bafflement
Example Sentences
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There were so many things I wanted to say: You showed me how honesty can suck the sting out of just about everything — worry, embarrassment, loneliness, fear, even the bafflements of the human body.
From New York Times • Apr. 27, 2023
Out on the street that night, watching figures darting past and fires burning, he exchanged bafflements with Tanya McLean, a local racial-justice activist.
From New York Times • Oct. 26, 2021
The Taiwanese director’s 2012 film Life of Pi heralded the arrival of a new era for him, a period of big-budget experimentation that’s yielded as many bafflements as wonders.
From The Verge • Oct. 8, 2019
These are sort of bafflements that define the best WWI films.
From Salon • Aug. 27, 2017
Other bafflements tormented him; here alone stood the visible, beautiful emblem of absolute discomfiture.
From John March, Southerner by Cable, George W.
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