How To Use Bafflement In A Sentence

  • Without faith of some sort, life is a constant bafflement, apparently devoid of any detectable meaning.
  • Most slang terms for other nations result from bafflement and disdain over different culinary habits. Times, Sunday Times
  • We express bafflement with raised eyebrows. Times, Sunday Times
  • They had come away admitting utter bafflement. PHYLLOXERA: How Wine was Saved for the World
  • This stylistic donnybrook - one of hip-hop's most distinctive - has been met with equal parts approbation and bafflement.
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  • The general response was one of understandable bafflement.
  • Most slang terms for other nations result from bafflement and disdain over different culinary habits. Times, Sunday Times
  • Over a large gin and tonic, he veers between amused bafflement at all the fuss and genuine hurt that he has been cast as a monster. Times, Sunday Times
  • The garage said nobody had been hurt but expressed bafflement at his actions, which caused more than 20,000 worth of damage. Times, Sunday Times
  • The stupid lowly, and the humble lowly, only, went down on its knees at the penitent form, admitted its pathological weight and hurt of sin, eliminated and purged all its bafflements, and walked forth again upright under the sun, child-like and pure, upborne by Abel Ah Yo's god's arm around it. WHEN ALICE TOLD HER SOUL
  • Film critics aren't supposed to confess bafflement at the end of a review, but that's what I feel here.
  • Watching cricket in this state you feel a bit like an American, or a toddler, or someone's press-ganged girlfriend: wreathed in mute bafflement, surprised by applause, wrenching your neck round to shriek "eh?" or "what?" every time the ball is hurled skyward or a bat waggled in triumph. Sozzled - how English cricket got lost in drink | Barney Ronay
  • And besides, in the majority of scenes you can plainly see that many a bystander are crying with laughter at the sight of Bill Murray's hangdog expression, thus indicating that the amused bafflement is mutual.
  • The general response was one of understandable bafflement.
  • Writing in the Conservative National Post, commentator Kevin Libin said: "I have yet to see a satisfying explanation for what sparked that Quebec stampede to the NDP, but my best guess is that it was one of those generational swings: young people in that province voting in their first federal election this week were babies when the Bloc was created and probably grew up watching with bafflement and amusement their parents' sovereigntist idealism. The New Democratic Party: the rag-tag alliance that became Canada's official opposition
  • Cue also a look of affected bafflement that my bike is made of aluminium alloy. Times, Sunday Times
  • Over a large gin and tonic, he veers between amused bafflement at all the fuss and genuine hurt that he has been cast as a monster. Times, Sunday Times
  • His curiosity turns to bafflement when I show him the 1 chicken tikka lasagne. Times, Sunday Times
  • Not a change of allegiance, perhaps, as much as genuine bafflement about how to overcome the crisis. Times, Sunday Times
  • It's also traditional in such circumstances for the possessor of a wicked and/or warped comedy mind to express bafflement that said mind actually belongs to them.
  • Stoic bafflement - a deadpan stare into the camera - is Geist's usual game.
  • Seeing the spreading bafflement on the Brown' faces, he adds 'It's his philosophical position and beliefs I'm trying to get at here.
  • His reaction was one of bafflement.
  • Friends and neighbours of a wealthy couple found dead at their Devon farmhouse have expressed shock and bafflement at the deaths. Times, Sunday Times
  • But their success also caused bafflement. Times, Sunday Times
  • Cue also a look of affected bafflement that my bike is made of aluminium alloy. Times, Sunday Times
  • Rowboats, a few feet out to sea, moored empty, shrug their bafflement.
  • He looked at me in utter bafflement. KANDAHAR COCKNEY: A Tale of Two Worlds
  • After the war he became physician to the Commonwealth embassies in Moscow and turned many a stone in search of mayfly larvae, to the bafflement of his footsore minders.
  • Later, in a memorial service for the disaster's victims, Gustav sought to spread a pall of general bafflement over events, including the government's dereliction.
  • The show is a hodge podge of scenes, stories and standup about aging and how it can be an assault to our vanity and bafflement to our obsolete sense of self. Erika Milvy: "Marga Gomez Is Not Getting Any Younger" Extended

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