| Without faith of some sort, life is a constant bafflement, apparently devoid of any detectable meaning. |
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| Individuals who use this research drug feel some psychedelic effects, surrealness, distance disorientation, time bafflement, and blocked senses. |
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| Cut to Donald, his face a picture of bafflement, who clearly hadn't a clue what Nasty Alex was banging on about. |
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| But so far, to the coalition's bafflement, Mulroney had declined to initiate legal action. |
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| There was bafflement this week at the release of Hafiz Mohammad Saeed, the leader of Lashkar-e-Taiba, a banned militant group. |
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| The resulting scenes, while ostensibly sober, come into their own with a subtle mixture of bafflement and humour. |
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| The Russians in the room all clambered to their feet and stared at their shoes like submissive muzhiks, while the rest of us looked around at each other in bafflement. |
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| This accounts for some of the bafflement that occasionally greets Bachmann's statements. |
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| Later, in a memorial service for the disaster's victims, Gustav sought to spread a pall of general bafflement over events, including the government's dereliction. |
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| It might appear senseless but that is appearance only, our bafflement before such barbarity. |
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| After the war he became physician to the Commonwealth embassies in Moscow and turned many a stone in search of mayfly larvae, to the bafflement of his footsore minders. |
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| Although hopelessly out-classed, there was never a hint that frustration and bafflement would descend into brutality. |
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| This is the kernel at the heart of so many harassment cases: the stalker will insist, with an air of honest bafflement, that they are simply exercising their right to free speech. |
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| His voice an impassioned rasp, his face usually fixed in wild-eyed bafflement, Cusack comes on like a true melodrama barnstormer – especially when ranting at all comers about his overlooked genius. |
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| They speak the language of, if not unbiased then at least fair-minded, amazement that is not associated from the outset with rejection or acceptance and does not lead ineluctably to enchantment, bafflement or dismay. |
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| These individuals' bafflement quickly turned to disappointment, because they felt, and rightly so, that they were entitled to receive much more than this budget delivers. |
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| One can only scratch one's head in bafflement. |
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| In a situation characterised by reduced purchasing power, the spectacle of governments releasing huge sums over the space of a few days to rescue the banking sector could result in a widespread sense of bafflement. |
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| Maura looked at her in bafflement. What had this to do with her? She knew no one called Xanthe. What sort of name was that, anyway? |
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