(1) Most are befuddled tourists who have no idea what is going on!
(2) 1) Brilliance of Barcelona shows up the Premier League When performing as they did in the first half Barcelona are dazzling – their control, passing and movement befuddled Manchester City .
(3) Donald Trump is technology's befuddled (but dangerous) grandfather Read more “So it could be somebody else.
(4) "I like your watch," he says while I gibber into his big, beautiful, travel-befuddled face.
(5) Lastly, after an affectedly befuddled defense of NSA metadata mining as “hugely important” and victim of a “debate [that] has gotten off track”, Jeb boldly reiterated the Reagan line of “peace through strength”.
(6) The pilots of his plane were befuddled by thick fog as they attempted to land, and crashed into a forest adjoining Smolensk’s airfield.
(7) The housing benefit system is so complicated, and people get so befuddled by what’s happening to them, and then they end up in court,” Smith says.
(8) He didn't really do anything but his presence befuddled Sakho, who just stood there and allowed the ball to bounce off his thigh and back to Oscar.
(9) The following Sunday, I was still befuddled with the Saturday drink – and in danger of dodging mass again.
(10) Who knew that the Rolling Stones, perhaps still befuddled by the recent events at Altamont, booked him to play at their 1969 Christmas party?
(11) Privately, [pollsters] are terrified and befuddled,” said one senior industry figure.
(12) As people will, they were quick to point to the weakness in the Genius system: if you start with a Beatles track, then the Genius is befuddled.
(13) Labour politicians talked about being “stunned” and “befuddled”, and of “a cold bitter morning”.
(14) But if Snoke was to announce himself – Benedict Cumberbatch style – as Darth Plagueis in Episode VIII, the supposed big reveal would be met with choruses of befuddlement in cinemas across the globe.
(15) June 6, 2014 3.54am BST Heat 67-69 Spurs, 3:53 remaining, third quarter Hahaha, alright Ginobili just took advantage of a massive Heat defensive lapse, hitting a layout in front of some befuddled Heat defenders.
(16) Like all self-respecting pagan gods, Gaiman's deities enjoy the human befuddlement that they cause.
(17) 11.02pm BST Sam Stein (@samsteinhp) What's befuddling is that there wasn't a single event or moment that flipped the momentum of gun policy reform.
(18) The Kings won again, this time 3-0 in regulation to take a similarly daunting 3-0 lead in the series, but it was the way in which they did it that could leave one still befuddled.
(19) With all due respect to the Baltimore Ravens , this Super Bowl's legacy will be the moment when the year's most expensive television program was caught looking as unprepared and befuddled as the most low budgeted local broadcast.
(20) The worst someone can say is that I am some befuddled old guy who doesn’t have a clue.” The Guardian view on giving ministers a free vote on Europe | Editorial Read more Rose headed Marks & Spencer, the biggest clothing retailer on the high street, between 2004 and 2010.
Sphinx
Definition:
(n.) In Egyptian art, an image of granite or porphyry, having a human head, or the head of a ram or of a hawk, upon the wingless body of a lion.
(n.) On Greek art and mythology, a she-monster, usually represented as having the winged body of a lion, and the face and breast of a young woman.
(n.) Hence: A person of enigmatical character and purposes, especially in politics and diplomacy.
(n.) Any one of numerous species of large moths of the family Sphingidae; -- called also hawk moth.
(n.) The Guinea, or sphinx, baboon (Cynocephalus sphinx).
Example Sentences:
(1) This paper describes the distribution of histamine-like immunoreactivity in the midbrain and suboesophageal ganglion of the sphinx moth Manduca sexta.
(2) The influence of position (sphinx, lateral, supine), surfactant depletion, and different positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP) on functional residual capacity (FRC), series dead space (VdS) and compliance of the respiratory system (Crs) were evaluated in five dogs.
(3) Wild-caught female C. silacea were allowed to feed to repletion on mandrills, (Mandrillus sphinx), which were microfilaremic with human L. loa or on uninfected laboratory rats.
(4) Cynopterus sphinx breeds twice annually in quick succession at Varanasi.
(5) We have characterized the responses and structure of olfactory descending neurons (DNs) that reside in the protocerebrum (PC) of the brain of male sphinx moths Manduca sexta and project toward thoracic ganglia.
(6) FRC and ventilation homogeneity were improved in the sphinx position (prone position with upright head).
(7) This paper presents Sphinx, an expert system for computer-aided diagnosis in diabetes therapeutic.
(8) Like the sphinx without a secret then, this was a PBR without a theme.
(9) Hunt said Miliband's support for the IPPR report showed a "substantive response" to Cameron, who was dismissed by Michael Gove's former aide as a "sphinx without a riddle" .
(10) Desperate to lure outsiders to this far-flung, sparsely populated region, officials have ordered the construction of a replica of the Great Sphinx of Egypt ; the Parthenon ; Beijing’s Summer Palace and Forbidden City, and even of a stretch of the Great Wall of China.
(11) A comparison of the primary structures of the Mandrill hemoglobin chains with those of other species of the Cercopithecidae family shows that Mandrillus sphinx should be placed between Cercopithecus and Macaca on one side and Papio, Theropithecus and Cercocebus on the other.
(12) In the optic lobes (OLs) of the sphinx moth Manduca sexta, 300-350 neurons per hemisphere are immunoreactive with an antiserotonin antiserum.
(13) In particular, we compared the nucleotide sequences of whole genomes, gene region by gene region, between a given pair of viruses, including four types of SIVs--isolated from mandrills (Papio sphinx), African green monkeys (Cercopithecus aethiops), sooty mangabeys (Cercocebus atys), and rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta)--as well as HIVs.
(14) A long-faced Norseman with a touch of the archetypal brooding Scandinavian (as well as a hint of the Sphinx), Nansen was born near Christiania, the former name of Oslo, in 1861, and in the course of a tumultuous life became an outstanding scientist, diplomat and humanitarian as well as an explorer.
(15) The origin and orientation of the heart nerves in Sphinx ligustri and Ephestia kuehniella were investigated by scanning electron microscopy using a special technique which involved pinning the dissected specimens on a stabilizing metal pad.
(16) A single serotonin-immunoreactive neuron in the antennal lobe (AL) of the brain of the sphinx moth Manduca sexta is present in larval, pupal, and adult stages.
(17) The heart and alary muscles in Sphinx particularly their caudal extremity were also examined by transmission electron microscopy.
(18) A mandrill (Mandrillus sphinx) and 6 cynomolgus monkeys (Macaca fascularis) were infected by subcutaneous injection of third-stage larvae of human L. loa from Gabon.
(19) Behind is a statue of the sphinx, a menacing portent of what was to come.
(20) She is known as the sphinx of Indian politics, the mysterious widow who rose to lead a nation of 1.14 billion people.