confound

A column that explores the most confusing, infuriating and confounding systems, appliances and aspects of your home.

To her, Maggie’s willingness to be seen as a victim is confounding.

It’s stiff karaoke that earns a confounded polite clap.

The first is Olympian, polymathic, erudite, antically funny, often beautiful, at times gross, at others incredibly romantic, never afraid to challenge or even confound, and unmistakably worked at.

The album is also a recognition that while heartbreak has confounded poets since the beginning of time, it remains an unknown.