If the changes in Myanmar have surprised many observers of the country, they have been particularly bewildering and disorienting for exile groups, many of which are based here in Mae Sot, a Thai city on the Myanmar border that became a sort of headquarters for Burmese dissidents living abroad.
The democratic world, for instance, found the transition to the George W. Bush years particularly bewildering.
His speech was dominated by a very personal credo, in which he claimed many people, particularly older people, were bewildered and profoundly disturbed by 'a world that sometimes seems to be changing too fast for comfort, old certainties crumbling, traditional values falling away.
That left the governments of both countries bewildered -- particularly Japan, which lost tens of thousands of lives when the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were incinerated by American atomic bombs in World War II.
Afterward, Curry seemed bewildered, but not particularly angry.
It is not particularly easy for a still bewildered elderly adult".
The church's seemingly inexplicable stance has bewildered the experts, particularly because the remains have been so closely scrutinized by so many.
Particularly good are Iris's bewildered father, emotionally out of his depth; unsettled Sam, propelled by his mother's departure from childhood into a confusion of bad behaviour; gentle Trick, unlucky enough to know more about fighting than he should; and Iris herself, a girl touchingly ready to meet the world with curiosity and hope.
And, he confesses, "it is not particularly easy even for a still bewildered elderly adult".
