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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.
The critic Elizabeth Hardwick praised "a haunting creation, rich with incident and human bafflement , played out in an immense detail of landscape rendered with poignant brilliance".
To all those who proclaim bafflement at the actions of those punishing Badawi with such gross barbarity, the answer can only be that it is being done to remind Muslims that they should fear and respect Islam.
The good doctor expressed his dismay, but also bafflement that "a high proportion of the population are prepared to cry aloud about footling matters of uncleanliness such as a tomato sauce stain on a restaurant tablecloth, whilst they luxuriate on a plush seat in their faeces-stained pants".
Although hopelessly out-classed, there was never a hint that frustration and bafflement would descend into brutality.
There was bafflement this week at the release of Hafiz Mohammad Saeed, the leader of Lashkar-e-Taiba, a banned militant group.
Officially, and to the bafflement of fellow European Socialists and British Conservatives alike, Mr Fabius believed that the text was too liberal economically and not social enough, and did too little to integrate Europe in areas such as tax harmonisation.
Mr Barrett's bafflement at the ways of Wall Street is understandable, particularly as Intel has other good news to report.
"Our victory is the very absence of war," he said, as they nodded in polite bafflement.
Neutral diplomats may call Cuba a communist paradise, but the tactful faces of the Russian experts carry a hint of their bafflement at the soaring hopes, the sunstruck lethargy, the eager conformism and the even more eager heresies of Caribbean socialism.
The bank says that Eurex's questions were rather technical in nature and that it had responded to them.The sheer size of Mr Kerviel's exposure, the losses on which tripled as SocGen frenetically unwound its positions between January 21st and 23rd, has caused most bafflement among veterans of the futures markets.
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The primary grammatical function of "bafflement" is as a noun , representing the state or feeling of being perplexed or confused. Ludwig AI confirms that examples in various texts, from news articles to opinion pieces, highlight this function.
Expression frequency: Very common
