bewilderment

How To Use bewilderment In A Sentence

• A good deal of role confusion and bewilderment as the growing child encounters the newer ways is to be expected and observed.
• Reliable information indicated that even the staff of the department expressed their bewilderment at some decisions that were taken with respect to the event.
• A different reaction or argument of white Southerners in respect to recent events in the South is bewilderment.
• Where even the vinously literate search in vain for clues, getting down on their knees to turn over handfuls of soil or gazing down from the crest of the slope in utter bewilderment.
• There is shock and bewilderment in surrounding mountain villages too, where the earthquake and subsequent aftershocks have caused landslides.
• His voice is not tinged by irony or scurrility; it reveals instead a mixture of insolence and bewilderment. The Times Literary Supplement
• Our bewilderment derives from our failure to turn inward and really examine the workings of our own minds.
• I feel panic rising in the back of my throat, urgency illuminating my cerebral cortex, and a dark cloud of bewilderment obscuring my vision.
• And how awful that poor Mary dies as she lived — stupidly, clumsily, in "bewilderment," running foolishly back and forth. The Prime of Ms. Muriel Spark
• The director can be forgiven for trying to make this dated, dynamic bewilderment into a viable dramatic tale.