How to Use mystification in a Sentence

mystification

noun

• That, at least, is the belief of the nameless narrator of this work of epic mystification.
  — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 16 Dec. 2022
• Nature Doesn't Know Best: The second is a de-mystification of nature.
  — Kyle Munkittrick, Discover Magazine, 16 June 2011
• The sense of wonder, awe, even mystification, was evident in the crowd’s feverish applause.
  — Steve Volk, Discover Magazine, 21 Jan. 2015
• On Twitter, users have expressed shock and mystification over the design.
  — Marc Bain, Quartz, 9 June 2021
• This is the flip side of Mr. Trump’s own sorry failure to continue the mystifications that power uses to conceal its dilemmas.
  — Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ, 11 Jan. 2019
• My favorite element, which mirrors my mystification at the matter-of-factness of the image, is an adorably witless donkey.
  — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 8 Feb. 2021
• One interviewee, a teenager at the time of the festival, expresses mystification at having evolved from a mild-mannered kid to a destructive Lord of the Flies character over the course of the weekend.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 27 July 2021
• There’s a sort of indifference that turns into mystification that turns into sadness around that.
  — New York Times, 8 July 2022
• Han has a perfect ear for a child’s perception of the world, that uncanny mixture of confidence, innocence and mystification.
  — Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2020
• The December 1941 attacks are the subject of considerable mystification in the United States.
  — Daniel Immerwahr, The Atlantic, 4 Apr. 2022
• Writing about writing can be a tough trick to pull off without descending into cliches about troubled geniuses or mystification of the creative process itself or even pandering about the nobility of books and the people who read them.
  — Kathleen Rooney, chicagotribune.com, 26 June 2017
• After Honestly, Nevermind dropped, lots of people expressed mystification on social media that Drake had started making oontz oontz (or untz untz) music.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 28 July 2022
• As with other elements of a mega-celebrity’s life, a front-facing, pathbreaking pregnancy like Rihanna’s necessitates a certain level of mystification of the pains taken behind the scenes.
  — The New Yorker, 30 Apr. 2022
• Money and mystification, not knowledge or ignorance, are its cardinal points.
  — Longreads, 17 Sep. 2019
• There has been some mystification in Washington as to why administration successes have not registered more.
  — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 11 Feb. 2022
• Even among many people with a biological science background who in the abstract understand genes in all their conceptual and biophysical glory there is often a concrete mystification as to the power of genes to shape behavior across the generations.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 11 Apr. 2012
• John Berger’s idea of ‘mystification,’ for example, describes how the ‘original’ upholds ‘ideological interests of the ruling class’ through arcane ways of emphasizing technique.
  — Matthew Carey Salyer, Forbes, 13 May 2021
• But even in those conversations, officials often expressed mystification about how decisions in the Trump administration were made and policy was generated.
  — David E. Sanger, New York Times, 10 July 2019
• But even in those conversations, officials often expressed mystification about how decisions in the Trump administration were made and policy generated.
  — David E. Sanger, BostonGlobe.com, 10 July 2019
• This is important because the current, rampant mystification isn’t accidental.
  — Tom Boellstorff, The Conversation, 12 Aug. 2022
• Throughout, however, the biography is judicious on topics that often inspire hyperbole and mystification.
  — Donald S. Lopez, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2020
• Barthesian mystifications notwithstanding, translation is a concrete art.
  — Benjamin Moser, New York Times, 28 June 2018
• Institutions, after all, reliably use mystification to escape accountability and oversight.
  — Charles Homans, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2023
• But, as British viewers found to their mystification, American TV eagerly advertises pharmaceutical remedies for practically every other imaginable human condition.
  — Samanth Subramanian, Quartz, 8 Mar. 2021

Last Updated: 30 Oct 2024