(1) Vatican officials appear to have been flummoxed after Pope Francis was presented with a communist crucifix depicting Jesus nailed to a hammer and sickle by Bolivia’s president Evo Morales.
(2) Was he not doing something to keep you off?” He went on: “He seemed to catch you with some good right hands early in the fight, did you feel his power?” Then, finally, he added: “So you’re saying you thought you were up in the fight and that’s why you didn’t step up the pace in the 11th and 12th rounds.” Pacquiao seemed flummoxed by the direct line of questioning, and even this usually unfailingly polite competitor betrayed his annoyance by the end of the interview.
(3) The tie was level for only four minutes, as Nugent popped up again , nodding home from a corner having flummoxed his marker to make it 2-1 to the visitors on aggregate, only for Vydra, arguably the division’s best player that season, to draw Watford back level 20 minutes into the second half , finishing neatly after a one-two with Deeney, which was the way it stayed until five minutes into injury-time, with extra-time seemingly a certainty.
(4) Republicans led the applause when he made a reference to abortion, invoking the need to “protect and defend human life at every stage of its development”, only to be flummoxed when he swiftly moved on to condemn the death penalty and excessive jail terms.
(5) Tareq and Michaele Salahi have Washington society aghast, and the Secret Service in a flummox, after sashaying into the White House, posing for photos with everyone from the vice-president to the marine guards, then posting the pictures on Facebook under the factually challenged caption: "I was honoured to be invited."
(6) The Glasgow Effect” was a term coined by academics flummoxed at why the city had significantly higher levels of ill health and premature death than other UK cities possessing similar social challenges.
(7) This was also the case at a North Korean restaurant in Beijing, where the staff said they were rooting for their nation in South Africa but were flummoxed by questions about which player they preferred.
(8) Carson, briefly a frontrunner , seemed flummoxed throughout the debate, and was a non-factor.
(9) My effort in introducing them was to find a solution that reflected common ground and fixed the problem.” Asked to respond in his interview with Fox, Cruz appeared somewhat flummoxed.
(10) The home substitute Dan Burn was flummoxed by a clever header across field, which bought the forward space in which to charge, and he finished calmly through Maarten Stekelenburg's legs.
(11) Have you ever seen Chelsea win an appeal?” The Burnley manager, Sean Dyche, professed to being “absolutely flummoxed” by Mourinho’s suggestion that decisions had more to do with the result than Burnley’s performance but said he would study all four incidents.
(12) Dr Math : interactive tutoring Sitting down to do maths homework is already an uphill challenge, especially when the questions are flummoxing.
(13) This demonstrates what we actually all know; the people that run our country are no different from us, flawed and flailing they flummox and flounder their way through the day.
(14) Maliphant felt the rehearsals were moving too fast; Lepage was flummoxed by their slowness.
(15) Perhaps today would be a good moment for David Cameron to flummox rightwing orthodoxy by declaring there is no such thing as "the market".
(16) In the Kennebunkport general store, HB Provisions, there is still a surprised delight that George HW Bush agreed to serve as a witness at the same-sex marriage of its two owners, Bonnie Clement and Helen Thorgalsen, in 2013 – a scenario that has flummoxed many candidates in the current crop of conservatives .
(17) Flummoxed by the minefields of dating and fashion, she had "systematically studied" Just Seventeen magazine and the 1995 dating bestseller, The Rules.
(18) His inability to define it flummoxed officials, as he issued nothing but stirring anecdotes of good citizens – of whom, thankfully, there have always been many.
(19) The decision now appears to flummox him: “I thought I could write anywhere, but it was too peaceful, just too … nice.
(20) None of the executives at RBS or HBOS, the two most prominent casualties of the crisis, would talk to the Guardian for this series but it was clear from the testimony of Andy Hornby, HBOS's chief executive, and Lord Stevenson, its chairman, to parliamentary committees that they were completely flummoxed – and terrified – when they found that the wholesale markets were closed for business.
Mystified
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Mystify
Example Sentences:
(1) The form of address for British surgeons--"Mister" instead of "Doctor"--has mystified other members of the medical profession for years.
(2) His spokesman said that the producer was "mystified" by the police's investigation.
(3) Medicine is being de-mystified and individuals and communities are encouraged to take over responsibility for their own health.
(4) All of these insults to the Apple brand might have been borne, maybe, until the biggest insult of all came: a steady and otherwise mystifying drop in Apple's stock price.
(5) Complicated and mystifying as the snake envenomation process may appear, the toxic principles of snake venoms are biochemical entities that could be isolated, purified and characterized.
(6) This week we went in search of some of the most extreme prices – ultra-high and ultra-low – which highlight the mystifying nature of rail pricing in Britain.
(7) Everybody I spoke to said this, in a sort of mystified way: wasn't it different when we were kids?
(8) "I would argue to make the case that somehow we are in the dark is mystifying to me," Rogers says.
(9) His memoir The Discomfort Zone describes his older brother Tom leaving home after a row with his father: mystified and ashamed, the Franzen family "quarantined itself and suffered by itself", much as the Berglunds do after Joey moves out.
(10) Those who don't suffer from them find them mystifying; childish, even.
(11) It would be fair to say that the Spanish are shocked and mystified by the Brexit decision – and offended.
(12) Every pub draws the audience it deserves, and Bar Fringe's crowd is an unlikely mix of hairy bikers, bohemian folk, gnarled beer-tickers and brainy students, who leave mystifying, maths-related graffiti in the toilets.
(13) The government’s attitude to the BBC rather mystifies me,” Bryant told MPs.
(14) Stoke went into the contest on a three-match winning run in the Premier League and their manager, Mark Hughes, admitted he had been left mystified by the performance his players produced on his 100th game in charge at the club.
(15) Very rarely in my experience do the banks capitulate and reverse their decisions, however mystifying.
(16) Now there's a sense of shock, everyone's mystified and almost in a state of dread."
(17) Wenger admitted afterwards that he was mystified why they had left only one defender at the back and it was the same again shortly afterwards when Ángel Di Maria burst free only to try something similar and chip wide.
(18) You must hope we parents are so mystified by this that we’ll think it represents “rigour”.
(19) Paul Pogba fails to justify £100m price tag but does enough against Germany | Barney Ronay Read more Joachim Löw’s post-match demeanour betrayed a man mystified by elimination, particularly given the dominance his team had enjoyed throughout virtually the entirety of the first half.
(20) "What mystifies me is that Murdoch's attack on the Times can in the short term only hurt both papers by costing them both a great deal.