Amis was late and looked, in the unairconditioned tent, uncomfortable and rather baffled to be there.
It is rather baffling that the Japanese ministry of foreign affairs chose to host a meeting yesterday to be attended by some Israelis, Palestinians and Jordanians who have little, if any, relevance to the real issue at hand in the Middle East conflict.
Some are familiar (prosody, biography, Emerson, America, the body, sex, woman, homosexuality, nature, prophecy and imagination) and a few are rather baffling, as Williams interjects modernity into the book.
"I find it rather baffling that millions of people are walking around with dirty anuses while thinking they are clean," George says.
He didn't visit Parliament except to deliver some "bullshit", which the poor policemen on the gate were rather baffled by, and to interview the very thoughtful Conservative MP Zac Goldsmith.
Mr Hutton, it will be remembered, achieved a quite remarkable and, to some, rather baffling sales success with "The State We're In".
Concealing the very obvious pleasure we took in each other's proximity led to some rather baffling improvised choreography, involving cushions and hats.
Before I go on, I feel I must issue a warning to readers: unless you come from a marketing background, some of the language could prove rather baffling.
I find this rather baffling.
The plan is that we'll have an evening meal together, although the logistics of this are rather baffling.
The critic of the Observer, reviewing the concert on 13 February 1848, wasn't sure what to make of it, or of Berlioz's music in general, still a novelty in London and rather baffling.
