What's the difference between bewilderment and perplexing?

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.

Perplexing


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Perplex
  • (a.) Embarrassing; puzzling; troublesome.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Perplexed, from being absorbed into some undateable future world governed by an advanced technology whose capacities have to be learned as one reads.
  • (2) The sergeant, listening in, was perplexed: "We obviously have, because I can hear you on the radio.
  • (3) Whether FcR-mediated signaling and receptor-mediated signaling involved in NK activity share specific biochemical intermediates is not known, but the involvement of tyrosine kinase function in the latter means of cytotoxicity may provide novel avenues for understanding the biochemical basis of this perplexing cellular function.
  • (4) The arteriogram correctly localized the precise site of hemorrhage in this perplexing case, and a complex surgical problem was simplified.
  • (5) The trauma-ready practice must also be cognizant of the some-times perplexing legal and insurance issues with regard to preventing and treating sport-related injuries.
  • (6) According to Lukyanov, the Kremlin is “perplexed” by Trump because it’s not clear what his priorities are nor whether he can work with Congress to achieve them.
  • (7) While treatment of a young woman with a dysgerminoma of 1 ovary is a matter of perplexity, we believe that a unilateral operation should be limited to those women who desire above all earthly things to retain their childbearing capacity.
  • (8) The most perplexing issues in pediatric dentistry today are related to the management of patients.
  • (9) "It is perplexing and preposterous to hear human rights complaints from the US, where torture and kidnapping are legal in the 21st century."
  • (10) It was a wretched goal to concede and the unfortunate truth for Mignolet is that moment reminded us why many Liverpool supporters are perplexed he has been awarded a new five-year contract.
  • (11) Instead, when we meet her at the beginning of the series, Nyborg is more concerned with moving house – presumably supplying viewers with shots of a variety of stylish new light fittings and perplexing floor plans to obsess over – than a political party with which she is increasingly disillusioned.
  • (12) I was [looks perplexed]: ‘Where’s the fabulous Madonna ?’ But it was still deeply interesting just to shake this tiny little hand, and say ‘You’re real’, because in the 80s, these people lived on plinths, they never came down to Earth.” This encounter made Patterson realise that celebrity per se didn’t exist.
  • (13) The implementation of library orientation and bibliographic instruction in health sciences centers presents some interesting as well as perplexing problems.
  • (14) It is now shown that the perplexity may be due to the possibility that the coenzyme (NAD) required for UDPG-D activity, may be acting as a substrate for a second dehydrogenase, namely xanthine dehydrogenase, which may utilize NAD as its substrate.
  • (15) Management of the patient with tinnitus is an extremely perplexing problem.
  • (16) Paul Salveson, author of a new book on the future of the railways, Railpolitik , is equally perplexed.
  • (17) Prematurity is one of the most perplexing problems in perinatal care.
  • (18) If chemical weapons were used, the timing of the attack is perplexing, the inspector said.
  • (19) Perplexing findings of cortical somatosensory evoked potentials (SEP's) for determining the central sulcus during a craniotomy are reported in a case of brain tumor.
  • (20) As cellular and molecular approaches combine with physiologic techniques, new information will be available to address the clinical issues of luteal dysfunction which perplex us all.