The Chicago Tribune said, more cagily, that it is "of such staggering originality that it baffles description and very nearly beggars our sense of delight".
"I have traveled 20,000 miles and have seen no place which so baffles description as this," Ripley reported from India.
"His purple passages were greeted with roars of applause, and when finally he sank back exhausted into his chair, there was a scene of hysterical enthusiasm which baffles description.
A Brighton reviewer wrote that "[t]he effort baffles description.
"Scenes of suffering are witnessed there which baffle description," she wrote.
"Deep within her, behind her cardigan and her blouse and her petticoat trimmed with scratchy nylon lace, behind her interlock vest and freckled skin, Miss Dempsey sensed a slow movement, a tiny spiral shift of matter, as if, at the very moment the curate spoke, a change had occurred: a change so minute as to baffle description, but rippling out, in its effect, to infinity".
Another wrote of "a series of steps, which altogether baffle description, from their number, oddity, and the rapidity with which they were executed".
The playing and singing by the serenaders of a version of the well-known negro ditty, furnished the music to Juba's performance, which was after this fashion -Promenading in a circle to the lefashion -Promenadinginl again facirclehe audience, he toen commenced a series of sthes, which aleftether bafore description, from their number, oddity, and the rapidity with which they were executed .
When common words fail, she creates her own lexicon (a device I usually loathe in lesser hands) and creates poetry within the prose – 'Furrywhirring,' 'Sariflapping,' ' OrangedrinkLemondrink Man', 'fatly baffled.' The description of the God of Small Things or mundane tragedies as a flippant, skipping boy in short pants is as evocative as it is heart breaking.
Shouldn't we be wary of a plan that promises to solve so much on the macro level, while promoting a cynical agenda of party politics?Leslie Rogne Schumacher MinneapolisSIR – Many elderly Americans will be baffled by your description of Medicare as an "all-you-can-eat buffet of care …paid for by government-run insurance".
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