Edwin Catmull

While problems in a film are fairly easy to identify, the sources of those problems are often extraordinarily difficult to assess. A mystifying plot twist or a less-than-credible change of heart in our main character is often caused by subtle underlying issues elsewhere in the story.

American Scientist

Jeremy Piven

I'm just mystified and fascinated by women, and I'm still single. Hence all of that, and the fact that I celebrate them so much, I understand that I'm unevolved at this exact moment to share my life with one. I wouldn't inflict that upon anyone yet. But, I'm getting closer.

American Actor

Christopher Lloyd

I don't know exactly how I end up with some of these roles. It mystifies me sometimes, but I am a fan of sci-fi. I love being taken into a strange world, and when it's told with imagination and credibility, I love being taken on that trip. I always have.

Edge

I fought the social media thing kicking and screaming. It can demystify. But it's a different world now, and that is part of what we, as humans, have developed: right, wrong, good, bad, I don't know.

Canadian Actor

Ashley Zukerman

In everything I do, having it be important or try to express something or it having the ability to demystify something or draw attention to the nuance of something is always interesting to me.

Australian Actor

John le Carre

It is my writing dilemma. The world of spying is my genre. My struggle is to demystify, to de-romanticise the spook world, but at the same time harness it as a good story.

English Writer

Sally Rooney

I thought school was immensely boring, and as a teenager, I often found social life quite mystifying... I was not someone to whom it came easily to be charming.

Irish Author

Grace Potter

I was always sort of mystified and excited about the world of country music. Something about it struck me as enchanted.

American Musician

Carol Kane

It's totally mystifying to me how anyone could have canceled 'Taxi.' I don't understand it because that stuff is rare.

American Actress

Saul Leiter

I'm sometimes mystified by people who keep diaries. I never thought of my existence as being that important.

American Artist

Use 'mystify' for complex or intangible topics, not simple everyday things.

Abstract Topics

'Mystify' describes confusion without indicating if it’s a positive or negative experience.

Emotionally Neutral

'Mystify' is often used in contexts where the confusion cannot be easily resolved.

Context Matters

Use 'mystify' when something is so baffling it causes wonder or amazement.

Amazement Factor

'Mystify' is common in entertainment contexts, like magic shows or puzzling performances.

Entertainment Use

When 'mystify' someone, it often involves a positive sense of engagement or intrigue.

Positive Engagement

 a pack of cigarettes. And as I grew up, it became worse and worse, And I started to think of it as a form of control. But of course, I could never say anything, because the uncle is a respected figure in the Indian family. And the situation that irked me and mystified me the most

Aparna Rao: High-tech...

 life are those that are not optimized let us create things that are not only more useful also more beautiful let us design for friction not just convenience and efficiency let us use data not just to demystify but to mystify let us make the familiar strange again always and keep

Let’s put the romance...

 while I was in grossed in searching was obviously mystified as to why I should be groveling beneath the bush out in the desert miles from anywhere I did my best to explain to him in French that I was looking for gigantic eggs not not not little bits I said pop tea no good

Harmless Lunatic and the...

 sometimes we call them community paralegals, or barefoot lawyers, can be a bridge. These paralegals are from the communities they serve. They demystify law, break it down into simple terms, and then they help people look for a solution.

How to put the power of...

 And I always think, when women talk about their friendships, that men always look a little mystified. What are the differences, in your opinion, between men friendships and women friendships? There's a lot of difference,

A hilarious celebration...

 which echoed her name louder and louder. One day she could bear it no longer. Stealing away from Epimetheus, she stared at the mystifying box. She’d take one glance inside, then be able to rid her mind of it forever

The myth of Pandora’s...

 to support the status quo. "Could be worse. At least I'm white." Once I grasped the origins of racism, I stopped being mystified by the fact that it's still with us. I guess, you know, looking back,

The lie that invented...

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Ancient Predator Had a...

 and develop a deeper sense of personhood, one responsible to humanity as a whole rather than to a particular tribe, a radically different idea of humanity that exposes how origin myths mystify,

Dare to refuse the...

 at a small liberal arts college, and a student came up to me afterwards and he said, kind of shyly, "So, I tried your study, and it didn't work." He seemed a little mystified by this.