bewilderment

They were stand-ins for mid-1940s moviegoers; more to the point, mirrors, reflecting the full range of audience reactions—love, respect, bewilderment, compassion, impatience, contempt—to the battered men recently restored to their midst.

Elsewhere in the crowd, bewilderment laced with anger when families who had been informed that their loved ones would be released discovered they weren’t on the buses after all.

At the end, there seemed to be bewilderment among the masses of Hampden, a dazed feeling about how to react to what they'd just witnessed.

The habit is a source of curiosity and bewilderment inside the fitness community and beyond.

Holger Rune, one of the world’s best tennis players, was in Shanghai this month, sitting on court in a puddle of his own sweat, when he turned to the chair umpire in bewilderment.