In this memoir Patrick Cockburn, a war reporter for The Independent of London, and his son Henry — who received a diagnosis of schizophrenia at the age of 20 — offer a panoptic view of the illness and a family's steadfast response to a bewildering condition.
They were made, in short, by the force that has been at the heart of the national experience since the country's inception, and that drives the national legend still: relentless, destabilizing change and the bewildering conditions that come in its wake — change on the American scale and at the American speed.
The figure of the flâneur, as well as bearing witness to a bewildered human condition, highlights the desire to understand the city going over and above the traditional interpretative categories and experimenting with new relations with the territory (Benjamin 1986, 2010; Nuvolati 2006).
Mr. Dow had the vision to create a benchmark that would project general market conditions and, therefore, help investors bewildered by fractional dollar changes.
Charles Dow had the vision to create a benchmark that would project general market conditions and therefore help investors bewildered by fractional dollar changes.
The conditions here in Mbera are grim, with many of the Malians sick, hungry and bewildered.
The streets are still full of patients with special conditions - pregnant women, people who have suffered nervous breakdowns, people who are exhausted and bewildered.
The discrepancy speaks to the human condition that despite our rationalization of the problem of evil, on a practical and emotional level we remain fundamentally bewildered by the unnecessary presence of so much pain and suffering.
Bewildered, bewildering primate.
"The Iraqis were bewildered.
Robert was simply bewildered.
