nonplussing

Example Sentences

• "We have to with a Heart ſearching God, who will find out every unworthy Communicant to his utter Shame and Confuſion ; when God examins ſuch, his Queſtions will be Nonpluſſing and Confounding,[…]"
• "Nothing can be so nonplussing to a seeker as to have to grope about in a fog for the thing sought."
• "These brooms have in common a very nonplussing trait: they may die in winter, for no discernible reason."
• "Specifically, it is the idea of the friend, in conjunction with the idea of a conversation, that is, the idea of the ordinary in conjunction with the presumption of benevolence (if friend could be assumed to imply such a connotation, and if conversation could be supposed to have this content), which illuminates what renders these propositions so nonplussing."
• "First the high pitch of blood inside the ear then another high sound inside the first, a vibrato caterwaul from that stunned and blurry infant face. Such blank noise. So nonplussing that foreign tongue, that most foreign body, open-mouthed and trembling,[…]"
• "We look like a council of two, a single pair of Sanhedrin warriors or elder Seraphim, we look like a solitary nation of no history, a duprass, Kurt Vonnegut called it. And what’s more nonplussing than anything else, we look happy."