bafflement

The result was widespread bafflement, as federal workers faced uncertainty over their employment.

There is sadness in the air in Magdeburg, as well as bafflement and anger, as people ask how could this have happened.

The billionaire entrepreneur-turned-efficiency expert has opined previously about the AfD, expressing his bafflement at the mainstream unease it prompts within Germany over echoes of the country’s Nazi past.

The general mood in the Labour Party and in government is one of slight bafflement.

Unlike last year’s monologue, this one wasn’t as razor sharp, but the material overall had the comic’s signature specificity and bafflement at the world.