bewilder

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• Near the beginning of the book, Kennedy is shocked and bewildered when a civil rights activist says he would not willingly defend his country in wartime.

• Current and former state officials are bewildered by Fann’s actions, and fret about the motives and consequences of the audit.

• Sam held very still, eyes wide, bewildered by the focused attention.

• Spotify’s promise to bring more transparency to how podcasts are ranked on the charts is also a calculated pitch to podcast creators bewildered or disillusioned by the dominant, but resolutely mysterious, Apple Podcasts rankings.

• Sometimes he roars like a tyrant, but there are also moments when he’s as plaintive and weak as a kitten, bewildered by a world, and by people, he no longer recognizes.

• A purse can impress and intimidate, bewilder, berate, or amuse.

• Few things bewilder the uncultured masses more than picking a decent bottle of wine.

• He manifests himself to mankind only to stupefy their judgment and bewilder the reason he has bestowed on them.

• Och, and the girls whose poor hearts you deracinate, Whirl and bewilder and flutter and fascinate!

• Give me one day, and I'll give you a list of subjects that would bewilder you!

• The question of how many cards to leave is one which seems to bewilder most people.

• Adieu, Wilhelm: I will not further bewilder myself with this subject.