Sentences with phrase «utterly confounds»

This utterly confounds their best friends, especially Jake's buddy Xander (Jason Mantzoukas) and his wife, Naomi (Andrea Savage), who very nearly steal the movie.

This utterly confounds their best friends, especially Jake's buddy Xander (Jason Mantzoukas) and Xander's wife, Naomi (Andrea Savage), who very nearly steal the movie.

Also compare the penetrating echo of the teachings of Jesus in the New Testament with something as mysterious and utterly confounding and void of human - to - human concern as the Dao De Jing.

But — here our eyes widen — civilization lumbers us with substandard types who reproduce boundlessly and must finally swallow us up in their genetic mediocrity, utterly confounding and defeating the harsh kindness of evolution.

Not that the draws and especially the loss against Manchester City were not utterly confounding but I feel that these results have not left Liverpool as out of reach of the top - four as they could have and on the field Liverpool have the ingredients to churn up some positive results, if the form of a few Liverpool players improves.

«Like many others, we were utterly confounded when we thought they actually meant giving full anonymity, including through the trial - which, among other things, would mean repeat rapists like the taxi driver John Worboys were less likely to be caught.

It appeared that the escalating difficulty of the game trained the test subjects to manipulate the Tetris blocks mentally with such skill that they barely broke a cognitive sweat completing levels that would have utterly confounded them a month earlier.

It appeared that the escalating difficulty of the game trained the test subjects to mentally manipulate the Tetris blocks with such skill that they barely broke a cognitive sweat completing levels that would have utterly confounded them a month earlier.

E3 game was maybe Mario + Rabbids for completely and utterly confounding every expectation I had for that game.

Alchemic black and white photographs by Ralph Eugene Meatyard utterly confound their subject matter.

Reducing it to a single axis is likely to utterly confound progress.

As courts roll out deeply absurd and / or unworkable rulings on things like cell phones and texting, I'm reminded of what it was like to watch the law in the late 1990s, when everyone — judges and otherwise — was utterly confounded by these «mp3s» and certain we'd never really have to deal with them because they were some esoteric thing that would probably die out.

Either way, the whole situation is utterly confounding, especially as Final Fantasy XI was cross-platform enabled between Xbox 360 and PS3, even PS2.

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As such, it's filled with anecdotes about kids» confounding and utterly kidlike behavior.

For a long time, that's been a confounding problem in the search for life beyond Earth: If alien life looks nothing like it does on our planet, if it abjures DNA and RNA for building blocks utterly strange, how could robotic explorers even know that they've discovered it?

Genius William Goldman may have been at the helm of the Dreamcatcher screenplay, but that didn't stop it from being utterly ridiculous and more than a little confounding.

Utterly bonkers, this movie confounds any attempt to categorise it, blending comedy, romance, horror and drama to become a true one - off.

This is vintage Krakauer, an utterly compelling work of nonfiction that illuminates an otherwise confounding realm of human behavior.

They dissemble, evade, prevaricate, confound, confuse, distract, obscure, subtly misrepresent and willfully misunderstand with what often appears to be a positively gleeful relish and are generally perfectly capable of contriving to give one an utterly unambiguous impression of their future course of action while in fact intending to do exactly the opposite, but they never lie.

Lizet is not the first child in fiction or life to confound her family with great aspirations, but Crucet crafts her with such sympathy that watching her evolve is utterly compelling from start to finish.

Put simply, Guston's late paintings confuse and confound, disturb and dismay in equal measure; they are often vulgarly funny and utterly ominous.