How To Use Wilde 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.
  • But I now understand how fragile its mighty wilderness really is.
  • Wilder grew up loving Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin, but his great idol was famed director Ernst Lubitsch.
  • On an odometer basis, my perambulations around the hearthrug by rocking chair are infinitely more dangerous than an astronaut's wildest rides through space.
  • The news orgs, by contrast, are doing this out of laziness and a hopeless addiction to portraying lefties as a kind of perennially-disappointed lost tribe who will never, ever find their way out of the wilderness. News Orgs: The Left Is Upset With Obama -- Even Though It Isn't
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  • What wilderness areas and national parks need is branded lodges and holiday homes that offer a guarantee of quality. Times, Sunday Times
  • Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals. Oscar Wilde 
  • The complications are considerable, because the wildest creatures live in the wildest places. Times, Sunday Times
  • Leicester were full of verve and energy and, basically, bewildered most of the opposition last season. Times, Sunday Times
  • Kislev is a land of dark pine forests, snow-clad wilderness and wind-swept steppes.
  • They can get better recipes to make popcorn, how they can screw up popcorn so bad bewilders me. Global Voices in English » Kuwait: Cinema Censorship, Quality Woes and Limited Telecom Services
  • And the seaside is that little bit wilder than most people are aware of. Times, Sunday Times
  • Not far short of the Oregon border, I stopped for a beer at a tiny townlet in a wilderness of sage that had a post office, a tavern and not much else.
  • Reliable information indicated that even the staff of the department expressed their bewilderment at some decisions that were taken with respect to the event.
  • The local landowners and crofters have countered with an alternative proposal for a Wester Ross Wilderness Area.
  • The word has reasserted the romantic, courageous quality that the poet Keats, in “Endymion,” gave it: “Adventuresome, I send/My herald thought into a wilderness.” No Uncertain Terms
  • A different reaction or argument of white Southerners in respect to recent events in the South is bewilderment.
  • Is it strange that I became known as the wildest tantivy boy that rode with the King? The Tavern Knight
  • Among the great explorers is Dr. Wilder Graves Penfield. This World and the Mind of Man
  • All the houses looked bewilderingly similar.
  • These technologies, with a bewildering numbers of acronyms, are described in many reviews.
  • Bewildered, I watch her eyes flicker with the memory of sudden shock and amazement.
  • A hairless philosopher who lives in the wilderness, meditates and kills people.
  • The Upper Peninsula, which is 90 percent forested, retains its aura of accessible wilderness. Pure Michigan Travel
  • Mid morning a young girl arrives after a harrowing journey, bewildered by her new surroundings.
  • It had been 40 years since the company closed the railway, but now there was again an echo in the wilderness, as the whistle blew once more.
  • There is a formal garden and wilder parts. The Sun
  • Everything is dangerous, my dear fellow. If it wasn't so, life wouldn't be worth living. Oscar Wilde 
  • Starting with only a loincloth , you must explore the wilderness to find water, food and shelter.
  • After a second's wait -- snortingly impatient on Mr. Wilder's part; he was being pressed close by the none too clean citizens of Valedolmo -- the door was opened a very small crack by a frowsy jailoress. Jerry
  • Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them. Oscar Wilde 
  • Lions remain stubborn and untameable symbols of a wilderness as rightly unknowable as they themselves are.
  • But never in my wildest dreams did I imagine something like this could have happened.
  • Some shoppers looked bewildered by the sheer variety of goods on offer.
  • Maslenitsa, known as the overeating holiday, is the wildest, merriest celebration of the year. Celebration Breads
  • For some it means wilderness treks, hemp do-rags, and a rigorous recycling regimen.
  • Bewildering indeed. Conspiracy theories have emerged faster than mushrooms in a damp Exmoor field. Some claim the shooting was a fiction, dreamed up to discourage trophy-hunters.
  • Such statistics aid our understanding of population movements but they mask the bewildering complexity that was the reality of the situation.
  • Crafty collars made of beaten metal, neckpieces of wood and macramé, great big pendants and crosses are all back from the wilderness.
  • Some people miss out on care and support simply because they end up confused and bewildered by the process. Times, Sunday Times
  • The salmon fishing, black bear, moose, and caribou sightings, and frequent stops for scouting and portaging easily turn running the Main into a weeklong wilderness adventure.
  • Instead, all the clifty defiles of the ranges were filled with the roar of flames and the crackling of burning timbers as town after town was given to the firebrand, and the homeless, helpless Cherokees frantically fleeing to the densest coverts of the wilderness, -- that powerful truculent tribe! The Frontiersmen
  • By day, follow expert Masai guides on foot to spot lions, cheetahs, and wildebeests without disturbing their habitats.
  • Not by the wildest caprice of imagination was ‘a nation terrorized’ by McCarthy.
  • The early-twentieth-century cult of the wilderness further boosted the popularity of night air among the health-conscious.
  • In that context, I found phrases like these kind of disconcerting and hard to read: the passions of his bewildered heart … a maelstrom of melancholicaly erupted emotion … causing a bit of the guilt to spatter through his brow … that would never permit his repression, never allow for nothing short of predetermined apocalyptic salvation. Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Frank Murdock’s Review Forum
  • Boone led about thirty axmen through the wilderness to clear a path, which eventually became a route to the new frontier and was called the Wilderness Road. History of American Women
  • Fertile soils and spontaneous vegetation, reeking with miasma and overpowering from their odour, we had exchanged for a drouthy wilderness of aloetic and cactaceous plants, where the kolquall and several thorn bushes grew paramount. How I Found Livingstone
  • For centuries herds of wild mustangs have roamed the American wilderness - breathtaking symbols of the spirit of the pioneers.
  • Ms. Wilder called the co-op, located on West 81st Street at Columbus Avenue, 'the ultimate pied-à-terre.' Upper West Side Escape
  • Greek and Latin are all English to me, said Oscar wilde.
  • Bewildered by the suddenness of this blow, I could but watch in helpless silence the advancing throng, with my poor friends in their midst, their hands bound, their tottering footsteps directed by rude shoves towards the pipul tree, the accustomed assembly place of the villagers and the village council. Tales of Destiny
  • The dive sites here are home to some of the strongest, wildest and most dangerous tidal currents in the world.
  • Down and Dirty Problem Solving rejon: ♺ @jwildeboer: @rejon business plans are for wimps. Rejon.org is Jon Phillips.
  • 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.
  • You'll get up close to the wildlife, including giraffe, zebra, impala and wildebeest, and all riding abilities are catered for, including beginners.
  • In one diorama alone an entire grassland ensphered: zebras, giraffe, wildebeest, stampeding across the plains. Jay Kirk: Museum Of Natural History And Carl Akeley's Jounrey To Build Its African Wing
  • The first couple he tried were both profoundly deaf, and he didn't get much reaction beyond a bewildered smile.
  • Despite this temporary lull in visitation, the demographics of wilderness visitors continued to change.
  • The 500 resident mammals include rhinos, camels, buffalo, bison, wildebeest, lions, tigers, zebra, monkeys, deer, antelopes and wallabies.
  • I made my way home each night with at least some notion of hope and plans for a new assault on Wilde.
  • What happened to this mother is tragic, and right now she'll be feeling bewildered and confused. The Sun
  • Ansel Adams' photographs of the American wilderness are now worth thousands of dollars.
  • He could see the grassy wilderness forming a high bank beyond the old bulging stone wall that held back the encroaching hillside.
  • There is shock and bewilderment in surrounding mountain villages too, where the earthquake and subsequent aftershocks have caused landslides.
  • He Began a strategy of attrition and, despite heavy Union casualties at the Battles of the Wilderness and Spotsylvania, Began to surround Lee's troops in Petersburg, Va .
  • Other animal species to look out for include impala, blue wildebeest, waterbuck, zebra, nyala, kudu, bushbuck, warthog, cheetah, hyena, jackal and giraffe.
  • Jane was momentarily shocked the first time she heard the voice, which seemed to come from a person much larger and wilder than Georgie: a banshee, perhaps, or a bushwoman. The Wayward Muse
  • She feels flattered by the clamour of attention, if a little bewildered. Times, Sunday Times
  • From what you can see, the interior is densely packed with a bewildering array of molecules in all shapes and sizes.
  • I used to love trotting out of a morning to potter about the wilderness in my gown and pyjamas, all unshaved and generally unkempt.
  • I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them. Oscar Wilde 
  • By day, follow expert Masai guides on foot to spot lions, cheetahs, and wildebeests without disturbing their habitats.
  • Taking a wider view can introduce a sense of wilderness – such as this picture of flamingos and wildebeest in Tanzania's Ngorongoro Crater.
  • The nurtured blossoms gave way to the electrified fence of the camel-racing track in the arid wilderness and then to seemingly trackless dunes like vast featureless waves frozen in motion.
  • Are you the voice from the wilderness?" demanded Hippy scowlingly. Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders Among the Kentucky Mountaineers
  • The countryside of Pisa had been ravaged by aerial bombardments and artillery barrages, leaving only a wilderness of roofless houses and smoking craters.
  • It's what every flashpacker really wants: wilderness adventures followed by wildly indulgent spa treatments. Times, Sunday Times
  • Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber-room. But youth is the Lord of Life. Youth has a kingdom waiting for it. Every one is born a king, and most people die in exile. Oscar Wilde 
  • They have climbed mountains and canoed for eight-day stretches in isolated wilderness.
  • Soccer is all very well as a game for rough girls, but is hardly suitable for delicate boys. Oscar Wilde 
  • Their countenances seemed fiercely writhen into the wildest expression of pride, hate, and a desperate purpose of fighting to the very last. The Fair Maid of Perth
  • Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment. Oscar Wilde 
  • His voice is not tinged by irony or scurrility; it reveals instead a mixture of insolence and bewilderment. The Times Literary Supplement
  • None of Wilder's leading characters, no matter how neat the final denouements of his films sometimes are, were ever anything but anti-heroes.
  • In this untracked and threatened wilderness, our small group will backpack between glacier-fed rivers, taking time for close observation and photography.
  • I spent an hour recently trying to explain limericks to a Chinese from Tientsin; which left him bewildered, me frustrated, and the staff of the bar we were in, in hysterics.
  • Many people feel bewildered by the speed of technological innovation.
  • Our bewilderment derives from our failure to turn inward and really examine the workings of our own minds.
  • The result is a wilderness of ethereal beauty, teeming with wildlife that regards human beings as curious oddities, and a haunting loneliness that is almost tangible. Times, Sunday Times
  • To one flank rises a sweep of sand dunes that lead off into pristine wilderness. Times, Sunday Times
  • Across the warm, sun-filled expanse of wilderness their eyes met with an impact that held them both motionless.
  • John Muir envisioned national parks as pristine wilderness, without domesticated animals.
  • ‘Without system the field of nature would be a pathless wilderness,’ he proclaimed.
  • Besides the goat offered for the people the blood of which was sprinkled before the mercy seat, the high priest led forth a second goat, namely, the scapegoat; over it he confessed the people's sins, putting them on the head of the goat, which was sent as the sin-bearer into the wilderness out of sight, implying that the atonement effected by the goat sin offering (of which the ceremony of the scapegoat is a part, and not distinct from the sin offering) consisted in the transfer of the people's sins on the goat, and their consequent removal out of sight. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
  • Here there seems to be bewildering variety both of risks and of claims. MANAGEMENT: task, responsibilities, practices
  • Eleven years on and the hurried portraits of Dave, Nick and Mat will this week be put up for auction at a sale which will either bewilder people, or get them hunting through drawers for that elusive bit of paper from the time they got the artist to draw them a picture. Damien Hirst doodles put up for auction
  • When he produced his first few results on 4-manifolds, the ideas were so new and foreign to geometers and topologists that they merely gazed in bewildered admiration.
  • The manna that succored the Israelites in the wilderness was gathered in baskets, which thus formed part of a divine act of national salvation.
  • But only the tumbleweeds, sagebrush and cactus, that stood like splintered sentries, were visible in this vast wilderness.
  • Breadfruit -, mango - and orange-trees grew in the tangled tall grass, and the garden where the priests had read their breviaries was a wilderness of tiger-lilies. White Shadows in the South Seas
  • He had used his time in the political wilderness to cultivate the party's grass-roots.
  • It would be sad to see all your good work wasted, and the place revert to its former wilderness.
  • Trees touch something deep in the soul that naturalist John Muir recognized when he wrote, "The clearest way to the universe is through a forest wilderness.
  • Science is the record of dead religions. Oscar Wilde 
  • Many are walking around dazed and bewildered at the shape of things and the grasp of power.
  • The village was in complete wilderness, our toilet a local bush - keeping our eyes peeled for lions!
  • If you are not used to it, the lingo they use can be bewildering. Times, Sunday Times
  • A few kilometres away from Madras city on the Coromandal coast, the boom of chisel and hammer rises in the sandy wilderness, above crashing waves and soughing winds.
  • One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning. 
  • Being a son of the wilderness, Owen Dugdale had probably never heard of the kindred terrors that used to lie in wait for the bold mariners of ancient Greece -- the rock and the whirlpool known as Scylla and Canoe Mates in Canada Three Boys Afloat on the Saskatchewan
  • So it's funny to be very habituated to watching regular wildebeests which are kind of gruff and intense looking and tough, and then come across the back wildebeests and watch them stotting around the landscape like, in comparison to the regular model gnu, dancers in a Baz Luhrmann production. ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
  • The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Oscar Wilde 
  • As the deadline approached she experienced a bewildering array of emotions.
  • When it comes to schlepping dairy products into the wilderness, leave the squishy Brie and sweaty cheddar at home.
  • Upon a wilderness of ocean the human psyche makes a reckoning with its own essential loneliness.
  • In the blue world we need more understanding of the economic plight of those left behind by globalisation and bewildered by a new multicultural world. Times, Sunday Times
  • Conan glared bewilderedly at the cryptic golden door. Wings in the Night
  • The cultural landscape predates this, the only ‘wilderness’ of its kind in Portugal, which was created by the Order of Discalced Carrnelites between 1628 and 1630.
  • What urban child doesn't thrill to the idea of clear pools and islands, the cleanness, the space, the apparently ownerless wilderness that they can call their own?
  • The friends stopped again -- poor, short-winded bodies -- on the crest of the low hill and turned to look at the wide landscape, bewildered by the marvelous beauty and the sudden flood of golden sunset light that poured out of the western sky. In Dark New England Days
  • Never in my wildest dreams did I ever consider having that title pinned onto me. How Did I Get Here Anyway?
  • Foresters are often completely bewildered that local communities resent them.
  • What would you like me to do, ma'am?" asked the be wildered human. Stalling
  • Spend the morning canoeing then cycling, or kloofing, through the magical Wilderness reserve.
  • The region stretched down from the southern pole with minor settlements reaching further out into the wilderness.
  • Disunity can also prove fatal - wildebeests or caribou that stray away from the main herd are far more likely to fall victim to lions or wolves.
  • And he take pains to trace Wilde's homosexuality primarily to the literary precedents he discovered in his classical studies at Oxford -- the Greek ideal of a "paederastic" love of an older, intellectual mentor and an acolyte. Wilde in the Stacks
  • If some on the wilder fringes of society have their way, he will be lucky to survive until his inauguration in January. The Sun
  • Already, over unknown trails and chartless wildernesses, were the harbingers of the steel arriving, — fair-faced, blue-eyed, indomitable men, incarnations of the unrest of their race. “The Kipling of the Klondike”: Naturalism in London's Early Fiction
  • To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. Oscar Wilde 
  • A bogoak frame over his bald head: Wilde's _Requiescat_. Ulysses
  • I feel panic rising in the back of my throat, urgency illuminating my cerebral cortex, and a dark cloud of bewilderment obscuring my vision.
  • His family acquired wealth beyond their wildest dreams and a measure of power that still strangles the development of democracy in Chile.
  • 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
  • After three years in the wilderness she was given a government post.
  • Behind her, there was another torch lit and another, until the great room itself was filled with lights and illuminations to bewilder even the lavished of all Romans.
  • The director can be forgiven for trying to make this dated, dynamic bewilderment into a viable dramatic tale.
  • It's a massive place and the range and diversity of interests is bewildering. Times, Sunday Times
  • Though far remote from the ivy chaplet on Wisdom's glorious brow, yet his stump of withered birch inculcates a lesson of virtue, by reminding us, that we should take heed to our steps in our journeyings through the wilderness of life; and, so far as in him lies, he helps us to do so, and by the exercise of a very catholic faith, looks for his reward to the value he supposes us to entertain for that virtue which, from time immemorial, has been in popular parlance classed as next to godliness. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 437 Volume 17, New Series, May 15, 1852
  • A short stroll through the aisles of the average food hall reveals a bewildering variety of mustards, relishes, sauces, pickles and assorted creams, pastes, chutneys, jellies and condiments from all over the world.
  • His wilderness years in the 1990s were spent in North America.
  • Imagining the ridiculous trigger for the situation, Mallory shook her head in bewilderment.
  • When Mohammed opened the wilderness of the Arabian desert he carried the Koran in one hand and a sword in the other.
  • It's one thing to film a pack of wolves hunting down a wildebeest, but capturing the drama of a hamster on its wheel is more challenging. Times, Sunday Times
  • She stood across the crowd, with something I could only describe as bewildered fascination written all over her expression. Crescendo
  • Your utterly bewildered and terrified but loving Ma. Spitfire Women of World War II
  • The three guards selected exited rapidly to carry out their monarch's wishes, and the four left huddled together like a bewildered flock of sheep.
  • Also on sale were Burchell's zebra, warthog, blue and black wildebeest, lechwe, waterbuck, eland, impala, bontebok, gemsbok, kudu, ostrich, red and blue hartebeest, blesbok, springbok, and mountain reedbuck.
  • He's a curious figure - Oscar Wilde meets an Andy Warhol superstar with a punk-rock haircut, a coiffure he inflicted on himself the day after Joe Strummer died.
  • He went for each opponent in a bewildering flurry of movement, using speed and inventiveness to confuse and to scatter the wits of his opponent. Times, Sunday Times
  • The court decision places him in the political wilderness until April 2008.
  • Somewhat bewildered, they abandoned the search and the world heard about yet another maritime tragedy.
  • Rubbing their eyes, they said in bewildered voices, Catholics shouldn't have voted for Obama? President Obama's Abortion Plan?
  • Many were cut loose and left to fend for themselves in the job-poor wilderness.
  • He was not so bewildered in his own hurried reflections but that he remarked, that the deadly paleness which had occupied her neck and temples, and such of her features as the riding-mask left exposed, gave place to a deep and rosy suffusion; and he felt with embarrassment that a flush was by tacit sympathy excited in his own cheeks. The Bride of Lammermoor
  • The trembling women were smitten into an ecstasy of bewildered fear (as one of the words, 'affrighted' might more accurately be rendered), and his consolation to them, 'Be not affrighted, ye seek Jesus,' suggests that, in all the great sweep of the unseen universe, whatsoever beings may people that to us apparently waste and solitary space, howsoever many they may be, Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Mark
  • And the suggestion that my attitude to my own daughter is distasteful I find bewildering. Times, Sunday Times
  • First in were wildebeest, zebras and giraffes, and then, after ten years, predators were introduced - two prides of lions, cheetahs and a pack of wild dogs.
  • As Wilder Penfield discovered in the 1950s, much of the brain is connected not to the sensors along the body's surface (skin, eyes, ears) but instead to a representation of the body (the "homunculus") that is mapped directly onto the surface of the brain. Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
  • Suspicion hath it that in this neighborhood, in a still wilder and more secluded spot, there was not long ago another kind of "cratur," not at all extinct, but alive with all the fiery headiness of moonshine "old corn" whiskey. History of the University of North Carolina. Volume II: From 1868 to 1912
  • Jimmy inquired, his expression exclaiming complete bewilderment. All Updates @ Ultimate-Guitar.Com
  • 'As I sat before the fire on my fir-twig seat, without walls above or around me, I remembered how far on every hand that wilderness stretched, before you came to cleared or cultivated fields, and wondered if any bear or moose was watching the light of my fire; for nature looked sternly upon me on account of the _murder of the moose_. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 2, August, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
  • He watched with the direst of misgivings as Cleo began slapping a path for herself through the wilderness ahead.
  • He doesn't need to go far to find his ingredients since Palma's Olivar food market is just around the corner, providing a sensory assault course with its halls filled with a bewildering variety of locally caught fish, kaleidoscopes of seasonal fruit and veg, plus charcuterie counters laden with piquant botifarron blood puddings and varia negra Mapping Mallorca
  • A heartbroken family were reunited with their beloved moggie when it returned from a nine-week stint in the wilderness after escaping from a York cattery.
  • Their hilliness has allowed them to miss out on cultivation and act as wilderness preserves, though a couple have been partly quarried or suburbanized, and Mount Royal itself is either downtown or park. Canada
  • So the bridal procession of saints in the night of this wilderness is the chief object of Satan's assault. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
  • It's high energy stuff, but it changes shape throughout with bewildering ease and fluidity, from freebop polyrhythmic pummelling to spidery ballad forms to spacey textural exploration.
  • Day 9 Ottawa-Orilla Head north into stunning wilderness country, a region of sparkling lakes, rushing streams and dense forests.
  • Some people miss out on care and support simply because they end up confused and bewildered by the process. Times, Sunday Times
  • Ahead is a barren land of lochans and beautifully-ridged mountains rising steeply from an uninhabited wilderness.
  • Make sure you head back to the city in good time, though, you would not want to get stuck in this wilderness, even in the late spring and summer when the sun hardly sets.
  • In the wilderness have ever dwelt the conscientious, the free spirits, as lords of the wilderness; but in the cities dwell the well – foddered, famous wise ones — the draught – beasts. Thus spake Zarathustra; A book for all and none
  • Walter listened disbelievingly as O, affecting his familiar attitude of solicitous older brother, encouraged him to see the bright side in the bewildering estrangement proposed. O: A Presidential Novel
  • Although they were shortened because of the long introduction, I was still bewildered - and a little unnerved - by the fact that Mme LeFay, our directrice, had started our daily routine… on the very first day.
  • For some eighteen years he was occupied in exploring and in opening telegraphlines through the eastern or northmiddle part of the great forest state, the wilderness state of the “matto grosso” —the “great wilderness, ” or, as Australians would call it, “the bush. IV. The Headwaters of the Paraguay
  • My friend was an English major back in the day, and the ceremony was filled with extended readings — some in Middle English — from First Samuel and First Corinthians, Plato, Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde and William Meredith, as well as traditional and popular music from when the two of them were young. A wedding like any other
  • They all looked bewildered and unkempt and had apparently had a very long journey.
  • downeasters," they were perfectly astounded by this second specimen of life in the wilderness; the men, being especially unused to bushfighting and the use of the rifle, were at a loss how to proceed. The Adventures of Captain Bonneville
  • But now the vast Paraguayan wilderness of thorn trees, jaguars and snakes known as the Chaco is being transformed by a Christian fundamentalist sect and hundreds of Brazilian ranchers.
  • Playing piano and wilderness hiking are two she had been passionate about and misses most.
  • By the standards of wilderness activities such as backpacking, sea kayaking is ridiculously prodigal of weight and space. From Sea To Shining Sea
  • I don't know if this is endearing eccentricity or a form of bewildering madness.
  • The creation of works of art involves all degrees of intention, from the hut in the wilderness rudely thrown together, whose purpose was shelter, to a Gothic cathedral, in its multitudinousness eloquent of man's worship and aspiration. The Gate of Appreciation Studies in the Relation of Art to Life
  • The subsequent phase between 1934 and 1939 signalled the return of the party from the political wilderness of sectarian isolationism.
  • One only had to look at the bewilderment and disbelief on their faces to gauge what they must be feeling.
  • There was no knowing the place again, after what it had been at first: sawmill, cornmill, buildings of all sorts and kinds — the wilderness was peopled country now. The Growth of the Soil
  • It was a time when religion roamed the American wilderness untamed. Christianity Today
  • We are all at the mercy of a falling tile, " Julius Caesar reminds us in Thornton Wilder's Ides of March.
  • What happened to this mother is tragic, and right now she'll be feeling bewildered and confused. The Sun
  • He also established game on the farm - wildebeest, zebra, blesbok, duiker and jackals.
  • The customs officers are to levy tolls in a wilderness, and the soldiers are there to protect them.
  • Its world wonders range from Andean peaks to Amazonian wilderness; from the endless horizons of the pampas to the awesome glaciers of Patagonia.
  • Cougar, puma, mountain lion, catamount, panther - by any name, this big cat has inspired wilderness lovers across the country.
  • Let your love be hallowed," croons a rhapsodic chorus to a married couple, mid-row, in Richard Strauss's bewildering masterpiece, Die Frau ohne Schatten. Die Frau ohne Schatten; BBC Proms 61 & 62 – review
  • If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all. Oscar Wilde 
  • Why she continues to receive press coverage bewilders me – unless it's because the press enjoys showing what an uneducated and unintelligent person she is! Obama brushes off Palin on nuclear deal
  • A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks. Oscar Wilde 
  • It is closely related to topi and wildebeest, both of which show extreme birth synchrony.

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