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Example sentences for: baffling

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Yes, China is an emerging power and, yes, China may be the great American rival of the next century, but Americans have transformed China into an otherworldly nation, a mysterious angel, a baffling demon.
Another baffling mystery is how the Guanches arrived on the islands.
Japan is a country where the intriguing, the exotic, and the utterly baffling are commonplace, where little can be taken at face value.
Critics call it preposterous and filled with baffling inconsistencies, or as Roger Ebert writes, "[m]ovies like this are particularly vulnerable to logic" (the Chicago Sun-Times ). Words such as "ridiculous" and "absurd" pepper the reviews: It's "fire-and-brimstone bunk, a tired compendium of involuntary crucifixions, grim messages carved into human flesh, fly buzzings, ominous choral chants on the soundtrack and at least one head twisting" (Desson Howe, the Washington Post ). (Click here to find out how religious leaders persuaded the filmmakers to change the story's ending.)
But there's no way to do the "It's so simple it's baffling" ads cleverly, because the whole point of the ads is that cleverness itself is bad.