The bewildering question was whether the US could have mistaken bee droppings for a new chemical weapon.
The Derby house fire trial earlier in the year raised an equally bewildering question, namely how on earth another young mother, Mairead Philpott, could adhere to her husband's plan to set fire to a house in which six children lay sleeping, five of them her own?
That strategy allowed the campaign more control over Mr. Corzine's public image, but it also raised a bewildering question in the minds of even his staunchest Democratic supporters: how is it that a guy so down to earth, and who ran such an uneven campaign, managed to rise to the top of Wall Street in the first place?
The Senate's public hearings on racial profiling elicited so much disheartening testimony last week that it would be easy to overlook the most bewildering question surrounding the entire issue: During her seven years as governor, Mrs. Whitman was quick to laud the State Police every time new statistics showed a drop in crime, even though similar reductions were occurring all over the country.
(Waugh, on reading a draft, sent Green a list of bewildered questions about hotel etiquette and train-travel logistics; Green expressed his gratitude, and didn't change a thing).
The house has so little relation to modern life that a politically charged piece like "Klinghoffer" has a disorienting effect on audiences, eliciting bewildered questions that would never be asked of plays, novels, films, or television shows ("How can you put a terrorist onstage?").
Substantial money has actually been spent on signing players – £80m in the summer and January – but this has prompted only bewildered questions about the quality of recruitment by the chief scout, Graham Carr, who in effect selects the players in the decision‑making structure insisted on by Ashley.
Then he winked and said: 'You never know your son may have even run away with a boyfriend.' Yes?" Sukhdev Reel's "Yes?" is a muted, bewildered question.
Similarly, the article said, Palin appointed Talis Colberg, a local politician from her part of the state, to be attorney general, "provoking a bewildered question from the legal community: Who?" A family friend was quoted as asking him if he knew how to supervise people, and he replied, "No, but I think I'll get some help".
They also pose bewildering legal questions, including some that may be painful to consider, like how the courts would decide who gets life-saving medicine if there are more victims than supplies.
Bewildering because the questions about Jairo's ailment are overwhelming and unanswerable: What causes cells to erupt in such a mysterious growth?
