Word: puzzlement
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...might mean to China's friends or China's neighbors-from Moscow to Washington-was a matter of grave concern. The world's oldest continuous civilization has al ways proved an enigma to the rest of the world. In its current hysteria, China remains a puzzlement. The pieces of the puzzle began to fall into place last week in the nation's streets...
...Chumley's Bertram, on the other hand, is a puzzlement. Thoughtless and rash Bertram may be, but it is difficult to see how he can be the whining child that Chumley would have him in the first two acts. And when he reappears later on, sporting a silky little mustache, he displays a bluff heartiness that keeps ringing false. We are not prepared for Bertram's last petulant falsehoods and final acceptance of Helen in the last act simply because we do not get a real sense of his growing maturity...
Lady Who? A reasonable question, for the world has almost forgotten the greatest Englishwoman of the 18th century. Her beauty was the cynosure, her wit the terror, her private life the puzzlement of Hanoverian London. She was the confidante of one Prime Minister (Walpole) and the mother-in-law of another (Bute). She introduced smallpox vaccination to Europe. She rivaled Pope as a satiric versifier, dazzled Addison and Steele as an essayist. Above all she was acclaimed, by Dr. Johnson himself, as the greatest of the great letter writers of 18th century England...
...known ecclesiastical reactionary, the response would probably have been a few smiles and shrugs of resignation by bishops and periti in the coffee bars at St. Peter's. That such an approach should be taken by Arrupe, a learned Basque with a reputation for liberality, produced more puzzlement than anything else. At a press panel, American Theologian John J. King bluntly called Arrupe's summons to crusade "unfortunate." Other Jesuits noted that Arrupe did not reflect a consensus of the society. "I think his speech was naive," said one Jesuit professor in Rome. "It was a speech...
...directions from a surveyor as he positions an assistant carrying the sighting pole, and as the surveyor gestures vigorously the second man sidles over into an open sidewalk elevator. He is seen, however, only as a tiny vanishing figure in the background, and after a quick shot of his puzzlement in the store basement the film whizzes...