But it's harder still when you're a fictional character in a story front-loaded with just about every element of hardship or confusion that could ever confound a teenage boy.
"Going Clear" is an in-depth examination of the ever-confounding, ever-fascinating Church of Scientology by the New Yorker staff writer Lawrence Wright, who won the Pulitzer Prize for his 2007 book, "The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11," about a different clandestine group.
As ever, residual confounding is a consideration.
The actor, confounding as ever, promptly bounds off in the opposite direction.
Figuring out what precisely is happening in the Afghan economy remains as confounding as ever.
In his foreword to The Singing Bones by Shaun Tan (Arthur A. Levine, ages 7 and up), Neil Gaiman refers to author and illustrator Tan's "peculiar and singular vision". "Ever-evolving" and "deliciously confounding" would also suit.
Bias adjustment for confounding by ever-smoking resulted in only a 2 3% change in the risk estimates for proximity to traffic (e.g., a change in the OR for ≤ 50 m from highway from 1.37 to 1.33), and 0 to 4% change in ORs for the highest versus lowest quintiles of NO2 or O3.
Antarctic ice floes extended further than ever recorded this southern winter, confounding the world's most-trusted climate models.
The accident, says Musk, is "turning out to be the most difficult and complex failure we have ever had in 14 years". Confounding the investigation, Musk continued, is that "this happened during a routine filling operation.
Donald Trump has launched what political historians would likely label a "cult of personality," and it has been confounding the Republican Party ever since he started.
