Word: flummoxed
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...Campion (The Piano), who is drawn to women trying to assert themselves against the social and sexual rigidities of their moment. On the other hand, Isabel's unfathomable devotion to the contemptible aesthete Gilbert Osmond (whose black heart John Malkovich always wears on his sleeve) seems in particular to flummox her feminism. This leads her and screenwriter Laura Jones to soften James' bleak conclusion, but long before that, this Portrait has blurred to the point of indistinction...
Indeed, that day a large part of Washington had paused and, like gladiators preparing for a mighty struggle, gathered in clusters to pump each other up. Some news organizations crafted questions that might flummox or embarrass the President. A few of the old-line institutions like the Associated Press still caution their reporters to seek enlightenment rather than drama, but they stand in a minority. More of the participants at these events believe that both their editors and the public want to see a confrontation. The White House works to avoid it, so few surprises emerge, though there is endless...
...noted by the powers in Whitehall and ticketed for future office. Nervous, witty and aloof, Rab debated energetically, was elected president at the age of 21. One summer he led a debating team to the U.S., bringing back a report that "we found the earnest, logical Yankees easy to flummox, except for the Vassar girls, who ran circles round us." Once Stanley Baldwin came to argue against the motion: "That this House has the highest regard for rhetoric." (He lost, with Rab casting the deciding vote against him.) Rab escorted Baldwin to the station next morning, where...