For 40 years Britain has been subject to its perversities, inefficiencies and unintended consequences, creating bafflement, distrust and a generally dysfunctional relationship between farmers and the public.
Such self-effacement has created some bafflement in a city that takes personal aggrandizement for granted.
Such is the climate of moral bafflement created by men like Fleming that even those who apparently pine for the days when the most symbolic relationships in football was between Mercer and Allison or Sillett and Curtis rather than Posh 'n' Becks, find it difficult to settle down as part of a duo based on affection and mutual respect.
The sudden execution of the country's second-most senior statesman, North Korean groups here say, has created a considerable amount of "surprise, bafflement" and "fear".
But Socrates does not always speak ironically, and similarly Plato's dialogues do not always aim at creating a sense of bafflement about what we are to think about the subject under discussion.
But a New England preparatory school has created a new interactive online site to help students navigate their way through with less bafflement and more enjoyment.
Part of our sense of disturbance and bafflement is that while all the misogynist elements of Twilight are detectable in mainstream arts and the media, they are rarely created by women.
"I've been in similar situations, where I suddenly discovered we've created military commissions: 'Wait a minute — that's a legal matter and a legal matter the State Department has primacy on.' " But Powell was one of several former Secretaries to express bafflement at Tillerson's approach to his shrinking mandate.
Part of its purpose is to end this "sense of bafflement".The Great Court creates a vast central atrium at the heart of the museum, which will help visitors orient themselves.
And while this world of fintech – the point where finance meets technology, almost certainly to the bafflement of most of us – should ultimately create jobs, they may not be the kind into which redundant bank cashiers can move seamlessly.
