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"flummoxed" Definitions
  1. confused, so that you do not know what to say or do

461 Sentences With "flummoxed"

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This is all to reiterate that The Orville flummoxed me.
Asian institutions in particular are flummoxed by the Brexit chaos.
What has flummoxed observers is where that growth comes from.
Flummoxed, he asked if they had not made an agreement.
Experts remained flummoxed about when the volcano will calm down.
Asked to explain afterward what had happened, Hart appeared flummoxed.
The first time they were given tomatoes, they were flummoxed.
Which is when the wives get good and truly flummoxed.
So how did I get so flummoxed on this theme?
The hit on Suleimani was genius — totally flummoxed his opponent.
With the goalkeeper flummoxed, an onrushing Luis Suárez punched it in.
Maddie was flummoxed, and began to believe there was a ghost.
Flummoxed, the moderator gave Ford a chance to modify his response.
Hound isn't easily flummoxed if you ask several questions at once.
They missed their subway stop and ended up, flummoxed, in Queens.
Just ask this flummoxed dog who seemed unsure where to look.
TC: Silicon Valley investors seemed flummoxed somewhat by investors by China.
But when she went to her bathroom vanity, she was flummoxed.
It was a route to the Olympics, and Ondra was flummoxed.
I'm flummoxed by that, but I'm an outlier, I'm a historian.
Rarely has a high-profile special prosecutor left Washington so flummoxed.
My father was flummoxed and asked me, 'Why did this click?
It is a gumbo of possibilities that has left pollsters flummoxed.
Walking inside, I was flummoxed by the touchscreens used to order.
In his art work, he was flummoxed, hating everything he made.
Chairman Jerry Nadler, D-New York, seemed flummoxed by Lewandowski's intransigence.
Boss is clearly as flummoxed as I am by the recent judgment.
His opponents, flummoxed by his popularity, have sometimes tried to imitate him.
She was understandably flummoxed when Cam appeared before her to be pinned.
Mostly, bartenders were flummoxed by how the system would actually help them.
All Britain's allies and friends outside Europe are at least as flummoxed.
Maybe it would find itself flummoxed by its own mind-body problem.
And why are Labradorians flummoxed by "precious," and Yukon residents by "altar"?
But the pinheaded specificity of their questions often left the Alaskans flummoxed.
General Manager Brian Cashman investigated the matter, but he too remains flummoxed.
When he's nearly killed in the shower, he seems completely non-flummoxed.
The president's approach to the negotiations has left many China hawks flummoxed.
This is a distinction that has flummoxed many people over the years.
In a twist, the devoted but flummoxed father is a police officer.
Rylan has been flummoxed that additional sponsors did not follow Dunkin' Donuts.
Jeff Flake, later remarked that he was "completely flummoxed" by Trump's comments.
Kufrin is flummoxed at first, but agrees to keep him on the show.
Since they emerged in late 2017, dockless electric scooters have flummoxed city officials.
Something about file folders, physical books and a desktop PC flummoxed Team Mashable.
At the same time, opponents of the Affordable Care Act are badly flummoxed.
When Shia LaBeouf tweeted random GPS coordinates, we were as flummoxed as anyone.
"It's such a weird name, it flummoxed people at first," Mr. Pyrah said.
Voters, many of them flummoxed by their options, sometimes talk the same way.
And dedicated buyers across the region, like Nepalese housewife Seema Pokharel, are flummoxed.
They had flustered Giants quarterback Eli Manning and flummoxed the Giants' rushing attack.
"I know what you're saying, I know what you're saying," a flummoxed Cassie responded.
Since its 2012 debut, the oddly hued item has equally flummoxed and enticed customers.
It's not the first time Trump's casual cell phone use has flummoxed security professionals.
Events are occurring so fast that Trump's defenders can't keep up and are flummoxed.
But when confronted on how to actually execute that plan, many retirees are flummoxed.
It came up with a muddle, which has flummoxed officials trying to interpret it.
It's just Thursday, and all that has happened is that you've been temporarily flummoxed.
Even when I'm flummoxed by the questions, I silently hope that they keep coming.
The Marines that General McMahon commands are flummoxed by their leader's do-gooder optimism.
Ms Harris, accustomed to succeeding at whatever she did, seemed flummoxed by the struggle.
But none have flummoxed viewers more than his vacillating support — and disdain — for cookies.
It was one of many situations in which the system's aggression flummoxed the human pros.
McGregor moved forward immediately and Khabib Nurmagomedov looked to be flummoxed by this early on.
Just double-click on the word that's flummoxed you, and a definition pops up instantly.
Grammarly could help me spell even the words that regularly flummoxed MS Word and Google.
Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" was a complex, nearly indecipherable musical riddle that flummoxed even its composer.
He appeared flustered, but not flummoxed, and managed to land a few memorable one liners.
In October 2014, Roiland and Wysol pitched the show to Lazzo, and nearly flummoxed it.
And a gallery of other politicians who never attempted a presidential bid must be flummoxed.
GOP aides were left flummoxed by Trump's move, and Republican lawmakers questioned the president's wisdom.
Wordplay The weekly feature of words and phrases in the crossword puzzles that flummoxed solvers.
We are just flummoxed and every day ... It seems like repetition over and over again.
When asked what his bus shelter flower art said about American culture, he was flummoxed.
Let's assume your boyfriend knows how to apologize; he may be flummoxed by this situation.
This is not the first time South Koreans have been flummoxed by Mr. Trump's claims.
Chris Pine stars as Coast Guardsman Bernie Webber, a young man shy enough to be flummoxed when his blind date Miriam (Holliday Grainger) turns out to be beautiful, and even more flummoxed when, after a few months of dating, she asks him to marry her.
Wall Street has always struggled to understand Washington, flummoxed by its Byzantine procedures and arcane rituals.
Flummoxed that the virtual reality headset will cost $599 (or more, depending upon where you live)?
"What?!" a flummoxed DeGeneres asked when Grande mentioned the racy lyric during her appearance on Ellen.
His candidacy has flummoxed fact-checkers, and his capacity for lying is unprecedented in presidential politics.
Even the government's own chief economic adviser has admitted he is sometimes flummoxed by the data.
Unfortunately, many journalists, editors, pundits and politicians seem flummoxed by the task of describing his behavior.
Flummoxed, he solved his immediate problem by taking leftover antibiotics he had in his medicine cabinet.
That flummoxed Jewish Democrats, who had said they would talk to Ms. Omar about her insinuations.
There's a hilarious moment when Peter realizes TMZ is shooting its shot, and he's totally flummoxed.
In a Yankees win in Game 1, he flummoxed the Astros' lineup over six scoreless innings.
Cardiologists who reviewed his autopsy were flummoxed that he managed to play basketball for so long.
In the building's lobby, our uncertainty about the apartment number briefly flummoxed the affable young doorman.
"People who are accustomed to making quick sense of the world … tend to be flummoxed," he explained.
I never know what's happening, and I love the way it leaves me confused, flummoxed, and giggly.
As the FBI's investigation into GamerGate revealed, that agency was flummoxed by simple countermeasures like using proxies.
Some cite material cost, others cite customer needs, and some honestly admit that they're flummoxed over fit.
This reporter was excited to crack the code of a series of rooms that flummoxed her guide.
The president prides himself on being a master negotiator, but Ms. Pelosi, so far, has flummoxed him.
The "Maisel" cast seemed flummoxed taking the stage: "I voted for 'Fleabag,'" said the actress Alex Borstein.
I put NYT publication on the bucket list and was flummoxed when my second submission was accepted.
The one featuring Kaylan Mahomes with her mom and her twin that had everyone flummoxed for a while?
The origin of avian flight has flummoxed evolutionary biologists since the discovery of Archaeopteryx, a winged Jurassic dinosaur.
Kangaroos.  Volvo admitted this week that its self-driving technology's "Large Animal Detection system" was flummoxed by kangaroos.
In one of the replies to Spenser's latest tweet, a particularly flummoxed follower pressed him for some clarity.
It's also flummoxed the US government, which has been divided over how best to coerce China into compliance.
It usually happens that we start writing too early using those and we get flummoxed by it all.
Experts — from top doctors to US law enforcement officials — have looked into the issue, and they're all flummoxed.
No wonder he is flummoxed by the various tribal leaders who have protested the inaccuracy of his pictures.
Flummoxed, she stammered for a moment before saying she had been on the honor roll since sixth grade.
Trump drove the indignity home over and over, and Bush appeared flummoxed by it — thus proving the charge.
He was rattled and flummoxed by the destructive limbs and cheeky Ali shuffle of the black farang (foreigner).
Facing a price war against his low-cost mail-order furniture business, he flummoxed rivals by opening a showroom.
U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell says she is flummoxed by Congress' refusal to OK the funding.
That's partly because it can be "brittle": Without the right rules about the world, the AI can get flummoxed.
I was flummoxed by the use of heavy drugs, repulsed by that toilet scene, and obsessed with Sick Boy.
If you're struggling to keep up with what's happened and flummoxed by the seemingly fraught future, you're not alone.
And he's alleged that the trade system with Canada causes a security threat to the US, which flummoxed Trudeau.
Every time I turned a corner on this giant ship, I was flummoxed by a new and unexpected sight.
"In 2016, she was easily flummoxed by Bernie Sanders if you go back and see those debates," Conway said.
Early on, Duke's zone defense flummoxed the Ducks, while Oregon's periodic three-quarter-court press impeded the Blue Devils.
If you're flummoxed about what's going on here, skip down to the theme section and prepare to be wowed.
Many Australians, at every level of the economy, are flummoxed and struggling to even put into words what's happening.
The ongoing divisions and reversals on trade under President Trump have flummoxed the U.S. allies also hit by tariffs.
On Sunday in Wuhan, for example, police officers were flummoxed by new restrictions on driving within the city limits.
When asked to cross-match a photo of Woody from 21970 with one from 21982, the computer was flummoxed.
Manning — the Supreme Court expanded the scope of a jurisdictional standard that has flummoxed lower courts and lawyers alike.
His computer adversary had made such an ingenious and unexpected move (from a human perspective) that Lee was flummoxed.
Riding pinpoint accuracy and depth, he so flummoxed Nadal that the Spaniard once swung and whiffed on a forehand.
That flummoxed everyone here in the UK, and now there's a media narrative struggling to frame Corbyn within it.
Faced with such a brazen use of presidential power, Democrats have been flummoxed in their efforts to teach the public.
At the very last moment, though, Miller dove forward, leaving the announcers flummoxed as to who had won the race.
Before rally, Jeff Sessions had bit of an awkward Q+A w/ press, bit flummoxed by Trump "softening" comments: pic.twitter.
That vote flummoxed most political forecasters, and it makes one wonder whether Americans might also produce a surprise in November.
Woody Allen went on at great length earlier this year about how flummoxed he was by Amazon's pursuit of him.
Privately, they are flummoxed at the possibility of likely having to choose between two candidates they view as highly problematic.
We win a chess game and feel smart; we are flummoxed by a lawn mower's engine and feel dumb again.
Beating Rafael Nadal in that final showed Federer could defeat the younger rivals who had flummoxed him during his drought.
Crosby, like many of his Penguins teammates, has been flummoxed by the Islanders, especially on Friday night in Game 2.
My solve was fairly successful on the left side of the puzzle, but I was flummoxed by the right side.
LONDON — John Travolta has been confused for a while, but he hasn't got so completely flummoxed he crashed someone's wedding before.
Given DACA's success in court so far, some Democrats are flummoxed by the administration's bullish attitude toward a favorable judicial resolution.
There's no briefing book you can study or expert you can consult and Warren finds herself flummoxed and pissed about it.
Even the person who brought the initial complaint about the bank bailout, advocate and anti-corruption campaigner Paul Hoffman, was flummoxed.
But the president's passion for trees and animals has also flummoxed many residents in a nation that suffers from tremendous inequality.
Tesla's car is flummoxed by bumps, sometimes can't see lane markings and truly cannot be safely used outside of major highways.
The pace of firings and resignations, compounded by a lack of new hires, has also flummoxed and frustrated the West Wing.
So far, three people have been arrested in connection with the bizarre shooting, which has roiled Appalachia and flummoxed industry players.
Later he flummoxed investors and sent the share price on a rollercoaster ride with a tweet about taking the company private.
The British ambassador to Kyrgyzstan, Robin Ord-Smith, was a bit flummoxed about how his country could participate in the Games.
The crisis has flummoxed leaders on the left and the right, from Berlin to Athens, but Corbyn didn't need to think.
At times I'm flummoxed by a student's question, and then all the other kids at the table pitch in to explain.
It describes the final hours of Willy, a traveling salesman flummoxed by the downward trajectory of his life and his livelihood.
Dogs can be trained to deter birds of prey, but Coady seemed flummoxed at the prospect of finding such an animal.
New robots are no longer flummoxed by staircases and doorknobs; clever software is capable of driving cars and carrying on (rudimentary) conversations.
She seemed flummoxed by navigating barriers at a train station and admitted that she did not know where to buy toilet rolls.
"My culture is a very dominant culture," he told a flummoxed Joy Ann Reid, guest host on All In With Chris Hayes.
She told me that many of them were inspired by Marie Kondo, the Japanese tidiness guru, but were flummoxed by the process.
He cut inside the penalty box and, at top speed, flummoxed Chelsea defender Gary Cahill by turning right, left, and right again.
READ: Theresa May is locked in Brexit hell May's European counterparts in ongoing Brexit negotiations seemed equally flummoxed by the latest debacle.
And they would be completely flummoxed by it to a really stunning degree — they couldn't come up with an answer to it.
But it is rare for a player to function so well making one type of throw and looking so flummoxed making another.
Though there was a nice southpaw right hook he showed a couple of times against Pettis which the latter was flummoxed by.
Even though Lavelle flummoxed Sweden with her whimsical play and sneaky speed, Ellis replaced her in the 63rd minute with Christen Press.
Cardi B operates on a more instinctual level, meaning that at every turn, Ms. Rancic was flummoxed, befuddled and playing catch-up.
Traveling to New York to promote a new movie, "Like a Boss," she found herself flummoxed by airport and in-flight options.
" A trio of activities involving buckets of water, candles, poles, and planks certainly left him flummoxed: Strutt simply labeled them "Games unknown.
Kaylan Mahomes recently snapped a selfie of her twin sister and mom, and the Internet is flummoxed — who is who in this photo?
Voters from both sides were flummoxed by a new court doctrine that, 85033-4, has allowed unprecedented levels of money to flood elections.
As I wandered through Central Park one afternoon after school, only to find it almost completely devoid of (nontourist) children, I was flummoxed.
"What seems very clear is that the I.R.S. is neither fooled by nor particularly flummoxed by recharacterization of federal tax liability," he said.
Indeed, for the past six years, the NSA has flummoxed congressional oversight with its reluctance to give lawmakers this kind of hard data.
I fixated on Laura because she felt integral to the themes of The Glass Menagerie, but exactly how she fit in flummoxed me.
The sheer proliferation of different techniques, none of them obviously better than the others, can leave researchers flummoxed over which one to choose.
Its persistently high rates of poverty have flummoxed honest observers and policy wonks, and confirmed the biases of thinkers across the political spectrum.
Our ballots are long and complicated, and even astute political pundits can be flummoxed by the candidates for soil and water conservation commissioner.
Those of us who look to past events to explain current events have remained flummoxed by Trump's rise and disregard of politics' rules.
But despite Trump's robust support in the area, Talbott said many folks nearby are flummoxed by Trump's argument that transgender troops undermine the military.
Although many Indians, especially those far from the border with Pakistan, find local issues more pressing, the unrelenting bombast has flummoxed Mr Modi's opponents.
Asking it to show me recipes for chicken marsala, it just performed a web search, and was flummoxed by any kind of follow-up.
Square wants to get its devices in the hands of "mom and pop" types who might find themselves flummoxed when dealing with the banks.
But the lanky right-hander still flummoxed the Twins on the way to 133 strikeouts and two runs allowed in 7 2/3 innings.
When the Obama administration released its new investing regulations aimed at protecting retirement savers from conflicted advice, its name – "fiduciary rule" – doubtless flummoxed some.
The noteworthy thing about the Trump candidacy is its relatively non-ideological character — something that flummoxed conservative intellectuals like Bill Kristol and George Will.
Before buying anything, take a few key measurements, lest you find yourself flummoxed by your new door hardware when you try to install it.
Those first two challenges — communicating across the scribe lines between chips and handling yield — have flummoxed chip designers studying whole-wafer chips for decades.
Kasparov was just as flummoxed as Lee, but Kasparov didn't have the same fight in him; he resigned almost immediately—folded under the pressure.
Veteran agents and law enforcement experts I canvassed this week were mostly dismayed and flummoxed by all this talk and the memo's potential release.
Hendricks, whose fastball sits in the high 80s, had allowed two hits, but flummoxed the Nationals' lineup with a mixture of movement and location.
State of the Art When Joe Barton, a Republican congressman from Texas, greeted Jack Dorsey at a congressional hearing last week, he sounded flummoxed.
On Thursday morning, the president telephoned Republican leaders to relay news of the dinner discussions; Republicans were left on the defensive, and seemingly flummoxed.
One state senator who voted for the rent regulations asked for support against a primary challenge from the left, and Mr. Strasburg was flummoxed.
Powell appeared flummoxed at times by some of the comments, though he tried to answer the wide-ranging questions as best he could. Rep.
On Wednesday, Trump flummoxed Republicans by expressing openness to a myriad of Democrat-sponsored proposals during an hourlong televised White House meeting with lawmakers.
Indeed, for the past six years the agency has flummoxed congressional oversight, with its reluctance to give the public hard data on this matter.
Scarcity breeds solidarity: not long ago, Nef was asked to do full-frontal nudity and, flummoxed, she sent Cox a direct message on Instagram.
But if you considered her indebted to you for providing them, you would have given the lie to that and left her understandably flummoxed.
Sondland also flummoxed Trump's current top envoy to Ukraine, Bill Taylor, when he asked colleagues to exclude notetakers from a June call with Zelensky.
However, his predecessor, Janet Yellen, often said the same thing, and the Fed has been flummoxed by low inflation and particularly little wage pressures.
The FBI is flummoxed by what its investigation is turning up, but Evil Cooper doesn't seem to always know what his next move should be.
Hinkle was skeptical that he&aposd be able to crack a case that had flummoxed other detectives who had fresh access to evidence and witnesses.
And yes, I removed the tiny plastic that covers the metal contact points on both earbuds, a strange packaging decision that has flummoxed many buyers.
The players at that event, though, found themselves flummoxed by the mixture of blind tee shots, sharp doglegs and little to blunt the prairie winds.
The Flummoxed Europeans aren't happy with Burning Man's current DJ lineup, which includes parties and stages with names like Intergalactic Sasquatch and the Automatic Subconscious.
But when stagflation flummoxed the Keynesians it cost them their near-monopoly on political advice-giving, and laissez-faire was rereleased into the political sphere.
By changing looks all game long — helped by a day off beforehand — the Indians flummoxed a powerful lineup and introduced a new way to win.
Some who were flummoxed by a confusing theme in Puzzle 4 joined the survivors of Puzzle 5 in the Marriott bar to unwind over cocktails.
This ProPublica investigation looks at Mississippi's scandalous delays, but also gives an intimate portrait of a deeply troubled teenager and his caring but flummoxed jailers.
With so much going on inside the title character, much of it contradictory, the audience may feel, along with her family, flummoxed by her whipsawing.
She flubbed the start of her campaign for a Senate seat, appearing flummoxed at the lectern after a page went missing from her prepared speech.
And when Lipman quizzed male executives on what it was about working with women that flummoxed them most, the resounding consensus was a crying woman.
Congressional Republicans, stalled by dysfunction and flummoxed by the president's back-and-forth orders, are unsure how to proceed with a legislative fix before November.
"I think [Republican] party elite is flummoxed by him because he's so outside the party's experience," Karol, a professor at the University of Maryland, said.
" Standing before some 33 million television viewers, a clearly flummoxed Mr. Beatty showed the paper to Ms. Dunaway, who triumphantly read out, "La La Land!
New additions to the series include celebrity appearances and "social media shout-outs," in which contestants can use Facebook to get help when they're flummoxed.
The greenback's 6 percent leap over the past six months has flummoxed markets from Turkey to Argentina, whose governments have to repay debt in dollars.
It's the sort of marketing challenge, frankly, that has frequently flummoxed studios, yielding movies that wind up being more appreciated via rich afterlives playing on cable.
Flummoxed for a bit, Hill then hit Matt Carpenter and permitted a double steal before Jedd Gyorko cashed in the Pham walk with a sacrifice fly.
It teases various plots involving them — including one particularly dastardly one featuring Shere Khan — but it mostly seems flummoxed by their continued presence in the story.
A flummoxed spokesman said Mr Trudeau had said nothing at the news conference he had not already said before to Mr Trump, both publicly and privately.
" He began Mr. Díaz's "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao," but stopped after 100 pages, wowed and flummoxed: "I didn't want to steal his moves.
Yes, it's true senators are frustrated and most, in candid moments, would acknowledge being completely flummoxed by what the President would accept for a final deal.
As expected, I was flummoxed by the numbers — not so much the counting, but trying to figure out the price at which to open the lot.
To both identify with the underdog and seem to understand the pain of stereotype, but then be completely flummoxed that anyone finds the Oompa Loompas offensive.
Deals With Democrats In a matter of weeks, President Trump has twice struck deals with Democrats in Congress that have left many of his supporters flummoxed.
And now you are about to be un-flummoxed, a perfectly cromulent word that will definitely never be counted as legit in our Spelling Bee game.
Fed officials have been flummoxed at the economy's inability to generate rising incomes that give consumers more purchasing power and raises the collective standard of living.
Lee made his own impact with his "hand of God" play (move 78), which flummoxed the AI program and allowed Lee to win a single game.
Musk flummoxed the industry by tweeting in July that he had received "verbal" government approval for the hyperloop, without providing any details on what he meant.
In 2015, marriage equality became the law of the land, and Mr. Capehart began hearing from friends who were flummoxed about why he hadn't yet proposed.
After years of hanging on, Zverev's breakthrough came at this year's Australian Open, when he flummoxed Andy Murray with his attacking game to reach the quarterfinals.
But he has lost ground in suburbs and rural areas, benefiting from how the voters in those parts of the country are flummoxed by their choices.
Trump said he was originally flummoxed by the press' reaction to his comments, and that when he requested a transcript, he realized he'd made a critical mistake.
"Obama had a majority in the district that had an odd number of delegates, so he won an extra seat," Berman explained to flummoxed reporters that night.
Godfrey seems flummoxed by the Jussie Smollett situation, but he's pretty sure the "Empire" star is lying ... and it's time for him to start an apology tour.
Click here to view original GIFBack in June we spotted a video that had us flummoxed: a few round-looking shapes appear as squares in a mirror.
But, I have to say that even I get flummoxed when the compliments are especially heartfelt, and I have an inkling it's because I don't believe them.
The Handmaid's Tale is a lot of things – calamitous, empowering, a shout into the void – but the remarkable series made surprise move that left me totally flummoxed.
When they do get jobs, seemingly simple things - such as knowing they need to arrive at work on time - can leave them flummoxed, their pride badly battered.
All of this makes foreign goods cheaper at Wall-Mart and U.S. exports too expensive, slows growth and adds to deflation that has the Federal Reserve flummoxed.
It flummoxed a good many on the left: Mark Hertsgaard wrote a scathing book, "On Bended Knee," accusing the press corps of being too obsequious to Reagan.
At times, Mr. Lauer — who has conducted fewer adversarial interviews with Mr. Trump than his colleagues on NBC's political desk — appeared flummoxed by his subject's linguistic feints.
The concept of eating fries from McDonald's to induce pregnancy isn't exactly new, Freegard claimed, though she's a bit flummoxed as to why people swear by it.
So far, the partnership seems to be paying dividends—Stephens was cool under pressure against Goerges despite being favored, something that has flummoxed her in the past.
And it's not because he gets flummoxed easily, nor is it because he stumbles or makes the occasional gaffe (at one point, calling Cory Booker the president).
And right the bettors were: During the finale, Bran was appointed king by a council of other main characters, a "head-scratcher" outcome that flummoxed many fans.
" The Red Army's powerful new T-220 tanks "shocked the Germans, not unlike the manner in which unfamiliar Parthian mounted archers flummoxed supposedly superior Roman Republican legions.
Engineering the living-room mural last November proved a somewhat unpredictable affair: The miniaturist whom she hired was initially flummoxed to be working on a grand scale.
Hard-liners in Congress were flummoxed by word of a potential deal on DACA, one that could push some of Mr. Trump's electoral base away from him.
I am in a same-sex relationship and we are constantly flummoxed by how our heterosexual parent friends don't split the nighttime child care and sleep loss.
They are not shared by U.S. allies and partners in the Middle East, who feel threatened by Iran but flummoxed by the unpredictability of the Trump administration.
But in her own office, she had been flummoxed by the temperature, suffering the icy blasts of summer until she hacked the AC system and dismantled it.
When they are flummoxed (for example, the rubber ball becomes stuck under a bed, the kitchen door shuts), they turn to their humans, yipping, pawing, gazing dolefully.
Several players across the league joined him in kneeling during the anthem, generating a national discussion over it and leaving the league flummoxed over how to respond.
For a president who prides himself on being a master negotiator, Ms. Pelosi is a different kind of opponent, and one who so far has flummoxed him.
CDC flummoxed by polio-like illness Polio hasn't been a big threat to children in decades, so why is a very similar illness cropping up around the country?
The Frenchwoman flummoxed the Polish ninth seed with a display that delighted the home crowd, and signaled a palpable belief in her ability to go much further here.
Professional investors remain flummoxed at the relentlessness of this year's stock market rally, as low volatility persists despite any number of factors present that normally would disrupt momentum.
And certainly there's no shame in being flummoxed when trying to enter an address into a dashboard navigation system, or linking a Bluetooth smartphone for hands-free operation.
That unfashionable formation has no doubt got Roy flummoxed, if not outright repulsed, like an Englishman served up a feast of fermented hákarl after not Googling the stuff.
I moved to America more than a decade ago from Israel and found myself half-seduced and half-flummoxed by the very American fixation on growth and improvement.
For Manhattan Theater Club, Doug Hughes directs Frank Langella as a formerly capable man now flummoxed by the workings of his mind and the whereabouts of his watch.
Flummoxed, Dr. Brunvand could not find anything on brain or blood scans, ultimately deciding it was encephalopathy, meaning his brain had temporarily shut down to flush out toxins.
It was a moment most in the sports world don't often see — an athlete, in a seemingly vulnerable moment, admitting they were struggling and flummoxed by an opponent.
The unconventional nature of its narrative made Blair Witch stronger as a film, but it also ultimately flummoxed the portion of the audience that wanted something more concrete.
DJ's middle son, Max, struggling with his trombone solo for a recital, is flummoxed when Stephanie takes his lucky scarf to Coachella, where she's playing a DJ set.
The oft-critcized management tandem of John Paxson and Gar Forman, whose curious string of personnel moves throughout Hoiberg's tenure has flummoxed many, surely understands that deep down.
During the Pennsylvania special election this year, Mr. Kornacki, live on the air and ready to speak, seemed flummoxed by a pen that was lodged in his mouth.
Longtime readers of Drew were flummoxed by the news: Why celebrate the 90th anniversary of a beloved female character by making her a ghost in her own story?
For owners who are flummoxed even after spending time with their new purchase, there are follow-up sessions available, formalized in the BMW world as the Encore Program.
They pulled off some of the great double acts, whether as strait-laced Bert and wisecracking Ernie, or as antic Grover and flummoxed Kermit, now officially a frog.
Today, Mr. Smith might still be flummoxed by the price of diamonds, but investment possibilities of water he might attribute to his favorite market forces: supply and demand.
The Blue Devils' offense was completely flummoxed at times by the Lumberjacks' unrelenting pressure, and as a result, their run at No. 1 will end after two weeks.
In China, big cities like Beijing and Hangzhou have already gone almost entirely cashless, requiring payment by mobile device, which has flummoxed tourists but also made wallets unnecessary.
So you can understand how flummoxed and frustrated I might be when Apple did finally announce the feature, only not for the devices I'd like to see it on.
But Bird, which just moved into Westwood and is easing its way into San Diego, also has local officials in all three places somewhat flummoxed — and not entirely delighted.
It is as if Brexiteers have spent so many years in opposition attacking the EU that they are flummoxed by the idea of coming up with a workable plan.
Björk dismissed critics' flummoxed response to her DJ set, arguing that they'd held her to a different standard than male artists performing similarly experimental work: dear little miss media !!!!
Poot was a Muay Femur (technical boxer) notable for his angular footwork and ability to deploy flash kicks, in advance or retreat, which flummoxed many a ring worthy opponent.
In private conversations, heads of state have confessed that they've been flummoxed by how to navigate Trump's unorthodox style and also build close ties with the US, Bremmer said.
It infallibly finds its way back to the Clean Base, and also never seems to be flummoxed by even drastic changes in lighting over the course of the day.
First, a lingering pause; then the camera cuts to one of his flummoxed employees — it's a one-two punch that has become the meat and potatoes of the genre.
For the past decade, locals have been mildly flummoxed about the massive surge of people to their home, with its population of fewer than 8,000 and somewhat remote locale.
To the Editor: Re "Trump Upends Global Trade Order Built by U.S." (front page, June 11): I'm flummoxed that, after all this time, people still don't "get" President Trump.
Elizabeth Warren -- and pretty much everyone else -- aggressively went after an apparently flummoxed Michael Bloomberg, making his much-anticipated debut Wednesday -- just a few days before the Nevada caucuses.
They flummoxed Washington, which shot 20163 percent (22016 of 212) in the second half and didn't attempt a free throw until there was 22012:32 left in the game.
But with slightly less than half of this campaign completed, I am finding that the season has flummoxed me more than any other in my years of watching basketball.
Yet Friday's proceedings, before a crowded courtroom that alternated between focused and flummoxed, were a remarkable display of the divisions in one of the country's most closely watched cases.
"At times, Mr. Lauer — who has conducted fewer adversarial interviews with Mr. Trump than his colleagues on NBC's political desk — appeared flummoxed by his subject's linguistic feints," Grynbaum wrote.
Yet months of falling or flat inflation readings have flummoxed policymakers and caused investors to grow skeptical of a December rate hike, as implied in Fed forecasts from June.
This essential distinction explains why Trump has so flummoxed the media and its fact-checkers; it's as though they are critiquing the color choices of someone who is colorblind.
The Mary Poppins actress, 35, who was acting as Vogue's Editor-In-Chief while Anna Winter was "in Europe," was flummoxed when asked to choose between two identical looking belts.
Investors have been flummoxed by the latest development out of Argentina, that former President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner will run for vice president rather than president, as most had expected.
All of that momentarily stopped, however, when an unexpected audio issue left debate moderators Rachel Maddow and Chuck Todd flummoxed and the politicians on stage bewildered and a bit bemused.
His unexpected and extraordinary attack flummoxed Canadian officials, who have waged an 18-month campaign designed to cultivate allies among U.S. policymakers and business leaders in defense of Canada's interests.
Irving dons old clothes and heaps on tons of makeup to transform into Uncle Drew, an old geezer who breaks ankles and dunks on flummoxed pickup hoopers at the park.
The judge hearing the suit was visibly flummoxed by Trump's lawyers, who insisted that revealing poll workers' names—which the suit might enable—would not open them up to harassment.
The Indian women who daily sort through the tons of discarded items shipped from the U.S. are flummoxed by the "rich Americans" who throw away so much perfectly wearable clothing.
He evidently believes that this strategy will keep the news media flummoxed, unable to believe, or at least say openly, that the candidate of a major party lies that much.
Figuring out how to hang on to readers willing to pay for journalism during the bumpy digital transition — a problem that has flummoxed newspapers nationwide — is Mr. Huntsman's greatest challenge.
The announcement on Monday was the latest in a frustrating investigation that has flummoxed local and federal law enforcement, who have yet to uncover any information about the gunman's motive.
The disappearance of Arjen Kamphuis, 46, has so far flummoxed a widening police investigation that has chased stray clues and false leads in Norway, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden.
Still, it's a big moment, and while Paul is willing to admit that he's flummoxed by it, his wife Jamie (Hunt) bottles it all up, until of course she doesn't.
At the start of the year she flummoxed Spanish big-hitter Garbine Muguruza at the Australian Open and tied former champion Angelique Kerber in knots before running out of gas.
By the end of it, Lions quarterback Matthew Stafford, significantly hobbled after a lineman appeared to kick him in the left knee in the second quarter, looked battered and flummoxed.
But the 31-year-old Frenchman roared back with some audacious attacking tennis and Briton Murray, for the first time in a tournament that had been stress-free before, looked flummoxed.
Appearing ill-prepared and flummoxed by questions from reporters, President Trump fell back on his oft-repeated accusation that the FBI had failed to investigate thoroughly the rival he had defeated.
Meanwhile, members of "the state," far from carrying out the efficient machinations imagined by Orwell, are themselves flummoxed by, and often the targets of, malicious fakes (like the "Drunk Pelosi" video).
Yet the real payoff came in his exposure to a new brand of football: an offense that flummoxed opposing defenses just by hurrying to the line of scrimmage before every play.
"There was tremendous uncertainty that even the very established companies were flummoxed by," said Larry Levitt, an executive with the Kaiser Family Foundation, which has been closely following the insurers' progress.
Green is a perennial leader in triple-doubles and he's flummoxed teams with his ability to handle the ball, shoot three-pointers, and guard all five positions at 6-foot-6.
Exercise physiologists, psychologists and practitioners have long been flummoxed by the difference between people's plans and desires to be physically active and their actual behavior, which usually involves doing the opposite.
Yet it was clear investigators were flummoxed and frustrated by his explanations and by apparent efforts by people around him to protect one of the most powerful figures in college football.
The widespread uncertainty among Americans over what scientists know about genetic differences between racial groups, experts say, has left many flummoxed in the face of white supremacist claims that invoke genetics.
One doctor was flummoxed enough that she handed the mess off to her lawyer — who also happened to be her mother — to try to make sense of it, to no avail.
Health officials in Chicago, where Farmer's Fridge opened six years ago, were also flummoxed at first by what, if any, permit should be required, said the company's chief executive, Luke Saunders.
It fits a pattern that has tangled the media too many times already: reporters seemingly so flummoxed by Trump's utterances that they find themselves satisfied just to pass the information on.
It was a tale of two sides of the plate for the Yankees, whose right-handed hitters were flummoxed by Chris Archer's 97-mile-per-hour fastball and sharp diving slider.
But regular riders are also flummoxed when their tickets are not checked, allowing some people to ride free and causing New Jersey Transit to lose money even as it raises fares.
After a wide-ranging, televised meeting Wednesday at the White House, Democrats walked away stunned and with some tepid optimism that something substantial could happen on guns, while Republicans appeared flummoxed.
It turns out that even Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Tom Wheeler is flummoxed by all those line items, at least as evidenced by his recent comments on set-top boxes.
Harrison Barnes deserves Most Improved Player consideration and has flummoxed opponents all year long whenever Dallas isolates him at the top of the key or on the wing against a larger defender.
That's why White House aides are flummoxed by the president's ongoing relationship with his New York fixer, who has broken this key rule and yet the president will not break with him.
Boxing behind a cheeky, unstoppable teep, Pud Pad Noy flummoxed Sirimongkol in Round 1 and came off tops in the Round 3 exchange of round kicks to carry the fight by decision.
A woman astronaut recalls that male NASA technicians were so flummoxed by the prospect of menstruation in space that they offered her a kit of a hundred tampons for a short journey.
The 40-year-old shooter had $20,000 in the bank, no credit card debt and no medical prescriptions, leaving investigators flummoxed after spending some 116 days on the case, interviewing 757 witnesses.
But the weather patterns that brought a 66-degree Christmas to New York City have flummoxed daily life across upstate New York, too, infusing each snowless day with a sense of the surreal.
And even though I successfully flummoxed Duplex while posing as a restaurant host as it tried to make a reservation, I couldn't help but be impressed at how good Google's voice assistant was.
Fed brains have been flummoxed by the apparent breakdown in the relationship between employment and prices and by their inability to coax inflation up to their 2% target for any length of time.
The receptionist, Freya, who readers will grow to love and root for — she's waffling over going to college, flummoxed by boys — treats Dan with a desk clerk's customary solicitousness, even a mild longing.
" While she's disappointed that we are not more relevant to our neighbours to the south, she is more flummoxed by the Canadians quoted and surprised that they "were not prouder of their heritage.
Through those years, Scott said, he always wanted to help the players flummoxed by the arcane rules, which lawyers in the field of disability benefits call among the most byzantine of any employer.
On the boundary, the Chargers' Casey Hayward has yet to pick off a pass — an oddity for someone who grabbed 11 over his previous two seasons — but his tight coverage has flummoxed receivers.
Those writers allow themselves to be genuinely troubled or flummoxed by what they see, whereas Amis is hampered by his unflappability and his reluctance to be seen taking the wrong things too seriously.
The oversize stadium, Mr. Chaly said, would have flummoxed the philosopher, who in his "Critique of Pure Reason" wrote of the need to derive knowledge from the cues in the world around us.
SHANGHAI — As the United States challenges Europe, China, Canada, Mexico and much of the rest of the world over trade, deep factionalism within the Trump administration has flummoxed both American allies and rivals.
Marguerite Moniot felt frustrated and flummoxed, despite the many hours she spent in front of the computer this year reading consumer reviews of health insurance plans offered on the individual market in Virginia.
The dancing chin, arm cranking and foot shuffling antics of Leonard flummoxed the timing of the Panamanian brawler—who famously quit the WBC welterweight championship bout with the immortal words, "no más" (no more).
I'd been back and forth with a Philips representative, asking for suggestions on what to cook that really put the machine's skills to the fore, and was flummoxed when they suggested frozen french fries.
Bauer flummoxed the Yankees through 6 2/3 innings of a 53-0 win in the series opener and has won 11 of his last 12 decisions overall, including three victories over New York.
My younger brother has Down syndrome; talking about Uncle Noah and why he is different has helped my kids not be so flummoxed by disability when they see it in the people around them.
Fighting for a playoff spot, Boston lost the game, 4-1, leaving Coach Claude Julien flummoxed, especially after photographs and video stills that emerged later appeared to show the puck having crossed the line.
Perhaps reading about the branching and braided continuum of gender — which has flummoxed even the International Association of Athletics Federations and the International Olympic Committee — will help them see the complexity of this topic.
On Capitol Hill, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who already flummoxed Trump in a White House meeting on the budget, will immediately push through legislation funding the government, forcing Trump to truly own the shutdown.
While Sekulow is likely to remain the face of the president's defense against Mueller's Russia probe, Trump appears to have done what flummoxed him for much of March and put together a legal team.
But it's my sense that Trump would have a harder time campaigning against Harris in a general election — that he would be more flummoxed by her — than against many of the other Democratic aspirants.
Domenico, the oldest son of a small-town, working-class family who barely looks old enough to shave, is wary and diffident, equally flummoxed and fascinated by the ways of the adult, urban world.
The deputy secretary of state, John J. Sullivan, is leading the review, assisted by representatives from the Department of Health and Human Services and the Justice Department, but officials have said they remain flummoxed.
That's benefited Biden, who served for eight years as Obama's vice president, and flummoxed Bernie Sanders, whose dominance in this election stems from a diverse mix of younger voters, rather than older African Americans.
His flummoxed collaborator at the other end of the couch slowly recalled what had happened: After years of saying they wanted to work together but only meeting briefly, Karen O had seized the moment.
As they trickled out of last Wednesday's Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute gala — affectionately known as "Latino prom" — frustrated members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus were flummoxed by the news that Trump and Democratic leaders Sen.
"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.
It's not that I hate it (it is kind of fun), but I was completely flummoxed that my 22002 self would have ever shelled out hard earned cash for a Sir Mix-a-Lot album.
Investors were flummoxed earlier this month when Buffett's company, Berkshire Hathaway Inc, revealed that during last year's fourth quarter it had exited a $2.13 billion stake in Oracle that it had taken the prior quarter.
He has struggled mightily to adjust to the challenges of being president, seeming flummoxed by his inability to simply tell Congress (or the judiciary) what to do and have them immediately carry out his orders.
When Donald Trump won the election, many in Silicon Valley were flummoxed: "How could a bigoted billionaire with no government experience and a twitchy Twitter trigger finger win the U.S. presidential election?" they asked themselves.
Expectations of potential doom from the lobbyists and outside advocates who watched the process like hawks quickly were overcome by the phoenix-like nature of a legislative priority that for decades has flummoxed both parties.
Colon, 43, was as effective with his arsenal of fastballs nipping the corners, leaving two of the game's best hitters, Kris Bryant and Anthony Rizzo, standing in the batter's box flummoxed after called third strikes.
In Newquay, Cornwall, at the westernmost edge of Britain where the Atlantic Ocean meets Fistral Bay, people are as flummoxed by the goings-on in Washington as they are by those in their own capital.
But the daughter of Russian immigrants launched a blitz of four winners and an ace to claim the next five points and hold serve, leaving Muguruza flummoxed and exhausted after being thrown around the court.
News analysis: The president prides himself on being a master negotiator, but Speaker Nancy Pelosi "is a different kind of opponent, and one who so far has flummoxed him," one of our congressional correspondents writes.
I've long been flummoxed by the museum field's inability to measure its public value beyond attendance and membership or economic measures (which fare very well according a recent study by to the American Alliance of Museums).
"Donald Trump's dizzying array of objectively false, contradictory and self-defeating statements have left him so flummoxed he is demanding that the court create a new category of immunity to protect him from himself," they wrote.
ABC boss Channing Dungey admitted to reporters at TCA that the network had been a bit flummoxed figuring out the sexy firefighter ensemble soap's moniker — and one reason is NBC's sexy firefighter ensemble soap Chicago Fire.
On the debate stage and campaign trail, he has flummoxed and thwarted much more politically experienced rivals like Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio by responding to their jabs with a quickness and confidence they themselves lack.
Global leaders have also been flummoxed by Trump's move to withdraw from the Paris climate accord and the Iran nuclear deal, while repeatedly threatening to scrap the North American Free Trade Agreement with Canada and Mexico.
National security veterans were flummoxed Monday by reports that Attorney General William Barr traveled overseas and personally asked top foreign intelligence officials to help with a Justice Department inquiry into the origins of the Russia investigation.
But Cooper and his supporters have been flummoxed by what specific violations his long-running blog may have incurred — particularly since Cooper had never received a warning at any point in The Weaklings' 10-year history.
Stern, on the other hand, has taken a sharp turn into the mainstream, hosting competitions like America's Got Talent and producing substantial conversations with singers, directors, and actors—entertainers flummoxed and energized, like himself, by Hollywood.
I was a bit flummoxed by AMEX CAR, SLIMLY and NARCOS in the rows (having never seen the program, just the subway ads, I thought NARCOS were the guys that the "narcs" were trying to apprehend).
Quarterback Ben Roethlisberger looked brilliant at times, throwing for 469 yards and five touchdowns, and flummoxed at others — much the way he did when the Jaguars intercepted five of his passes in their game in October.
ATLANTA — When Michael Fitzgerald, a local Republican leader, took a break from packing up the signs after a candidate forum here last week, he appeared momentarily flummoxed about the state of his party under President Trump.
Those bureaucrats, diplomats and military officers — known as the "deep state" in West Wing circles — who go to work hoping to put into practice what they consider U.S. policy, must be flummoxed on a daily basis.
What James and the Lakers have experienced instead will be remembered as the most disappointing season of James's career — because it will extend a stubborn playoff drought that has flummoxed the N.B.A.'s most glamorous franchise.
But Boris Johnson, the foreign secretary, was flummoxed recently when a fellow Conservative parliamentarian, Andrew Rosindell, asked whether he would instead be flying the little-known Commonwealth flag (a yellow globe on a blue background) more frequently.
While the company's algorithms and internal moderators have become exceedingly good at tracking myriad violations before they're reported to the company, hate speech, online bullying, harassment and the nuances of interpersonal awfulness still have the company flummoxed.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A top White House aide's suggestion that President Donald Trump sought a political favor from Ukraine in exchange for military assistance has upended the administration's impeachment strategy and left his Republican allies flummoxed and frustrated.
In fact, some of the party's elders, as the New York Times recently reported, remain flummoxed at the idea that Sanders or someone else outside the mainstream might steer them toward disaster in a winnable 2020 campaign.
A few amateur shrinks (that is, critics) offered a variety of interpretations, including that the play was about closeted homosexuality — a suggestion that especially flummoxed Mr. Shaffer — and professional ones complained about the portrayal of their profession.
We have an overview of the election and scenes from around the U.S. And The Times Magazine looks at an issue shadowing the country: the rise of white nationalism and domestic terrorism, which has flummoxed law enforcement.
Flummoxed, Dr. Willis and one of his collaborators, Seth Creasy, a professor of exercise physiology at the University of Colorado Denver's Anschutz campus, started brainstorming other possible, perhaps unexpected contributors to the enormous variability to weight loss.
Flummoxed, Dr. Willis and one of his collaborators, Seth Creasy, a professor of exercise physiology at the University of Colorado Denver's Anschutz campus, started brainstorming other possible, perhaps unexpected contributors to the enormous variability to weight loss.
And, the fact that a high-profile, high-stakes summit between the commanders in chief of the world&aposs two biggest nuclear powers could be held without a solid achievement or failure to point to has flummoxed many.
Not that it mattered, as the interviews were cut up in editing, they were made to look like flummoxed and often psychotic fools, locked in an antagonistic back-and-forth with the erstwhile ghost and his Mantis bandleader.
NEW YORK, May 22017 (IFR) - The commodities rally has flummoxed junk-bond investors who bet on the sector staying soft this year, hurting returns at dozens of funds that did not foresee the rebound in energy and metals.
But when an American heckler found himself with the opportunity to sink a putt that had flummoxed a group of European professionals during a practice round on Thursday, the rivalry at the biennial competition got an early start.
Seduced because it seemed the law of the land to side with the winners, no matter the circumstances or cost; flummoxed because there appeared something unsustainable, and maybe even slightly fascistic, in this unswerving focus on worldly achievement.
You get to be completely flummoxed at 43D because you solved using the crossings and then you went back to look at the clue and couldn't parse DOTEDU or what it had to do with a school closing.
I have been flummoxed at the level of rudeness we've embraced culturally, startled by my own failings in this department as of late and worried that we are on some sick carousel that is only making us sicker.
The invitation could be interpreted as an olive branch from the speaker to the president, who has little experience in dealing with an adversary as powerful as Ms. Pelosi and has at times seemed flummoxed by her. video
The extremely nice, extremely flummoxed volunteer looked at my credential and told me, essentially, that I cannot use the IOC shuttle—which I knew; I wanted the media shuttle—but she would let me on it just this once.
When Gill approached them to make unique, secular masks that would reflect contemporary figures in the village, and which would then be used to improvise a story they would tell together about daily life, the artists were naturally flummoxed.
As Orestes, Peer Oscar Musinowski looks panic-stricken and flummoxed as he works through the traumatic memories and defends himself at his final trial, while Anne-Marie Lux seems positively chipper as Elektra compared with Ms. Bürkle in Munich.
But in bringing a reporter's notebook to a knife fight, the White House press corps has seemed overmatched in parrying attacks from a man who flummoxed rivals with catchy sobriquets like Low Energy Jeb, Lyin' Ted and Crooked Hillary.
Clean Slate: A comedy about an Alabama car wash owner who is thrilled when his long-lost child decides to return home, but is flummoxed when he finds out his child is a trans woman, played by Laverne Cox.
Netflix's beyond-timely documentary "Reversing Roe," about the decision at the heart of that controversy, feels flummoxed in its attempt to soberly condense a half-century of heated politics surrounding the ruling into a 90-some-odd minute film.
It also left Mr. Lighthizer and his colleague, Larry Kudlow, the chief economic adviser, flummoxed during a briefing with reporters about whether the Chinese had pledged to buy five million tons of soybeans, or the more commonly used bushels.
Throughout S-Town, Reed's affection for John and his community remains clear, even in moments when he seems completely flummoxed by Southern life and the detached apathy of the people around him toward social injustice, human dignity, and material possessions.
Having levelled it up, however, Stepanek rediscovered the unorthodox wizardry that so flummoxed Murray on Monday and came within two points of becoming the oldest man since Jimmy Connors (aged 38) in 1991 to win a round at the French Open.
Indeed, the one reason Stan is such a prominent character on the show is because he's a seemingly typical go-go '80s executive who finds himself flummoxed when his connection to Angel reveals itself to be tender, genuine, and loving.
German Zverev, in the fourth round at a grand slam for the first time after a career ravaged by injury, flummoxed his contemporary with his unorthodox serve-volley game and broke the Wimbledon and Olympic champion eight times over the contest.
It is a long time since the world has seen Binyamin Netanyahu as flummoxed as he was in 1982 when, as Israel's deputy ambassador to Washington, he was called on to explain why his country's tanks were rolling north through Lebanon.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Flummoxed and frustrated by wily veteran Paolo Lorenzi for two sets, second seed Andy Murray changed tactics and beat the 24-year-old Italian at his own game to advance to the U.S. Open fourth round on Saturday.
Given the many snafus, misfires, and gaffes of President Donald Trump's first 100 plus days in office, journalists, cable news pundits, late night comedians, and Democratic politicians are flummoxed as to why his popularity continues to remain strong among his supporters.
Could it be because the Post's editors are so flummoxed by the Trump phenomenon they are reduced to promoting even the most crackpot groups and individuals whose self-aggrandizing mission is to undo, or undermine the legitimacy of, Trump's election?
He said that a law firm that Ms. Kane had hired to sift through the emails was flummoxed by the sheer number of them — 13 million, later winnowed to seven million by tossing out the correspondence of lower-level officials.
I remember that interview you did where he started sweating like a maniac when he just didn't understand that people were worried about him knowing a lot of information about them, and he just seemed totally flummoxed by the whole thing.
The speculation and mixed messages coming out of the White House have flummoxed key lawmakers in both parties, who continue to support the secretary, as well as many of the major veterans groups, which are congressionally chartered and largely apolitical.
For years now, members of Congress have divided on whether Trump is strong or weak, whether his political success shows an intuitive tactical genius that needs to be respected or a hollow showman who connects to conservatives but is easily flummoxed.
In nearly two dozen interviews with health care workers and patients, at the hospital and at a nonprofit clinic run by the Mountain Comprehensive Health Corporation, Kentuckians sounded both fearful and flummoxed by the health care drama on Capitol Hill.
Economic View Because economists generally assume that people behave rationally, you might expect members of my profession to have been flummoxed by the behavior of many United States senators during the repeated, failed attempts to repeal the Affordable Care Act.
Two American officials, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss private diplomatic and military conversations, said that given the apparently contradictory statements by Mr. Trump, the Turks seemed flummoxed about what support, if any, they might get from the United States.
It's narrated by Andre (Dre) Johnson, a black ad executive, played by Anthony Anderson, who has jumped, as Barris did, from inner-city poverty to bourgeois wealth, only to find himself flummoxed by his brood of privileged, Obama-era kids.
So the flummoxed faces in that JOE video aren't just a bunch of Brits having a laugh at their Yankee cousins — they reflect the astonishing degree to which Americans has fallen behind in providing affordable health care to its citizens.
A year ago, Swinney was flummoxed by Saban's bold call for an onside kick early in the fourth quarter of the title game, a gamble that paid off when Alabama recovered and went on to beat the Tigers by 5.
After a government shutdown flummoxed dealmakers and delayed IPO timelines, the first of those brand-name public offerings — Lyft — has struggled, seeing its shares fall about 35 percent below its opening trade price in its first two weeks as a public company.
The system handled the interruptions fine, but it got flummoxed when I told it that I could go ahead and make a reservation for seven, but the full kitchen closed at six that day so it would have to settle for bar food.
So far, Trump's campaign pledges - such as threatening to roll out punitive tariffs, ditch the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and wall off Mexico from the United States - have flummoxed constituents ranging from traders on Wall Street to economists and politicians.
With the exception of Scandinavian social democrats, meanwhile, most socialist parties were also flummoxed by the Depression, telling citizens that their lives would only improve once capitalism had collapsed and that they could, therefore, do little to help them in the interim.
In each case, he asked the artists how they made their contributions to contemporary art, a question that flummoxed many of the subjects, who were far more used to delivering a biographical narrative or expressing opinions on the content of their work.
And it was, unquestionably, Foles, who flummoxed the Vikings with passes long and short — even a flea-flicker touchdown to Torrey Smith — and rewarded the steadfast faith and masterly play-calling of Coach Doug Pederson to continue leading Philadelphia down a familiar path.
Three batters later, Neil Walker, a former Pirate, hit a line drive to right field that flummoxed Gregory Polanco, who paused charging the ball, crouched and then dove late as Walker turned a likely third out into a triple on the misplay.
In the latter stages, our hero is flummoxed by a chum who confesses her love for him (shades of "Four Weddings and a Funeral"), and beset by a serious case of the yips, unsure how much he craves, let alone warrants, his celebrity.
Journalists and cultural critics are flummoxed by phenomena such as "surprise eggs," in which an entire video is devoted to watching a pair of (usually adult) hands unwrap an average supermarket Kinder Surprise to discover what minuscule, worthless knick-knack is inside.
BATCHED IT flummoxed me, but I was told by someone younger than I am that it is a thing that involves living like a bachelor — I wouldn't know — and that there is a variant spelling, BACHED IT, which might be more correct.
"I'm on a little TV show, so I'm going to do a little work there with my family," she said with a laugh, admitting she's a little flummoxed by the prospect of directing herself as a member of the FX series' recurring ensemble of actors.
Trump flummoxed Republicans by making statements that ran contrary to long-standing party orthodoxy, and his famously volatile call with the prime minister of Australia came only shortly after he learned of an agreement in which the United States agreed to take hundreds of refugees.
In one ad -- inspired by the candidates' first debate, when both Rokita and Messer wore dark suits, white shirts and red ties -- Braun travels the state with cardboard cut-outs of the two, asking flummoxed voters which one is which while lumping their records together.
Flummoxed and craven Republicans scramble to go along with a president who has turned the traditional heroes and villains of the G.O.P. topsy-turvy, berating our European allies, NATO, the N.F.L., the F.B.I. and the C.I.A., and canoodling with the mendacious and scheming Russians.
Not literally (I'm guessing), but unlike some of her elite peers at Yale University, where she teaches law, Chua isn't endlessly flummoxed by the president's ability to brag about how rich and "very greedy" he is while also resonating with his working-class supporters.
These two sometime residents of different branches of the greater Marvel cosmos — Nick Fury and Deadpool, if you need reminding — join up, with ostentatious reluctance, on a European jaunt, leaving a trail of dead minions and flummoxed law enforcement officers from Manchester to The Hague.
Attacking with serve-and-volley as well as chip-and-charge, the 22012th-ranked Townsend flummoxed the reigning Wimbledon champion, Simona Halep, in the second round of the United States Open and finished with a tight 215-22012, 215-103, 210-211 (2100) victory.
Opinion Columnist When Britain flummoxed and flabbergasted the world by voting in 2016 to leave the European Union, it seemed like a one-off: An unexpected gamble by a normally prudent country, but nothing that signified a profound shift beyond the United Kingdom and Europe.
Attacking with serve-and-volley as well as chip-and-charge, the 22012th-ranked Townsend flummoxed the reigning Wimbledon champion, Simona Halep, in the second round of the United States Open and finished with a tight 215-22012, 215-103, 210-211 (2100) victory.
But since the officials in his administration are—as they have told Dudden—downright flummoxed by Trump's approach to diplomacy, Moon and company will likely be on eggshells indefinitely, unsure of how far they can push US–North Korean dialogue before Trump pushes back.
Tellingly, the producers (a posse that again includes Ryan Seacrest) appear a tad flummoxed by how to build a show around Kylie's life -- how to make "Life of Kylie" (rhymes with "Riley," a reference the target audience isn't apt to remember) function as an actual series.
Even Giorgio Armani, the designer who once upon a time solved the problem of what soft power looked like, was seemingly flummoxed by the proposition, resorting to a questionable pun — "Charmani" (ahem) — as a title for what turned out to be a collection based on the bubble.
But the report detailed how the gravest crisis of Mr. Northam's career unfolded behind closed doors, and how early decisions helped shape a "shocking and chaotic" drama that left Virginians flummoxed, the statehouse in shambles and the governor more a punch line than a powerful politician.
We dealt in war stories and most of all we dealt in theories—in garrulous, alcoholized attempts to formulate generally applicable propositions about happiness, about mankind versus womankind, about litigation, about anything that might help us understand the world or at least make us feel less flummoxed by it.
The denizens of Trumpworld — and furious and flummoxed Republicans — are dealing with a highchair king who gets huffy when he sees his advisers and allies acknowledging the obvious on TV: that he struggled in the first debate and that he should cease the self-immolating, misogynistic 3 a.m. tweets.
Nissan, one of the first automakers to publicly address situations in which a self-driving car may be flummoxed by its surroundings, has proposed using a system called Seamless Autonomous Mobility, or S.A.M. It's partly based on the remote control technology that NASA uses to operate rovers on Mars.
While Republicans in Washington appear flummoxed by the complexities of one-party rule, struggling with issues from repealing the Affordable Care Act, known as Obamacare, to paying for President Trump's promised wall on the Mexican border, rising party leaders in the states seem far more at ease and assertive.
While the precipitous drop in the cost of DNA sequencing has helped many rare-disease patients and their families find answers they could not have only a few years ago, many more continue to embark on protracted "diagnostic odysseys" involving expensive visits with one flummoxed specialist after another.
Rachel Mitchell, the independent prosecutor brought in by Senate Republicans to question Ford and Kavanaugh, had failed to poke any significant holes in the accuser's story and seemed to have flummoxed the judge with queries about how many beers he believed to be too many beers to drink.
Trump's phone call with Trudeau had to do with, yep, trade disputes, and the imposition of Trump's tariffs, which he says are for US security, but which Trudeau, flummoxed, has said actually jeopardize US security by driving a wedge into what's been a family-style North American relationship for generations.
For students of television, it's also fascinating to hear about how Williams' improvisational style utterly flummoxed the cameramen working on the show, prompting producer Garry Marshall to add a fourth operator whose sole job was to follow the star at all times in order to catch his free-wheeling antics.
That history has left many flummoxed as to why Trump keeps bringing up Doonbeg—which coincidentally is where Vice President Mike Pence's great-grandmother is from—when talking about the E.U., even as they brace for its return to the international stage when the president hosts Ireland's Prime Minister Enda Kenny.
At the end of this year in particular, when many of us feel more flummoxed than ever by the questions of who we are, who we were, and who we might be, a show like this reminds us that the answers were never easy, and it is imperative that we keep looking.
Arsene Wenger seemed like some sort of delicate alien sent to Earth to teach people the delights of what soccer could be, a Martian philosopher-king in a puffy coat who could figure out how to turn Thierry Henry into a striker but who was flummoxed by the concept of the zipper.
A relentless publicist and marketer for junior tennis in general and the Easter Bowl in particular, Ms. Hamilton attracted corporate sponsorships and made the families of the young players into participants in the tournament's ancillary activities, arranging social events and seminars for mothers and fathers flummoxed by the exigencies of parenting gifted and ambitious players.
Clinton was able to make Trump's treatment of women the issue in part because she and her campaign had prepared to make Trump's treatment of women the issue, and in part because she is a woman and her assault on Trump flummoxed his usual mode of defense, which is to dominate and insult the other men on the stage.
His old foe, Larry Holmes had shown Tyson to be easily frustrated and flummoxed in the periods in which he applied the old Ali style clinch, holding the back of Tyson's head with one hand and his triceps with the other, but Spinks was not Holmes or Ali, he was largely ineffectual with his tie ups.
Lauer didn't do this because he is biased, or because he is inattentive — he did it because he is used to reporting on elections from a place of rough equivalence, and he is flummoxed by this election, which offers no such safe harbor for journalists uncomfortable with the very real differences between the two parties' nominees.
Flummoxed for a game and a half by the Toronto Raptors' physical defense, Golden State swung back in a big way by smothering the Raptors to score the first 18 points of the second half and abruptly snatch the momentum from the hosts in a 109-104 victory that evened these finals at one game apiece.
The footage has been a public-relations disaster for the movie, with animal-welfare groups calling for a boycott and people affiliated with the movie countering that the video isn't an accurate representation of Hercules' behavior (the dog is named Hercules) — that, among things, Hercules was just flummoxed because this particular stunt was not being staged as it had been rehearsed.
In the second game of this week's historic Go match between Lee Sedol, one of the world's top players, and AlphaGo, an artificially intelligent computing system built by a small team of Google researchers, this surprisingly skillful machine made a move that flummoxed everyone from the throngs of reporters and photographers to the match commentators to, yes, Lee Sedol himself.
" Essentially everybody involved appeared to believe, initially, that it was a joke, from the moment that Beatty — clearly flummoxed by having an envelope that read "Emma Stone" — tried to make sense of what had happened, only to have the crowd (and his co-presenter Dunaway) think he was unnecessarily prolonging the announcement, to the moment when Berger said, "By the way, we lost.
The New York Times' executive editor, Dean Baquet, addressed the crowd on Wednesday, speculating as to what Cunningham's reaction to the honor would be: "Because Bill was a consummate journalist who liked to put his work first, [he] would be completely flummoxed and probably a little bit humiliated by this experience, and want to go someplace and hide," he told the audience.
Angela Stent, author of the new book "Putin's World," says the West has been flummoxed as to how a country with a GDP smaller than Italy's could play a great power role — how Vladimir Putin could invade Ukraine and deploy a nerve agent in Salisbury, England, and continue to be seen as a man with whom the world can do business.
Asked about the most recent revelations — that Mr. Pruitt asked one top aide to do personal errands for him, including procuring a used mattress from the Trump International Hotel, and had another employee set up a meeting to seek a "business opportunity" for his wife with the fast-food chain Chick-fil-A — lawmakers ranged from flummoxed to fed up.
Until now, Rocket Lab has had to obtain a license (or multiple licenses) from the FAA for each individual rocket it flew — the company has seemingly managed that process just fine to date, but it's an added process that probably adds a lot of time and effort to each launch attempt, even if it hasn't directly flummoxed any mission to date.
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When it became clear that that was never part of the plan, interviews were arranged at the last minute with several senior officials, who tried hard to present Turkey's version of events to the world — and seemed flummoxed about why that message hasn't been making an impact and why misleading a group of reporters might not be the best way to improve things.
I am here, telling this story, and not from the grave, not yet, but from the here and now, peering back into another time, when we were slaves, and close to the earth, and close to a power that baffled the scholars and flummoxed the Quality, a power, like our music, like our dance, that they cannot grasp, because they cannot remember.
While it appears obvious on its face that the members of the conference committee would all come from an appropriations panel -- the measure the group will be negotiating, or attempting to conference, is a product of those two committees -- it also creates an interesting dynamic on an issue that for years has flummoxed, vexed and outright defeated every legislative effort to find a compromise: immigration.
Last week during SXSW, co-founder Alexis Ohanian admitted that Reddit hasn't done the greatest of jobs to make the site more accessible to newer users, who are often flummoxed by the onboarding process that requires you to register before commenting, find and follow subreddits that you might like around specific content themes, and go through a process of upvoting to help content surface for other users, in and amongst a lot of noise.

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