Sentences with word «bafflement»

Taking up the work of bafflement as a means to address slippages among belonging, aesthetics and blackness — and engaging affective and sociocultural dimensions of dis - satisfaction — she examines the «door of no return» as queer assemblage space.

This means you won't waste valuable minutes staring in bafflement at the test when it comes to the real thing.

When Josef Fares and Starbreeze released Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons in 2013, fans and critics alike praised the game, but expressed bafflement at the strange story of a rising star in the film industry suddenly pivoting to design video games.

Taking up the work of bafflement as a means to address slippages among belonging, aesthetics and blackness - and engaging affective and sociocultural dimensions of dis - satisfaction - she examines the «door of no return» as queer assemblage space.

But his personality only develops a really engaging dimension during the handful of scenes he shares with local priest (Jim Norton), who expresses constant bafflement over Gralton's ability to energize his followers.

Beyond that, well, there's always space for drumming, of course, and generally at least one official pop song that is greeted with indulgent chuckles by the overseeing dignitaries, general bafflement from the commentators, and stilted dancing by the crowd.

After widespread bafflement on social media, Leave.EU quickly deleted the ad.

Both are among the most mesmerisingly strange paintings ever made and the final version was greeted with total bafflement when first shown at the RA.

Plenty of the other figures are more recognizable than Trumbo — like David James Elliott as John Wayne, seen here as a huge man with a slow drawl and a bully's furrowed - forehead bafflement when cleverer people challenge his simplistic beliefs.

And in the south Welsh valleys, the English north - east and the central belt of Scotland, what has hit home time and again is people's bafflement about what the Labour party actually is.

After all, one person's quirk is another's fingernails on a chalkboard, ripping scorching holes in your head as the sheer bafflement of what is going on cause you balk and run for the Woods.

Palestinians reacted with anger and bafflement after the Trump administration apparently backed away from insisting that having two states — one for Israelis, one for Palestinians — was the only viable solution to the decades - long Middle East conflict.

For many women, the sheer scale of sexual harassment this reveals isn't all that surprising — it's more shocking that's it's finally coming to light, frankly — but at least some people have expressed bafflement along with their disgust.

Leaders at Bustle, Craftsy, and even female - favorite Pinterest confess to initial bafflement.

My colleague Noah Toly and I related nearly all of these facts to a reporter who, to our absolute bafflement, could still not shake the assumption that we were «Islamophobic.»

Ya I've experienced both: surprised self - righteous anger and surprised bafflement that someone would think they were bullies.

So he was given a honeymoon period, if only out of media bafflement.

«2 But, if everything was alive, then the main occasion for wonder and primitive bafflement was the fact of death.

Stealing almost a yard of space, he was able to direct a neat volley past Wayne Hennessey, who could only look in plaintive bafflement at the red shirts in front of him.

A potent mixture of nostalgia, regret, curiosity, and straight - up bafflement: ah, they were so young... and they were so promising... and oh, I thought they were going to be incredible... and, er, who the hell were they?

From the resulting corner bafflement again as Phil Jones took responsibility as he had done against QPR, the result being a poor delivery.

In short, BritishMPs on their overseas forays project an image of engaging cynicism, ribaldhumour, frumpy clothes (Memo to committee clerks: confiscate all MPs beige anoraksat Heathrow; issue Kiwi shoe polish), and a blunt, honest directness, allcombined with a slight bafflement that so many foreigners by now still have notaccepted the wisdom of becoming British.

Last week Tony Blair professed bafflement at the rise — on both sides of the Atlantic — of popular movements by people who in Blair's view choose to «rattle the cage».

The London mayor says Westminster currently stands by in «impotent bafflement» as the European Court of Justice takes decisions that have huge implications on the UK.

A Tory source close to Cameron said: «There is simply bafflement.

Habit of shifting goalposts on immigration causing bafflement in Brussels where there is zero appetite for radical rewrite of rules

Despite the interborough bafflement, Brooklyn has been a genuine part of the land of the free since day one, that is, July 4, 1776.

From the glimpses and teasers we've been offered so far, it seems a safe bet that the theory of everything, if it ever gets discovered, will inspire little but headaches, nosebleeds, and bafflement among the general population.

Somewhere in the depths of my own bafflement, I almost convinced myself that nothing momentous had happened at all — that the meditation was nice but that I hadn't felt anything else.

Here, the incomparable Etta James nails the wonderful, slightly proud bafflement that comes with falling in love and it lighting up your life.

The side characters remain terrific — my favorite joke in the premiere may be Laurie's utter bafflement at Monica complimenting her for the birth of her fourth child only hours earlier — and the show still has a gift for constructing comic set pieces like the black site - style office Richard tried to show the guys in the premiere's opening.

First, Jacobs and Ennis, both playing a form of mild bafflement / low - grade concussion for something approaching, but not even grazing, laughs.

So many of his films feature ordinary people displaying bafflement as they're drawn into international intrigue, and North By Northwest sits proudly at the top of this sub-genre.

So now, can we talk about «Tusk,» a horror - comedy of head - scratching bafflement?

But it is a much subtler scene, at the beginning of the film, that really showcases his talents, as he cycles between bafflement and eagerness to please while trying to make small talk with his girlfriend's parents.

Depp has fun with the character's bafflements without camping it up.

Malick is notoriously hard on his actors, but no one has suffered for his capriciousness in the editing room quite like Affleck, whose lines have been almost entirely expunged despite his zombified presence in most scenes, and who's consequently left to answer Marina's unspoken prayers with slack - jawed bafflement in a succession of meaningless reverse shots.

On the other: pitch - black comedy, atheistic bafflement, an unflattering comparison of mankind to reptiles, a self - righteous cackle, camp and sleaze.

Even Giya Kancheli's comic score sounds like it's from another world — an ungainly, melancholic dirge that conjures up the hopeless bafflement of absurdism.

Byrne is once again the stealth MVP of the film, her zero - to - sixty holler put to fantastic use as Kelly and Mac grapple with concepts like escrow and Millennials with equal bafflement.

-- an approach sure to produce bafflement and phoniness.

Or is this spate of research more reflective of ongoing bafflement, a need to confirm the facts and figures and quantitatively discuss: Exactly what is going on here?

Despite the complete bafflement, my team won the first two of three games.

And if you think, as I do, that some degree of continuing bafflement is a healthy reaction to art, this disorienting contact high of a show is for you.

In addition, a trend toward optical bafflement is underway.

Bafflement acts as a mode in which to negotiate spaces of contradiction, dis - ease and dis - satisfaction.

Behind her a burly mechanic — who just happens to look like Donald Judd and James Turrell morphed together — eyes the camera with an expression that mingles bafflement with lubricious pride.