What's the difference between puzzlement and quandary?

Puzzlement


Definition:

  • (n.) The state of being puzzled; perplexity.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) However, as we watch Blade Runner , Deckard doesn’t feel like a replicant; he is dour and unengaged, but lacks his victims’ detached innocence, their staccato puzzlement at their own untrained feelings.
  • (2) His comments have drawn puzzlement from bankers familiar with the financing of the presidential candidate’s business empire.
  • (3) The affair caused puzzlement among Kremlin watchers at the time.
  • (4) Now, when I talk with some others who were there that day, we share a certain kind of puzzlement over something we’ve noticed: many people who only experienced the attacks on television want revenge much more than my friends and I do.
  • (5) Once his eyes opened, he stared at the sun with a deep unearthly puzzlement and then at the sky around the sun.
  • (6) However, after the decision of the Malaysian owner, Vincent Tan, caused puzzlement at the Welsh club there is a recognition that the Scot's position is now precarious.
  • (7) In the sequence that may have caused most puzzlement among non-Britons, Boyle examined the rise of social media through a miniature soap opera, complete with a guest appearance from Sir Tim Berners-Lee and a collaged soundtrack racing from My Generation and My Boy Lollipop through Tiger Feet and Pretty Vacant to Dizzee Rascal live in the stadium.
  • (8) All such modifications often promote a loss of the subject's usual landmarks, a relative degree of puzzlement, sometimes even a destruction of pre-existing harmony that may impair the psychological balance of the subject.
  • (9) We’ve really enjoyed it.” Martin O’Neill, the Republic of Ireland manager, expressed puzzlement at Wales’s ascent from pot six of the World Cup qualifying draw alongside the minnows four years ago.
  • (10) She herself described her readers as "women and educated men", and expressed "puzzlement" when Margaret Drabble left her out of her 1985 edition of The Oxford Companion to English Literature.
  • (11) They really could have just restructured at DHS how the NCCIC works to really move threats together in a comprehensive fashion, and a real-time fashion, where you could actually get some value out of it,” said Tony Cole, a top executive at the cybersecurity firm FireEye, who said he was hearing similar puzzlement from industry leaders about the new center.
  • (12) A useful therapeutic model embraces dilemma, promotes toleration of puzzlement, and views the therapist as editor of the patient's developing novel.
  • (13) This is a common source of puzzlement amongst some, but let me solve this apparent conundrum.
  • (14) Talking to developers ahead of Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) at San Francisco, one detects a sense both of puzzlement and excitement.
  • (15) His all-embracing attitudes caused widespread puzzlement.
  • (16) The puzzlement extends to British officials and business.
  • (17) Kenyatta's assertion is likely to cause puzzlement.
  • (18) There was puzzlement at the Old Lady of Threadneedle Street.
  • (19) What was interesting was how present and real the bull felt to me, how close the animal's pain and puzzlement was.
  • (20) Within the country, the mood was one of puzzlement – and abandonment.

Quandary


Definition:

  • (n.) A state of difficulty or perplexity; doubt; uncertainty.
  • (v. t.) To bring into a state of uncertainty, perplexity, or difficulty.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He’s a great defender when he hits you but when you have guys like Matt Giteau who is light on his feet and can change direction …” And what of England, hosts of the tournament who, beset by selection quandaries, forgot the fundamentals against France last weekend.
  • (2) On occasions, they result in some diagnostic and therapeutic quandaries.
  • (3) 12.06pm BST Our own Dan Lucas was first to answer the refereeing quandary of the day, pointing out that Fifa's Law 17 says this: A goalkeeper who is injured while kicks are being taken from the penalty mark and is unable to continue as goalkeeper may be replaced by a named substitute provided his team has not used the maximum number of substitutes permitted under the competition rules.
  • (4) This, if anything, demonstrates the quandary and complexity of financial regulation.
  • (5) These two distinct paradigms lead to divergent treatment goals, which leaves the clinician in a quandary about how best to treat an individual who experiences a drinking problem.
  • (6) The quandary is a familiar one to every football fan who has watched his or her team score a goal while surrounded by rival supporters.
  • (7) "Egypt is in a quandary – it doesn't want to punish Gaza by closing the tunnels, but it needs to secure Sinai," said one western diplomat.
  • (8) The quandary of how to determine the value of human life and health is an essential problem but is certainly not straight forward.
  • (9) Some of the theoretical quandaries associated with the concept are briefly reviewed.
  • (10) Specific quandaries arise with involuntary hospitalization and treatment, and with evaluating patients for the courts.
  • (11) Since RecA protein lacks demonstrable helicase activity, the mechanism by which it pushes strand exchange through long heterologous inserts has been a quandary.
  • (12) This leaves Scotland's policymakers in something of a quandary: how can you tackle a problem when you don't know what is causing it?
  • (13) Practical solutions to the quandaries posed by the qualitative-quantitative dichotomy are explicated, with supporting methodological examples for nursing research studies.
  • (14) Such thirtysomething quandaries, of course, are found in greater-than-average concentration in Hollywood, where a good deal of the writers, directors and executives fall into this group; this is one reason why so many of these films have been produced.
  • (15) "The whole of the radio industry is in a bit of a quandary.
  • (16) This fixture has, in the Wenger era, been all about Arsenal's possession of the perfect answer to every quandary.
  • (17) One of the biggest quandaries among those who study radicalisation is identifying the point at which individuals move from "extremism" to "violent extremism".
  • (18) Knitting and sewing take place at its Los Angeles HQ, and it boasts an enviable benefits package for its workers (on the flipside, CEO Dov Charney has been dogged by accusations of alleged sexual harassment, which throws up its own ethical quandaries).
  • (19) And therein lies a quandary: how can a casual who must only say yes ever enter into a real and honest dialogue with the permanent staff who employ them?
  • (20) Underlying it all, there's not only rightful compassion for victims, but also perhaps relief that we don't have to face such quandaries.