perplexity

It is the perplexity of this situation that has caused most of the paralysis in Congress.

I am not sure how helpful that is, except that the communing certainly keeps us from feeling totally isolated in our perplexity.

Greeted with derision in some corners and perplexity in others, the movement's new magazine launches at CPAC today.

This change in plan was a source of perplexity bordering on irritation to the Queen.

Davy read this over two or three times, in the greatest perplexity, and then gave it up in despair.

Miss Anne smiled kindly, not dreaming of his perplexity, amused by his Southern warmth.

For he knew that her suffering and her deep perplexity were somewhere, somehow almost equal to his own.

But before he had been in San Pasquale an hour, he was plunged into a perplexity and disappointment deeper than he had yet felt.

When, in reply to his questions in regard to Alessandro's wife, Felipe heard her spoken of as "Majella," his perplexity deepened.