Feminine atmospherics — femininity itself — confounds, annoys, exasperates us.
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He still confounds hitters, with an opponents' average of .
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We're renting, not buying real estate, which confounds traditional economists.
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In 2015, we wrote about how Jlin confounds footwork's expectations.
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"Race" confounds everyone and defines nothing but a sordid history.
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The false claim illustrates Pelosi's description of how Trump confounds negotiations.
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The book's final section, headed "In Their Own Words," confounds me.
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The part that confounds experts is that this was completely unnecessary.
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And that he confounds the establishment by keeping Pruitt in office.
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"The Catalan story confounds and worries us," said Swissquote analyst Yann Quellen.
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Nearly two centuries after it was published, Jane Eyre confounds every expectation.
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The gender chasm is bound up with class and confounds easy categorization.
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Joe Biden: No one confounds us more than the former vice president.
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This confounds the idea that learning about Auschwitz should teach us something. Exactly.
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It constantly confounds prejudices (including the lexicographers' own) and refuses to be pinned down.
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Grützner confounds with her perspective, framing these surfaces so they meld into flat scenes.
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Yet there's a subtle sweetness to them that confounds and tantalizes the taste buds.
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But the party often confounds expectations, says Pablo Simón of Politikon, a political blog.
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Particularly on immigration ... it confounds me how unwilling they are to change their politics.
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Wherever totality occurs, the sudden midday darkness recolors the landscape and confounds the senses.
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" He confounds the confusion by also warning he'll "turn your ass to Thai food.
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And the business cycle always confounds economists and the rest of us more than not.
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The word "child" delights me; the word "love" confounds me; the word "God" mystifies me.
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The situation confounds some people, given the pressing need for affordable housing for young families.
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If you're accustomed to the "language" of contemporary AAA gaming, Chung confounds it at every turn.
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In the same story, an innocuous bottle of water in turn transfixes, confounds and finally horrifies.
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However, it is also possible that the lengthy question and arguments on both sides confounds opinions.
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Kris Jenner has been out of the dating game so long, the term "single" confounds her.
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Scott Pruitt, the chief of the Environmental Protection Agency, is a man who confounds both sides.
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Gender nonconformity further confounds seemingly-obvious categories on which previous understandings of our society were based.
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Rivette further confounds realistic conventions by portraying Madame X as a graceful and rather forgiving victim.
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The room of painted and sculpted tropical flora is both alluring and impassive; its maximalism confounds.
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The uncertainty confounds the preparations of governments and businesses and fuels the arguments of climate-change skeptics.
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So the line between self-expression and endorsements is very blurry and confounds traditional regulations and delinations.
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Photography works and doesn't work, it is tolerable and intolerable, it confounds and often exceeds our expectations.
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This confounds the station's owners, who have booked ads in anticipation of a station visit from Metallica.
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It confounds our impressions of the past, the legacies of slavery, and the reality of Jim Crow.
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As often as "The Life of Elves" confounds, in its many moments of weird lucidity it also beguiles.
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The virus still confounds blood tests and scientists have been tracking Zika with genetic tests and clinical symptoms.
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His approval rating remains stubbornly high among Republicans, a fact that likely confounds liberals far more than conservatives.
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I won't rag on this too hard, since she's still just a teen, but her music confounds me.
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The thing that really confounds me is how Homey is able to be first to market with this.
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But the Pelicans' approach could eventually prove to be so far out of vogue that it confounds opponents.
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America's speed-reading obsession confounds Schotter; on average, people read twice as fast as they can comfortably listen.
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This is the question that confounds me most in the wake of Barr's summation of the Mueller report.
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It confounds researchers, defies typical human logic and delivers laser-focused pain to a victim's friends and family.
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And maybe, as it comforts and provokes, challenges and confounds, we can let it change us in its turn.
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The stress these animals endure surely confounds these studies, let alone the species differences in metabolism and aging mechanisms.
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There is disregard for apparent confounds, and occasionally, glaring errors in the presentation and analysis of the cited data.
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It's an entrancing, hard-won kind that confounds the very categories by which you make sense of the world.
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But this basic mandate for publications, especially those operating under the guise of being nonpartisan, still confounds some reporters.
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It's a harrowing but essential film that confronts and confounds Western ideas about agency, choice, reproduction, and bodily autonomy.
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A meteorite, a stray strand of code that confounds, the existence of bots hooked on vegetation in the first place.
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The machines won't be taking over the world anytime soon, because doing the most basic of tasks still confounds them.
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One of the reasons for his absence, I suspect, is that he confounds our simple categories of elite and victim.
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For this brand of listless dance-rock to sound so good confounds conventional attitudes about rock comebacks and reunion albums.
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It's about Stanley Kubrick and the making of 2001, a movie that still confounds viewers 50 years after its release.
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Such manipulation ushers in a paradigm-altering nightmare world that utterly confounds one character after another — enough to drive anyone mad.
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Still, in some ways the show confounds presumptions about socialist realism, a genre to which some of the paintings loosely belong.
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It confounds me that Hillary Clinton and leaders in the Democratic Party aren't screaming about it from the rooftops every day.
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You applaud the resolution of the dilemma, when clever Portia comes up with the legal technicality that confounds Shylock's murderous plan.
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Whether it is costly turnovers, too many shots or erratic play, the Oklahoma City Thunder guard at times confounds his fans.
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Again, the motive behind this behavior confounds me, seeing as how in the reality television ring, fighters rarely win the prize.
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This usually reduces the number of people killed in each incident but also confounds police trying to stop attacks before they happen.
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At a moment of solid economic fundamentals, what confounds forecasting now are the mercurial whims of a single man – President Donald Trump.
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An overreliance on fighting extremist radicalization online risks avoiding the hard work on the ground, and confounds a tactic for a strategy.
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It was an effort to get around a problem that confounds presidential campaigns at this time in the election cycle: political tourism.
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To honor Valentine's Day, we assembled a collection of Trump's thoughts on the one subject that confounds everybody—except, of course, him.
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Beyond that, the place I feel most at ease is the Senate, an institution that rewards patience and confounds those who lack it.
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And it confounds Mr. Wolf that shows producing 70 episodes over seven years — or 9010 episodes for a limited series — are called hits.
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Planning for our future in space necessarily means proceeding from a place of profound ignorance in an environment that continually confounds our expectations.
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FERC is one of the federal government's more obscure agencies, and the way it conducts business confounds all but the most dedicated followers.
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Wang's documentary is part personal, part journalistic, a harrowing work that confronts and confounds Western ideas about agency, choice, reproduction, and bodily autonomy.
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First of all, one of the things that confounds people — or they sometimes don't fully recognize — is how often that company innovates on product.
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As the moon and stars guide a moth's linear direction, the larva's star-like appearance confounds the insect and draws it towards the light.
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Along with friends like Hannibal Buress, Questlove, RuPaul, and Tavi Gevinson, Jacobson explores MoMA's collection, digging into the ways art inspires and confounds us.
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And here is okra the underestimated, a vegetable that confounds some Americans with its inner tap of mucilage, a viscous liquid shunned as slime.
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"All of it — terrifyingly and marvelously — evades summary and confounds expectations," wrote A. O. Scott wrote in his review for The New York Times.
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When asked about whether or not he believes the Earth is flat, Cam'ron responds with a simple "Nah" which further confounds the podcast hosts.
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As Dashwood takes the manuscript and crosses out page after page, her spirits droop, whereupon he confounds her by accepting the tale for publication.
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The U.S. and North Korea try to reach a deal for a second time, India escalates hostilities with Pakistan and the universe confounds astrophysicists.
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He is so unpredictable and unexpected, and I love how that confounds Teddy and delights Teddy, and I can't wait to see more of that.
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But what most confounds evolution as the sole explanation for depression is this: If we evolved to be depressed, why is depression becoming more common?
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He revels in these moments when he can be unpredictable to the point where he confounds his own top aides and, especially, the press corps.
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And none of this it at all surprising, of course, since Earth is now officially in its post-rational era, so everything goes and nothing confounds.
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Given the originality of her oblique style, near-documentary fascination with large families and taste for depicting provincial inertia, Ms. Martel both excites and confounds viewers.
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Bowers, center What makes Scotty the film especially fascinating is how much Bowers' story confounds whatever bias one might have about the golden age of Hollywood.
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Travel Tips It's a question that confounds even the most seasoned travelers: Just how much are you supposed to tip the staff during your hotel stay?
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In this week's episode, she confounds young Ian and Claire in quick succession, growling about sapphires and Scottish kings as they both stare at her blankly.
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If someone is still figuring out their expectations of how stories work and characters behave, it might be unpleasantly confusing to encounter something that completely confounds them.
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A street drug, maybe, or a weird new sex trend that confounds and deeply concerns parents everywhere when they see it mentioned in their teenager's text messages.
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While the diverse and varied nature of our voting infrastructure confounds efforts to secure it, this tells us that the process should begin as soon as possible.
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He confounds opponents by marrying distance, direction and hang time to smash records, last year compiling what is regarded as the best punting season in N.F.L. history.
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And in their triumph die, like fire and powder,Which as they kiss consume: the sweetest honeyIs loathsome in his own deliciousnessAnd in the taste confounds the appetite.
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His social media presence, that sees him posting Weezer memes, lines from his diary, and random things he's thought of or found online, further confounds fans and onlookers.
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The sorrow of these first two stanzas confounds, and the broadening of time in the final stanza — such grief is not new, and what do we do about it?
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"Sequencing always confounds negotiators," Mr. Biegun said after his speech in a question-and-answer session with Robert Carlin, a former intelligence analyst and policy adviser on North Korea.
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RELATED NEWS:* Video: Sanders says police-involved shooting deaths should be reported to federal government* Trump's surge confounds rivals, makes him betting favoriteEver think you could win a presidential election?
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Like Fleetwood Mac, say, the Killers' accessible pop-rock sounds tightly functional on the radio, yet on its own terms it expands to an epic scale that dazzles and confounds.
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Miller makes a series of colored lines in these bare bands, which confounds our ability to place them: are they in front, behind or beside the plane of surrounding them?
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The combined effect that Mr. Trump's spending and tax-cut commitments would have on the size of government and the volume of red ink confounds veterans of Republican policy debates.
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The Broaden trial offered only post-surgical support, and to prevent statistical confounds it expressly ruled out the addition of any psycho—or drug therapy not underway before the trial.
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The stripped-down presentation of some 120 often strange, extravagant (and sometimes black) garments rifles through the history of clothes and art, combines fabrics in unimagined ways and confounds expectation.
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RELATED: Top Republicans may skip convention 'A big area of unknown' The prospect of a contested convention confounds the vice presidential process for two groups: the campaigns and the convention planners.
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For decades, "virtual reality" and similar terms have been used to describe anything that confounds our eyes and ears, including room-scale projected images and 3D graphics on a computer screen.
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There are reasons for this, but there's a factor that confounds all of them: Those who elect not to elect do so because they don't think they are actually electing anything.
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A provocative headline—"Teflon Don Confounds Democrats"—obscures what's basically a banal argument: No election is a sure thing and revving up the base sometimes backfires when making a broader appeal.
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I've always thought that part of the reason art confounds us is that it is essentially paradoxical in nature: private, mysterious, even largely subconscious in genesis but socially attuned and publicly affirmed.
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What confounds the issue further is the fact that when a high-profile official is seen engaging in morally reprehensible activities, we would expect the public's perceptions of their trustworthiness to plummet.
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I wouldn't say Pastor Tim is one of my favorite characters or anything, but I like the way his mere existence constantly confounds both The Americans' characters and the show's own setup (by design).
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This experience succeeds because it uses that process of empathizing — trying to understand what goes on in the minds of others — while it confounds our expectations around our own bodies, around what sight is.
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An idealist, a charmer, an American rockboy aware of his status as such, Flowers confounds as a frontman; he can't decide if he wants to tell mythic stories or be a mythic figure himself.
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Could it be the supervillain of the Italian silent feature "Filibus," a prankish, technology-savvy jewel thief who repeatedly confounds a famous detective and, also a master of disguise, is in fact a woman?
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The federal investigation into the case — which is being conducted as both a domestic terrorism and civil rights investigation — further confounds the nature of the incident and, consequently, the questions we should be asking.
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As the economy's resilience to Brexit confounds economists - and undermines the Bank of England's worst fears - it has also unnerved currency speculators who had built up their biggest bets ever on the pound falling further.
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It's a play with forced perspective that confounds distance, and, after viewers are done chuckling at their own assumptions, leaves space to muse on the way distance functions within relationships, inside and outside the home.
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I won't pretend that fans never use fic to correct a show's shortcomings, or even that I never do it myself, but the idea that correction is the sole and intrinsic purpose of fanfiction confounds me.
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Card carrying Boat Hive members will be delighted to know that he's already tossing out new music after releasing his debut mixtape Lil Boat, a spring breeze in mixtape form that delights as much as it confounds.
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That voters did not simply hand her a defeat, but shifted to the center-left Labour Party when it is led by a left-wing populist, Jeremy Corbyn, once again confounds today's understanding of the populist moment.
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" Sometimes, the 1975 text suggests, rapists "operate within an emotional setting or within a dependent relationship that provides a hierarchical, authoritarian structure of its own that weakens a victim's resistance, distorts her perspective and confounds her will.
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The 69-year-old Southern heritage activist and member of the Sons of the Confederate Veterans confounds many, including VICELAND's Desus and Mero, because his loyalty to the Confederacy doesn't exactly make sense given that he's black.
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The move confounds hopes for continued joint cooperation via the European Medicines Agency (EMA), at least during a transition or implementation period until the end of 2020 when the UK will remain closely tied to the European Union.
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What really confounds me is when a Donald Trump or Ted Cruz rails endlessly about the San Bernardino attack, where 14 people were killed—a tragedy, no doubt, but in the end, I don't care who shoots me.
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The response of conservatives to Watergate echoes, and therefore helps clarify, something that confounds contemporary political observers: why the right continues to support Trump in remarkably high numbers — seeing anti-Trump conspiracy where others see incompetence and scandal.
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What confounds me is how anyone could think that working for Trump might provide these things, and not see that any title achieved in this crime-syndicate administration will always come with an asterisk after it, or worse.
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Putin has 'narrowed the gap' It is also likely a sign of increasing Russian confidence and influence on the world stage, as Putin confounds the efforts of Western nations to isolate and ostracize him after the annexation of Crimea.
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What happened after I got off the phone still confounds me: I returned to my dorm room, and when my roommate asked me how things were at home, I told her they were fine, and we went to sleep.
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Even more important about the recent eruption of violence, however, is the fact that it confounds many assumptions experts held about what would happen to Islamist terrorism in Indonesia after the Islamic State was routed in the Middle East.
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His willingness to say the kind of things most politicians would never dare utter built him an unshakeable base of voters who are never shocked by behavior that revolts the establishment and repeatedly confounds predictions of his political demise.
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Wizards Unite does veer from the formula a bit: each foundable is guarded by a confoundable (because it "confounds" your ability to return the foundable to where it came from), which requires one of several spells to be cast to defeat.
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Whether fending off a bully, chatting with his therapist or living by the rules he's set for himself to avoid his darkest impulses, John confounds his mother (Laura Fraser) but has a good relationship with a neighbor, Mr. Crowley (Christopher Lloyd).
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LEAVING THE WITNESSExiting a Religion and Finding a LifeBy Amber Scorah Though religious fundamentalism has surged globally in recent decades, the anti-intellectualism of these authoritarian movements, their staunch refusal to cede ground to reason and empiricism, often confounds nonbelievers.
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Republicans have a mere 51-49 advantage in the chamber, and they're still favored to hold onto that majority, a state of play that confounds casual observers, who wonder how a predicted blue wave wouldn't wash away such a tiny gap.
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What confounds the effort to determine a candidate's marginality is that, if the Democratic nominee is not Biden, Sanders, or Elizabeth Warren , of Massachusetts, then it will be someone who, last week, was polling in the single digits, if that.
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SARAH KEOHANE WILLIAMSONChief executive officerFCLT GlobalBoston Buttonwood confounds two questions that need to be asked separately: whether it is possible to recognise a bubble in real time and whether one can avoid the big losses typically associated with a crash (February 11th)?
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He confounds his critics who seek something different from the man who replaced Justice Thurgood Marshall, a famed civil rights lawyer, on the court but delights his supporters for looking at the Constitution through what they believe is a color-blind lens.
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Around the corner, a home office confounds every expectation of a sober workplace — hugging two walls is a massive L-shaped built-in desk made from three slabs of labradorite, a semiprecious stone streaked with black veins, like Carrara marble gone goth.
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She confounds the idea of an elite because, as she likes to remind everyone, a year ago she was working in a "taco shop in Manhattan" and she's got health insurance for the first time in her life as a member of Congress.
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That several have now gained seats will be viewed in Beijing as a big political challenge—the opening of a new front, as the party would see it, in a battle against separatism that already confounds it in Xinjiang, Tibet and independently governed Taiwan.
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There's a version of the National League East where the New York Mets win 100 games and run away with this thing; there's another where Dusty Baker confounds another generation of statheads and leads a Washington franchise stuck in neutral to its first-ever World Series.
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Of all the differences between my childhood and my daughter's, the one she finds hardest to fathom, the one that confounds her the most, is that when I was a kid, I could not simply flip on the TV and watch my favorite movie whenever I wanted.
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Despite facing major financial hurdles, and the dilutive nature of stock sales, the triumphant offering confounds Tesla skeptics, who point to the loss-marking company's $2420 billion market capitalization - greater than that of Nissan Motor Co Ltd , which reported a profit of $1.33 billion last year.
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Meanwhile, with mainstream clubbers so committed to an ever-repeated of set that the absence of a drop confounds them to the point of bewilderment, anger and perhaps even insanity, remembering forgotten trends such as the "ten past nine records" reminds us that DJing can be daring and subversive.
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Now the Australian actor and director Joel Edgerton has adapted Conley's 21975 memoir, "Boy Erased," for the screen, starring an affecting Lucas Hedges as the fictionalized Jared Eamons and Nicole Kidman and Russell Crowe as his fundamentalist Christian parents who refuse to accept their son's sexuality — which initially confounds Jared himself.
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"Surin presented a credible, assured face to the world in a region that more often confuses and confounds its international partners," Michael Vatikiotis, an author and Asia director of the Center for Humanitarian Dialogue, a private group that fosters diplomacy over armed violence, wrote this week in The Nikkei Asian Review.
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Like most other mothers I know, mine soothes and protects, dotes and encourages, cooks and cleans and plays, jokes, annoys, confounds… In reality, I have never thought of myself as an artist's daughter, but solely as my mother's daughter; and since my mother does most things artfully I inherited her sensibilities anyway.
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Just when you think that you and the series' teenage Sam Spade have put it to rest, it rises again, in towering multiseason arcs that convey the lived truth of sexualized trauma: that it confounds any sort of easy resolution, the kind in which even well-meaning fiction sometimes seems to specialize.
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Yet six years after Mr. Kim took power and began executing those who challenged his rule — sometimes with an antiaircraft gun — there is no issue that confounds analysts more than the motives of a 33-year-old dictator whose every move seems one part canny strategy, one part self-preservation, and one part nuclear narcissism.
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Its roaring d-beats careen headfirst into rhythmic, thrumming industrial segments as often as slithery black metal passages crash into bruising metallic hardcore and snappy synths, stirring up a sonic stew that confounds as much as it compels (there's even a moment of garbled synths on the title track that sounds just like the opening melee of Morbid Tales).
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But if you blink and the ball misses the back of the net, though this election like so many recently confounds the pundits, and the ball goes in any one of a number of myriad directions, good or bad, then you'll have taken your eye off the most critical game play upon which the future of one of the world's greats depends.
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On April 8, the MATTE crew returns to the Brooklyn Hangar, at the edge of Sunset Park, for a bill that includes the British grime outsider Trim, whose inventive, polarizing music confounds even members of his own scene, and the Berlin-based duo Tale of Us. Visual works on display include a collaborative piece by Kyle McDonald and Jonas Jongejan, "Light Leaks," involving fifty mirrored globes.
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Trump Is Making It Harder," by N.Y. Times' Jim Tankersley writes in a story that leads the paper under the pointed headline, "TRUMP DIRECTIVE ON TAX OVERHAUL CONFOUNDS G.O.P.": "Trump [tweeted] that he would oppose any effort to reduce the amount of pretax income that American workers can save in 401(k) retirement accounts, effectively killing an idea that Republicans were mulling as a way to help pay for a $1.5 trillion tax cut.
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News Analysis: Trump's Sense of Timing on Nuclear Threats Confounds Experts For Spies Emerging From the Shadows, a War With Trump Carries Risks Fact Check: Pompeo Oversells Trump's Enthusiasm for Sanctions on Russia Fact-Checking Pompeo on Iran Brian Kemp, Georgia's secretary of state, won the Republican nomination for governor on Tuesday after a well-timed endorsement from the president and a number of political ads that evoked Mr. Trump's incendiary messaging.
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And perhaps he speaks of the nature of light, or the coils in my mind, or Hortense with her hair loosened, alone, Hortense implacable in red, his family would not receive her, she bore his only son, raised him living apart, desperate for funds, they judged her, surface and depth, light on watered silk, how carefully she composed her pain through all those hours, all those portraits, twenty-nine of them, how marriage confounded them both, confounds us, every marriage spanning a ravine of time down at the crossroads where stream and light and stone are one flame, yes, fire ascendant in water, fire paramount, water catamount, puma water, plum-colored in its darker parts . . .
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