(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.
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.