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  • Bafflement is one thing, if people don’t understand a situation (and infertility is a pretty unique situation) I’m not sure it’s fair to fault them for asking questions … how can they get un-baffled otherwise?

    In which I make myself unpopular. « A Bird’s Nest 2009

  • Bafflement in the face of a recondite passage, however, is good if it inspires the reader to dig deeper in order to clear things up.

    Some Other Kind of Structure 2009

  • 'Basterds' Has Sound, Fury, Bafflement But it got off to a slow start.

    Weinstein Co. Struggles Despite 'Inglourious' Success 2009

  • What makes an area appear more and more like the pursuit of alchemy is when you keep pursuing and "The Bafflement Continues", with one trail after another turning cold.

    Again, there is absolutely no teleology involved 2007

  • Bafflement at the symptoms was followed by confusion as to suitable treatment for shell shock.

    Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008

  • Bafflement at the symptoms was followed by confusion as to suitable treatment for shell shock.

    Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008

  • Bafflement at the symptoms was followed by confusion as to suitable treatment for shell shock.

    Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008

  • Bafflement as 31,487 American scientists skeptical of manmade global warming

    "BANPC" via James Bow in Google Reader 2010

  • The Age of Bafflement eighteenth to twentieth centuries - history has gone all wrong, why are we losing?

    The Guardian World News Qanta Ahmed 2010

  • VIDEO: A CN train is derailed and has its fuel tank punctured leading to a massive diesel spill near Highbury Ave. Ian Gillespie Blue Box Bafflement

    London Free Press 2009

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