… a place of odd traditions and bewildering practices. David Williamson
bewilderinglyadverb
a bewilderingly complex situation
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the WebConsidering that videos now top out at 10 minutes, that’s a bewildering amount of content and reach. Amanda Wicks, The Atlantic, 17 Apr. 2022 Use Sherlock Holmesian deduction to locate the start of Nordic Flower (5.14b) among a bewildering grouping of quickdraws dangling like villi in the duodenum of Scandinavian jotun. Jeff Jackson, Outside Online, 28 July 2022 The strangest, most bewildering performance dominates the film’s grandest set piece, which unfolds in Omnipotence City, the colossal hall of the gods where the boss of them all, Zeus (Russell Crowe), holds forth. Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 13 July 2022 Together, the two floors enact a familiar experience of art: the bewildering feeling of being lost, interspersed with moments of enlightenment and clarity.Washington Post, 20 Apr. 2022 Our unconcerned gaze at dramatic and disturbing images of tragedies, perceived as infinitely far away from us, is a bewildering matter of fact. Rica Cerbarano, Vogue, 1 Feb. 2022 Only time will tell if the rest of the adaptation falls to the same bewildering anachronisms as the trailer shows. Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 15 June 2022 The establishment suffered its first of such break-ins last July when thieves shattered the restaurant's glass front door and made away with an iPad, laptop and several cases of lemonade—a lean and bewildering haul for an otherwise brazen burglary. Dan Carson, Chron, 5 May 2022 The degree to which the American press—and, to be sure, segments of the French—insists on casting his victory as a kind of moral defeat, is genuinely bewildering. Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 25 Apr. 2022 See More
VERBS | ADVERBVERBS➤be, seem使人困惑;好像使人困惑▸➤find sth覺得⋯使人困惑◇I found the experience quite bewildering.我覺得這次經歷令人相當困惑。ADVERB➤very非常使人困惑◇It was all very bewildering.這真讓人迷惑不解。➤completely, quite, totally十分令人困惑;非常令人迷惑◇a totally bewildering array of different wines一大批各種各樣的葡萄酒,令人目不暇接➤a little, slightly, etc.有點兒/略微使人困惑