Sentences with phrase «rather baffling»

For a game to come out in this generation that in essence is so multiplayer focused, and not offer any online component is rather baffling.

Nintendo won a rather baffling seven year - old lawsuit today against RecogniCorp, LLC who claimed Mii characters exercised the same techniques for making police sketches of suspects.

It's a prime lesson in how to design an awkward control system, and that's without mentioning Amy's power selection wheel which also uses a rather baffling control scheme as well.

Speaking of which it is a little odd to that enemies don't really react to being set on fire, which can be rather baffling when your desperately trying to burn them alive only to have them hit you in the face with a hammer, yet from gameplay terms it does make sense; if setting them ablaze made them freak out then magic would be just a tad overpowered.

The lack of online co-op is rather baffling as this game would have been perfectly suited to it, and its inclusion would have made an already good game great.

But there is another rather baffling affect from all of this time travel nonsense; what one Spider - Man does in his timeline can directly effect the other Spider - Man's timeline.

I find this assessment rather baffling.

It's a rather baffling question, isn't it?

It is rather baffling that with the incessant Boko Haram ambush, suicide bombings and their propaganda videos, the suspects are not detected early enough before wrecking havocs in soft targets as if they drop from the moon.

Fans often mock Chelsea for having no history — which is rather baffling considering they've got five league titles, seven FA Cups and four major European trophies to show for their 111 years on Planet Football.

Rather baffling... don't you agree?

Quite why you would apply for a postal vote if you do not intend posting it rather baffles me.

She and her rather baffled, investment banker under - secretary of state for prisons Sam Gyimah seem a bit ignorant of what's actually going on in Her Majesty's prison estate, since neither of them have deigned to ask those who have experienced it.

Not exact matches

But what's particularly baffling about the Aloquin price hike is that the two main ingredients in the ointment are rather inexpensive.

Listeners often consider their being baffled a sign that the thought is deep and beyond their abilities to grasp, rather than a sign of the speaker's confused thought.

My sensation, rather than fear or piety, was a baffled and uncomprehending rage.

Very reluctantly one is driven to say that his address was an expression of temperament rather than the statement of a poised and careful mind, and that his misstatements in respect of matters of fact were particularly baffling in a man who holds the high and demanding position of a judge.

It is simply baffling as to why Wenger would rather introduce Danny Welbeck from the bench than play a man who scored 28 goals in 30 league games for Olympique Lyon last season.

This has not gone down well with everyone in the dressing room, however, with bigger names and more experienced figures said to be «baffled» at being overlooked for the role, particularly as many felt Shaw was far more likely to actually leave the club in the next transfer window rather than be trusted with such an important role.

Hulkenberg cut the corner when overtaking Sergio Perez in the early stages of the race but, rather than being told to give the place back, the Renault driver was handed a five - second stop - go penalty by the stewards instead which left many baffled.

I actually find it baffling when kids reject sleep because, much of the time, I can't think of anything else I'd rather do.

A 3 am finish in a student nightclub, hundreds of photos with hundreds of drunken undergraduates, and now a film crew to share your breakfast with: it's just another 24 hours in the baffling and yet rather brilliant life of Deidre Kelly, the latest in a long line of reality television stars who find their lives turned upside down.

That's why «racism» has been changed to mean «structural racism», it's why the word «progressive» was claimed for use exclusively by the left, and why identity politics has spent the last twenty years in a baffling linguistic ghetto of policed terms rather than addressing genuine injustice.

But all the same, she'd like a bit more consistency from May's policy positions, rather than the baffling mixture of progressive far - sightedness and authoritarianism which is currently on offer.

Rather than collaborate on mutual goals, likehigher wages and immigrants» rights, the state's two most powerful Democrats spent much of this year at loggerheads, by turns frustrated and baffled by the other, unable to find common ground and, ultimately, powerless to overcome a stubborn, unsettled Legislature.»

Rather than collaborate on mutual goals, like higher wages and immigrants» rights, the state's two most powerful Democrats spent much of this year at loggerheads, by turns frustrated and baffled by the other, unable to find common ground and, ultimately, powerless to overcome a stubborn, unsettled Legislature.

And rather than providing colour, Roach's detail can border on the baffling: «The assassin [from the game Assassin's Creed] bisects another citizen while René and his wife discuss the thermostat...»

My friends have been left a bit baffled by the R26.R, though: those I have treated to a hot lap of the local back roads have come back impressed but seriously confused by the plastic windows and missing luxuries, refusing to believe that I'd spend my hypothetical 20 - odd grand on one rather than a TT or a Scirocco.

Now, for some baffling reason you can't actually see Punk's eyes, but apart from that it looks rather nifty, don't ya think?

At first this baffling decision rather annoyed me, leaving me with the feeling that I had a hell of a lot less ways to express myself through my Shepard, because usually I was one of those who would ask absolutely everything I possibly could before making a decision, that way I knew exactly how much pain, suffering and arse - kicking I was going to be going through before I actually got there.

Burning Skies deficiencies in its story have nothing to do with the hardware its housed on but rather poor design and some baffling decisions relating to the story.

The decision to replace vehicle spawns with powerups is baffling, given how much it relies on luck rather than skill, and the multiplayer battles, while fun, can sometimes turn into a chaos of gunfire and explosions.

She is one of those people whose baffling understanding paired with a grasp of such a wide range of ideas allows her to distil profound notions into rather approachable terms.

Since I was a child I have been drawn to the contradictory cultural space of bad as good, wherein artists intentionally disappoint, baffle or alienate the viewer (not necessarily to shock), or don't believe in failure, or believe in a conversation rather than a meter of quality.

I much rather they admit they are baffled and want to research more than to make claims they know what is going on and we the people are just not smart enough to see it.

It baffles me that President Bush would rather go to Saudi Arabia twice in four months and beg the Saudi king for an oil price break than ask the American people to drive 55 miles an hour, buy more fuel - efficient cars or accept a carbon tax or gasoline tax that might actually help free us from what he called our «addiction to oil.»

I've always been a little baffled by the intense brand loyalty some people feel for car companies, but I think this particular expression is far more unsettling than any «rather push a whatever than drive a whatever» hat.