| The best way I can describe my reaction is some mix of puzzlement and incredulity. |
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| When the supposedly expected guffaws fail to materialize, Martin feigns puzzlement. |
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| I queried, the look of puzzlement on my face betraying the fact that I hadn't a clue what he was talking about. |
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| Grace is still sitting on the floor of the balloon, frowning in puzzlement. |
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| Bessey encountered a spectrum of incomprehension, scorn, puzzlement and good will. |
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| No, the whole lack of pre-marriage activity was what my puzzlement was rooted in. |
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| She came in smiling then stopped hen she saw the deep puzzlement on her son's face. |
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| Their puzzlement increased four minutes after the restart as the visitors doubled their tally. |
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| The girl who once called herself Jill Blando always harboured a sense of puzzlement that people found her clever, talented and beautiful. |
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| Most foreign observers might be forgiven for a little puzzlement at all the fuss. |
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| That technology was rolled out earlier this month, to widespread puzzlement. |
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| There seems to be some puzzlement as to why liberals are skittish about the deficit commission. |
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| The Sonnets, the most disputed of all collections of poetry in the English language, have given sleuths and biographers years of puzzlement. |
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| My surprise and puzzlement grew after I read the following passage. |
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| And I think that I am not alone in this and that many other people share my puzzlement as to the actual meaning of civil society. |
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| This added to their puzzlement and disappointment at being overlooked for special assignments. |
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| All I can do is shake my head in puzzlement at what the President of the Commission has done. |
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| Then, when in a very few days I cannot relive even those magic experiences, you may begin to see my puzzlement. |
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| Often, when I share that fact with someone I have just met, I'll get reactions that border on condescension or puzzlement. |
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| In fact, this has been a source of puzzlement for many modern writers who now find very few if any Kurds in the southern Zagros. |
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| She expressed some puzzlement at Mr. Duval's contention that the discrimination had initially been unconscious. |
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| Their puzzlement stems from an analytical yardstick that ties NATO to the single purpose of providing for collective defence, argues Mr. Rhle. |
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| Yet we met at a time when mutual suspicion, anger, outrage, puzzlement, fear and incomprehension were in the ascendance. |
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| To me he often appeared to contradict himself, hence throwing me into a state of puzzlement and confusion. |
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| Another area of concern and puzzlement was the Administration's growing recourse to staff disciplinary measures. |
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| Kate scratched her head, an expression of puzzlement on her face. |
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| Elation turned to puzzlement as six infected nuns who received infusions all died. |
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| Harriet had observed this growing estrangement with genuine puzzlement. |
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| A panel discussing their favourite cricket books, noted, with a degree of puzzlement, that fiction was largely absent, despite the game's tradition of provoking wonderful prose. |
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| Since, in the office I currently hold, secrecy is not as acute an issue as it was for me in my past positions, I must confess that the honour I feel at being invited to give this lecture is somewhat tinged with puzzlement. |
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| While undertaking this study, the researchers met widespread puzzlement on both sides at the idea that government might facilitate the development of the non-state sector. |
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| My source of puzzlement is that a number of you have also expressed interest in UNESCO taking up new issues or pursuing such activities as artistic education. |
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| A number of participants expressed puzzlement that Courts appear to enjoy less independence than Parliamentary offices such as Auditors General and Privacy Commissioners. |
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| Mr. Speaker, I listened with interest to my colleague describe the whole fabric of interconnected programs and how Bill C-50 is just one part of a comprehensive package to help workers. I just sit here in puzzlement. |
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| Warrington presents a powerful, tyrannic figure, his face screwed into an expression of perpetual puzzlement at the universe's refusal to bend to his will. |
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| The doctor's eyebrows had gone synclinal from puzzlement without his awareness. |
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| I was in a state of some puzzlement, as I had just been appointed as a civil servant in the government of Namibia, which had achieved independence some eight months before. |
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| They expressed some puzzlement at this reaction. |
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| In particular, there is both puzzlement and anger over what is seen as the very public betrayal of Mr Mubarak, which, it is claimed, will cause every moderate Arab government to review its security relationship with America. |
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| She must have been shaking her carrot-topped noggin in puzzlement. |
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| Puzzlement clouded her face, the wonder of the encounter giving way to confusion. |
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