bewilderments

But this misses a much more important way in which Job anticipates our modern understanding of depression: at the dawn of history, when confronted by the bewilderments of loss and by the human capacity for deep despair, self-appointed physicians sought to diagnose pessimism as a pathology within the suffering person.

MANUFACTURING DEPRESSION Gary Greenberg 2010

Lots of bewilderments about Obama get resolved if one seriously consider this third possibility.

Obama, knave or fool, latest edition 2010

But these minor bewilderments and annoyances are more than made up for by the good stuff.

Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » You’ve Got Mail 2007

CITY BALLET ENDED its 14-week winter marathon with the usual bewildering roller-coaster ride of triumphs, disasters and bewilderments.

Vishneva Stretches���As Far as She Can; City Ballet Up, Down in Perma-Crisis 2008

CITY BALLET ENDED its 14-week winter marathon with the usual bewildering roller-coaster ride of triumphs, disasters and bewilderments.

Vishneva Stretches���As Far as She Can; City Ballet Up, Down in Perma-Crisis 2008

I sometimes forget that bewildering joys and joyful bewilderments are an esoteric taste.

The Sound and the Fury (April 7th, 1928) 2008

I sometimes forget that bewildering joys and joyful bewilderments are an esoteric taste.

Archive 2008-06-01 2008

It had not occurred to her that there was also a story of Will Kennicott, into which she entered only so much as he entered into hers; that he had bewilderments and concealments as intricate as her own, and soft treacherous desires for sympathy.

Main Street 2004

He felt almost inclined to ask after all these bewilderments what was a friend and what an enemy.

The Man Who Was Thursday Gilbert Keith 2003

One of the many bewilderments of botany is that plants of one family exhibit characteristics and habits so divergent that the casual observer fails to recognise the least signs of relationship.

Tropic Days 2003