confounding

Lately, filmmaker Robert Zemeckis has been a somewhat confounding figure.

They scored five times in a fifth-inning rally fueled by shockingly poor Yankees defense, including a dropped line drive in center field from Aaron Judge and Gerrit Cole’s confounding decision to not cover first base.

It is also, by far, the most confounding.

The county, she said, can be confounding.

Morris has a talent like few others at getting us to see something from the outside and the inside simultaneously, so that even the most politically fraught of issues — waging war, torture — can seem inextricably bound to the confounding depths of the subjects speaking into his trademarked interview device, the Interrotron.