(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.
Mystification
Definition:
(n.) The act of mystifying, or the state of being mystied; also, something designed to, or that does, mystify.
Example Sentences:
(1) To illustrate his thesis he presents the case history of a man who was fatally affected by the family myth and mystification process.
(2) Attempts of mediation, be it from systemic-emergence-theoretical or from hermeneutic perspective of interaction forms and their interaction engrams corresponding to their central nervous substratum, turn out to be mystifications of actual incompatibilities, namely of the inevitably double discourse.
(3) A person's worth calibrated by its rankings, the mystifications of the fine difference, GBE or DBE, a code that specifies Bob Geldof KBE and not Sir Bob Geldof, allegedly impartial committees: what do all these solemn intricacies matter when the outcome so often flows from friendship and lobbying, or a government's attempts to be popular, or a financial contribution to a political party?
(4) The continuing mystification of these conflicts would result in mutual jeopardy through acting-out.
(5) "The former belief," said Eagleton, "is the keystone of modern democracy, and indeed of socialism; the second is a piece of romantic mystification."
(6) The implications of the normalization approach for the prevention and treatment policies are discussed: AIDS-prevention, harm reduction instead of detoxification and de-mystification.
(7) Reasons for this resistance are discussed in terms of anthropological theories on ritual, mystification, and the social construction of reality; the medical establishment is described as using ORT as a symbol and guarantor of social status and power.
(8) The concepts of 'tokenism', 'relative autonomy', 'de-mystification', and 'social control' will be used to identify what the present socio-political status of the nurse-learner is.
(9) The sale of the artisan-style chain to Caffè Nero is chief executive Dave Lewis’s latest disposal of one of several peripheral businesses that were bought – often to the mystification of customers and analysts – by his predecessors.
(10) The mystification and narrowness of such a victim-blaming approach are evident.
(11) The politics of mystification perpetuates the idea that these two axes are unrelated and that generational transfers are independent rather than interdependent.
(12) After all, there can't be many left who would share Davies's mystification at something a closeted gay colleague said to him years ago.
(13) The family tries to deal with death by the avoidance mechanisms of myth and family mystification; it is this process which is pathogenic rather than the experience with death itself.
(14) Their reaction was similar to that when we announced we’d eloped to Las Vegas to marry – a sort of muted mystification.