Sentence examples for baffling question from inspiring English sources
"baffling question" is a correct and usable phrase in written English
It can be used to describe a question that is confusing, perplexing, or difficult to understand. Example: The speaker posed a series of baffling questions, leaving the audience scratching their heads in confusion.
By the end of the evening the consensus seemed to be that this hadn't been a vintage episode, with a baffling question about Olympic torch sales.
That raises a baffling question within the legal community, Mr. Sorkin writes: Why did Mr. Cohen pay so much to settle a case that now appears far from settled?
Donald Trump was showing off his knowledge of all things Pennsylvania during a Pittsburgh rally Wednesday night when he asked a baffling question – about Penn State's famed football coach.
Asking non-synaesthetes, 'What colour is A?' is a baffling question, but synaesthetes have a window into perception we all share; when pressed for an answer, we all pair more common letters with brighter colours or higher pitched notes with lighter colours".
Joe Polchinski at the University of California, Santa Barbara, who has studied the baffling question of what happens to information that tumbles into black holes, plans to use the winnings for the betterment of science, but said he was "terrified" at what the next US administration might mean for research.
Doesn't this same impulse shed a light on the baffling question of how the Bush administration of our own time could have managed to yoke together a stirring democratic oratory with a series of grotesque scandals involving American torture — this very weird and self-defeating combination of idealism and brass knuckles?
Once again, baffling questions arose.
The identity of the thieves in both cases remains a mystery — the trial involves three people accused only of trying to fence the Picassos, not of having stolen them — leaving the art world here saturated in speculation about the crimes and baffling questions beyond them: Who is behind the 20 or more museum art thefts that take place in France every year?
Sasaki regularly experienced 16-hour days of meditation, abrupt and sometimes shouted interrogations in the koan mysteries, baffling questions pointing at some ultimate truth –"How do you experience God when you hear the sound of my stick?" – and occasional blows to the head with a stick, all in the service of inspiring satori, an awakening of consciousness.
When Invisibilia debuted last year, posing questions like, "Do you think that the thoughts that you have in your head could influence how that rat moves through space?" or "Do you need eyes to see?", the show quickly established itself as mandatory listening as it responded to baffling questions with wonder-inducing answers.
Holvoet has a tendency to turn mundane yet peculiar observations into baffling questions and profound resolutions.
