Sentence examples for faintly baffled from inspiring English sources

There was uproar, followed by a faintly baffled clarification.

Extreme fans James seems happy but faintly baffled by her success - and by some of the reactions from her devoted fans.

Who cares about the story in the film, my friend's faintly baffled manner seemed to indicate (and aren't most plots awfully similar nowadays?), compared with the spellbinding story around the film?

Looking dishevelled and faintly baffled, he would stare at a screen to ensure that no fool of a sub-editor had interfered with his subjunctives or his past participles.

"But you can hand that over at the reception," he relents, and so I trot up the steps and through the broad glass doors, to where a second police officer and two men in grey suits stand looking faintly baffled.

So in 2004 in came Ferenc Gyurcsany, a tycoon who combines capitalist credentials with family links to the old regime.In this section A tale of two prime ministers Sense and nonsense Rebranding time Dora's dreams Costalot From Bayreuth to Theresienstadt Stability v flexibility ReprintsAsked to list his practical achievements in the past two years, his supporters look faintly baffled.

There's something faintly baffling about that, given that the icy rave synthesisers and basslines of pop R&B sound pretty formulaic themselves.

On this form, Greg could be beaten at poker by Le Chiffre, the Bond villain whose fondness for high-stakes buy-in is faintly baffling, considering his tell is that he actually cries blood.

Likewise, Decker's own dream statement reads like a faintly baffling surrealist word salad but, in the hands of film-maker Frances Bodomo, becomes Everybody Dies! – an eerie treatise on America's race issues in which an increasingly demoralised Grim Reaper takes to public access television to warn black children of the dangers that surround them in contemporary life.

The doctors offer diagnoses and reassurances; Bauby is caressed, shoved, lifted, held, deposited, and washed with hands both rough and gentle, and, through all this, we hear his thoughts on the soundtrack — baffled and angry at first, then bitter (he faintly enjoys the black comedy of his situation), and, finally, soulful and eloquent.

"Absolutely baffled.