What can we do except to throw up our hands in dismay at the baffling nature of life?

She is easily the most baffling and bewildering writer in the literary trade.

He must have answers to the questions that were baffling him to-day—must know the best or the worst.

We had baffling winds all day; but in the evening succeeded in reaching the harbour, and anchoring nearly in our old berth.

Bad weather came on, baffling the one fleet in its object, and the other in its pursuit.

She kept between her and her world a fine, baffling reserve which no one had ever been able to penetrate.