All 50 Uses of
bewilder
in
Atlas Shrugged
- He was saying, bewildered, "But …. just a seat in a day coach, Miss Taggart?†
Chpt 1.1
- She had turned to go, when he spoke again-and what he said seemed bewilderingly irrelevant.†
Chpt 1.1
- They were bewildered, unhappy children-he thought-all of them, even his mother, and he was foolish to resent their ineptitude; it came from their helplessness, not from malice.†
Chpt 1.2
- She looked at Mm, bewildered.†
Chpt 1.4
- She glanced up at his face: it was tense and bewildered.†
Chpt 1.5
- Mrs. Taggart watched her daughter in unhappy bewilderment.†
Chpt 1.5
- "What?" asked Mrs. Taggart, bewildered.†
Chpt 1.5
- "Not happy enough?" she repeated in complete bewilderment.†
Chpt 1.5
- She looked at him, bewildered.†
Chpt 1.7
- The man looked bewildered and lost, as if the ground had been cut from under his feet.
Chpt 1.7 *bewildered = confused
- She had hurried to Connecticut, to see Mr. Mowen in person, but the sole result of the interview was a heavier, grayer weight of bewilderment in her mind.†
Chpt 1.7
- The words were forced out of him by the unbelieving. bewildered indignation of a child screaming in denial at his first encounter with evil.†
Chpt 1.7
- The thought broke out of him as a cry of bewilderment: "But he knows nothing about the steel business!"†
Chpt 1.7
- He looked bewildered.†
Chpt 1.8
- She was staring at him, her face naked in bewilderment, with no mystery, no pretense or protection; whatever calculations she had made, this was a thing she had not expected.†
Chpt 1.10
- "1 didn't come to talk to you about my railroad," she said, looking at him in bewilderment.†
Chpt 1.10
- A chunk of stone with Egyptian hieroglyphs lay on a pedestal in a corner of the office-the statue of a Hindu goddess with six spider arms stood in a niche-and a huge graph of bewildering mathematical detail, like the sales chart of a mail-order house, hung on the wall.†
Chpt 1.10
- She stared at him, bewildered, and he walked away, tossing the flowers like a ball in his hand-a broad, straight figure in a sedate, expensive, businessman's overcoat, going off into the distance against the straight cliffs of office buildings with the spring sun sparkling on their windows.†
Chpt 1.10
- Dr. Stadler looked at him in bewilderment.†
Chpt 2.1
- There was a strange look on the man's face: bewilderment, as if he had no conception of the issue confronting him, and fear, as if he had always had full knowledge of it and had lived in dread of exposure.†
Chpt 2.1
- She opened it and stared in incredulous bewilderment at a pendant made of a single pear-shaped ruby that spurted a violent fire on the white satin of the jeweler's box.†
Chpt 2.1
- At the end of an hour, her attempt to smile had become a helpless, bewildered plea.†
Chpt 2.2
- Then she saw some people becoming too polite to her, and others moving away in a pointed manner, and most of them being senselessly awkward in simple bewilderment, and Jim watching silently with that odd smile.†
Chpt 2.2
- He walked on, not waiting to sec the look in her eyes-a look that held anger, bewilderment and the first faint gleam of a question mark.†
Chpt 2.2
- Rearden looked at him, bewildered.†
Chpt 2.2
- His face had the expression which, these days, was the mark of an honest man: an expression of bewilderment.†
Chpt 2.2
- If that's what you trunk he's done, or if you think that he's told me some inconceivable revelation, then I can see how bewildering it would appear to you.†
Chpt 2.3
- He stared at her in bewilderment.†
Chpt 2.3
- Mr. Mowen, who sat beside him, was a man of greater innocence and smaller understanding; his fear was of a simpler nature; he listened in bewildered indignation and he whispered to Larkin, "Good God, now he's done it!†
Chpt 2.4
- The man opened his mouth, but found nothing else to say; he looked at her in bewilderment, wondering why the formula had failed.†
Chpt 2.5
- He asked, in blank bewilderment, "What didn't work?†
Chpt 2.5
- His mother stared at Rearden in reproachful bewilderment; she said nothing, but she kept bursting into tears in his presence, her manner suggesting that her tears were the most important aspect to consider in whatever disaster it was that she sensed approaching.†
Chpt 2.6
- Struggling not to give in to an emotion which he felt rising through his bewilderment, past all his doubts, Rearden tried to study the man's face, searching for some clue to help him understand.†
Chpt 2.7
- The responsibility that James Taggart and Clifton Locey had evaded now rested on the shoulders of a trembling, bewildered boy.†
Chpt 2.7
- "Five cents?" she repeated, bewildered.†
Chpt 2.10
- He saw her watching him in bewilderment, and said, "There's one thing I must thank you for, Miss Taggart: you did pay me a compliment when you chose Quentin Daniels as my understudy.†
Chpt 3.1
- His look of bewilderment changed to a smile, regretful, amused and friendly.†
Chpt 3.1
- She stared at him, her look of anger switching to bewilderment, then dropped slowly back on her chair.†
Chpt 3.2
- Now, watching the scene around him, watching Dr. Ferris' vague, excited, loosely casual gestures in the midst of a group of newsmen, he had an impression of bewildering confusion, of senseless, chaotic inefficiency-and of a smooth machine working to produce the exact degree of that impression needed at the exact moment.†
Chpt 3.3
- Mr. Thompson looked blankly bewildered for an instant, as if something had slipped his mind, until Wesley Mouch leaned over and whispered some word into his ear.†
Chpt 3.3
- It was in the bewildered loneliness of the first weeks of her marriage that she said it to herself for the first time.†
Chpt 3.4
- She could not remember by what steps, what accumulation of pain, first as small scratches of uneasiness, then as stabs of bewilderment, then as the chronic, nagging pull of fear, she had begun to doubt Jim's position on the railroad.†
Chpt 3.4
- She saw the jerk of Taggart's head and a sudden anxiety in his bewildered frown, as if something about the words and voice were not what he had expected.†
Chpt 3.5
- A woman's bewildered voice rose uncertainly and trailed off: "I thought we were living in an age of brotherhood …."†
Chpt 3.5
- The men of the railroad and of the mine stopped in dazed bewilderment: they found that in all the complexity of their equipment, among the drills, the motors, the derricks, the delicate gauges, the ponderous floodlights beating down into the pits and ridges of a mountain-there was no wire to mend the crane.†
Chpt 3.5
- I don't understand you," said Philip; his voice had the angry bewilderment of a man who recites the formulas of a well-tested role, but keeps getting the wrong cues in answer.†
Chpt 3.5
- Then I saw the scene in full context again and in all of its actual meaning-I saw what price he was paying for his brilliant ability, what torture he was enduring in silent bewilderment, struggling to understand what I had understood-I saw that the world he suggested, did not exist and was yet to be made, I saw him again for what he was, the symbol of my battle, the unrewarded hero whom I was to avenge and to release-and then …. then I accepted what I had learned about you and him.†
Chpt 3.5
- He had not seen the house since that May 15, six months ago, when he had walked out of itand the sight brought back to him the sum of all he had felt in ten years of daily home-coming: the strain, the bewilderment, the gray weight of unconfessed unhappiness, the stern endurance that forbade him to confess it, the desperate innocence of the effort to understand his family …. the effort to be just.†
Chpt 3.6
- Philip gave a nervous jerk of bewilderment.†
Chpt 3.6
- With a look of stubborn bewilderment, with the last of her effort at self-deceit, she moaned in a voice of tearfully petulant reproach, "Are you really incapable of forgiveness?"†
Chpt 3.6
Definition:
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(bewilder) to confuse someone