Sentences with phrase «bewilderment as»

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I read in bewilderment as a well - known blogger tweeted her way across Spain while on a historically spiritual pilgrimage, the Camino Del Santiago.

After driving the S4 performance sedan very hard, there's no overwhelming sense of bewilderment as you exit.

A few weeks back we posted a strange teaser for Gore Verbinski's next film, Rango, and expressed bewilderment as a single animated wind - up fish slowly traversed the screen.

The primary flaw in Get Over It stems from the uninspired script that supplants genuine insight and wit for ridiculous slapstick and some of toilet humor so raunchy that I almost dry - heaved from moments that included Berke's almost landing face first into a steaming pile of horse manure only to have the same horse urinate all over his face, and late a disgusting scene involving vomiting in a party punchbowl only to have others drink the putrid concoction in bewilderment as to it's unique chunky texture.

But what starts out as a sense of patience graduates into a feeling of bewilderment as we leave the intriguing setting of the prison, and finally learn via title card that we are in Osaka circa 1954.

The path to Doug frantically motors the trio all over the city, dealing with Tysonâ $ ™ s animal demands (The Champ nabs big laughs playing his Phil Collins - loving self), random flashes of unlikely gangster violence, and their own bewilderment as they canâ $ ™ t quite grasp the enormity of their evening, frequently stumbling over immeasurable trouble the mild - mannered guys canâ $ ™ t believe they caused.

Yeah that feeling of total bewilderment as you stare at the 437 different shades of yellow.

Hence genuine bewilderment as to why Jeremy's support remains so stubborn in light of awful polling, a parliamentary party in revolt, and reports about the leader's incompetence.

The atmosphere in the bar is one of suffering, plain and simple; initial reaction is almost one of bewilderment as the result - a handy majority - wasn't clear at all.

The general sense, as you'd expect, is an air of general bewilderment as to the final result.

She has roots from her overdue hair appointment and a look of bewilderment as if saying...» is it supposed to be like this?

The staff members of the centers generally recognize the potential of the local clergy and the churches as community resources but express bewilderment as to how to relate to the various clergy and local congregations in a manner that will be mutually helpful.

Not exact matches

The first reaction is typically one of perplexity, confusion and bewilderment all mixed into one as they try to imagine how jumping out of planes and blowing things up gets stale, but it does.

Reactions to this revelation have varied — from serious and constructive engagement to bewilderment that anyone would regard a complicated doctrine like the Trinity as being of any importance.

As the gospel writers make clear, Jesus returned to mountain and desert throughout his ministry for the explicit purpose of prayer.3 Down the centuries — from Desert Fathers to monastic communities to contemporary pilgrims — the wilderness has proved less a place of bewilderment than a setting to get one's spiritual bearings.

She'd have left all the lovely hair, which looked like gentle bewilderment, just as the lifted head and the ears looked like waiting grown old, like trust grown old.

To offer glasses of water in the church foyer after worship would cause bewilderment, as would the distribution of gum or grits.

When the two despondent disciples on the road to Emmaus expressed to the stranger their bewilderment that such a powerful prophet as Jesus should have been condemned to death and be crucified, we are told that the risen Christ «began with Moses and all the prophets, and explained to them the passages which referred to himself in every part of the scriptures».6 The story implies that the Scriptures, when properly interpreted, made it clear that the Messiah was «bound to suffer thus before entering upon his glory» 7 When finally they recognized the identity of this stranger as they shared the evening meal before he vanished from their sight, they said to each other, «Did we not feel our hearts on fire as he talked with us on the road and explained the scriptures to us?»

Weighing heavily on young adults is the feeling of bewilderment and betrayal from their experiences growing up in unstable and fragmented families, as well as the betrayal in their own romantic relationships.

Although many readers will be put off by her evangelical jargon — and I admit to some bewilderment at it — I found her language reassuring in its emphasis on the family as something more than the nemesis of self - actualized women.

Nonetheless, I have been able to embrace the hierarchical mode of thinking to which they all point as the solution to the bewilderment of our scientific age.

I remember our receiver, No. 21 Garren Strong, with a look of bewilderment on his face directly in front of me as I started to run.

One victory in the opening 12 games of the season left a feeling somewhere in between bewilderment and anger, bringing an end to Di Matteo's reign as manager after just 123 days.

However, there was little time to digest the bewilderment, as Arsenal's next opponents would be perennial Premier League rivals Manchester United.

I still believe, as I put it in chapter two, that «software», not «hardware» — the long, slow waves of cultural change, not the more obvious technological and economic changes that figure so prominently in public debate and academic social science — hold the key to the British predicament; that our ills form an interdependent system or, in medical language, a «syndrome»; and that they reflect the bewilderment and disorientation of a people who have forgotten the history that shaped them, and who therefore no longer know who they are.

Nigerians watched with bewilderment and disbelief as indescribable savagery, cruelty, violence, shooting and bloodletting enveloped the APC ward congress, which ordinarily should be a civil interaction among party members.

He also expressed bewilderment that the McClure group didn't search its CFS samples for the same DNA sequence as his team had, raising the possibility that that's why the two groups came up with different results.

As I turned to look at my wife in bewilderment, down sat a young guy in the vacant seat next to me.

I reached an advanced stage of adrenal fatigue, and, after as many others have, suffering bewilderment about what could be wrong with me, was greatly relieved to find that indeed there is someone who understands, and what is more, can help me recover.

Dave Franco plays Greg as Tommy's first and oldest fan, reacting to the man with a combination of bewilderment and affection.

When Solomon is awoken in chains, Ejiofor's bewilderment is heart - wrenching as he struggles between fighting for his identity and recognizing how powerless he's just been rendered.

The look of pure horror grows on Beatriz» face, as does her sense of bewilderment at how people can behave this way.

Oswalt (pictured above with Collette Wolfe) is a sensation as a good - natured soul made cruelly alert to life's abrasions to a degree Mavis only comes belatedly to comprehend, and the always excellent Wilson completes the triangle of sorts with a bewilderment that gives off something of the air of Tennessee Williams's Gentleman Caller now grown up and living in married not - quite - bliss.

Subtleties such as the yearning for hands grazing through grass, or the chill from cool water washing upon the skin are gorgeously showcased, and Taylor - Joy's wide - eyed bewilderment is put to fine use throughout.

Without a performance to capture this characters bewilderment, it wouldn't have worked as well as it does.

The film does have a few shining beacons bobbing along in its sea of bewilderment; Alden Ehrenreich is absolutely fantastic & incredibly watchable as perennial sharp shootin» cowboy & all round good guy Hobie Doyle and his scene with making - it - look - easy Ralph Fiennes is genuinely crying - with - laughter hilarious.

They're on the sidelines, gazing with bewilderment, dislike, and / or awe at their heroine, played by Charlize Theron as the type of girl who once upon a time walked all over them.

The source of this life - changing bewilderment is teenager Barry Keoghan, whose somewhat unnerving stare (used to very different effect recently as the doomed innocent on Mark Rylance's small craft in Dunkirk) masks the true nature of his relationship with Farrell — not his son, or seemingly his lover, so why does the lad keep hanging around the hospital, and why is the latter buying him expensive watches?

She carries herself from bewilderment to cool self - assurance, allowing us to see the change in her demeanor as the doors inside of her head begin slamming shut, locking herself safely away from emotional entanglements.

Neeson commands a lot of these scenes, conveying checked anger and frustration, as well as general bewilderment at the unfolding scenario.

In what can only be described as an acid trip of bewilderment, the quirky and bloated story doesn't live up to the words «masterpiece» and «thought - provoking» as described by some of our colleagues.

I can still remember that 2006 edition of Cannes (my first), as well as my bewilderment, followed by irritation, that anyone would jeer at a soufflé - light biographical fantasia as inventive and captivating — as beguiling, if you will — as the one we had just seen.

The filmmakers locate the proper channels of bewilderment early on, and as more romantic entanglements are introduced while Henry and Clare get to know each other, Wife boils away the concern to reveal a smooth, glassy surface of moony romanticism.

However, even though she is certainly treated as an equal in the estate, Dido lives in a Georgian England where the economy is still very much dependant on the slave trade, where less than a third of the black population is free, and where her mere presence at the after - dinner recitals in her own home can cause looks of shock and bewilderment from the distinguished guests.

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All of us have experienced the bewilderment that comes from watching a talented teacher or administrator bottom out as he or she coasts into retirement.

To the bewilderment of some of his friends — and to the delight of the Jacksonville, Fla., public schools — Mr. Rudolph decided to put his vast experience, including two advanced degrees and postgraduate studies in microbiology, to use as a high - school mathematics and science teacher.

The shadow of shame and genuine bewilderment is cast over these men's interactions as they figure out the complicated language of women and family.