bewildering
Example Sentences
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Stalin “possessed both an uncontrollable temper and extraordinary willpower. He was capable of bewildering recklessness and cold-blooded displays of control.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026
But Jareth and “Labyrinth” introduced a new generation to the magnitude of his bewildering, potent artistic sorcery.
From Salon • Jan. 24, 2026
Photographer Sebastian Pii is the perfect guide through the bewildering mysticism of Colombian writer-director Augusto Sandino’s debut.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 22, 2025
An avid numerologist, in 1987, he issued new currency in denominations of nine -- a digit considered auspicious, but bewildering shoppers with mental arithmetic.
From Barron's • Dec. 21, 2025
The wind seemed to blow it farther from the boat, and the waves ran under it bewildering his eye, and ever and again it seemed closer to him.
From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
