For similar reasons, contemporary composers enjoy finding themselves in a classical context; it brings a greater chance of finding a new audience who might happily lend you their ears for 20 minutes but would feel overwhelmed by an entire programme of bewildering contemporary languages.
Krell spoke like he was only half-aware he had an audience, with a kind of stream of consciousness that produces language bewildering to the listener and taken for granted by the speaker.
Indonesia, it is argued, is an artificial construct, with a bewildering collection of languages, religions and ethnic groups whose only common denominator is that the jigsaw once made up the Dutch East Indies.
In the Old City, sacred to all three Abrahamical religions, Jews, Christians and Muslims, history and tradition are overpowering, as are the assaults on the senses: the sunlight flashing on copper coffee pots, an Arab flute being played somewhere, the bewildering mix of languages, the smells of cumin and cardamom and coriander.
And so at 27, she exchanged her lush, intimate village for a land of pavement and tall buildings, surrounded by strangers with a bewildering assortment of accents, languages and activities.
The gal-pal comedy "Monte Carlo" comes with a bewildering PG rating for "brief mild language" (so brief I missed the offending words), when it really should have earned a Gee.
The advertisements contain a bewildering array of descriptions -- everything from "thematic elements, some language" for "Remember the Titans" to "strong language, disturbing images" for "The Exorcist" and "action violence, innuendo, some sensuality/nudity" for "Charley's Angels".
Travel on the subcontinent can be bewildering even for Indians, owing to more than 20 official languages and innumerable dialects.
A bewildering variety of extinctions were invoked: of plants, of gays, of languages, of books on paper, of celluloid film.
