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  • So George Hadley, bemused, sat watching the dining-room table produce warm dishes of food from its mechanical interior.   (source)
    bemused = puzzled or amused
  • It was a kind of bemused, inaugural silence.†   (source)
  • A bemused look crossed his face.†   (source)
  • Peter's smiling in a bemused way.†   (source)
  • His eyes danced with bemusement.†   (source)
  • Rasheed regarded the Taliban with a forgiving, affectionate kind of bemusement, as one might regard an erratic cousin prone to unpredictable acts of hilarity and scandal.†   (source)
  • He arched his eyebrows and smiled a bemused smile.†   (source)
  • Ty expanded into a bemused host, dishing up seconds for everyone and teasing Pammy and Linda, who ate everything they were given without complaint.†   (source)
  • There's humming, and strumming, and looking bemused.†   (source)
  • "No," Ned had told him, bemused.†   (source)
  • Constance shook her head bemusedly, though clearly she was delighted, and as she clambered back into her chair she handed him the little box he'd sent for.†   (source)
  • They felt watched by their bemused childhood selves.†   (source)
  • Zeitoun's father would likely be both proud and bemused by the trajectory of his son's life.†   (source)
  • Deep rumblings of bemusement came from the guard.†   (source)
  • This was a different, more affable energy, with the pills: a combination of sluggishness and brightness, a bemused, goofy, floating quality.†   (source)
  • He accepted my apology with a bemused kiss on the nose.†   (source)
  • From your perspective today, Kathy, your bemusement is perfectly reasonable.†   (source)
  • The doctor looked up from his grim work with a bemused smile.†   (source)
  • She shot me a bemused smile as if to say, You do what you have to do to pay the rent.†   (source)
  • He looked a little bemused as I slid the paper toward him.†   (source)
  • He seemed bemused by my casual reference to his secret realities.†   (source)
  • Seivarden, spoon in hand, watched her, bemused.†   (source)
  • Two bemused-looking cats and three ragged crows picked themselves out of the dirt and watched him run past.†   (source)
  • "That road," said our mother, bemused, gesturing with a lazy bent wrist out the window.†   (source)
  • He offered the same little bow, and for a bemused instant Wendy thought he would kiss her hand.†   (source)
  • "The Ace of Cups," Dorothea said, sounding bemused.†   (source)
  • To the bemused surprise of their American counterparts, they were forced to decline repeated invitations to the Pigeon's wardroom.†   (source)
  • No one talks to him and comes away bemused.†   (source)
  • A boy named Hussein, a small and perpetually bemused Meskhetian Turk with big eyes set wide apart near his temples, was skipping and thrashing his arms comically to the amusement of his teammates.†   (source)
  • We made it,he said, bemused.†   (source)
  • He was puzzled, bemused, but then he was standing with his hand resting on her shoulder and they were moving on the lawn to the thin strains of the music, the background of rushing cars.†   (source)
  • The calf took him from one end of the corral to the other and back again while the other calves stood bemused.†   (source)
  • He was impressed with his wife and bemused by the situation.†   (source)
  • She gives a very slight nod, and I frown in bemusement.†   (source)
  • Not only were two guys standing nearby now completely absorbed in checking out her chest, but Dexter was sliding in beside me, a bemused look on his face.†   (source)
  • Across from him at the narrow table, James Davis lifts his nose from calculus homework to watch, visibly bemused, the spectacle of Cedric trying to look "baaaad."†   (source)
  • I was bemused with the thing itself, and the way it looked.†   (source)
  • When Katie's startled gaze met hers, Jo seemed bemused.†   (source)
  • She looked at me again, bemused.†   (source)
  • I glance up to find them staring at me in matching bemusement.†   (source)
  • He felt, he said, as though he hung in the air before his patient, "suspended by her sympathy and bemusement."†   (source)
  • Yossarian flipped his eyes open in alarm and saw the totally unexpected bulging black puffs of flak crashing down in toward them from high up and Aarfy's complacent melon-round tiny-eyed face gazing out at the approaching cannon bursts with affable bemusement.†   (source)
  • Glancing back, Cal saw Quinn standing behind lane one, her coat open and a bemused expression on her face as she watched Myers, graceful as a hippo in toe shoes, make his approach and release his lucky red ball.†   (source)
  • Nigel stood near him looking bemused while Miss Awolowo shielded a tall, plump red-haired girl from the onrush of a petite black-haired girl who stabbed an accusatory finger while muttering in her native language.†   (source)
  • Felicity is looking at me in a bemused way.†   (source)
  • Sister Platte had been bemused: "Pop that thing?"†   (source)
  • The long day above ground, the close, overgrown combe, the frightening story in which they had been absorbed, the sudden appearance of the fox, the shock of Bigwig's inexplicable adventure—all these, following one upon another, had flooded their spirits and left them dull and bemused.†   (source)
  • "Well, come in, both of you," said Dr. Martinez, sounding excited and bemused and awestruck.†   (source)
  • He smiled up at the judge, bemused.†   (source)
  • Jean Louise followed, bemused and faintly annoyed.†   (source)
  • A voice—familiar, cold, somewhat bemused.†   (source)
  • Bemused, he stared.†   (source)
  • Clarke gave her a bemused smile.†   (source)
  • Bemused'is another one, People seem to think it means amused, rather than bewildered or preoccupied.†   (source)
  • He stood up front beside a microphone, his feet planted solidly on the dirty canvas-covered platform, looking from side to side; his posture dignified and benign, like a bemused father listening to the performance of his adoring children.†   (source)
  • Hungerford, a portly and distinguished looking man of about fifty, spoke to the room, rather than directly to Tappan, through a bemused grin.†   (source)
  • He always felt a bit bemused when he went into the apartment: twenty-one rooms, of which only three were furnished.†   (source)
  • He seemed to look out on the world from on high with subtle bemusement, as if everything smaller people did was slightly funny.†   (source)
  • She looked from me to Petra, then slowly, bemusedly, back to me again.†   (source)
  • His expression changed to one of bemusement.†   (source)
  • The expression on his face is one of bemused curiosity: these people are unfathomable, but then so are most.†   (source)
  • I was so bemused by it that I had to be reminded to take the platoon out of "freeze" — then I withdrew the ground listeners from the crater, pulled two men from each squad and gave them bearings from that infernal map to have them listen along the Bug highway and over the town.†   (source)
  • He sounds bemused.†   (source)
  • Which was why he was looking at the Skil-Saw in his hand in bemusement.†   (source)
  • There were glances and bemused stares but no one seemed to care much about my presence as I went from one group to the next.†   (source)
  • GUIL (bemused): The toenails never grow at all?†   (source)
  • He simply looked bemused and interested in the novelty of Pig's stance.†   (source)
  • "We'll have a house together some time," Aron said, bemused.†   (source)
  • The hideous vision had seemed so real to him, half bemused as he was still with wound and fear.†   (source)
  • He remained as hardy as a billygoat, which brought him under the bemused scrutiny of the SS doctors and, in a roundabout way, to the attention of floss.†   (source)
  • And sitting in his office in Buffalo, giving in once more to bemused staring, eyes passing over his closely reasoned, now meaningless page, he knew what it was about it that was weird.†   (source)
  • They stood bemused by the darkness.†   (source)
  • She appeared gentler, more bemused than before, when old Mrs. Eckhart made Parnell Moody cry, just by looking at Parnell too hard.†   (source)
  • The Prince nodded in bemusement, but without further remark.   (source)
    bemusement = amusement
  • Harry looked bemusedly at the photograph Colin was brandishing under his nose.   (source)
    bemusedly = with amusement
  • They flitted in and out of my life like well-timed stage actors, one going out the door as the other came in, and on the rare occasions when they both inhabited the same room, they seemed somewhat bemused at the situation.   (source)
    bemused = amused
  • They were bemused to watch pieces of paper flitting about the room as if it were the floor of a stock exchange.   (source)
    bemused = puzzled
  • Suffice it to say that at the Boyarsky's second seating, the customers were shocked, bemused, and beside themselves once again as slips of paper flew about the dining room like pheasants at the crack of a rifle.   (source)
  • With expressions ranging from curious to bemused, the forty-four other attendees pushed back their chairs and approached the great windows overlooking Theatre Square, where Malyshev was already standing.   (source)
  • The five of us followed them to the checkout counter, and I watched in disbelief as the woman, seeming a bit bemused, took out her wallet and paid for Angel's bear.   (source)
    bemused = perplexed or confused
  • Sana looks between us, bemused.   (source)
    bemused = confused or puzzled
  • They all sat still, all bemused by the beauty of the thing, each mind was popped into the future when this lovely thing should come about.   (source)
    bemused = deep in thought
  • Ron shook his head, bemused, then checked his watch.†   (source)
  • Her great brown eyes opened and she blinked several times in a bemused sort of way.†   (source)
  • 'But I don't think you're ugly,' said Harry, bemused.†   (source)
  • My words startled Deoch into bemused laugher.†   (source)
  • What was that line from Yeats, about the bemused Chinese sages?†   (source)
  • Malfoy fell backward on top of the Death Eater, his mouth bleeding, utterly bemused.†   (source)
  • Anaander Mianaai listened to all this, bemused.†   (source)
  • She looked down at the curled-up figure with a bemused and bitter pity.†   (source)
  • Daddy sat there with a kind of bemused look on his face.†   (source)
  • 'Dangerous?' said Hagrid, looking genially bemused.†   (source)
  • It's the only spell she ever has trouble with," Harry told a completely bemused Mrs. Cattermole.†   (source)
  • Ron, however, looked bemused by their surprise.†   (source)
  • 'Help yourself,' said Harry, feeling slightly bemused.†   (source)
  • She caught Boyle watching her, a bemused smile on his face.†   (source)
  • Sorry,I responded absently, bemused by the fact that she had used my name for the first time.†   (source)
  • He let her go, his face soft, bemused with grief and amazement.†   (source)
  • Nigel and his wife exchanged bemused glances.†   (source)
  • A bemused expression replaced her scowl.†   (source)
  • Felicity repeats with a bemused expression.†   (source)
  • Amanda watched all of it as a casual observer might, a bemused smile lighting up her face.†   (source)
  • She was watching me, a bemused little smile on her face.†   (source)
  • Bemused, Renly said, "It would seem the direwolf is gentler than the lion."†   (source)
  • But both Andrew and his father are looking over at her, bemused smiles on their faces.†   (source)
  • She pushed a sweaty lock of hair back from her forehead, equal parts flustered and bemused.†   (source)
  • Jocelyn looked up, her expression bemused.†   (source)
  • He strolled toward me, his expression bemused.†   (source)
  • Are you giving me your permission?" his father asked, bemused.†   (source)
  • Hester/Anne was bemused but didn't interfere.†   (source)
  • I break off, panting slightly, and there's a bemused silence.†   (source)
  • Sarah watched it all with a bemused smile, enjoying their interaction.†   (source)
  • Frieda and I were bemused, irritated, and fascinated by her.†   (source)
  • Appearing somewhat bemused, Nasuada shook her head.†   (source)
  • She ceased, leaving me somewhat bemused.†   (source)
  • D'Ablo flicked his eyes to Ignatius and back, a bemused smile on his lips.†   (source)
  • What sort of cheap conjurer's trick is this?" asked Rasmussen, bemused.†   (source)
  • "How much are we going to get paid for it?" the chief financial officer asked, still bemused.†   (source)
  • Oscar took the cutter from Lorenzo while Luis watched from across the room with a bemused grin.†   (source)
  • The doctor nodded, but looked a little bemused.†   (source)
  • She was smiling at them, sad and bemused as if they were already dead.†   (source)
  • "Hi, Dr. Korb," Cedric says with a bemused smile.†   (source)
  • I don't get it," Caroline said, bemused.†   (source)
  • The door slams, and Cedric leans back in his chair, bemused, shaking his freshly shaven head.†   (source)
  • Bellagrog merely watched him with a bemused expression.†   (source)
  • As Connor disappeared up the stairs, David shot Max a bemused glance.†   (source)
  • D'Ablo met his eyes with a bemused smile.†   (source)
  • When he had finished, David gave a bemused smile.†   (source)
  • Luis watched in bemused silence, a slight grin on his face.†   (source)
  • "Etiquette's really smoothed out all the rough edges, hasn't it?" said Nigel, bemused.†   (source)
  • "So Katarina and I are hostages?" she asked, obviously bemused.†   (source)
  • But to Gabriella, the faces here on deck appeared bemused enough.†   (source)
  • I was so bemused by the carefree whistler, I didn't realize at first that the abandoned building was right where the address I was looking for should exist.†   (source)
  • Now, this one here ....yes, my dear?" said Slughorn, now looking slightly bemused, as Hermione's hand punched the air again.†   (source)
  • The rear end of the Cadillac pulled ahead of him, still cutting in, and the workman stared with bemused horror as the long, rocket-shaped rear taillights cut into his lane no more than a quarter of an inch in front of his bumper.†   (source)
  • And so he tried to imagine his other best friend, Ron Weasley's, reaction, and in a moment, Ron's red hair and long-nosed, freckled face seemed to swim before Harry, wearing a bemused expression.†   (source)
  • Clary watched him go, bemused.†   (source)
  • Aro's eyes were bemused.†   (source)
  • She sounded bemused by his curiosity.†   (source)
  • "Excuse me," His Highness says to the bemused painter, "b-b-but could you p-p-please tell me-was I headed toward the palace or away from the p-p-palace?"†   (source)
  • "Anyway —" Martin glanced behind him, as if wanting to include absent friends on the joke, then back with another bemused shrug—"sorry.†   (source)
  • At last, when the Irish team had left the box to perform another lap of honor on their brooms (Aidan Lynch on the back of Confolly's, clutching hard around his waist and still grinning in a bemused sort of way), Bagman pointed his wand at his throat and muttered, "Quietus.†   (source)
  • I asked, bemused.†   (source)
  • I lay there for a long time, panting with relief and also with a strange disappointment that the truth hadn't come out, distantly bemused that this was the conclusion he drew from the last five months, from Rose's operation, from the transfer, from Jess Clark, and Rose's revelations and my fresh memories.†   (source)
  • I'd never been around Mr. Barbour when he was off his medicine (Andy, typically, had been restrained in describing his father's "enthusiasms," I didn't then know about the episodes where he'd tried to telephone the Secretary of State or wear his pyjamas to work); and his rage was so out of character for the bemused and inattentive Mr. Barbour I knew that all I could do was fall back, in shame.†   (source)
  • Hermione looked simply bemused.†   (source)
  • It's right there in front —' But as Ron continued to look bemused, a strange thought occurred to Harry.†   (source)
  • The idea bemused Eragon, but he also found it rather sad to think of the pretty grass ship wandering among the clouds for the rest of eternity, with none but birds for company.†   (source)
  • They had almost reached the Manse when Max noticed someone sitting on the edge of the fountain at its steps, watching their approach with a bemused expression.†   (source)
  • The gunslinger laughed, bemused.†   (source)
  • Later, sitting down to smoke on an empty lard tin, still bemused by God's curse and the terrible burden his own kind had of elevating Ham's sons, he suddenly became alarmed by the thought that the corpse in this heat would have a terrible odor, which might get into the fabric of his woolen cloth.†   (source)
  • "Absolutely," Caroline told her, in her art major voice, and I felt a rush suddenly of how much I missed Wes, wishing he was there to exchange a look with me, a bemused smile, raising his eyebrows.†   (source)
  • Walker and Archer had started moving again; bemused, Simon followed them as they crossed the courtyard and stopped a few feet from where the woman sat.†   (source)
  • His last image was of Sarah standing out in the school yard, waving at the retreating car with a faintly bemused smile on her face.†   (source)
  • The figure was sitting on a raised throne and seemed bemused as he listened to a long line of petitioners—crowned kings and bearded scholars lugging carts of astronomical equipment and alchemical contraptions.†   (source)
  • I could not see, then, how I might press on with this bantering; in fact, I decided it best to call a halt to the matter and, pretending to remember something I had urgently to attend to, excused myself, leaving my employer looking rather bemused.†   (source)
  • Max looked bemused, but before Clary could explain, Isabelle burst through the door, clearly out of breath.†   (source)
  • One year King Robert's brother came to visit and she did her best to seduce him, but she was half a girl and Lord Renly seemed more bemused than inflamed by her overtures.†   (source)
  • She looks at me with bemused eyes.†   (source)
  • I am to be the first, he thought, knowing it for the first time, although he had thought of it(in a bemused way) many times before.†   (source)
  • He stuck his hand out, and Jace took his own hand out of Clary's and shook Simon's, a bemused look on his face.†   (source)
  • Kyle seemed constantly bemused, too distracted by this impossible relationship he couldn't quite wrap his head around to pay attention to much else.†   (source)
  • In ones and twos the does, utterly bemused and scarcely able to move or to understand what was said to them, were urged into getting up and stumbling their way down the field.†   (source)
  • He seemed bemused.†   (source)
  • Then a questioning, half-bemused expression flitted across the sentry's face, and he fell to the ground like a dropped stone.†   (source)
  • Bemused by the coincidence, Eragon sauntered over to the bronze sculpture and gazed up at the bear's gleaming fangs, wondering what had drawn him back.†   (source)
  • Back in the Honeycomb, Groundsel immediately surrendered himself and his fugitives to Fiver, who was still bemused from his long trance, and scarcely restored to his senses sufficiently to grasp what was toward.†   (source)
  • But then noticing the mirthful expression on my face, they broke into a laugh, though in a somewhat bemused fashion.†   (source)
  • The gunslinger drifted, bemused.†   (source)
  • The West Indian women and some of the Spanish mamis expressed disgust; the born-agains made outraged noises; and the middle-class white women looked bemused or nervous.†   (source)
  • Prusias glanced at the weapon, bemused.†   (source)
  • David leaned back, bemused.†   (source)
  • Sophie, watching him, heard him say "...diese unertragliche Sprache" in a bemused tone, twisting his lips to fit some of the obdurately unpronounceable words of this "impossible language," quickly give up the effort and then rise to his feet.†   (source)
  • And while they were still looking, bemused with this empty curiosity, they felt themselves drawn away, and walked with their mother past the closed piano into the Green Room.†   (source)
  • What bemused Sophie at a later date was how this concept of Lebensborn—which in Warsaw so horrified her and sickened her with fear that she often hid her son, Jan, in a closet at the sound of heavy footfalls on the stairway—became at Auschwitz something she dreamed about and most feverishly desired.†   (source)
  • No, against all dictates of conscience and the Calvinist work ethic, and despite ,the fact that I was far from tired, I lay flat on my back in bed, immobilized like one near prostration, bemused in the realization that the fever which I had run for these recent days had caused my muscles to twitch, and that one could actually be taken ill, perhaps seriously so, with venereal ecstasy.†   (source)
  • Out in the hallway, she touched her cheek in bemusement.†   (source)
  • His eyes fixed on her with a look of dazed bemusement.†   (source)
  • He looked at me with complete bemusement.†   (source)
  • Tommy Ross was grinning bemusedly.†   (source)
  • "Yes —yes, we are," said Dedalus Diggle, who had been watching these exchanged with an air of bemusement and now seemed to pull himself together.†   (source)
  • Mama indulged Madaline, smiling through her stories with a look of wry bemusement, but I knew she thought unkindly of her.†   (source)
  • When the Overlook opens officially (there was a gigantic and hugely successful party there some time ago when the actual work was finished), the newly painted, papered, and decorated rooms will be occupied by a stellar guest list, ranging from Chic designer Corbat Stani to...Smiling bemusedly, Jack turned the page.†   (source)
  • They were filled with people now, row on row of vampires with their dead-white faces, their red stretched mouths, staring bemusedly downward.†   (source)
  • Thanks for that," he said bemusedly, tucking his gun under his arm and beginning to pluck and fumble with the string, which Boris had tied in an obstinate little knot.†   (source)
  • There were three of them, two lazy-walking middle-aged men drifting along a bit bemusedly with the air of having come to do us a favor—it was Boris they were addressing, not me, they seemed glad to see him —and, skittering slightly in front of them, the Asian boy.†   (source)
  • The group mind was such (private jokes and bemusement, everyone clustered round vacation videos on the iPhone) that it was hard to imagine any of them going to a movie by themselves or eating alone at a bar; sometimes, the affable sense of committee among the men particularly gave me the slight feeling of being interviewed for a job.†   (source)
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