bewilderment

As a result, the water sank into the ground, prompting migratory cranes to issue calls of “grief and bewilderment.”

There were two modes of being with him, I think it was seduction on the one hand and bewilderment on the other.

News of the nixing spread to every corner of the Internet, with bloggers and commenters expressing bewilderment at the decision.

The billions of snippets of sadness and bewilderment spinning across the Net confirm who this amazing boy was to all of us.

As he sifted through the papers, Michael felt “no anger, just bewilderment,” he told me.

We stood staring after the fugitives in perfect bewilderment, totally unable to explain their apparently causeless panic.

In bewilderment she brought the ark into the room, and read the letter addressed to Janet and herself.

Edna's face was a blank picture of bewilderment, which she never thought of disguising.

Aristide went back to his comfortless lodgings aflame with bewilderment, indignation and despair.

Winston smiled, though there was a wistfulness in his eyes as he saw the faint bewilderment in his companions' faces.