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Foreigners are often mystified as to why such a minimalist event can require years of training.

In fact it mystified me so much that it took me a while to figure out that a shoe fetish had anything to do with sexual excitement.

Border control personnel were mystified when the woman told them she could not comply because she did not have fingerprints.

I well remember how mystified I felt at this, for I had not thought of my feeling in that light.

Yet I remain mystified about this day. I feel sad yet alive with a purpose.

The day before I had learned that I won a major award for this column and I was riding a high, but I was also mystified.

She pondered that one for a minute, no doubt mystified as to how a father as misinformed as hers could have possibly spawned a scientist.

I've been lucky enough to get several interviews, and they've gone pretty well, but I have to say, I'm kind of mystified.

Harry and Ron barely had time to exchange mystified looks before she was dashing back, an enormous old book in her arms.

Analysts said they were mystified that Credit Suisse had no inkling of the problems when it released its results.

As you lie on your own death-bed you will be as mystified about UFOs as you are today.

Such is the speed of innovation that doctors are often mystified about the cause when drug-taking youngsters fall ill.

The Philistines were horrified; they were very mystified; they had never seen anything like it before.

I am mystified as to why some patients will ignore nearly everything I say and yet continue coming in for regular appointments.

The result: A flurry of calls from around the world, as mystified guests asked her what they were supposed to wear.

How the metal can be harmful and beneficial has mystified scientists.

I am mystified by how the owner of the lottery ticket could be so careless.

Adams, mystified by his creation, stared atthe screens.

Why meteoritic oxygen isotope ratios are significantly different from those on Earth has mystified scientists for years.

Instead they evoke a series of allegorical meanings that would have mystified all but his coterie of young, aristocratic patrons.

The markets, for their part, are mystified by the failure of governments to take simple and timely steps to sort out the problems they face.

At one point McMahon, who said she was "mystified and outraged, " asked Wang's lawyer to explain why the couple committed the crime.

Because after reading the "research" that was conducted, I was mystified how this research even got published in a peer-reviewed journal.

During the application process, my parents were mystified.

The banker's disappearance mystified the police.

As I approached my fiftieth birthday, I had become more and more enraged and mystified by the idiot decisions made by my countrymen.

I'm completely mystified about what happened in the hotel the other day.

They must have been totally mystified by my silence.

Sir Richard Branson is mystified by Australian tourism's incompetence.

What has happened here has terrified and mystified this community.

What's happened here has terrified and mystified this community.

This mystified me. Why would anyone be sexually excited by shoes?

There the Lhasans, delighted and mystified, learned the art of "walking on knives" .

The magician's tricks mystified the audience in the theater.

Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Zhuge Liang was mystified , but from a historical perspective, we should objectively evaluate him.

As a nine-year-old, however, I was totally mystified.

And it makes me even more mystified about our failure to perform consistently.

Yes, and even the researchers who made the discovery are mystified.

I am truly mystified as to why people still listen to the former Fed chairman.

"With who? " I asked, mystified.

For example, I suspect people in Hollywood are simply mystified by hackers' attitudes toward copyrights.

Seriously, I am mystified, because it always starts out so well.

This week's funeral brings to a close an extraordinary life story that has kept Hong Kong enthralled and mystified for years.

Wall Street mystified by the way IPO fees defy gravity