mystification
Example Sentences
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Its enjoyment lies less in the story, but in the marvelous mystification of its telling.
From Washington Post • Jul. 28, 2021
I am very aware of the fact that judges rely on a certain amount of blind reverence and mystification in order to preserve public legitimacy.
From Slate • Feb. 13, 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
To Bush's mystification, his saxophone-tootling challenger's popularity in opinion polls was even defying the gravity of revelations about his draft-dodging past.
From BBC • Jan. 5, 2020
The chaplain was shocked by his bellicose words and tone and, to his own amazement and mystification, deeply chagrined that they were turning him loose.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
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Vocabulary from Readings 2, Unit 5
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