Sentences with phrase «own bafflement»

I'm familiar with the various stages of Slack adoption — resistance, curiosity, bafflement, dawning enthusiasm — because we're living it right now at Canadian Business.

And the still - unclear outcomes of the CNOOC and Petronas bids have only compounded the bafflement.

For many women, the sheer scale of sexual harassment this reveals isn't all that surprising — it's more shocking that's it's finally coming to light, frankly — but at least some people have expressed bafflement along with their disgust.

Leaders at Bustle, Craftsy, and even female - favorite Pinterest confess to initial bafflement.

Ya I've experienced both: surprised self - righteous anger and surprised bafflement that someone would think they were bullies.

But the liberal position on abortion and euthanasia is «a mystery, a bafflement to me.»

'' bafflement that might eventually lead to their awakening, enlightenment and ultimate reconciliation.»

The gnostic journey begins in bafflement and first looks for ultimate meaning in the wrong places.

My purpose is a much more homely one: to bring to the attention of writers and translators alike the bafflement in which their work leaves not only the American seminary student but also the besieged pastor in Bangkok or Bogotá.

Regrettably, one must add that the United States participates in and contributes to that bafflement.

When this question was posed in the hearings on the Defense of Marriage Act, it produced, among the defenders of gay marriage, a show of bafflement.

(C 277) Augustine expresses well the bafflement experienced by anyone who reflects on time.

He went to Laska, finding her huddled in misery and bafflement.

So they offered little direction: «We make no attempt to disguise our bafflement.»

Each week, it took over more of the yard to our bafflement.

Augustine expresses well the bafflement experienced by anyone who reflects on time.

I noticed that my cousins spoke English with a distinct German accent and that in moments of excitement they would often unconsciously switch from English to German - though, noticing my bafflement and out of deference to my odd inability to speak or understand the language, they would quickly switch back to English.

The reaction was compounded of bafflement, annoyance, and impatience.

In the end, it was the lack of clear distinction between the material and the spiritual, between the immanent and the transcendent, and between the natural and the supernatural, which again and again prompted me to bafflement.

Much of man's thinking has been born out of his distress and bafflement in the presence of a painful problem.

the bafflement that individuals feel, which I feel in con - fronting these huge global issues.

Churches could provide the courses — for children, young people, and adults — that would help millions of people begin to work their way out of frustration and bafflement at being confronted with something they do not understand: today's mass media.

Timothy Kirchoff and Michael Bradley have also written on the curriculum review, analyzing the process and pointing out the almost stupefying bafflement with which the administration has responded to waves and waves of student and alumni letters begging them not to remove the theology requirement.

Hearken to announcer Chic Anderson, as he sounds a wonderment overlaid with bafflement.

, and their look changed from puzzlement to bafflement.

Universally: Shock, surprise, bafflement, befuddlement, agitation (directionally neutral).

Stealing almost a yard of space, he was able to direct a neat volley past Wayne Hennessey, who could only look in plaintive bafflement at the red shirts in front of him.

The cascade of abuse within the stadium and the bafflement from the commentators.

A potent mixture of nostalgia, regret, curiosity, and straight - up bafflement: ah, they were so young... and they were so promising... and oh, I thought they were going to be incredible... and, er, who the hell were they?

It was a decision met with bafflement and anger.

Imagine Arsène And him attending the pre-match press conference, exchanging Camus and Montaigne to talk about the absurdity of footballing fame while the room full of journalists stare at each other in bafflement...

As the weeks tick on, Manchester United fans are wondering with an increasing sense of bafflement, how Marouane Fellaini remains in their starting XI.

From the resulting corner bafflement again as Phil Jones took responsibility as he had done against QPR, the result being a poor delivery.

Clearly the club was in a desperate state but messageboards and fans always ask why and express bafflement as to why things are so bad.

In short, BritishMPs on their overseas forays project an image of engaging cynicism, ribaldhumour, frumpy clothes (Memo to committee clerks: confiscate all MPs beige anoraksat Heathrow; issue Kiwi shoe polish), and a blunt, honest directness, allcombined with a slight bafflement that so many foreigners by now still have notaccepted the wisdom of becoming British.

«Over the past decade, Americans watched in bafflement and rage as one institution after another — from Wall Street to Congress, the Catholic Church to corporate America, even Major League Baseball — imploded under the weight of corruption and incompetence.

There has been bafflement at why Lib Dem parliamentarians, members of a party with civil liberties at its core, are allowing this bill to go though, with only a few honourable exceptions voting the right way.

Your regular PMQs commentary may therefore be interrupted by periods of bafflement and self - pity.

A Tory source close to Cameron said: «There is simply bafflement.

After widespread bafflement on social media, Leave.EU quickly deleted the ad.

Palestinians reacted with anger and bafflement after the Trump administration apparently backed away from insisting that having two states — one for Israelis, one for Palestinians — was the only viable solution to the decades - long Middle East conflict.

Other members expressed bafflement and annoyance that Weiner had reached out after such a long silence.

A Conservative Assembly Member from North Wales has expressed his concern and bafflement at workers being drafted in from Scotland to work on new offices for the Welsh Assembly in Llandudno.

Sitting in his office, Hitlin conveys a palpable sense of bafflement.

Our bafflement over conflicts in the global village reflects a forgetfulness of the fact that human life can be sustained only within a sea of meaning, not a network of information.

Bafflement.

From the glimpses and teasers we've been offered so far, it seems a safe bet that the theory of everything, if it ever gets discovered, will inspire little but headaches, nosebleeds, and bafflement among the general population.

To their bafflement, the probe was travelling 3.9 millimetres per second faster than it had any right to be travelling.

Somewhere in the depths of my own bafflement, I almost convinced myself that nothing momentous had happened at all — that the meditation was nice but that I hadn't felt anything else.

Here, the incomparable Etta James nails the wonderful, slightly proud bafflement that comes with falling in love and it lighting up your life.