Sentence examples for her confounding from inspiring English sources

Despite her confounding philosophy and acts of self-abnegation, Weil left behind her writings, her journal.

I wish Portia de Rossi was in this episode more, and that her sole contribution wasn't her confounding hairstyle.

She'll show you the dark magic behind her confounding confections in The Curious Creations of Christine McConnell.

Although these are accurate descriptions of her confounding technique, a better word would be "surprising".

I think a lot of journalists, regardless of their politics, find her confounding and a little frightening.

The only contemporary representation we have of Zenobia is on a coin, which makes her look rather witchlike, but Gibbon's description of her pearly-white teeth and large black eyes, which "sparkled with uncommon fire," cast a spell over future historians, both in the West and in the Arab world, who quarrel over nearly everything having to do with Zenobia and her confounding legacy.

Her New York dealer, Josh Baer, went out of business after giving her only one show, confounding her earlier move from Holly Solomon, who hadn't mounted a solo exhibition for Ms. Smith since 1981.

Lessing more than once attempted to tackle the horrors of World War I and the devastating imprint it left on her family, and much later, she confounded her usual readers with a series of science-fiction novels, "Canopus in Argos," reflecting her newfound conviction that space had become the new mythic terrain of human conflict.

After a succession of mediocre "sex dramas" that made few demands on her talent, Bankhead confounded her critics with her brilliant performance as a troubled young waitress in the London production of Sidney Howard's They Knew What They Wanted (1925).

Hepburn, tall, slender, and not exactly buxom, was just not suitable for roles that required actresses who were busty and blonde, submissive to men, and rarely confrontational, and in the early years of her career she confounded the public with her arrogant posture and unconventional dress code of casual slacks, oversized shirts, and scruffy loafers.

Margaret: They always get back to this: Hannah blames her parents for her problems, her dad is confounded and her mom gets defensive.