(n.) The process or act of baffling, or of being baffled; frustration; check.
Example Sentences:
(1) My bafflement index is much lower than it used to be.
(2) The next day she emailed the News Corp lobbyist Frédéric Michel saying that Osborne had expressed "total bafflement" at Ofcom's latest response to the bid.
(3) Talk to members of Britain's security establishment about Edward Snowden , king of whistleblowers, and the reaction is universal bafflement.
(4) And it's true that 10 years ago, King's original response – a sort of moleish bafflement that anybody would question his decision or expect him to account for it on the grounds of equality – would most likely have been the Bank's final answer.
(5) For the owners, this bafflement is a deliberate ploy to enhance the wow factor of reaching the lively reception and bar.
(6) A succession of high-profile topless protests since the group's formation in 2009 was greeted with bafflement and amusement by many observers, although given the heavy-handed treatment often meted out by bodyguards and police there is no doubting its members' courage.
(7) When Brown actually met an intransigent voter, we all know what happened: the views of Gillian Duffy caused him a pathetic mixture of bafflement and outrage, in an episode that continues to say something very powerful about Labour's malaise.
(8) Yuan expressed bafflement over the behaviour of Sports Direct founder Mike Ashley, who apparently tried to muscle in on the takeover deal when he bought a chunk of House of Fraser from entrepreneur Sir Tom Hunter.
(9) Lloyd Webber also expressed bafflement, saying he had no idea why the march had been banned.
(10) He plays defeat very well, too – it's in the stoop of his shoulders, the slump at the back of his neck – and there is what the US film critic Roger Ebert famously called Cage's "inner tremble", that look of excruciated bafflement that speaks to the panic of being alive.
(11) But beneath the genial banter lay bafflement and concern.
(12) In a post on CenturyClub – another subforum that has since gone private in protest – Taylor herself expressed bafflement at her dismissal, saying that “you guys know what I know” in relation to her departure.
(13) The mood in Louisiana over the Deep Horizon oil catastrophe has matured from shock, to bafflement, to anger and has now slipped into the surreal.
(14) Eliot had a point, however, especially in his contention that because of certain plotting problems in the play, especially the disproportion between Gertrude's guilt and her son's disgust, Hamlet's bafflement as to what action to take "is a prolongation of the bafflement of his creator in the face of his artistic problem".
(15) Mary Murdoch, an Ibrox-born Corby resident of 30-odd years, shares Magee's bafflement.
(16) There is no comparison between transgender people and Rachel Dolezal | Meredith Talusan Read more The hashtags #transracial and #wrongskin trended on Twitter, with many expressing indignation and bafflement.
(17) (Not to mention the intense novelty of hearing them – Reith recalled demonstrating his wireless to the Archbishop of Canterbury and his wife, who expressed bafflement that it had not been necessary to open the window to allow the signal through.)
(18) Eventually, sensing my bafflement with this final hurdle – she is guiding me in by mobile phone, her English fails her, and I do not understand Arabic – she comes down to rescue me.
(19) To all those who proclaim bafflement at the actions of those punishing Badawi with such gross barbarity, the answer can only be that it is being done to remind Muslims that they should fear and respect Islam.
(20) With investigators trying to piece together the couple’s history and motivation, family, friends and acquaintances continued to profess bafflement.
Bewilderment
Definition:
(n.) The state of being bewildered.
(n.) A bewildering tangle or confusion.
Example Sentences:
(1) For all Lagarde's charm, it's hard not to feel a sense of Alice In Wonderland bewilderment about the IMF's work.
(2) Low Social group membership was positively associated with scores on the POMS Depression-Dejection and Confusion-Bewilderment Scales; and on the MCMI Avoidant, Schizotypal, Passive-Aggressive, Psychotic Thinking, Psychotic Depression, Alcohol Abuse, and Borderline Scales.
(3) ?” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Boris Johnson ‘humbled’ to be appointed foreign secretary – video There was also bewilderment at Johnson’s appointment in Beijing’s diplomatic circles.
(4) But bewilderment quickly turned to horror after the gunman tossed two gas canisters into the room and began firing, spraying the audience with bullets.
(5) He peered up in bewilderment and got back on to his feet.
(6) They have expressed bewilderment that Austin has not addressed it forcefully.
(7) But things move so fast today – and the bewilderment, content, disbelief with which Twitter was greeted.
(8) For Heath, there was a slight sense of bewilderment mixed in with the euphoria and a little bit of relief that the league's big dogs had fulfilled their half of the on-field bargain.
(9) Maria Sharapova’s racket sponsor, Head, have provoked bewilderment on social media after celebrating the reduction of the tennis player’s doping ban from two years to 15 months on Twitter.
(10) He articulates the frustration and bewilderment of that section of uneducated, unskilled, low-paid white America , whose wages have stagnated and social mobility has stalled that is nostalgic for its local privileges and global status.
(11) I remember the bewilderment of officials when, despite my reputation as a free marketeer, I refused to call benefit claimants customers - the term they had adopted in a desire to please.
(12) Another message that she retweeted – from Malaysia's badminton world champion, Lee Chong Wei – expressed the bewilderment so many felt: "I don't think we are ready to accept this so soon after the #MH370 tragedy."
(13) Second, despite the self-serving bewilderment that is typically expressed whenever western nations are the targets rather than perpetrators of violence - why would anyone possibly be so monstrous and savage as to want to attack us this way?
(14) In Leeds, members of Savile's family issued a statement expressing their bewilderment at his crimes and their sympathy for his victims.
(15) The prodromal manifestations of PCA thrombotic occlusion include photopsias, hemianopic blackouts, headache, transient episodes of numbness, episodic lightheadedness, spells of bewilderment and rarely tinnitus.
(16) That kind of popular approval explains why the government's decision to formally launch the privatisation of the east coast mainline by offering it to tender is causing such bewilderment, confusion and anger among many regular travellers on the London-to-Edinburgh route.
(17) It was the year it snowed really late in December, and public transport was in a state of bewilderment at how to cope with it all.
(18) The student “had darkened her features with make-up!” he says, in utter bewilderment.
(19) And, strangely for westerners, this frantically rightwing party is also the party of what remains of the welfare state, standing up for those millions for whom the transition to capitalism has brought only loss and bewilderment.
(20) Adult taste can be demanding work – so hard, in fact, that some of us, when we become adults, selectively take up a few childish things, as though in defeated acknowledgment that adult taste, with its many bewilderments, is frequently more trouble than it is worth.