Happily Isner had more than just a booming serve and his willingness to come to the net constantly confounded Roddick.
After buying the machine, the writer was constantly confounded and frustrated by its interminable updates and set-up procedures.
While this may sound simple, computers are constantly confounded by small changes, like switching "Robert" to "Bob" or shortening a middle name to an initial.
There's character even in muster rolls and other records, which constantly confound the stereotype of a war between brotherly white farm boys North and South.
It's a play that constantly confounds expectations and works almost like a thriller, with a sinister Pinteresque edge, as complete strangers keep on turning up in Andre's flat.
There are even parallels, he points out, between Dr. Watson and Sharona, Monk's perky nurse and confidante (played by Bitty Schram) and between Inspector Lestrade and Captain Stottlemeyer (played by Ted Levine), the police officer who is constantly confounded by Monk's flashes of insight.
The vast empty spaces of the desert stand, of course, for the holographic projections that now determine Alan's (and America's) destiny, while Saudi Arabia, a puritan kingdom where everyone seems to be boozing on the sly, is the perfect Other that constantly confounds and defeats its New World visitors.
Their movement in attack constantly confounded Southampton's defenders, with Rooney, Van Persie and Januzaj swapping places and eluding markers at will.
I felt constantly confounded trying to maintain our sales targets.
I often have no clue what I'm eating (sometimes best not to ponder), but excellence abounds and I am constantly awed by dazzling new dishes ("Deep fried hibiscus buds?"), unheard of ingredients ("Excuse me, did you say starfish?") and confounding techniques ("How'd they do that steamed, fried, sweet, tangy, crunchy, tender thing?").
