Mr. Sokol's former employees say they are befuddled that someone who extolled the importance of ethics and integrity would find himself in such controversy.
"You take my breath away," someone says, prompting the befuddled Count to reply, "That would be a shame".
As someone who's Nordic, I'm both befuddled, amused, and… well, befuddled and amused oughta do it.
Huge numbers of everyday references emerge from the movies: if you don't know what it means to "go to the mattresses" or what the Force is and what it means for it to be with someone, you're going to be befuddled by phrases and metaphors that have an established part in the American lexicon.
It's the same as shouting MF or F you at someone when you are stuck, stifled, befuddled, tongue twisted for facts, logic and information to counter an argument.
When he sees someone who seems to be looking about, befuddled, "I'll go up to him and say, '623?' 'Oh, yeah!
Alex Gibney is befuddled by why average people would mourn the death of Steve Jobs, someone they'd never met who Gibney sees mostly as a jerk who ran an electronics company.
Gibney is befuddled by why average people would mourn the death of Steve Jobs, someone they'd never met who Gibney sees mostly as a jerk who ran an electronics company.
The idea that the U.S. would best be served by putting someone else in power in Tehran had more dovish observers befuddled.
At first, Zito seemed befuddled and said he had not heard anything from Major League Baseball and could only speculate that someone in the A's organization had told M.L.B. he could not pitch.
