bedevilment

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"Yet at over two-and-a-half hours of dead-ends and bedevilment, there doesn't seem to be enough intrigue or, alternately, involvement with the characters to justify the empirical extents Fincher is intent on mapping."

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  1. The act of bedeviling, or the state of being bedeviled; especially, a state of bewildering or vexatious disorder or confusion. The lawyers have twisted it into such a state of bedevilment that the original merits of the case have long disappeared. Dickens, Bleak House, viii.

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  • Blossoming flowers greeted players as they entered the grounds along Magnolia Lane and spectators followed all along the course, notably at Amen Corner, where the mix of beauty and bedevilment always draws a crowd. —  News
  • This bitch of a hypocrite had the gall to criticize Sarah Palin with Quinn's own personal bedevilment. —  Latest Articles
  • "Yet at over two-and-a-half hours of dead-ends and bedevilment, there doesn't seem to be enough intrigue or, alternately, involvement with the characters to justify the empirical extents Fincher is intent on mapping." —  GreenCine Daily
  • An faithful statement, but what's also scary is when, as a kid, your parents allowed you to check Tim Curry spawn fangs patch in a Bozo costume, and you acquire up bedevilment every clowns haw possess this Stygian power. —  Planet Malaysia
  • Still, I requirement to get through this digit before I start bedevilment about every the ones to come! —  xml's Blinklist.com
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