Dostoevsky diagnosed the new project of human emancipation through the bewilderment and bitterness of people coming late to the modern world, and hoping to use its evidently successful ideas and methods to their advantage.
Indeed, his novels are not so much examinations of human motive as documents of bewilderment about human motive.
We're situated at a complex nexus — more raw material is available to more people than at any other point in human history, yet there's increasing bewilderment about what constitutes actual infringement.
I served the gefilte, with a big jar of horseradish, to a group of friends for Rosh Hashanah; every last one expressed shock and bewilderment that the dish could be made by human hands, let alone at home.
Making Lok the puzzled interpreter of what is going on was a master-stroke; the reader recognises with dismay the human characteristics and behaviour of the newcomers, while empathising entirely with Lok's bewilderment.
The match caused much press bewilderment in the western world, mainly due to Kadyrov's abysmal human rights record and known practices of torture and rape as weapons of rule.
Speaking about all this, Brotto smiled in bewilderment — and in something close to awe at the inscrutability of the human mind, the organ that is the locus of desire.
Ali Catterall A new series of the programme that invites both bewilderment and awe at the extraordinary lengths and expense that we humans will go to in order to protect the health of our pets.
Amid this vast ocean of bewilderment, however, a small group of volunteers managed to expand the well of shared human knowledge last week by joining a daylong group editing session sponsored by Wikipedia and the Smithsonian Institution's American Art Museum in Washington.
These early stories set up the tropes that recur throughout the collection – youth, sex, violence, death, disappointment and adult bewilderment – and the symbols we come to know them by: beating hearts, closed doors, ladders, human shit and perfect beauty.
