Economists, typically baffled by selflessness, have tended to hunt for hidden self-interest in apparent altruism.
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Coming from an entirely different culture, politicians and journalists are baffled by enterprise and science.
He was baffled by the wad of Croatian kuna a bank machine spit into his hand.
The king, a genial Anglophile who went to Sandhurst, is appalled and slightly baffled by events.
So a Victorian would have been baffled by the modern use of the term.
She's genuinely baffled by this golden child, and touched by the motherly instincts that O's tenderness provokes.
Once I was baffled by this duality: diamonds for my parents, crumbs for my wife and me.
As both a digital marketer and Madden player, Tim Welsh said he was also baffled by the move.
During and after the Steam affair, game producer Sergey Titov seemed unapologetic, apparently baffled by the controversy.
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These are good people, conservative, hardworking, rather baffled by the direction that America and the world have taken.
The MP said he was baffled by the refusal to release Welsh details when the same rules applied in England.
Mr Miller, who was born in a big mill town, sounds baffled by his countrymen's mystical attachment to the soil.
Ypulse recently found that teenagers can become baffled by QR code technology.
So, having been baffled by the theory and philosophy behind museums, stadiums and skyscrapers, he opts for a practical approach to end this month's investigation.
Scientists at a nature reserve in Somerset have been baffled by a jelly-like slime which has appeared in a number of locations at the site.
"I don't know, " Joel says quietly, baffled by his own confusion.
Researchers said they were baffled by the magnitude of the drop.
Many novelty Twitterers with large followings are baffled by their popularity, which has led them to think about the relationship between the Internet and the real world.
Some argued that voters would be baffled by such complexity.
And the UCATT construction union said it was baffled by the decision not to extend its remit, saying there is endemic abuse of vulnerable workers in the building industry.
The source was understandably baffled by the abruptness of the news, along with the added blow that no severance will be offered and stock holdings are essentially worth nothing.
Mr. James says he is baffled by the inconsistencies in who gets IRA notices, since a number of his clients did 2010 Roth conversions and moved assets from IRAs to HSAs.
We're just as baffled by the fact that the MeituKiss can only capture video at up to 720p only, especially since each of the Sony sensors here has its own Fujitsu ISP.
On a recent afternoon, Aidan and his parents admitted they were somewhat baffled by the attention for a project that began two years ago on a winter hiking trip through the Catskill Mountains.
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L. James's novels, I confess to being somewhat baffled by the appeal of a romantic hero who, while filthy rich and preternaturally handsome, gets sexual pleasure from beating his girlfriend with a belt.
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Varma, who plans to start deferring 15% of her pay after the wedding, wants a more conservative allocation in her plan to offset that risk, but is baffled by which of 12 Fidelity funds to choose.
Armed with their own convictions, they took no comfort in AAA credit ratings, and were baffled by the failure of other investors who could not or would not see the widening cracks in the housing market.
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Instead of embracing a policy of zero tolerance to protect the students entrusted to their care, several though not all of the functionaries in the film seem baffled by what amounts to an epidemic, with no moral compass to guide them.
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