mystification

Example Sentences

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Vitali’s grown children speak with a mix of understanding and mystification at how completely their father devoted himself to another person, sometimes at the expense of being fully present in their lives.

From New York Times • Nov. 29, 2024

You could hear the searching in his voice, the mystification over where all the fairy dust went from his swing.

From Washington Post • Jul. 19, 2021

Amid the wreckage, the artist is liberated from the mystification of “great art.”

From Slate • Oct. 17, 2020

Here Aucoin, as though fishing in the same Rhine as Wagner did, creates a sense of wonderment and mystification.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 3, 2020

Cutie gazed upon his long, supple fingers in an oddly human attitude of mystification, “It strikes me that there should be a more satisfactory explanation than that. For you to make me seems improbable.”

From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov