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Some have speech that is virtually incomprehensible to outsiders, while questions aimed at eliciting their grammatical knowledge - like the one posed at the introduction to this article - induce only bafflement.

That's not the only bafflement in "In Paris," unfortunately.

Such self-effacement has created some bafflement in a city that takes personal aggrandizement for granted.

They often communicate, much to each other's bafflement, in nonverbal cues, Williams guiding Gillette through drills with subtle nudges.

They are both Russians, both the sons of Soviet basketball stars, and both recurring sources of bafflement in recent years, especially in these playoffs.

The narrative's subtext emerges as a sophisticated and esteemed writer's aporia — his bafflement — in the face of his nation's backwardness, superstition, and misery.

There's a kind of bafflement in her perception of the scene, a quality in her husband and herself that she doesn't understand.

Her allegations of submarine jiggery-pokery met with polite bafflement in Germany today.

He's smiling a lot, despite the bafflement in his eyes.

This bafflement in the face of maleness is Celia's central conflict.

Cheer up, guys: this is a comedy, not a philosophy lesson, and thus richer in bafflement than in understanding.