly testing (in as much as sometimes you need to move quickly through the menus, or risk losing your grog all down your trousers), but there's no doubting their genius.
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This has the effect of narrative devices like Area X seeming as befuddling to readers as it is to the Southern Reach organization, an agency that continuously sends people to meet grisly fates, with little to no data on what's happening to them.
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And if you're looking for a reason to indict the band's befuddling new album Junk, this is a decent one: it has 15 songs, and almost all of them hew closer to Sharon, Lois & Bram than the teenage make-out anthem described above.
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LG: The red crown is something that is a little bit befuddling because it sends an outwards signal to the world that you are wearing a watch that has LTE connectivity when you are really the only person who needs to know that.
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Season two ended on the befuddling cliffhanger of Rick in a full-body lock, filed away in prison like forgotten paperwork, and creators Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland spent the rest of season three systematically tearing apart the anti-hero's all-powerful status.
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ISLA PERICO, El Salvador — The offer was befuddling: A little over a year ago, families living on Isla Perico, a speck of an island in a destitute corner of El Salvador, were offered $7,000 each to pack up and move to the mainland.
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The field appears to have narrowed to the occasionally befuddled and befuddling Joe Biden as the standard-bearer of moderation, and the nimble, plan-a-minute star of the campaign to date, Elizabeth Warren, with her progressive program of social and fiscal reform.
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In the scene that cracks open this often-befuddling episode, Perkins, who aims to turn he and his brother's mansion into a museum, shows Darius a faceless mannequin in a suit — a stand-in for the father that drove the siblings to musical greatness.
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Among the many astonishing stats surrounding women at the Oscars — for example, no woman has ever won for cinematography, or had even been nominated until this year — one of the more befuddling is the surprising dearth of women screenwriters following the Second World War.
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In a three-minute video shared exclusively with WIRED, we see the view from one of Zoox's test cars, a Toyota Highlander SUV retrofitted with its sensors and computing systems, face down some of San Francisco's gnarliest thoroughfares and San Franciscans' most befuddling moves.
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To make matters more befuddling, there are some specific situations when brokers must act as fiduciaries for nonretirement accounts — for example, when they collect a percentage of total assets to manage an investment account, or when they are given full control of an investor's account.
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Both films fall into that time-honored category of movies about groups of friends on the cusp of big life changes who, over the course of one zany day, characters learn lessons about themselves, friendship, and growing up while also navigating a befuddling hormonal minefield.
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It was a game with numerous echoes of last year's World Series: hustling play and fine defense by the Royals, some weak-looking throws by Mets third baseman David Wright, and a befuddling blunder by Cespedes, who is usually a defensive asset, not a liability.
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Rod Dreher on America's post-Christian culture wars This conversation is a window into a mindset that is increasingly powerful in politics but befuddling to those who don't share its premise: How have so many white Christians come to feel like America's most persecuted class?
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I feel certain that somewhere out there on the internet, bots with StyleGAN avatars and GPT-2-sourced texts are already waging war against one another in befuddling comment sections: battles which have no end, no point and no room for any actual humanity.
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Curated by Way's longtime friend, the artist and School of Visual Arts instructor Andrew Castrucci, this survey traces the evolution of Way's finely crafted, befuddling works, many of which are simply stunning, and all of which demand to be apprehended on their own terms.
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Thursday, both sides were in a groove; while Davies was befuddling the Nationals' offense, Milwaukee's lineup was making Gonzalez work and combined for 13 hits on the night, with three each from Stephen Vogt and Jonathan Villar, including the latter's 313th home run of the season.
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Google hosted its I/O developer's conference today during which it announced additional features for its Photos app, virtual assistant, and Android O. A lot of these things were cool, but what was most befuddling throughout the event was the company's continued focus on Mother's Day.
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The Tenderloin comprises a befuddling mix of high and low—fancy hotels and theaters with mirrored lobbies, and also single-resident occupancy hotel buildings, also known as bedsits, piss-in-the sink hotel rooms, or roach motels; even these can cost you up to $653,000 a month.
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That's despite Page and Brin sitting on $130 billion combined of possible charitable assets, befuddling those who would think that the founders — now in the public eye for more than two decades — would have at least made some attempts to shape the conversation about their wealth and power.
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The U.S. will also have to answer the most befuddling question of our emerging age: how to compete with China on a global stage where economies and supply chains are so deeply intertwined that even closest allies may not be willing or able to follow the U.S. lead to counter Beijing.
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Instagram's befuddling policies on nude upper bodies go something like this: "Yes" to male nipples, "Yes" to moobs, "Yes" to female post-mastectomy boobs (as long as they don't have a nipple tattoo), "Yes" to paintings and sculptures of female boobs, "Yes" to breastfeeding boobs, but "No" to nippled female boobs.
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Ms. DeVos had been struggling through a series of befuddling answers that raised questions about her grasp of federal education policy, including one flourish — replayed widely on social media and cable television — in which she suggested that school officials should be armed to protect against prospective grizzly bears on the premises.
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The actual substance of A Wrinkle in Time — as something both ambitious and clunky, sweet and cloying, wrestling tricky source material into something alternately stunning and befuddling on screen, and looking refreshingly little like the usual kiddie fare — has gotten downplayed (even, I am agonizingly aware, in the piece you're currently reading).
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At a time black colleges are seeing jumps in applications and enrollment — Howard had a 1503 percent increase in applicants this year, to almost 21,000 — the sense of crisis here speaks to a contradiction that is befuddling the leaders of many black colleges: As their institutions grow, they continue to be burdened by financial woes.
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When I took an online American Government course, the Understanding Primaries and Caucuses lesson answered many of the questions I had about the American presidential race and electoral process — because when you come from a country where caucuses and delegates and presidents don't exist, the intricacies and layers of the American system are just befuddling.
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Big economic shocks of the 1970s, like the befuddling "stagflation," provided reasons to abandon previous, more redistributive economic regimes, but a reader still burns to know: How could economists be so wrong, so often, and so clearly at the expense of the working people in the United States, yet still ultimately triumph so totally?
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In the post's equally befuddling caption, he lists a number of companies (H&M, Too Faced, IT Cosmetics), celebrities (Ben Affleck, Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Steven Spielberg), and other entities (beauty blogger Caroline Hirons, British-Indian café chain Dishoom, luxury hotel group Aman Resorts, "$100 monkey"), including industry giant The Estée Lauder Companies, which invested in Deciem last year.
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But just as you don't notice any sonic dissonance in the gameplay, as one befuddling level shifts into another equally what-am-I-supposed-to-do layout of weird creatures and alien flora, playing this album from beginning to end gives the impression of it being the work of either the same act, or certainly very likeminded individuals.
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If all of that wasn't disturbing enough on its own, what came next was even more befuddling: The Associated Press reported last month that an internal government audit had uncovered evidence implicating Navient in the behavior alleged in the suits, but failed to provide that evidence to the state attorneys general suing the company, much less the public.
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The newly appointed lawyer on President Donald Trump's Russia investigation defense team has been on a befuddling media blitz in recent days; most recently, he said in an appearance on ABC's This Week on Sunday that the $130,000 payout to keep Stormy Daniels quiet was too little and that Trump might not cooperate with a subpoena from special counsel Robert Mueller.
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And while Boston has had its share of great African-American athletes — from Bill Russell to Jim Rice to Paul Pierce — Russell himself has cited ugly instances of racial harassment that he endured in Boston while becoming a Hall of Fame center for Celtics teams that often dominated the N.B.A. For Boston, a city known for its many universities, the issue has been vexing, even befuddling.
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My Befuddling Dinner With Facebook Empress Sheryl Sandberg Virginia Heffernan wistfully recalls her Lean In dinner with Sheryl Sandberg: In other words, I idolized Sheryl Sandberg the woman—good for any sister who finds a way to amass $1.6 billion for being at parties and steering clear of some boring ops job—but from the first minute I saw her in person in 2013 I was very, very concerned about Facebook.
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The lights will go off, and the tall grasses and vines will grow over it all, and the continents will move into unfamiliar arrangements, and should God ever see fit to curse another animal with our terrible, pandemic self-consciousness, all they'll ever find of all of this will be a thin layer in the geologic strata that suggests sometime, millions of years before, a befuddling environmental catastrophe occurred, a strange outpouring of carbon into the atmosphere, a swift extinction of a strange number of species.
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