Sentence examples for something bewildering from inspiring English sources

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Nor would they warrant the scrutiny of "Great Expectations," which hazily detects "something bewildering about them that is not easy to explain".

So something bewildering might happen as Eric Bainbridge's abstract assortment of chipboard, nails and dental floss or Aleksandra Konopek's paper lampshade are variously set in one venue or the other.

In a new song, "Something Just Broke," Sondheim acknowledges the survivor's psychic numbness — "Something just spoke / Something I wish I hadn't heard / Something bewildering occurred" — but he's unable to move from generalization to penetration.

There's something bewildering in the passing of plates, the coming and going of serving dishes, and I can see — looking into this memory from a long ways away — that the adults at the table find my presence a little comical.

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Underneath his deliberate calmness and considerable charm, there is something bewildered and lost-seeming about Tyson.

And all the time, gigantic scenes from the secret life of the cosmos endow these family dramas with something alienated, bewildering – a sense of a terrifying new perspective in which their traumas are vanishingly tiny and yet have an excruciating new spiritual magnitude.

There, the notion of paying for something intangible has proved bewildering.

There was anger and outrage, sure, but there was something else – a bewildered feeling that our country had been taken over by an alien invading force whose agenda was not to facilitate and support, but to subjugate and humiliate.

— Marine Le Pen, a right-wing French presidential candidate "We all know that he's rather 'vigorous,' if I may say so, but that he'd let himself get caught up in something like this is simply bewildering".

I could have stayed in those bewildering woods a little longer, but something in me decided I'd had enough.

Messi v Ronaldo analysis is forever clogged with reams of statistical data, and though the numbers are bewildering – and thus helpful – they miss something crucial.

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