Word: puzzlement
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...Kaminer's puzzlement at the inconsistency of a public that doesn't trust its government to deliver the mail but trusts it to make life-and-death decisions that seemed most honest and appropriate to the political moment...
...Attendant (Gerry Becker). Theirs is an encounter between a terrier and a sphinx: lots of barking on one side, stony silence on the other. The Attorney has apparently been summoned to defend his life, and as his exasperation rises, Guilfoyle displays a wonderfully mobile range of faces: puzzlement, gloating self-assertion, crumpled resignation. If An Interview finally seems like a one-joke drama, it's dexterous enough to dispense a little wallop of spooky uneasiness...
...without getting into trouble." --A passage from the autobiography of Sir Kenneth Dover, president of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. Trevor Aston was a tutor in the college and was known for a drinking problem. Aston eventually committed in a story in the New York Times yesterday; Dover expressed puzzlement about why this sentiment was controversial. "The whole point of an autobiography is to tell the truth, as far as I'm concerned," he said...
Perspective, insensitive to the concerns of colorful women. We too admit puzzlement. After all, when it came to being p.c. Perspective was a veritable how to manual. Now it seems that our friends on the left don't practice what they preach. They've spilt so much ink over the years calling for greater sensitivity to minority concerns at Harvard. For all of these years, it's just been the pot calling the kettle black...
Zhirinovsky's friendship with the Nazi veteran became all the more incongruous when Israeli officials disclosed that in 1983 the Russian politician sought and was granted permission to immigrate to Israel -- an invitation that normally requires evidence of a Jewish background. The disclosure created further puzzlement over his widely publicized anti-Semitic remarks and fanned long-standing rumors that his father was Jewish (Zhirinovsky has responded only by saying his mother is Russian, his father "a lawyer...