(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.
Stunned
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Stun
Example Sentences:
(1) The dispute is rooted in the recent erosion of many of the freedoms Egyptians won when they rose up against Mubarak in a stunning, 18-day uprising.
(2) The brightly lit ice palaces themselves are stunning, inside and out, and the sporting facilities have been rightly praised by almost all the athletes.
(3) Impulses sufficiently large to stun adult sheep, with a non-penetrating impact head, were produced from an adapted Hantover pneumatic cattle stunner.
(4) Nevertheless between 18% and 20% appear to have done so – a stunning result for the far right.
(5) And as for this job, well, not that I have a choice but … fuck it, I quit.” A stunned colleague then told viewers: “All right we apologise for that … we’ll, we’ll be right back.” The station later apologised to viewers on Twitter: KTVA 11 News (@ktva) Viewers, we sincerely apologize for the inappropriate language used by a KTVA reporter on the air tonight.
(6) In the ECMO patient, cardiac stun syndrome and electromechanical dissociation can be confused with low circuit volume, pneumothorax, or cardiac tamponade.
(7) Alternatively, a loss of collagen tethers or decline in matrix tensile strength can be responsible for regional or global transformations in myocardial architecture and function seen in the reperfused ("stunned") myocardium and in dilated (idiopathic) cardiopathy.
(8) The speed of the advance and strength of the weaponry used has stunned the autonomous enclave.
(9) Considerable evidence indicates that calcium antagonists administered prior to coronary occlusion attenuate postischemic stunning in the canine model: verapamil, diltiazem, and amlodipine have been shown to restore contractile function to 50-100% of baseline values during the initial hours following relief of ischemia.
(10) In models of prolonged ischemia (2 hours) followed by reperfusion, we have not observed a beneficial effect of scavengers on stunned myocardium.
(11) The present study tested the hypothesis that a reduction in calcium flux across the sarcolemma or the sarcoplasmic reticulum at the onset of reperfusion could attenuate subsequent mechanical "stunning" (postischemic myocardial dysfunction).
(12) Thus myocardial "stunning" is a nonuniform phenomenon with maximal severity in the subendocardium.
(13) The Tasmanian writer said he was “stunned” to be in the running for the prestigious UK-based literary prize, which for the first time has been opened to authors of any nationality.
(14) The draft released last Monday had been hailed by some church observers and gay rights groups as “a stunning change” in how the Catholic hierarchy talked about gay people.
(15) In fact, I'm stunned at how good the place that I am in is.
(16) Myocardial "Stunning" is characterized by a reversible post-ischemic contractile dysfunction despite full restoration of blood flow.
(17) There's a stunning atmosphere in Wembley tonight, one even the Sheffield Wednesday band can't bugger up.
(18) It was similar between dog and rabbit hearts (about 40%) and was not significantly affected by enhanced contractility with calcium, epinephrine, or cardiac cooling, or by depressed contractility with propranolol, decreased coronary perfusion pressure, or stunned myocardium.
(19) RBS starts charging financial customers to park their cash Read more The disposal of W&G is proving troublesome and expensive for RBS, which stunned the City last month by admitting it was abandoning its attempt to float the business on the stock market.
(20) He tells an amusing story of how exhilarated, if stunned, he was by completing three skeleton runs at Lillehammer.