Imagining the ridiculous trigger for the situation, Mallory shook her head in bewilderment. |
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William's eyebrows shot up in bewilderment, and there was a twist in his mouth that nearly resembled an astonished droop. |
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By the time I entered graduate school, the sense of bewilderment had vanished. |
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Gene readily responds without displaying any sign of disagreement or bewilderment that he will lead the snow statues committee. |
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Our bewilderment derives from our failure to turn inward and really examine the workings of our own minds. |
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Nothing I could feel, no bewilderment or fright, could possibly match theirs. |
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One can well imagine his bewilderment as he tried to sift through accusation and counter-accusation. |
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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder they say, but so are ugliness, crudity and complete bewilderment. |
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As practitioners of the Dharma, we cannot ignore the state of confusion and bewilderment beings are going through. |
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They emerge blinking in bewilderment at the unfamiliar daylight and smells of the bush. |
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One only had to look at the bewilderment and disbelief on their faces to gauge what they must be feeling. |
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There is shock and bewilderment in surrounding mountain villages too, where the earthquake and subsequent aftershocks have caused landslides. |
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To top off her bewilderment, the lad was walking amid his parents who didn't seem to notice at all. |
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Julian scrolled down to the bottom in bewilderment and read the last sentence. |
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The massive, brawny man peered at me in bewilderment as I had managed to stop his blade, and he withdrew, smiling shadily at me. |
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The scene is still one of bewilderment and fear as reports of abductions and murder grab the headlines. |
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I shook my head in bewilderment, stood and stretched, then gathered up my pack. |
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A different reaction or argument of white Southerners in respect to recent events in the South is bewilderment. |
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A player in a slump is a sad sight to behold, equal parts wild-eyed desperation and puppy-dog bewilderment. |
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There are so many in our price range we soon experienced the old familiar feeling of bewilderment bordering on mania. |
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His expression touching bewilderment, he nevertheless returned my mother's overpowering embrace with a smile and genuine goodbye. |
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Both men seemed to be offering an assuring revelation rather than unsettling bewilderment. |
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The director can be forgiven for trying to make this dated, dynamic bewilderment into a viable dramatic tale. |
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I'm not alone in my complete sense of bewilderment over the success of this movie. |
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The seriously wooden actor is a dull love-interest, playing a cop with an air of puzzled bewilderment. |
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The knights in the hall simply stared in bewilderment at the strange sight of the green man. |
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I've often expressed my bewilderment at the fact that major orchestras haven't rushed to record his music. |
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The lines of passage and the stages of human growth have been blurred, causing intense bewilderment and psychological confusion. |
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Debbie stared in bewilderment at the principal, who had dyed her hair a shocking pink. |
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Suddenly I was coming back to Earth in a whirl of colours and bewilderment, leaning over the sink nauseously. |
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To allege unwariness or bewilderment in order to explain an act of love is hypocrisy, weakness and stupidity. |
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Sometimes I have the same feeling of bewilderment when I read brochures for financial products. |
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My poor buddy didn't know what she had done wrong and could only stare in bewilderment at the volley of words being directed at her. |
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I feel panic rising in the back of my throat, urgency illuminating my cerebral cortex, and a dark cloud of bewilderment obscuring my vision. |
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He accepts his responsibilities with a mixture of stoicism, patience and bewilderment. |
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He'd simply grabbed her by the waist and had hefted her over his shoulder, and she let him do so in utter bewilderment. |
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She peeked around the changing screen and couldn't see him, bewilderment clouding her face. |
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A bad argument is like a bad marriage, marked by rage, perturbation, bewilderment, and stubbornness. |
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Basically, they spend their days farting, chewing grass and staring at passing cars with expressions of vague bewilderment. |
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I couldn't look at her face, flushed with complete bewilderment and even some inexplicable anger. |
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For a little more than a month, all over the world, there has been bewilderment and attempts to find explanations. |
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Warmth, wryness and a sense of bewilderment at the world are what bond these two and make them so eminently listenable. |
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Realization of what is happening and that we should do something about it are the first steps out of bewilderment. |
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There were two modes of being with him, I think it was seduction on the one hand and bewilderment on the other. |
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In some bewilderment, the councillors would show up and talk to the Conservative representative. |
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The news that CSIS is operating in Afghanistan has often been greeted with relative surprise, and even, in some quarters, outright bewilderment. |
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Many dairy scientists responded in bewilderment to these concerns. |
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In the course of the hearing, participants spoke with one voice of their bewilderment at the proposal for a directive. |
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It can be quite painful to watch their bewilderment when they are rigorously challenged and intimidated on the stand. |
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To the disgust of its owners and the bewilderment of many customers, the town's 1970s shopping centre is now a Grade II listed building. |
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Northants were finding a lot of space on the right and on fifteen minutes produced a wonderful exhibition of one-touch passes that left the Oxford right back in bewilderment. |
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To their bewilderment, slightly drunk chaps in green shirts kept weaving up to them and enquiring what exactly was making them so mad. |
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To the bewilderment of investors and analysts, he declares jauntily that he knows nothing about the American entertainment industry. |
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A constantly repeated refrain was the disorientation and bewilderment of the sudden elision of visible landmarks and the disruption of routine. |
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Jim stands in complete bewilderment at what has been uttered. |
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But let not these people remove the things we cling to in our bewilderment before they have provided better things to take their place. |
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However, there is always that period of bewilderment and lack of confidence caused by not knowing exactly what is going on. |
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The billions of snippets of sadness and bewilderment spinning across the Net confirm who this amazing boy was to all of us. |
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But when the inquisitor asks for the names of backing musicians, the response ranges from total bewilderment to pleasantly surprised acknowledgement of utter ignorance. |
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By 1996, Haitians were scratching their heads in bewilderment, asking themselves Why has America come to save us? |
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They grow up in confusion and bewilderment as children, then often pass into denial as young adults and sometimes remain frightened even into old age. |
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What unfathomable horror, what great despair, fear and bewilderment, what great distrust, anger and hatred would be triggered? |
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Like Mary, there are times when we look with bewilderment and uncertainty at this new manifestation of God in our Marist history. |
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They also take their turn kneeling to pray amid the flowers in front of the coffin, peering at the waxily reposed figures with a mixture of curiosity and bewilderment. |
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In a nicely creepy scene they watch in bewilderment as animals flee from its cover, and the appearance of a feverish, flatulent hunter spells much worse to come. |
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News of the nixing spread to every corner of the Internet, with bloggers and commenters expressing bewilderment at the decision. |
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As so often appears to happen with corporate nosedives of this magnitude, the general response from City types seems to be one of total bewilderment. |
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Wiping the sweat from neck as I finally became second in line, I watched with bewilderment at the performance of the young lady at the cash dispenser. |
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Reliable information indicated that even the staff of the department expressed their bewilderment at some decisions that were taken with respect to the event. |
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That, though a large factor in the moral bewilderment of the West, is a marginal issue for Nietzsche, whose main interest is in the nature of morality's sanctions in general. |
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Curious audio decisions have me shaking my head in bewilderment. |
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Rusty's bewilderment and confusion is so vivid in this heartfelt book. |
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They talk about growing up with a sense of genealogical bewilderment. |
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The bewilderment of the mind, the lack of faith, the ignorance of truth, are darknesses of the spirit and it is therefore that humanity today finds itself lost. |
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Lewis said he shares the bewilderment felt by many about this situation. |
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This is the function in persona Christi of the priest: making present, in the confusion and bewilderment of our times, the light of God's Word, the light that is Christ himself in this our world. |
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You should tell yourself that you are going to train without taking yourself from your work, as diversion will only have bewilderment as a result. |
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Unaware that the coat was even missing, Meighen received it with delight and continued to wear it for several more years, much to the bewilderment and dismay of those who had conspired to overthrow the overcoat! |
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To our bewilderment and shame, even if religion is not the actual source of conflict, it often seems to make the situation worse rather than better. |
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He looked in bewilderment at number 24, the final house with its regalia of stucco swags and bows. |
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There were scenes of anger and bewilderment as Acting Deemster Andrew Moran QC threw out the proceedings. |
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The play has an unmediated heat, anger and bewilderment, like the scream of a wounded man surprised by injury, and the bluntness and hurriedness of someone who wants to say something important fast. |
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As in the novel, she's a deliberately and virtually voiceless cipher: our initial curiosity to know more about her shifts to a mild bewilderment as to why Fowler's so dotingly in love with her in the first place. |
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Once, Andersson's attitude towards this tortured pageant of shabby humanity seemed to be a wan compassion, a kind of fellow feeling for their anxiety and bewilderment, albeit with sharp prickles of disdain. |
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Beneath all this is the peculiar British combination of bragging and bewilderment, an air of expectations great but unmet and of unrealised specialness. |
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The unswerving belief in the absolute importance of fashion and acquisition above all else on the planet is cleverly contrasted with the suffering and bewilderment of the underling. |
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Lucifer, watching in wide-eyed bewilderment, puckers up and starts to cry. |
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An exhilaration at success, bewilderment at how weak tyranny turned out to be and how quickly the despotic clique that decades for decades had brutalized the citizenry collapsed, gave up or fled. |
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The familiar tone of wary bewilderment made me flinch a little. |
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Some rational people mainly women will shake their heads in bewilderment or protest at the inanity of it all. They might as well rail against the wind. |
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Still undecided about whether he should prolong his walk, he eventually noticed a little white-haired man picking up a strange little box and looking at it with an expression of deep concern and bewilderment. |
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Genealogical bewilderment may well contribute to some negative psycho-social or emotional effect, yet there has been no long-term study to explore this issue. |
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Yet in rendering the guilt, numbness and bewilderment of its aftermath, she also kills off any foolish temptation to envy the intensity of warfare. |
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A Birmingham Tory voter admired them so much that, to the bewilderment and chagrin of the men in her family, she decided to cut off her long hair and got a bob – she called it her Greenham haircut. |
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A second-year student at the University of Oxford, who has asked not to be named, recalls the bewilderment she encountered after telling her tutor that her mother had died shortly before she'd started university. |
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Roissy I so lacks any notion of directionality because of its circular plan that disorientated travellers wander round muttering to themselves in rage and bewilderment. |
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That very moment someone from the crowd blew a loud bugle, which created disorder and in the ongoing bewilderment, the boatmen jumped off the boats. |
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A half hour came and went, but rather than confess Gorzki remained standing, the expression on his face a muddy compound of sullenness, bewilderment, and unrepentance. |
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