Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment.    From LearnThat.org.  [Frank Moore Colby]

And how awful that poor Mary dies as she lived — stupidly, clumsily, in "bewilderment," running foolishly back and forth.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prime of Ms. Muriel Spark] Reference

Karen looked in bewilderment; then her bewilderment changed into joy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hills of the Shatemuc] Reference

Georgie looked at the others and shook her head in bewilderment, and Bonnie.    From Wordnik.com.  [When Patty Went to College] Reference

My guess is the rednecks are scratching their heads in bewilderment right now?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Romney wins presidential straw poll by a single vote] Reference

The doctor shook his head—not an answer to the question, but an expression of bewilderment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life Support] Reference

The people of SC must be just shaking their heads in bewilderment at each crazy turn of events.    From Wordnik.com.  [SLED finds no 'misuse' from Sanford] Reference

Ellis gazed at Walker in bewilderment; he took the paper in his hand and mechanically glanced at it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hagar's Daughter: A Story of Southern Caste Prejudice] Reference

And of course, they will sit and shake their heads in bewilderment as their base continues to shrink.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » Cuccinelli: Homosexual ‘acts’ are a ‘detriment to our culture.’] Reference

Prince Bahrâmgor rubbed his eyes in bewilderment, for he had never been in such a strange country before.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tales of the Punjab] Reference

"How many years have we been at war?" one tends to ask oneself in bewilderment, as the spectacle unrolls itself.    From Wordnik.com.  [England's Effort: Letters to an American Friend] Reference

But if we identify ourselves with the reader and explore his dilemma first, our bewilderment is short-lived enough.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Common Reader] Reference

While this is happening my mom is just staring in bewilderment at how my dad managed to not realize what he was doing!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Best of 2009 Blog Challenge! Wrapping it up!] Reference

"What on earth did she want to dream for?" demanded Aunt Janet in bewilderment.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story Girl] Reference

"It 's from Professor Phelps – what can he mean?" said the Twin, in bewilderment.    From Wordnik.com.  [When Patty Went to College] Reference

Further adding to my bewilderment is the fact that IBM chose the 8088 over the 8086.    From Wordnik.com.  [Microsoft Watch] Reference

"I don't understand what you mean – I declare I don't," said Janet in bewilderment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chronicles of Avonlea] Reference

So don’t blame the kids when they look at you in bewilderment and ask whats this all about.    From Wordnik.com.  [You and who’s army? « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG] Reference

She sends the baby’s father a note, to which he replies in bewilderment: You sound so bitter, Lynne.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sanguine Sex] Reference

You could tell him, “Man shall not live by bread alone”, and he would respond in bewilderment, “He shan’t?”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » The Wages of Immigration] Reference

Douglas Coupland called the bewilderment induced by there being too many choices 'option paralysis' 'Generation X', 1991.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mind Hacks: February 2006 Archives] Reference

Then I look at the cons who love having clowns like beck represent them, and I just have to shake my head in bewilderment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » Maddow Corrects GOP Rep. Schock On Basic Facts Of Abdulmuttalab Case] Reference

I stared at him in bewilderment as he went.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ants Go Marching Two By Two, Hurrah Hurrah « Unambiguously Ambidextrous] Reference

I have people all the time come up to me in kind of bewilderment and say, well, things are going well in my business.    From Wordnik.com.  [President To National Building Trades Conference] Reference

People looked around in bewilderment: What is it?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Excerpt: The Glass Palace by Amitav Ghosh] Reference

The "bewilderment" did not drive Him back from our redemption; and why?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Messages from the Epistle to the Hebrews] Reference

For cheer after cheer arose as he stood there in a kind of bewilderment of joy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Slade on Mystery Trail] Reference

"Ah, how do you do?" he said, shortly, staring in a kind of bewilderment as he saw Delafield.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lady Rose's Daughter] Reference

Then a kind of bewilderment crept into the abstracted gaze she was bending upon the fireless grate.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Market-Place] Reference

Fleda's eye took in her outline and feature one moment with a kind of bewilderment, the next with perfect intelligence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Queechy] Reference

She looked at Myra in bewilderment.    From Wordnik.com.  [MORE FROM GINNY BATES: JANUARY 1990] Reference

The majority look on in bewilderment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dancing on platforms? Sooo 1970s] Reference

Hello! very rarely, and in bewilderment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Philippa Gregory Answers Questions About Her Life, Her Writing and Specifically about Her Books Depicting the Lives of Henry VIII's Wives.] Reference

Now he was staring at me in bewilderment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-12-01] Reference

Americans have drifted, or been dragged, into a state of collective despair and bewilderment.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great Foreboding] Reference

The adults around her, however, were swept up in a whirlwind that they recall today with bewilderment and shame.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Baby Jessica' Grows Up] Reference

And my expressed desire to return to the country someday was usually met with scorn, bewilderment or genuine concern.    From Wordnik.com.  [Who's A Hillbilly?] Reference