(v. t.) To lead into perplexity or confusion, as for want of a plain path; to perplex with mazes; or in general, to perplex or confuse greatly.
Example Sentences:
(1) He was standing in the street looking windswept and bewildered.
(2) In a complex so large that travelator conveyor belts were installed to ferry visitors between the exhibition halls, the multitude of new gadgets on display can be bewildering.
(3) Its president, the former Canadian Liberal party leader and former Observer columnist Michael Ignatieff, is bewildered.
(4) Their response has always completely bewildered me.
(5) The chancellor also said that the sometimes bewildering array of initiatives already in existence for small firms would be streamlined under the banner of UK Finance for Growth, which will oversee the existing £4bn of schemes.
(6) Ross loved a girl of 17, so he married her when he was 28; a field-day for predictors of doom who must now be bewildered that two decades and three children proved them wrong.
(7) The presence of a de novo phosphatidylethanolamine Kennedy pathway in P. falciparum contributes to the bewildering variety of phospholipid biosynthetic pathways in this parasitic organism.
(8) 2 Attract the Comedian’s attention by having bewildering hair, wearing a necklace of multi-coloured fairy lights and launching two flares up into the lighting rig.
(9) Amid the incoherent responses that make up a bewildering official narrative, the idea that the militants are funded by the government is gaining currency.
(10) If you talk to anybody who is not in the Labour party, they’re actually bewildered that he’s still in place,” Low added.
(11) Invited by Marcus Rashford to make a dart into the area Martial breezed past a bewildered Besic to cut the ball back from the byline and present Marouane Fellaini with a goal against his former club.
(12) This is not surprising because although textbooks recommend a bewildering variety of test doses, they seldom give precise details as to how they should be conducted.
(13) Ross Sutherland's Standby For Tape Back-Up, which still bewilders me.
(14) Reportedly, her teleprompter conked out, inadvertently taking thousands of fresh “Obama Teleprompter” jokes with it, so she ad libbed, ultimately going 10 minutes over her allotted time while hurling out rewarmed zingers and bewildering anecdotes.
(15) But more rounded beer fans will find plenty to enjoy in its vast array of bottles (a bit bewildering, as there was no menu on a recent visit) and 13 keg lines.
(16) Instead – plainly bewildering to some commentators – here is unaccustomed unity of purpose.
(17) When General Electric jobs left Schenectady so did a way of life Read more Patrignani proudly chats me through the bewildering array of silicone-based products Momentive makes and that end up in everything from lipstick, car parts and the adhesives that are used in stamps and bandages to airplane seats and the glue that held the tiles on the space shuttle.
(18) He is bewildered by the "contradiction" within sections of the disability lobby, some of whom fear that the law will be used to discriminate against disabled people's quality of life and persuade them to end their lives instead.
(19) Burke told Guardian Australia: "I find some of the political points quite bewildering.
(20) So much so that the 28-year-old at the centre of it all is quite bewildered.
Paradox
Definition:
(n.) A tenet or proposition contrary to received opinion; an assertion or sentiment seemingly contradictory, or opposed to common sense; that which in appearance or terms is absurd, but yet may be true in fact.
Example Sentences:
(1) Paradoxically, each tax holiday increases the need for the next, because companies start holding ever greater amounts of their tax offshore in the expectation that the next Republican government will announce a new one.
(2) This "paradox of redistribution" was certainly observable in Britain, where Welfare retained its status as one of the 20th century's most exalted creations, even while those claiming benefits were treated with ever greater contempt.
(3) Although selenium deficiency in livestock is consequently now rare in Oregon, selenium-deficient soils and attendant selenium deficiency conditions have been reported near the Kesterson Wildlife Refuge in the Northern part of the San Joaquin Valley, California, where, paradoxically, selenium toxicity in wildfowl, nesting near evaporation ponds, occurred and attracted wide attention.
(4) Our findings may hold the key to understanding the apparent paradox that although neuroleptics presumably induce their therapeutic actions in disorders such as Tourette syndrome and schizophrenia as well as their parkinsonian effects by blocking dopamine receptors, this antagonism occurs immediately while behavioral changes often require weeks for maximal development.
(5) Urinary output paradoxically increased during the first day following starvation, but fell dramatically thereafter.
(6) Transient "paradoxical" increase of ST segment elevation followed by rapid falling was observed in 4 patients.
(7) The duration of paradoxical sleep was particularly increased resembling the effects of benzodiazepines.
(8) Comparing measurements of base line and 30 and 60% of Pmmax indicated that the degree of asynchrony, paradox, and variation in compartmental contribution were significantly related to the level of the load; significant abnormalities were observed at even 30% of Pmmax, a target pressure that can be sustained indefinitely.
(9) Nitroprusside, which is the drug of choice for treating this "paradoxical hypertension," was not readily available.
(10) We have attempted to investigate a relationship between the paradoxical GH secretion with the abnormal glucose tolerance test present in some cases of acromegaly.
(11) Allen Mathies, president and chief executive officer at Huntington Memorial Hospital, cited a paradoxical side effect stemming from the success of his hospital's geriatric outreach programs.
(12) Paradoxical bronchoconstriction was not observed when salbutamol was diluted with water.
(13) Similar paradoxes bedevilled all the other chief themes.
(14) But like so many of his colleagues in the Trump administration , Spicer has shown us how unconsciousness and stupidity can, however paradoxically, assume a Machiavellian function – how a flagrant example of gross insensitivity and flat-out odiousness can serve as yet another useful and convenient distraction.
(15) In addition, despite this overall protective effect, zinc paradoxically increased the glutamate-induced destruction of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate diaphorase (NADPH-d)-containing neurons, a subpopulation that was shown in the preceding paper (Koh and Choi, 1988) to exhibit resistance to NMDA receptor-mediated neurotoxicity, and vulnerability to non-NMDA receptor-mediated neurotoxicity.
(16) Photograph: YouTube Formation is a protest and celebration, concerned with and in love with the very particular paradox of the black American identity and experience.
(17) Paradoxical embolus to the right coronary artery was demonstrated premorbidly and at autopsy.
(18) A sample of physician-referred chronic insomniacs was randomly allocated to either progressive relaxation, stimulus control, paradoxical intention, placebo or no treatment conditions.
(19) There was no difference between paradox and normal hearts in calcium stimulated ATPase activity in the SR.
(20) The apparent paradox in these results is correlated with different effects of the two maneuvers on left atrial pressure.