mystification

Example Sentences

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Vitali’s grown children speak with a mix of understanding and mystification at how completely their father devoted himself to another person, sometimes at the expense of being fully present in their lives.

From New York Times • Nov. 29, 2024

And we made the decision to keep a bit of mystification around how the instruments work, because we prefer to look at them as a vessel of love.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 14, 2024

Telling Mom to take a hike is “so tough”; I don’t share your mystification.

From Washington Post • Jan. 16, 2023

Amid the wreckage, the artist is liberated from the mystification of “great art.”

From Slate • Oct. 17, 2020

Cutie gazed upon his long, supple fingers in an oddly human attitude of mystification, “It strikes me that there should be a more satisfactory explanation than that. For you to make me seems improbable.”

From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov