Naïve outsiders found the world of contemporary art bewildering.

Loans often require bribes, and the banks procedures are bewildering to the unlettered.

The parallel between bewildering and apparently meaningless art and unintelligible financial products is damning rather than reassuring.

The lack of vigorous growth is all the more bewildering in view of Latin America's many advantages and social successes.

The transformation of economic structures occurs so quickly that it is virtually impossible not to notice though the complexity of the change is, at times, bewildering.

The condition of the family at present is acceptable and they can manage their affairs. The idea is that it is bewildering how poverty and ignorance are interrelated at times.

He will need all his skills to address the bewildering range of global tasks that he has taken on since being shoehorned out of office by his dour successor, Gordon Brown.

In a recent visit to this tropical archipelago of 1.3 million people, I had a chance to see some of the leaps Mauritius has taken accomplishments that can seem bewildering in light of the debate in the US and elsewhere.

For the past 10 years, three South Korean presidents and three US presidents have been attempting to deal with the same perpetual leader Kim Jong il. From Kim s perspective, encountering such leadership changes and subsequent policy clashes are both bewildering and difficult to assimilate.

Only a slim provision that made joint inspections with the IAEA voluntary made it into the final agreement. As for the EU itself, the debate and final formulation of the March 2011 voluntary stress tests, accurately called stormy by Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, revealed a bewildering array of deficiencies and weaknesses.