27 adjectives to describe mystification

More hopeless mystification from the Citizen Beslay, who regrets not having been chosen to aid in this "heroic act.

If women were allowed to speak at some places of worship they would all be talking at onceall be growing eloquent, voluble, and strong minded in two minutesand an articulative mystification, much more chaotic than that which once took place at Babel, would ensue.

Yet Hedrik Von Taer's face, usually unexpressive, denoted blank mystification.

The only thing to be done or said in reply, I suppose, would be to apply the same principle of bold mystification on our own part.

Not that this sort of delicate mystification is reserved exclusively for foreigners.

In one way, of course, these facts might be explicable on the supposition that Plattner has undertaken an elaborate mystification, on the strength of his heart's displacement.

But it was possibly an Elian mystification.

Two days later, to my extreme mystification (and joy), I came across a bear and its cub lying dead at the foot of a hummock.

When I say "confided to me," I must add that in the many confidences William Sharp made to me on the matter, I was always aware of a reserve of fanciful mystification, and I am by no means sure, even now, that I, or any of uswith the possible exception of Mrs. Sharpknow the whole truth about "Fiona Macleod."

At last she stopped dead and turned to him with eyes which had in them intense mystification as well as fear.

Indeed it is clear from Mrs. Sharp's interesting revelations of her husband's temperament that "the whole truth" could hardly be known even to William Sharp himself; for, very evidently in "Fiona Macleod" we have to deal not merely with a literary mystification, but with a psychological mystery.

She, meanwhile, has inherited a convenient sum, redeems him from his creditors, and after practicing a little mystification to test his constancy, leads him to the altar.

Can we not imagine the mingled mystification and disdain with which a Spinosa or a Descartes, a Luther or a Pascal, would have listened to an exhortation in our persuasive modern manner on the niceties of the politic and the social obligation of pious fraud?

"It is an obvious mystification," was the answer; "poor Mrs. Legend has picked up some straggling porpoise, and converted him, by a touch of her magical wand, into a Boanerges of literature.

But Mr. Howel belonged to another school, and he was so much accustomed to shut his eyes to palpable mystification mentioned by Mrs. Bloomfield, that a lie, which, advanced in most works, would have carried no weight with it, advanced in this particular periodical became elevated to the dignity of truth.

No longer was it the paradoxical mystifications of Poe, but a scoffing that had in it the lugubrious and savage comedy which Swift possessed.

Your London and Paris publics are not to be dealt with as if composed of credulous old women, but require something like a plausible mystification to throw dust in their eyes.

I determined to commence a series of covert insinuations, or innuendoes, about the oblong boxjust to let him perceive, gradually that I was not altogether the butt, or victim, of his little bit of pleasant mystification.

He indulged in queer mystifications, covering his papers with false names and anagramsfor the police, he said, were on his track, and he must be careful.

If you meet an aeroplane when you are walking with him and ask humbly for his verdict thereon, in the expectation of an explosion of clipped technical jargon, he will stop and study its outline with great attention, and will eventually inform you, to your respectful mystification, that it is a "P.-P.-D." Thereafter he will chuckle most unofficially.

Giving him all credit for wishing to be clear, we confess to a sad mystification as to what he calls the 'Polarity of Light,' where a beam is described as 'revolving around poles peculiar to itself' and as producing 'beautiful spectres,' and we want new illumination from him as to his theory of colors.

" "That I much question, in the first place; but even if it were so, it would be but a shallow mystification.

And why did you insist on letting fall the bug, instead of a bullet, from the skull?" "Why, to be frank, I felt somewhat annoyed by your evident suspicions touching my sanity, and so resolved to punish you quietly, in my own way, by a little bit of sober mystification.

In this respect, preaching is very much like reviewing,the listener, or the reader, being too complaisant to see through the great standing mystifications of either.

Yet Hedrik Von Taer's face, usually unexpressive, denoted blank mystification.

27 adjectives to describe  mystification