What is "bafflement"

Usage examples of "bafflement".

Because she was young and pretty I did so, and greatly enjoyed the bafflement I saw in her eyes.

They feign a lack of interest in magic, and indeed some of them declare that they know my secrets, but I have had one or two moments when, gratifyingly, I have seen genuine bafflement in their expressions.

You were once kind enough to admire, and pretend bafflement by, the small tricks I had the temerity to show to you.

From the first I sensed that we were not sailing new water, and indeed it caused me a moment or two of bafflement until I noticed the sorry state of the worms, and all became clear.

Aye, give him bafflement, over matters of magic and silver fire and Mystra herself.

He sat on the floor with his knees drawn up to his chest, watching with bafflement as Merry-Death grabbed a fleecy robe from a wall hook, sliced him a quelling glare, unlocked the door, and shot away from him, faster than an arrow from a crossbow.

Amalfi and Hazleton were staring at Dee, Amalfi with suspicion, Hazleton with bafflement and a little hurt.

I likewise did much of his shopping, and gasped in bafflement at some of the chemicals he ordered from druggists and laboratory supply houses.

The living man was clutching a horrible stone idol of unknown origin, about foot in height, regarding whose nature authorities at Sydney University, the Royal Society, and the Museum in College Street all profess complete bafflement, and which the survivor says he found in the cabin of the yacht, in a small carved shrine of common pattern.

His conduct would have sent his interviewers away in bafflement had not the persistently archaic trend of his speech and unmistakable replacement of modern by ancient ideas in his consciousness marked him out as one definitely removed from the normal.

The bafflement resulted from a strong conviction that the Sessa Clen would not even vaguely comprehend a refusal to let her come aboard.

At last she stood in solitary bafflement, reduced to observing the depicted scene with all the rest.

Han saw - much to his initial bafflement - that the ship was in fact an old Corellian corvette, though heavily modified and anodized a non-reflective black.

It seemed to be pacing rapidly back and forth before her, turning with an abruptness that suggested bafflement rather than some elephantine attempt at cat-and-mouse, almost as if it had run into a barrier even more invisible than itself.

Startled, the Contessa looked around at the red velvet wallpaper and the gilded rococo statuary that surrounded her on all sides, a look of bafflement on her face.