confound

The forms of power that art creates, and the ones it so often leaves us without, confound and obsess me.

The fact that such a violent crime could occur in one of the Netherlands' busiest nightspots without witnesses coming forward continues to confound investigators.

And as we continue to scratch our heads over where he has come from and where he has gone, one final mystery continues to confound: What ever happened to the chief’s legendary capacity to read the room?

When scientific data confound received beliefs, he says, “people cry ‘conspiracy,’ or ‘the data is wrong,’ or ‘scientists are making it up.’

To confound those who, despite the resilience of his side, and the way his tactics, selections and substitutions have largely been vindicated at this tournament, suggest he has benefitted from favourable draws.