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"bemused" Definitions
  1. showing that you are confused and unable to think clearly

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" Right: "Again, Jacoby-Harms is bemused by objects floating above.
"England, UK," replied one of the divers, to bemused murmurs.
She was bemused at being asked to explain the lyrics.
Through it all, he remained calm and mostly just bemused.
IT STARTED with a fanfare, albeit with a bemused tone.
"You weren't supposed to do that," a bemused Trump exclaimed.
Some fans were disappointed, some furious, and some simply bemused
Marx would have been proud, but maybe a trifle bemused.
Shocked but bemused, I scrolled through her account for more.
The news prompted some bemused reactions among fans on Twitter.
He left as a source of puzzlement and bemused annoyance.
That's where the movie's tone switches from bemused to alarmed.
The snap had a number of fans both concerned and bemused.
Yes, I was confused; I was also, maybe more accurately, bemused.
I read part of the alphabet book to the bemused cashier.
Eric Asimov, the Times wine writer, is a typically bemused fan.
I remember my boyfriend was there, smiling at me, lovingly bemused.
In the photo, he's posing next to the animal, looking bemused.
I would describe my initial reaction as nonplussed, or maybe bemused.
Even a rookie defender offered his opinion as Kerr watched bemused.
Bemused, I opened the box to find a velvet pouch inside.
He was a bit of a bristlecone himself: deliberate, diffident, bemused.
Jerome, clearly bemused, asks why would it matter where he was born.
"Oh, really?" a bemused Nelson responded while the other women cracked up.
" With a bemused expression, the would-be thief asks, "who's we sucka?
Bemused by this fierce little lawyer, the men would shake their heads.
She was particularly bemused to discover the images barely showcased her feet.
The lenient policing toward alcohol consumption in the street has bemused many.
"I also play things," she deadpans, lowering her eyebrows in bemused indignation.
I, meanwhile, was observing the whole grunge phenomenon from a bemused distance.
The company was particularly bemused by Ellison's claims that Redshift wasn't elastic.
I shook my head, bemused, as I signed for my $29.95 lunch.
"I was shady," she admitted, sitting next to a bemused Meghan Trainor.
I was gripped by sputtering outrage, but he remained amused and bemused.
We all clambered across the snowfield as bemused skiers watched our progress.
Bouvier's rivals in the art-logistics trade watched, fascinated and somewhat bemused.
Mr. Trump sounded bemused by the state of affairs in a Nov.
In the meantime, Haddock continues to have a bemused attitude about the situation.
Still, the crowd went wild and the bemused announcer guffawed throughout the performance.
At the end of the video, Blasberg pans to his own bemused face.
His bemused smirk was made for the internet, and a meme was born.
A PO leader looks bemused when asked if he has friends in PiS.
The reaction from island residents has been mostly positive and a bit bemused.
Another image shows Mr. Hammons presenting identification to a mostly bemused police officer.
The present occupant was distinguished, well dressed, friendly and bemused by my pilgrimage.
"It's on the line between horrible and delicious," says the bemused talkshow host.
Yet at this prospect the Western establishment seems more bemused than actively alarmed.
Winners accept their prizes from "genuinely bemused genuine Nobel Laureates," the website reads.
" The Times column continued, "While Mr. Jennings and David Brinkley sat by, bemused, Mrs.
From guardians of diplomatic protocol to citizens bemused by etiquette, people sought his expertise.
On the steep hill overlooking the popular Muizenberg surfing beach, Mobwabisi Sikweyiya is bemused.
Mr. Carmichael depicts the bemused Malcolm broadly at some times and unobtrusively at others.
If they answer yes, the bemused tourists are steered away to non-nude paintings.
Most men are just clueless puppies, bemused but pleased when you flirt with them.
Reports of a possible tie-up with its Frankfurt neighbor left some investors bemused.
The woman behind the camera even captured the bemused reaction of their tour guide.
INSIDE a Buddhist monastery in Mandalay five teenagers are looking at a poster, bemused.
Instead, Mueller came across more often as befuddled than bemused by the entire exercise.
Sergei Utkin, a local collector, is bemused by the mad rush for the note.
Whatever happens, it's hard to walk away feeling anything other than charmed or bemused.
Or he looked vaguely bemused, and that didn't communicate the coolness that he intended.
He felt drawn home, as if Alonzo were the North Star, he thought, bemused.
Then, top Republicans were, by turns, annoyed, bemused, and reflective when talking about Trump.
But eventually it rumbled up Main Street in front of a handful of bemused pedestrians.
They played to about a dozen bemused members of the opening bands and the refrigerator.
Bemused, I handed her my phone so she could take over my Tinder and Bumble.
Speaking to us at the Writer's Guild Awards, The Daily Show's Parang paused, seemingly bemused.
And he is better at projecting bemused condescension than any politician in the game today.
"I guess we never knew the name of Dad's father," my aunt told me, bemused.
Answer is, bluntly delivered, bemused pale-blue eyes and twisty smile, You, Pro-fes-sor.
An even older man in a wool sweater and reading glasses stared at us, bemused.
He wandered down into the bemused crowd, but struggled to get back on stage afterwards.
This is different than a few months ago, when they were more bemused and supportive.
Backstage, she behaved ru-diculously, crying and cursing, while the others rubbernecked in bemused shock.
Andy Murray and Karolina Pliskova were among those who left their audience bewildered and bemused.
"He's bemused that it's caught on," Tim Minton, an M.T.A. spokesman, said of the nickname.
Still, those who turn to astrology for clarity will be bemused by the Astro Poets.
To his credit, Derulo seemed more bemused than bothered by the removal of his organ.
But most people are either funny or confusing, and most people either get amused or bemused.
Darvish, six feet five inches of doughy muscle and perpetually bemused expression, works from the stretch.
His wife "approached motherhood with the same bemused optimism she met everything else with," Oswalt said.
"It's not right to blame Caballero," said Sampaoli, looking bemused during his post-match news conference.
" When he finished, he told the bemused panel: "I was just getting into this rap thing.
Ali's confidence allowed him the greatest gift — to be just another human being bemused by Creation.
Her mother just passed away, and Annie is bemused, or half-ashamed, at feeling insufficiently sad.
Some described feeling fear at the president's next steps, while others said they felt bemused resolve.
Dr. Parker said he was surprised and seemed bemused that NASA was asking for his permission.
Look at Dippold's "oh fuck" stare, her cheerful Halloween paper plate, the slightly bemused-looking bystander.
"Rosario might be hungry when she gets in," he explained to the bemused staffers looking on.
Some of Khan's more colorful alleged pickup lines — "I'm not vanilla" — instantly became punchlines among bemused observers.
I assumed "matchmaking" to refer to dating and was stymied and bemused, after getting ASPEN on crosses.
Foreigners in the audience cast bemused and occasionally bewildered glances at each other as the discussion proceeded.
Filipino users were bemused at the reactions online, with many reaching out to clarify the dish's origins.
While many remained confused about the details of the policy, foreign rivals were bemused by Beijing's plan.
Over the years, he has honed an instinct for self-preservation through pliancy, deflection, and bemused forbearance.
We are schooled in multiple stories of van Gogh, and bemused by the range of available Vincents.
Its owner seems a little bit bemused to find himself in possession of such a rarefied object.
Misaka seemed bemused by the attention he began to receive long after his basketball career had ended.
Throughout his career, Johnson was bemused by the claim that one could not live in his spaces.
Trump looked alternatively bemused, entertained, baffled, guarded and, yes, maybe even a little nervous all at once.
Several in the debate praised Britain's democratic history and were bemused by its poisonous meltdown over Brexit.
She's followed this case, intrigued and bemused, for the entirety of her 18 years on the force.
The morning after the election, like so many of us, I woke up feeling unbelievably dazed and bemused.
We'll have to wait and see if history's signals have sunk deep enough into Hollywood's teeming, bemused brain.
Bemused, the woman put the photo (which is lovely, by the way) on Twitter and explained the story.
Bemused and angered at having his predecessor, Ratan Tata, suddenly seize back control, he has refused to go.
The video has since been deleted, but online sentiment has shifted from vicious to sympathetic and mildly bemused.
"Oh, wow," PEOPLE and Entertainment Weekly editorial director Jess Cagle flatly responds, as the bemused editors look on.
Here we have a bemused Jose Mourinho, noted manager/grump, answering a journalist's phone during a press conference.
In an interview with Edna Gunderson of the U.K.'s Telegraph, Dylan, 75, seemed more bemused than anything.
Rather than scolding him, Kimmel deferred to a late-night host's most trustworthy tool: a bemused, knowing grin.
There's also the wonderful Cush Jumbo, from "The Good Wife," as a perpetually bemused rising star named Lucca.
Scholze was bemused by the long theorems with their short proofs, which struck him as valid but insubstantial.
Bemused tourists could be seen scratching their heads at the sight of abandoned luxury cars near the Mandarin.
"He said, 'That's nice, Ellen, but we don't take girls,' " she recalled, her tone more bemused than rueful.
Chicago regarded her creation with the fierce and slightly bemused love of a parent for a grown child.
Her mode is sunny rationalism and bemused exuberance — she is a former Rhodes scholar parsing a chaotic world.
To some bemused observers, it was a strange time for fashion to begin touting its carbon-neutral credentials.
"All I know is Terry asked me to take some grounders at third base," a bemused Cabrera said.
A bemused Mr. Kolomoisky has watched the events unfold from Ukraine, where he returned after Mr. Zelensky's victory.
Even Steve Doocy looked a little bemused during Trump's shambolic 54-minute call into "Fox & Friends" on Friday.
"I'm not quite sure how this got started," a bemused Hanyu, 23, told a news conference earlier this week.
Bemused English commentary (and helpful metric conversions) from Joe Ferraro and former Pride heavyweight Heath Herring peppered the broadcast.
Sock decided to intervene, saying, "It was in, if you want to challenge it," to a rather bemused Hewitt.
Orban and his Fidesz party also seem relaxed, with the prime minister saying he feels bemused at the rallies.
On one occasion, we learn, he recited poetry to a group of bemused construction workers on a building site.
The Golden Circle is similarly bemused about romance, which makes Eggsy and Tilde's interactions almost offensively bland and stereotypical.
We were bemused by the pretension of the silent interview in a hotel room he did with Dazed magazine.
Asked by a reporter for comment on Ressa's case, he appeared bemused and said he knew nothing of it.
He has a window seat, and he's looking out at the landscape, feeling bemused at what he sees. Farmlands!
These bemused observations make up Discombobulation, a central piece in James R Ford's philosophical exhibition, If A Tree Falls.
All of which is to say that Alonzo Mourning Bemused Acceptance Dot GIF is a very good GIF indeed.
His track, which emphasized spiritual warfare over street violence, was greeted with bemused appreciation, at least to his face.
The general reaction after the San Antonio Spurs gave LaMarcus Aldridge a three-year contract extension was bemused fascination.
Bemused Finns also took to their accounts to mock the suggestion that raking forest floors was a national obligation.
Trump also drew a bemused reaction from German officials when he criticized that country's oil pipeline deal with Russia.
"I wake up this morning to find out I'm speaking at the Republican National Convention," a bemused Tebow says.
I've always been bemused by the subjects that some people find funny — I am thinking now of rape jokes.
Mr. White raised a bemused eyebrow my way: What was The New York Times's policy on breaking and entering?
Martin, bemused by what he calls her incurable independence complex, suggests she drop everything and emigrate somewhere more exotic.
She was bemused when I told her to roll up the rugs and pile the chairs on the tabletops.
Sansa was as bemused as most of us would be by Arya's faces (I think I spotted Walder Frey).
Yes, I, I — a bit bemused when people hear they're having Down's children and only see the negative side.
He seemed a bit bemused to be taking a star turn, but treated it like his latest, fleeting adventure.
Lee showed a video of Chinese people looking bemused as they were shown fortune cookies for the first time.
"I can't believe I just beat Chen Long in straight games," a bemused Axelsen said after the 213-minute match.
When her uptight sister Clare tells her that "it's really inappropriate to jog around a graveyard," Fleabag merely looks bemused.
Those who gathered to watch were more bemused than anything, despite the traffic tie-up that's resulted from the ordeal.
Bemused is probably the best way to describe the Clinton campaign's view of the current state of play in Utah.
"She approached motherhood with the same bemused optimism she met everything else with," Oswalt tells PEOPLE in this week's issue.
They were initially bemused by the complexity of bus timetables, bin collections and—most of all—by the changeable weather.
We are left to absorb the story, piecing things together in this world as we follow along with Earn, bemused.
He named the album after a line in "A Choir Apart," a driving tune with an air of bemused disaffection.
However, the aficionados around me seemed both bemused and confused, as if the trucks were meant to somehow truck better.
"I dreamed a dream in times gone by," he warbled with committed agony, as bemused Parisian taxi drivers flew past.
He wears the same bemused expression the entire time and, courtesy of his sunglasses, never lets you see his eyes.
Mr. Parrish is an unlikely guru, a computer scientist from Halifax, Nova Scotia, who seems bemused by his sudden cachet.
Ingrid Nutty and Anthony Awy, who were visiting from London, were bemused that a snowy day would make the news.
While some on the left dutifully took up arms, tweeting in support of Keurig, others just seemed bemused (or amused).
This "I" (except when it's God) is consistent in tone, a bemused philosopher, and feels quite close to Smith herself.
He drafted Mr. O'Keeffe, who stepped forward wearing the bemused expression of someone called onto the stage by a magician.
When nothing happens, especially nothing bad, investors are bemused and show their appreciation by throwing more money at the bull.
She captured the chancellor's intensely clear blue eyes and exaggerated the tilt of her mouth, giving her a bemused look.
Public opinion on the game seems to have shifted from rabid enthusiasm/bemused tolerance to rabid enthusiasm/crankiness and general scorn.
The strongest objection to "Let's Go Camping", meanwhile, came in the form of one sternly worded letter from a bemused visitor.
"DeRozan scored only eight points," a bemused Antetokounmpo said, wrinkling his forehead a little as he read from the box score.
Often the gambit is used for comic reasons: an exclamation or bemused facial expression is an easy way to generate laughs.
"ANNOUNCE A TRANSFER" the people cried, their voices reaching a deafening crescendo in the ears of a bemused audience development team.
Right-wing demonstrators (see picture) often demand that the constitutional court be "decommunised", a request that leaves its moderate justices bemused.
Another was also bemused after oil prices fell this week, defying too a steep drop in Libyan production due to unrest.
Now he is bemused to hear that investors are suggesting smaller rounds, less spending and a focus on not losing money.
Inside the building, a young Sudanese man pressed his face to the window and looked out at the angry crowd, bemused.
Every actor and crew member Shaul interviewed seems to understand that Boll isn't very good, but he inspired a bemused loyalty.
His level of investment—minimal, slightly bemused, obsessed with licking his lips—mirrors ours as viewers, in a really real sense.
According to Klug, most of the guards at Sterling tolerate the game, even looking on with bemused curiosity and asking questions.
To the considerable anger of these neighbors, he positioned himself as the bemused and indulgent teacher of big-city professor types.
J.C. The rising Memphis rapper Moneybagg Yo spends much of his impressive new mixtape, "Federal 3X," somewhere between amused and bemused.
How bemused the Koch Brothers and their allies must be to have an acclaimed liberal economist so eagerly turning the crank.
Where last season they had admired his tactical subtlety and enjoyed his pep talks, now they were left befuddled and bemused.
Needless to say that those who've taken the app for a test-ride are experiencing emotions ranging from confusion to bemused enthusiasm.
I distinctly remember showing my Grandma my Atari 800XL graphics demos and her being impressed or, more likely, bemused at my excitement.
Grant also acknowledged that "everyone watches it at Christmas, which is nice," seeming bemused about the movie's status as a Christmas mainstay.
The clip quickly made its way back to Saskatchewan, and bemused Canadians took to Twitter to correct, or at least mock, Wade.
"They were bemused by the fact that students of our age group—and even professors—were so shocked and upset," he said.
Before them, against a backdrop of yellow taxis and bemused drivers, what looked like a 1920s Model-T Ford straddled the sidewalk.
Some locals drinking downstairs in the saloon bar look a little bemused, but it's not only trendy youngsters spilling out the venue.
Even stranger were the large robots that the organizers placed in the lobby, where they engaged in conversations with the bemused guests.
His interpretations are so distant from the originals that I can almost see Monk laughing at the whole thing with bemused satisfaction.
When I handed him my pen, he looked at it bemused, asking the translator what he was supposed to do with it.
Residents greeted news of the event in their backyard with mostly bemused irritation about how it might affect their business or commute.
Skater Cred After a childhood spent skating bowls and half-pipes, Ms. Ahlbom is bemused by the sport's prevalence in pop culture.
Related: Fergie and other National Anthem performances that didn't sing Cameras caught Kimmel's bemused expression, which became fodder for jokes and memes.
Then Trump interrupted Varadkar, who watched with a bemused look as the President savaged the EU alongside one of its national leaders.
Watching Terrace House, you feel like a dog bemused by its reflection in a mirror, marveling at the sheer fact of existence.
He was sat reclined around them not giving a fuck, seemingly bemused and not entertained by the madness going on around him.
Mahrez then bemused a second center back, Martín Demichelis, and shot low inside the near post to beat England's top goalkeeper, Joe Hart.
She seems vaguely bemused by any attempts to frame her career as anything more than a series of lucky opportunities and intuitive choices.
RuPaul hands out eggplants instead of roses, and Bower-Chapman does a spot-on impression of a bemused and slightly sleep-deprived man.
A hidden camera captured their bemused and irritated reactions as a straight-faced cashier acted as if nothing was out of the ordinary.
A video of the robot interacting with Gerst led to some bemused news stories, thanks to  fascinating glitches in the voice assistant software.
It's sure to bring a confused frown or a bemused smile to the face of anyone who hears it for the first time.
Join me on this safari through The Process's psyche as he is first nervous, then intrigued, bemused, enraptured, in pain and, finally, terrified.
We couldn't help but notice the bemused residents and neighbours look on from their windows as tourists take pictures of the charming street.
From these descriptions, an alien observer would be bemused to learn that these harmless phenomena drive some people to scorn, or even anger.
While ethics watchdogs had been getting worked up about the implications of Trump Jr.'s visit, many Indians were bemused by the kerfuffle.
Bemused commenters alighted on a plausible-sounding explanation: that Dr Haleel's poster had been censored by conservative figures on account of her gender.
Many were bemused by the announcement on May 1st that Cornelia Parker was to be the official artist of the 2017 general election.
MANY were bemused by the announcement on May 276.5st that Cornelia Parker was to be the official artist of the 261 general election.
The latest case left many spectators bemused and will prompt inevitable calls for a review of the rules governing running outside the lane.
People here seem pretty bemused at their own interest in the event, and nobody coming out of the elevator looks any more enlightened.
And then there's Duterte, who looks around smiling in a bemused manner as if his presence at the debate is a wacky dream.
Bemused Norwegian Kristoffersen was left to contemplate his sixth second place of the season, with Hirscher the winner in four of those races.
Shi's bemused co-workers, most of them relatives from his hometown, wonder where he gets the energy during a 10-hour work day.
With them having dedicated their young lives to progressing their motorsport career, feeling it coast to a standstill often leaves drivers utterly bemused.
And Strzok, who often wore a bemused smirk as lawmakers squabbled and talked over one another, barged into the hearing loaded for bear.
Here is Kurt Angle, looking a little bemused, maybe a little scared (isn't that Kurt Angle stare intense?), clutching a West Ham shirt.
Sessions appears to have transitioned to a bemused hey-look-it's-crazy-we-are-sitting-next-to-each-other-but-not-talking face.
When Medicare began, doctors were bemused at the idea that government was willing to pay them for what they would do for free.
" The governor seemed almost bemused by the tenor of the N.R.A.'s attacks, saying the group was "if anything, the aggressor toward me.
We walked out bemused and appalled and convinced he would eventually fade, which, well, tells you how much pundits really know about politics.
Kavanaugh watched the arguments in the committee with a bemused look on his face, with his pen poised over a white legal pad.
In his unmistakable nasal drone, Gates examines his own life with a candor that lets him describe his big decisions with bemused attachment.
Nearly a thousand guests looked on, some bemused, as Cornstein spoke warmly of the deepening relationship between the two countries, before hugging Orban.
After speeding around central London for awhile and waving to the occasional bemused pedestrian, DyingLlama climbs down and runs gleefully off into the night.
The whole exchange is painful, from the bemused looks of those on-stage, to the audience rumbling as this whole sordid affair plays out.
Fantastically whimsical in plot, 'The Little Prince' appeals to the child in us that is still bemused by the workings of the adult world.
Sixth seed Milos Raonic was a little bemused when a journalist opened his post-match news conference with a request for some special insight.
The bemused bovine and camera-wielding humans stared at each other through a chain-link fence for several minutes, according to live news video.
Doocy, who has hosted "Fox & Friends" since its inception, in 1998, is the show's jovial, distant dad, greeting all comers with a bemused rictus.
Clearly bemused and in shock by the numbers, Shane said he had never sold that much of anything and it was "impossible" to fathom.
"Elizabeth?" said another D Street year-rounder, Carol Ryan, bemused, as though Elizabeth was any less mysterious a target for terrorism than Seaside Park.
If you're slow, like me, and find yourself bemused by the chronology, don't worry; your reward will be a topnotch twist toward the end.
There is so much to love: the slow, bemused look up at the camera, the nonplussed glance to someone off camera to his right.
Like most of my fellow Melburnians, rather than confront him for his transgressions I gave a wry smile and bemused shake of the head.
There were manic vocal techniques from Mr. Buckner (who tended to sound less bemused than in his equally inventive work in Robert Ashley's operas).
The Voyager received positive (if someone bemused) press coverage when it was announced, even making it to the cover of PC Magazine in 2002.
"You just watch his team's jaws drop to the floor," Trudeau adds in the clip, while the other leaders look on with bemused expressions.
Rarely out of our sight, Ms. Rothe is inexhaustible and funny, with Israel Broussard a perfect foil as her bemused, sweetly bland love interest.
I was delighted to discover that book, having forgotten I owned it, and bemused afterward to learn that it now sells online for $1,800.
For the better part of a year, Bernie Sanders enjoyed a polite if slightly bemused welcome from the non-radical quarters of the Democratic firmament.
In addition to astronomy enthusiasts, the eclipse will draw all kinds, from the curious to the bemused to the any-excuse-for-a-party crowds.
"That's the true constituency for public officials — the funders," Andy Hsia-Coron, a bemused convention delegate, said as he scoffed at Buttigieg's packed fundraising schedule.
Their attitude of bemused indifference suddenly gave way to an aggressive and energetic counterattack, which was helped by a bizarre incident late in the campaign.
This was a bemused flock that had waited in vain for a sermon about what it means to be living in the post-Obama era.
" The exchange ended with Rubio leaving in bemused disgust while Jones accuse him of being a "frat boy" who should "go back to [his] bathhouse.
Her double-handed style had befuddled Wimbledon champion Garbine Muguruza in the second round and Kerber was similarly bemused as she fell 3-1 behind.
Some are bemused by the level of attention I give their trotters, while others are delighted to have their toes and soles sniffed and kissed.
The cat immediately flees when approached by a player, and the bemused broadcasters cut back to some footage of the dog romping around the field.
Critiques of her cooking flooded Twitter no sooner than the videos had been shared on her Snapchat some funny, some simply bemused by her attempt.
As the women pulled down their white handmaid's wings and marched to the nondescript Sinn Fein building, I spoke to a bemused mother and daughter.
A reserved, somewhat enigmatic figure despite his prominent role in public life, Mr. Byrne sometimes seemed bemused by his success and his near-legendary stature.
Uncharacteristically breezy, cheerful, and long (20 songs!), this one stands out as it catches the dour singer-songwriter in a contented, bemused, and lovely mood.
"It'll give us some choices next time," Morgan told a bemused Rick, whose expression said whatever, man, I already know which choice I'm going with.
Bemused, I send out a couple more requests to other Lisbon Francesinha makers of note, only to be met with similar polite but firm rebuffs.
He practices a bemused chuckle, perfects deafness to anything he prefers not to hear and purges from his memory anything he doesn't want to own.
"I didn't know he was going to say today he's made a decision," a bemused Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson said at the time.
Both Ms. Pelosi and Mr. Schumer looked alternately bemused and exasperated by their visit, and both pleaded that the negotiations were best conducted in private.
Purists may be less enchanted, bemused by Miller's sentimental leanings and her determination to make Circe into an ultimately likable, or at least forgivable, character.
Like some other commenters, I was bemused, when I saw the work in reproduction, by what seemed an overwhelming of the wearer by the worn.
Enlisting a bemused informant (Kayvan Novak) to pose as an Arab terrorist, Kendra orchestrates a sting operation designed to entrap Moses rather than investigate him.
Mr. Siem is intensely passionate when talking about classical music, and mildly bemused when pushed on being the subject of the fashion world's fawning admiration.
For the first time, the man gave me a look, a bemused sort of thing, the look you'd give a certain kind of shithead kid.
Another video posted on Twitter showed Mr. Datuna appearing to be escorted out of the Galerie Perrotin space as bemused and stupefied art patrons watched.
He was there Wednesday night and, as so often is the case, he appeared to be looking in, bemused, on his own absurdist theater show.
I assume she was talking about the fact that bemused hotel guests were stopping some of the more recognizable characters to take photos with their kids.
"We went from one prime minister to two prime ministers to no prime minister in a span of 20 days," says Thishya Weragoda, a bemused lawyer.
Starbucks The news that Starbucks is set to invade Italy in 2017 has left an equal measure of horrified Italians and bemused commentators in its wake.
In general, some gay men are irritated by being fetishized by women in this way, which Neville calls "gaypropriation," while still others are bemused or indifferent.
His fiction and poetry, marked by a flat, emotionless style and hipster gimmickry, earned him bemused profiles in publications like New York magazine and the Observer.
His face bore a kind, bemused expression, as it used to when Sam or I would cry and he had no idea how to stop it.
After wheeling onto the stage with an SNL-inspired moving podium, Spicer was rewarded with generous rounds of liberal applause and a bemused Melissa McCarthy GIF.
At one point, he said he had lived a "conflict-free life," a statement that perhaps bemused anyone whose memory stretches back more than two decades.
Worse, our diagnosticians themselves often sound like patients, shouting from the gurney as they're being rushed into intensive care, or like bemused visitors from another planet.
At their meeting with volunteers, a bemused and wary Mike Pence stood behind Trump, looking at him as if he were a big bottle of nitroglycerin.
Like nearly every other person I know, I deeply loved The Favourite, though I remain bemused by its defiance of conventional genre categories at awards ceremonies.
Before him stand an entire squad of bemused Spanish footballers, struggling to overcome the language barrier and understand even a single, solitary word he is saying.
I did not have a problem grasping the theme, which was straightforward and fun, but I found myself bemused and bewildered by a thicket of clues.
Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha then turned on his heel and walked off, leaving the cutout behind, to bemused looks and awkward laughter from the journalists.
His mother, Eleanor Lambert, was an important figure in fashion, and so he was gently bemused by my naïve discovery of the fascinations of Armani suits.
Chanting "Free theater" and "Change the world," they followed us into the parking lot, where there were bemused faces — and a noticeable spring in people's step.
They showed Mr. Macron smiling and nodding at the performance but Mr. Trump looking more bemused — perhaps a sign of the generational split between the two.
Here he is on December 17, equipped with a large coffee, a bemused demeanor, and a charcoal neckbeard as he endorses Texas congressional hopeful Sima Ladjevardian.
Since Wednesday, the company has been on the receiving end of users bemused and angry over a purported change to the format it streams music in.
"If you want to ask any questions on politics or conflict, ask this guy," Prayuth said before walking away, leaving behind a gaggle of bemused reporters.
And at the very end, with the bearing of a bemused and skeptical uncle is Kenda himself, posing gamely with a young woman and her tiny dog.
Twitter user Dian Onno was so bemused by the shirt that she started a Twitter thread featuring some of the label's most controversial items — to hilarious effect.
Later, a patrol van trundles through lanes of humble homes, stopping at a corner where a bemused boy in a blue tracksuit is clutching a crack pipe.
The animated husk that remains pushes through nevertheless, introducing a crowd of volunteers who have been standing behind him this whole time, trading bemused grins in silence.
In one image two lesbians squat on the ground, kissing, next to a yellow balloon emblazoned with the word "Gay"; a line of men looks on, bemused.
There are a couple of metal fans eagerly headbanging, but most of the crowd looks bemused: there are more cell phones held aloft filming than devil horns.
Reviews praised its visuals and a handful of voice performances but were largely still bemused as to why this remake is a thing in the first place.
Hart and Haddish head to an ultrasound clinic to make use of her two-for-one ultrasound discount, where the bemused technician asks Haddish if she's pregnant.
There is, for all the mistakes and bad luck and other annoying Mets-ian aspects, really nothing to feel but gratitude and a sort of bemused awe.
She can turn something as innocuous as singing "Happy Birthday" to Penelope's boss (an adorably bemused Stephen Tobolowsky) into a solo tour de force — and she does.
"I was mentioned in an ASAP Rocky song once, and I think there might be others but I don't remember," Marant says, looking more bemused than anything.
Beyond the externals that echo each woman in particular roles — the accents, the gestures, the hairstyles and gowns — there is an insider's bemused love of them all.
But to even hear such calls from such quarters — or to hear the most vigorous defense of the security services by Democrats — leaves veterans like Gagliano bemused.
As Holmes was recounting his follow-up conversation, his voice took on a bemused pique after recalling Sondland's claim Trump only cared about "big things" in Ukraine.
After eight years of one of the most multilaterally-inclined presidents in U.S. history, a bemused world will host the most nationalist-minded American leader in generations.
He keeps showing up, like some slightly bemused and maniacal houseguest, usually intending to get a laugh but instead taking America back into a wicked time warp.
Shamelessly silly, these memes are funny mostly for being intentionally lazy, even nonsensical, which makes them good for an eyeroll, snort, and bemused repost to your own page.
It has likely struck a bemused Walker that recycled and collaged numbers and alphabets had helped reinvent contemporary art half a century ago, in work by Jasper Johns.
Even when discussing political catastrophes in his measured Cantabrigian tone, he wears a bemused, slightly menacing grin, like a Lewis Carroll character mistakenly dropped into an Orwell novel.
Recalling his arrival in America in 2012, Ramy Adly, an Egyptian player (pictured, below), said that a bemused border guard referred to his instrument as a "broken guitar".
Nearby, a visibly uncomfortable Khloé looked like she wanted to flee the room and a shocked but bemused Kim looked on in a mix of glee and horror.
Raising his arms in triumph and punching the air with a scream of elation, Puritty celebrated his victory in front of a bemused and disappointed sea of spectators.
She looked bemused when Valerie called him her daddy, as if she hardly recognized him by that name; she'd been only three or four when he'd moved out.
She has a bit of a shtick—a habit of cocking her head or raising her eyebrow and speaking confidently but with an air of almost bemused incredulity.
Back when the Independent covered Icke's 2011 tour, many journalists were able to observe Icke's popularity with a bemused smile: Look how funny, people actually believe this nut.
" As for the British, Mr. Tilford said: "There is little awareness of how frustrated, bemused and bored with the whole process much of the rest of Europe is.
"Within Japan, every professional person I speak to is bemused by Brexit," said Paul Bacon, a professor at Tokyo's Waseda University who specializes in Japan's relations with Europe.
Dr. Kelly said he and his wife were bemused by the assumption — and the subsequent backlash against it — that Ms. Kim was a nanny working for the family.
Kimmel — who first came up in comedy through co-hosting The Man Show with Adam Carolla — usually delivers punchlines with a bemused-seeming laugh that masks their acidic sarcasm.
It happened in 2008 with the Cameron vehicle Fireproof, and in 2014 with Pure Flix's God's Not Dead, each hit generating the same bemused surprise from mainstream entertainment media.
The paper was mainly designed to gauge how much Last Jedi backlash was fueled by partisan politics in general, and Bay says he was bemused by the resulting coverage.
Critics are bemused that Trump seems to think he can win over black and Latino voters and they're laughing at what seems to be a big waste of time.
The Iron Man star told Stephen Sackur, host of the BBC News' Hard Talk, that being picked as the "Most Hated Celebrity" in 2013 left her feeling slightly bemused.
After an hour, Senni stood, grinned, and walked off stage as ceiling-mounted fog machines noisily filled the venue for several minutes to the alternately bemused and amused audience.
My friends and I were completely bemused that a white journalist could construct a subdivision of our community based on something as random as our shared admiration for Nirvana.
Russia has complained that Britain has failed to provide any evidence of its involvement in the Salisbury attack and has said it is shocked and bemused by the allegations.
Kylie Jenner is facing the bemused and annoyed opinions of the internet for wearing a high ponytail to designer Alexander Wang's New York Fashion Week show on February 13.
It's a goat, an actual goat, as bemused as I am startled, standing there on the narrow ledge, eyes glinting eerily as if he's been expecting me all along.
It quickly becomes apparent that the video consists of one bloke wandering about the King Power Stadium, sticking a camera in fans' faces and filming their largely bemused reactions.
Dr. McAlister said that her work and her book have bemused and pleased her relatives, including an aunt who is quite delighted to have an author in the family.
Even the Fox News anchor team looked bemused, cutting to a behind-the-scenes shot of the network's "decision desk" and joking about the statisticians focused on their work.
For the next three hours, the wayward bovine plodded past the city's quintessential rowhouses, through a college campus and intersections, sending bemused onlookers scrambling to keep a safe distance.
But now it is selling books and has become fodder on cable news, and scholars say they've found themselves explaining American political upheaval to bemused diplomats of foreign embassies.
In one instance a bemused woman pushing a cart filled with groceries came over to ask—with more than a hint of suspicion—what on earth we were doing.
"I finished my warm-up and went to the locker room and Viktor told me 'good luck' and I was like 'what's going on'?" a bemused Dimitrov said courtside.
Chris, Senator Kennedy at one point was, he seemed bemused by the idea that no bias was found in the report, and he was questioning Horowitz on this issue. Watch.
In a slightly bemused-sounding statement to Variety on April 30, the festival's organizers said that they would be playing the film, and seemed to suggest they had Branco's number.
Just two weeks after eagle-eyed viewers spotted a rogue takeaway coffee cup in an episode of "Game of Thrones," the show's highly anticipated finale left fans bemused once again.
Descending at a stately pace to the foyer, where a crowd of bemused journalists awaited him, the reality-television star was lampooned as a false prophet on a conveyor belt.
Fans looked bemused as the 26-year-old world number 96 offered token resistance, barely running for shots as the 34-year-old Tsonga cruised through to the second round.
The firm's Twitter mentions were soon swamped with reactions from critics, some mocking, some angry, and some simply bemused at how the firm could flub such a seemingly simple task.
The phenomenon has left their older, bemused counterparts — everyone from the editors Gates mentioned to moms to outdoor gear marketers — scrambling to catch up on all that hip Pokémon jargon.
All of that momentarily stopped, however, when an unexpected audio issue left debate moderators Rachel Maddow and Chuck Todd flummoxed and the politicians on stage bewildered and a bit bemused.
In a speech in France, late in his life, he told a bemused audience of sci-fi fans that he'd "had direct contact with the Programmer," as Carrère puts it.
Wool brokers at the Sydney auction on Wednesday were visibly bemused by the bidding, where more than a third of wool bales were passed in, unable to meet reserve prices.
The movie industry calculated that more than half of its audience was under 25; in its own way, "Wild in the Streets" parodies Hollywood's bemused efforts to reach younger viewers.
I don't mean to suggest that Neighbors 2 relies any less than Neighbors did on jokes that want to make you laugh while choking on your popcorn in bemused horror.
Obama's eyes flicked toward the chyron and his face took on a decidedly bemused aspect for a beat before he turned back to their conversation as if nothing had happened.
Later on came Johnson, who doesn't dislike the press as much as he is bored by the whole thing, almost bemused as to why anyone would care about his thoughts.
At 19-Across, I was amused and bemused by the notion of "a hundred-dollar millionaire" — I learned the expression "All hat, no cattle" and not ALL FLASH NO CASH.
No wonder England manager Gareth Southgate, who was less than convinced by his side's defending in a 4-0 win over Bulgaria on Saturday, looked a little bemused at times.
The House Speaker looked somewhat surprised and bemused as he walked away to begin his address, which came on the eve of Trump's expected acquittal in his Senate impeachment trial.
When asked about whether they were preparing in any way for a Trump victory, bigwigs at many of the industry's leading tech and financial firms were bemused by the notion.
Greek television broadcast images of bemused pensioners, many of whom lived through the Nazi occupation of Greece, sitting on plastic chairs and drinking bottled water provided by the local government.
He's a man who, after being part of the most popular boy band this side of the millennia, can still convincingly seem like he's bemused by his fame and wealth.
Not long after coming on, he strolled under a pick and watched, bemused, as the fellow he was putatively supposed to defend gathered himself and sank a 183-point shot.
Fans looked bemused as the 26-year-old world number 228 lost Tuesday's match 22014-22016 20-240 26-53, a performance described as "appalling" and "embarrassing" on social media.
It's clear they've heard this request before and they look rather bemused as they direct me towards an unassuming back door that leads to the headquarters of Rabbit Republic Ltd.
A multidimensional quilt alternates from the winning smile of Jackie O., to the gleaming face of Oprah, to the bemused look of Mother Teresa—all relative to the viewer's position.
The repetition of the words "Gubi chair" and Sasha's bemused and annoyed reaction to it is cackle-inducing, but it also sparks a genuine question: what exactly is a Gubi chair?
Consider his clip for 1982's "You Got Lucky," which opens with an ominous, John Carpenter-like instrumental score, and eventually finds Petty—bemused but determined—ambling around a dusty apocalypse.
"She was very bemused to see me on the finish line and has been very clingy today as if she is thinking I might go away again," Paris told the BBC.
Happy, sad, surprised, confused, bemused, disgusted, forlorn, angry — go ahead and express them all, as there is no emotion that doesn't instantly apply to MTV's new Movie & TV Awards category: trending.
But Japan remains bemused at Mrs May's persistent refusal to accept that Britain faces a trade-off between its access to European markets, and its ability to write its own rules.
The last five minutes would have been excruciatingly awkward for Formula One management as the clock wound down with no drivers on track and with fans left bemused in the grandstands.
That global audiences are joining the homegrown "Trudeaumania," a phenomenon first seen a generation ago amid the popularity of Trudeau's father, former prime minister Pierre Trudeau, leaves Canadians a bit bemused.
I can read about some of your lived experiences, but I think I connect much more with the bemused frustration at carrying 4 cans of deet and taking that weight penalty.
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Which is why a bemused Yank––VICE's US weekend editor, Zach Sokol––sent me a series of wide-ranging questions in an attempt to make sense of the whole sorry mess.
He received applause for declaring that countries should act in their own interest and for his backing of women's equality, but only bemused murmurs for his bellicose threats toward North Korea.
Some are simple turns of phrase, like "blood, ket and tears," while others take the form of videos of bemused k-holing crusaders caught on snapchat the wrong side of 11AM.
At one point, he pulled a bemused Mr. Iti onstage to make a point about unity, before Mr. Iti retreated amid protest from the other representatives, the moderators and the audience.
Social media abounds with images of dogs (some bemused, some wagging their tails so hard as to sprain them) alongside their isolated persons: Dogs are now our proxy for other humans.
He drew big press scrums and wore a bemused grin — a face to indicate that he had seen some things in a career that has taken some unforeseen turns, particularly now.
He was bemused by the "quick, unaccountable" life of the city, and took to sitting for spells of restorative peace in St. Patrick's Cathedral—unbelieving, but savoring the aura of sanctity.
A group of Japanese tourists surveys the gorgeous pink hams, salami, cold cuts and shelves of housemade Düsseldorf-style mustard with horseradish; they look bemused by a bottle of currywurst ketchup.
Here, Poirier's short poem somehow manages to capture a national mood, or at least some part of it: Bemused disgust pervades, but there remains a bit of room, perhaps, for optimism.
At one point, she noted that journalists kept asking her to show them "a day in the life of Mitski" and that she was bemused by what they had in mind.
With Lex Luger's flatly industrial beat spilling out into the Meadows's parking lot, he enters to "Loud" with a bemused smile on his face, stoked to be here, a little surprised.
A leader by example, she kept her act in the tightest of formations as she displayed emotional highs and lows from her Lemonade album and earlier work — beguiling, bewitching, bemused, benevolent Beyoncé.
While Masha chirps about recently playing a TV rape victim and avoiding food to improve her bikini body, Bonnie looks on bemused, yet aware she is far past that kind of thinking.
"Is this a narrative film," he asked a (quite bemused) audience in Rotterdam, "or a 83-minute-long marketing video" produced by the film's fictitious corporation to promote the album it contains?
As dozens of journalists, curious onlookers and bemused tourists gathered in the square outside the Gothic government palace in central Barcelona, residents expressed confusion about who was actually in charge of Catalonia.
A police investigation opened just as Matta-Clark went to France; and he stayed abroad while his lawyer tried to convince the bemused authorities that "Day's End" was art, not maladroit vandalism.
That endearing quality is compounded by the slightly bemused response Smash Mouth has given to its newfound internet fame: unsure, but cautiously accepting, like your dad when you try to describe Snapchat.
Despite those pointed barbs and bemused media coverage of the unusual origins of his campaign, Gravel has struggled to gain mainstream acceptance that he is, in fact, a real candidate for president.
On the table next to them sit Arsène Wenger and Dick Law, trying to convince a pair of bemused Olympique Lyonnais officials to sell them their best player for a middling fee.
She has a dry sense of humor, which, these days, tends to emerge in a bemused tone or a sly look, and in a general willingness to play herself as a character.
The truth seems to be that Olympic gold medallist Kurt Angle just defaults to that sort-of bemused, sort-of stimulated, very terrifying stare when a camera gets up in his face.
"He's spread across three seats, laying out as if it's something very boring for him to listen to," thundered Green MP Caroline Lucas, as Rees-Mogg looked bemused and refused to budge.
The artist Takashi Murakami, who was, in many ways, the spiritual center of the convention thanks to his manga-inspired work and collaborations with Kanye West, was openly bemused by Complexcon's attendees.
We feel smarter after watching Stiles's performance, too, because she approaches shame and fear the way we would, if we could: bravely, with bemused sympathy and more than a little humor. ♦
Over the next eight days, Hendrick tweeted more than 50 times on issues ranging from Iran's Kashmir policy to CNN, adopting the tone of a bemused but naive observer with ties to Russia.
One of the two bemused American players, Mitchell Krueger, whacked a tennis ball far out of bounds toward the source of the racket, which the TV commentator said came from a nearby apartment.
The first act is flat, but it picks up considerably once Carol Danvers crash-lands her wisecracking self on Earth and gets to spend some time bouncing off a cheerfully bemused Nick Fury.
On Sunday, Jaguars fans were bemused by Jadeveon Clowney calling their QB Blake Bortles "trash"—especially because Jacksonville had just trounced Clowney's Texans 45-7 with Bortles throwing 326 yards for three touchdowns.
Ms. Luna explained to bemused onlookers that the event last week was a purification ritual intended to flush out "the curse" of bad government, along with fear, coercion, vote buying, apathy and violence.
Though her candidacy was initially treated as a joke—not least because of her Long Island lock-jaw accent (despite being from Texas)—commentators have started to discuss Williamson with a bemused respect.
As Liebling's profile became a series of articles and then finally a book (which I treasure), his regard for Long evolved from one of bemused contempt to respectful admiration for a wily politician.
As leaks from the book began pouring out yesterday, Comey was said to be "bemused" by Twitter attacks from Trump — and preemptive pushback from the RNC, which set up a "Lyin' Comey" site.
The good news about the new film from Yorgos Lanthimos, "The Favourite," is that you are likely to emerge from it in good humor—bemused, or amused, or a mixture of the two.
James, in patchwork jeans and a denim oxford, commanded the room with a generous attention that took a variety of forms, depending on the student who was receiving it: gentleness, prodding, bemused sarcasm.
He still had the world-weary look of a detective who is bemused, or maybe amused, by the absurdity of what the person across a table in an interrogation room has just said.
Attired in a smart blue suit and tie for the Cavalli show, the executive seemed bemused by a parade of scrawny male models clomping around a carpeted runway left soggy by afternoon thundershowers.
During most of his first term, the governor's reluctance to leave the state left some political observers bemused, wondering at its impact on his national profile, and the wooing of far-flung donors.
His campaign manager Jeff Roe fired off a series of bemused tweets about the state of the motel, lamenting the presence of "the long hair on the pillow" that he found in his room.
It was there on the day of his inauguration, a gray and rainy morning in January 2014, when a grinning McAuliffe arrived to take the oath, his friends flashing bemused smiles from the crowd.
Floryd is merely bemused by the fuss, the "complete joke" has received, saying it was inspired by an Australian friend of hers, Sam, when they had a disagreement about '80s indie band The Smiths.
But it's embarrassing to see someone once lauded as a "tech-savvy" politician seem bemused that technology and economics have intersected to produce something more complicated than ragged hobos staring into a burning barrel.
She is bemused by the modern tendency to eschew solemn funerals in favor of rapturous commemorations of the deceased person's life, events that are often so exuberant that they might be confused with weddings.
The Turkish reaction was sarcastic, skeptical, and bemused: In the staged performance of living culture there is always an element of ridicule, unlike with religious ritual, where there is a sense of the otherworldly.
A prelude set in Paris's revolutionary days depicts the execution of a treasonous aristocrat, dividing Iosseliani's bemused affection between the bawdy, gawking throng and the condemned man, who refuses to part with his pipe.
Both brands eventually managed to get their drinks to the bemused astronauts, after wrestling with the brain-melting amount of science it took to figure out how to consume a carbonated beverage in space.
James himself drifts away from "Homeland," turned off by its accelerating daftness and bemused by the "knotted hands and tossing head" of Claire Danes in her role as the bipolar C.I.A. officer Carrie Mathison.
So we were bemused that the major Sunday talk shows on the three networks and cable news — whose panels focus each week on buzzy topics in politics — all maintained radio silence about the essay.
There was neurotic, little Woody Allen as Alvy Singer, seen in a childhood flashback, panicking to a bemused shrink about the universe expanding (and then still obsessed with his own mortality as an adult).
Their condescension to him and his bemused response are the most interesting things in the play; when Jenny confesses she is a racist, "like everyone in the country," what can Hal answer but "great"?
The great Bill Paterson is at his bemused best as Adam's exasperated neighbor, and Michael McKean and Miranda Richardson are fun to watch as the aging witchfinder, Shadwell, and his accommodating landlady, Madame Tracy.
After a series of questions about Harper — the magnetic, 26-year-old star who turned down a $300 million from the Washington Nationals to become a free agent — Cashman went from bemused to incredulous.
Letts was dubbed "Jihadi Jack," but his mother Sally has said her son did not leave the UK for Syria to join the Islamic State, saying she is "bemused" by reports that he did.
"We are bemused by Mr Maseko's six-year-old allegations, which are totally unfounded," Nazeem Howa, CEO of Oakbay Investments, the holding company for the Gupta family's businesses in South Africa, said in a statement.
After a roughing-up from Bob Woodward and a bruising ambush by the New York Times, Trump rolled into Billings, Montana, Thursday to deliver a rally speech so unhinged that even his supporters appeared bemused.
You get the sense that they're bemused more than anything that the music they've loved and pushed for decades is now resulting in people like myself trying to get them to comment on maybe-zeitgeists.
Broker RBC Europe noted that a subsidiary partially owned by a minority was nothing new, given that it owned 62 percent of Brazilian brewer Ambev, but added that it was "bemused" by the valuation figures.
Maybe, like Lin, the men named in the #MeToo movement will write novels based on their abusive relationships, and maybe, like Lin, the reviews will be bemused over the content and praising of the prose.
To this day I am bemused by the occasional white person who assumes that I have a "story" to tell about triumphing over racism, that I was raised by working-class parents just getting by.
Michael McFaul, a former U.S. ambassador to Russia under Barack Obama who has himself met Kislyak, said he was bemused by what he said was the Trump administration's secrecy about its contacts with Russian officials.
Norwegian title holder Magnus Carlsen and Fabiano Caruana were bemused onlookers as the U.S. actor began their eagerly anticipated match-up by knocking over the American challenger's king, the move that traditionally signals a concession.
In one delightful highway scene, Sal taunts an 18-wheeler, prompting his preacher friend to finally unleash a flurry of obscenities at his old friend for courting disaster, while Doc looks on in bemused delight.
There's thrill and often a bemused adult chaperone along for the ride -- grownups like Andy James, who took his 9-year-old brother to see Grande at the Manchester Arena as an early birthday present.
It's only Dan Budnik's portrait of a smiling O'Keeffe, eleven years before her death, that offers a slightly different view of the woman: as someone bemused at having so long performed the role of herself.
"It's even become hard to publish papers in academic journals," Mr. He said with a half-bemused shake of his head in a bookstore cafe near Peking University, where he has taught for 23 years.
They are of use, however, to the byzantine plot Lennon is constructing, and of considerable interest to the curious Observer, whose conception of itself, and of the characters it watches, is in constant, bemused flux.
The FBI videotapes show Little, sitting in front of a cinder block wall in blue jail scrubs and a gray knit cap, sometimes appearing bemused or smiling as he recalls the circumstances surrounding the murders.
"Rosenblatt's accomplishment is to draw the reader so completely into Murphy's mind and heart and memory, so thoroughly into the poet's amused (and sometimes bemused) consciousness," that plot becomes secondary, our reviewer, Brian Doyle, said.
It was only ever going to be a delaying tactic, but the Democrats inflicted pain and frustration on their GOP opponents and left Kavanaugh with a bemused look on his face, anchored to his chair.
Although the club were allowed to continue to a 23.5-20113 away leg victory, Arkan was bemused by this bureaucratic show of force and supposedly arranged to have the then-UEFA president, Lennart Johansson, assassinated.
"I spoke to more than a half-dozen of them, all of whom found themselves in some way bemused, frustrated, or disappointed in the way that the US press has covered Putin and Russia," Yaffa wrote.
Although the archly bemused tone of their earlier music persists, in the congested vocals especially, expanding their repertoire from obscurantist guitar-rock to rousing, left-leaning, funk-inflected guitar-rock means they're now unifying multiple traditions.
Forget the fact that the producers are going to have serious difficulties getting around what we shall henceforth dub "The Casino Scene", in which Pattinson is going to have to racially abuse a bemused Japanese extra.
Her subjects' expressions are never blank, never without an experience to share: they are angry, bemused, wistful, and bored and, just as Sherman herself is, rife with stories and lived lives that aren't to be ignored.
As I watched gleeful Republicans in the Rose Garden last Thursday, I was bemused by the contrast between Mr. Ryan's stated concern for vulnerable people and the obvious disregard his health care bill shows for them.
TIRANA/PRISTINA (Reuters) - As the Brexit referendum goes down to the wire, some in the Balkans are bemused by the possibility of Britain voting to leave a club they are banging on the door to join.
I strolled with the bemused taxista Ray through the lonely field in golden light, reading names from overgrown gravestones — one shaped like a tree trunk — and pausing at a gazebo until the mosquitoes drove us out.
The movie, called "Whiskey Tango Foxtrot," comes out on March 4, and my book — also now called "Whiskey Tango Foxtrot" — has been republished, with a photograph of a bemused Fey on the cover, an explosion behind her.
The joy in Mahnke's podcast is often in putting the puzzle pieces together; his bemused, affable delivery makes it fun to pick apart the pieces that have led to some of our best-known myths and legends.
So for me, this might well replace Legacy's White Country Blues whenever I need reminding that the Trumper-spawning white supremacists who lost the Civil War had their moments of blessed foolishness, bemused melancholy, and supernal grace.
And for now, life in the Jungle goes on, even as many of those who live there appear to regard some of the added elements — the offbeat civic life so prized by the volunteers — with bemused detachment.
But it would be fair to say that he was definitely bemused when we asked him to look back on what he might consider the moment that made him realize that he wanted to be a fighter.
Despite their defensive unit consisting of a utility man, two full-backs and a bemused winger, shielded by an ancient Michael Carrick, they only conceded one goal on the way to nabbing three points from the Swans.
Harold and the other man look, not without kindness, at the viewer, bodies relaxed, fully at home; Harold is slightly apprehensive, hands folded in his lap, while his younger companion is confident but also a bit bemused.
"The nostalgia for Bush right now always entertains me," said a bemused — almost mocking — McCain, echoing what she said earlier in the segment after the other panelists chided Republicans for valuing power over the country, they said.
Whether he's playing a poetry-writing bus driver or Darth Vader's grandson, he speaks with the same bemused enthusiasm about every role—as though he's grateful but a little confused to have been asked in the first place.
The season's final moments depict the new lords of the Colombian drug trade toasting to their continued success, while a bemused committee of DEA bigwigs wonders how cocaine production could have gone up if Escobar's empire was crumbling.
D'Souza becomes a participant-observer-bemused-tour-guide through his own life, so when he re-enacts his trial for breaking campaign finance laws, he can depict himself as a hapless victim of an over-charged judicial system.
Instead, they made up their own lyrics—a brilliant, surreal tale of a kid (the earnest, bemused K-Rob) who's on his way home and a hectoring pimp (Ramm) who tries to tempt him toward the dark side.
Photos and video posted to social media by bemused but delighted passengers showed the horse, a 27-inch-tall mare, walking around the airport, passing through airport security, and sitting quietly in a foot well during the flight.
The crowd sat dumbfounded as Nishikori despatched a delicate volley to break in the opening game and watched on bemused as the Japanese created another three break points in the third game and one more in the fifth.
Her bemused take on tragedy — she utters an amazing, rueful chuckle while saying "I think someone is lying" — sets the tone for the rest of the 75-minute show, which has been rearranged and condensed into one act.
In the spice market, drifts of dried chilies elicited sneezes from browsing shoppers, while in the meat market, bemused tourists took cover as black kites circled and dived to snatch shreds of goat from the stall-holders' palms.
BERLIN — "We choose what is intense, even if we don't like it," said Jonas Burgert, an artist based in Berlin, pausing, bemused, in front of a stainless steel buffet unit spouting luridly pigmented water on the gallery floor.
" As museumgoers wandered in and out of the reading room, bemused by the sight of Ms. Sidibe and me hunkered down on a sofa there, she said: "Honestly, I think women in general have a lot of guilt.
Speedskating fans and competitors were bemused recently when skaters from three countries — Germany, Norway and South Korea — showed up to the first World Cup event of the season wearing new uniforms in a suspiciously similar shade of blue.
Ordinarily I wouldn't have heard this term since my school days, back when we minded our beeswax, but I am somewhat bemused to say that this came up recently as proof against the lamentable modern Flat Earth movement.
So is her singing, as she cultivates a bemused indifference that cracks at unexpected moments, like when "Cool" ascends into a gleeful high note ("Ooooooooooh" is the best vowel to draw out, as she and Taylor Swift know).
He tends to watch Swansea with a sort of bemused look on his face, occasionally throwing out a weak hand gesture, quietly watching the clock and daydreaming about going home and making himself a delicious pasta bake for one.
Poland's prime minister will go head to head with her 27 European Union peers in Brussels on Thursday in a row over the reappointment of the Polish chairman of their summits that has left the other member states bemused.
So my mom films me triumphantly wetting my hair in this new way, but on my rise, I accidentally smash my soft head on the tub's tap resulting in traumatized waterworks from me and bemused confusion from my brother.
Bernard Mensah, the president of Bank of America Merrill Lynch in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, said his bosses in the United States were bemused Britain's decision to leave the EU and it diverting attention from bigger challenges.
Kellyanne Conway, Trump's campaign manager, is playing some parlor game to see how far she can travel from reality, how creatively she can gin up distractions and how subtle an expression — by turns bemused and beatific — she can wear.
In the end, though, "All I Need Is One Night" suggests, delicately and with bemused affection, that what befell Solidor was rather banal: She grew old, and had trouble accepting that she was no longer the center of attention.
He speculated in California land and was, once again, a kind of innocent, bemused spectator to the coming of the gold rush, in 1849, more or less stumbling into a significant (though later much adjudicated) mineral holding near Yosemite.
As well as the usual epic harmonising and quirky anecdotes, there's also an entertaining sequence where Lovato, Jonas and Corden (or "JND," as they're keen to be known) play on a street corner in front of some mildly bemused onlookers.
They were described by media as this year's "Ed Miliband bacon sandwich incident," referring to an infamously unflattering photo of the former Labour leader looking bemused as he chewed on a bacon sandwich in the lead-up to the 2015 election.
I was about to move my mother to a dementia care facility, and let me be honest: the maudlin pictures of pleasantly bemused older people forgetting names that we are shown in media are never the real pictures of the disease.
Where other stars attempt to actively sculpt and control their public image, Reeves submits to the sometimes intrusive attention with bemused acceptance, aware of but apparently unbothered by the fact that there's an outsize version of himself living in people's heads.
This omission left some fans bemused, and one Belieber decided to write to the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Culture, asking for a "detailed explanation" about why exactly a singer of Bieber's "extraordinary" talents was not making a stop in the city.
It's also easy to forget that you need a double tap to play or pause, and then you end up spending 10 seconds single-tapping the side of your headphones expecting something to happen, and drawing bemused looks from passers-by.
But Rosenblatt's accomplishment is to draw the reader so completely into ­Murphy's mind and heart and memory, so thoroughly into the poet's amused (and sometimes bemused) consciousness, that the minimal plot and even less action are rarely cause for complaint.
Biden's middle-class populism is an easy counter to Trump's rich man's populism; his rejoinder to "make America great again" is he obviously never stopped believing in America's greatness; his bemused condescension would've found its perfect target in Trump's brash ignorance.
During a recent interview with Good Morning America's George Stephanopoulos, the president appeared bemused, saying he had attended a "very brief meeting" on the subject and confirmed that "people are saying they're seeing UFOs" but he did "not particularly" believe it.
Apple was rightly bemused by the question but gave the coach, later identified as defensive backs coach Marquand Manuel, the benefit of the doubt, guessing that he was trying to catch the player off guard to see how he reacted.
"You're not going to find this a bit difficult, you're really not," he tried to reassure his frequently bemused-looking vocal troops at one rehearsal, which he led in shorts, boat shoes and a long-sleeved striped French sailor shirt.
Handing out fliers and strolling through the local market, Dhorasoo's past clearly helps stoke interest among voters even if at times they are a bit bemused to hear him talking about the environment or of how their district has been neglected.
This was made clear to me early in the game, from everyone to my friends who snickered at me to the Vietnamese seafood shop owners in my neighborhood of Mid City who watched, bemused, as I struggled through the ordering process.
He did "Nassim" on a Wednesday evening, showing up after an "All My Sons" rehearsal looking slightly disheveled and appearing bemused as he awaited instructions hidden in a box on a table on the stage at New York City Center.
Quite what the actual man was like I wouldn't claim to know, though after defeating Oliver McCall for the WBC Heavyweight title, he went so far as to repeatedly state "I'm not an Uncle Tom" to a bemused Sky Sports interviewer.
What he wanted for himself, he wanted for us both," and it's deeply touching to hear her mimic his voice, speaking to her "in a tone he only used with me — a bemused scolding — admiration without envy, our brother-sister language.
A group of people waited in line and watched the visiting French president Emmanuel Macron and his motorcade drive by; a passing tourist was both impressed and bemused by the eagerness of Finns to queue for this seemingly innocuous attraction.
With so many New Yorkers are always on the street, this should make for easy marketing, not only the bemused citizenry (that's normal every time they take a prototype out) but also delivery people and executives — potential customers, in other words.
Whether the next one results in a bemused grin or cross-eyed confusion, I welcome them all—because I'm just one Instagram story behind you in my social media journey to discover my true self through my own unending boredom.
Rather, it was a certain bemused detachment particular to their class, which nobler ages have called the federal civil service or the public sector, but which our own time tends to refer to as the deep state or the shadow government.
Some people looked a little bemused; a couple of royals looked as if they were on the verge of giggling, at least according to the The Daily Mail, which likes to stir up trouble, in this case with mild insinuation.
He hauled McConnell to the Rose Garden to convince the world that they're actually friends, then bragged that he had legislative plans he hadn't even yet shared with the Senate majority leader, who stood by looking alternately amused and bemused.
Warmer Waters As a supporter of Hillary Clinton who lives in an open-carry state and drives past Trump lawn signs every day, I was bemused by the hold-your-nose-and-vote tone of Steve Coll's Comment (August 8th & 15th).
Ahead of the trial, however, no accusations that Zhang was working for her government have emerged, and her appearances in court -- bemused and bizarre, as she recently has acted as her own attorney — come off more hapless tourist than secret agent.
The sequel, 17 years later, is the Rustin Man album "Drift Code," and it's a throwback to the post-psychedelic British prog rock of the late 1960s and early 1970s — particularly Soft Machine and its bemused, melancholy singer, Robert Wyatt.
But though that interaction is fleshed out with conversation only alluded to in the book, the dialogue — mostly about chiggers — does not really support Alice's bemused contention that her future husband was never again so funny as he was that night.
Above all, when our children develop strong intellectual preferences — and never doubt it, that's what we're talking about here — it should bring on that mildly bemused parental headshaking sense that each child is an individual, with a remarkable, fascinating individual brain.
Although lots of news coverage of robots and AI veers between wild apocalyptic predictions and a sort of bemused wonderment, we need to split the difference and consider the real, unexciting challenges ahead — most of which will have political, not technological, solutions.
Her breathy vocal style and talk of touch and physicality my perception of the album's sex and erotica feel pretty obvious (perhaps because in the touch-starved UK accidentally bumping knees with someone is a cause for fluster), but Lafawndah is bemused.
Of course, this doesn't mean we're hoping Skepta is going to go full Alex Turner and pull rock'n'roll poses in front of a bemused crowd of ITV2 presenters and nervous X Factor finalists, but the recognition afforded here is a powerful statement.
What makes "The Pisces" an experimental, exciting work is that Ms. Broder manages to knead together the genres of magical realism — Theo, the merman, is always presumed to be real; no apparitions here — and literary erotica, all with a bemused, wry detachment.
Before long, he'd taken charge of the stove to cook up a recipe from home, picking up a bottle of vegetable oil and pouring the entire contents into the pan, then turning to the bemused kitchen crew and motioned for a second bottle.
As she walked through the Inn, which holds the earliest records of any of the four Inns of Court dating from 1422, observers said the monarch looked bemused by a portrait of her late sister, Princess Margaret, painted by Bryan Organ in 1970.
The scandalous premise allows for plenty of truly excellent dirty jokes as well as an excuse to throw Emma Thompson (who co-wrote the screenplay alongside original book author Helen Fielding and Dan Mazer) into the mix as Bridget's bemused OB/GYN.
" Mr. McCullough said he contacted Mr. Burns after seeing him tell this year's graduating class at Stanford University that despite 40 years of avoiding advocacy in his work, he no longer had "the luxury of neutrality or 'balance' or even of bemused disdain.
"It's a sturdy house, and it's held together nicely," said Mr. Shteyngart, who, admittedly, was uncertain about the purpose of the mudroom and bemused by the six-burner stove, a legacy from a previous resident who had owned a nearby Mexican eatery.
As bemused business travelers with wheelie bags stood in the departures hall, waiting for their last flights home, a crowd of 2,300 guests, dressed in sequins and suits and clutching their passports, descended upon the check-in area, ready for take off.
BUXTON, England, March 28 (Reuters) - A rural British police force has bemused the public with unusual responses to the coronavirus crisis including dyeing a lagoon black to dissuade people from going there and flying drones over a remote beauty spot to shame walkers.
Trump repeating the same anecdote about Elton John and a brutal dictator to a bemused set of world leaders sounds like the latest Twitter joke about America's president — just another Gorilla Channel moment on the blurry edge of panic and dark humor.
And so for a little while the vet continued to come, every four weeks, as he had said, Augustus appearing to revive after each visit, but then relapsing into his increasingly bemused state, his intelligence and physical sharpness now things of the past.
As for Thunberg, her reaction to her attackers remains as bemused and clinical as ever: I honestly don't understand why adults would choose to spend their time mocking and threatening teenagers and children for promoting science, when they could do something good instead.
Despite the extensive and detail-oriented research that is presented in this volume, the family's relationship to Bruce Lee—a global icon who has statues in his image on four different continents—is mentioned only once, as a sort of bemused side note.
So empowered, in fact, that she tries to get ahead of it: After a different guy tells her he doesn't want to go home with her following dinner, she launches, bemused, into a monologue about how she gets it—he's just not that into her.
There we caught up with the filmmaker and native Kallstadter Simone Wendel, whose documentary "Kings of Kallstadt" is a wry look at her town's simultaneously bemused and bewildered response to the fact that two famous American families, Heinz and Trump, hail from her tiny town.
And, as Vox's Dylan Scott writes, that posed a big problem for Gravel: Despite those pointed barbs and bemused media coverage of the unusual origins of his campaign, Gravel has struggled to gain mainstream acceptance that he is, in fact, a real candidate for president.
On Friday, Klinsmann returned to his home in California and was bemused by the criticism he was receiving in the news media for two recent losses by his team, which had damaged — but not erased — its chances of qualifying for the 2018 World Cup.
Mr. Giuliani's successor, Michael R. Bloomberg, played his role as somewhat of a bemused emissary; he grimaced through bad jokes — "Who wrote this [expletive]?" he said after one particularly bad hot-dog pun in 2012 — and winced after Staten Island Chuck bit him in 2009.
With his wit and arrogance and bemused lust for destruction, Mr. Bannon helped destabilize the political and social norms of our society — the government's commitment to civil rights, for example, and the simple wisdom that Nazis and white supremacists should hide their faces with shame.
Flanked by Vice President Mike Pence and House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy -- both stone-faced -- as well as a bemused-looking Republican Whip Steve Scalise, Trump shrugged off the descriptions of himself in the book as the work of his fired chief strategist Steve Bannon.
Admirers of Nichols, whose finest films, like "Take Shelter" (2011) and "Mud" (2012), are fraught with a foreboding more mysterious than any law could cope with, may be bemused that he has turned to this ennobling saga, yet you can still feel the dramatic pressure.
Which is how I ended up at iFly's new VR experience near Universal Studios in LA this week, dressed in a jump suit, strapped into a Samsung Gear, and floating over Hawaii while bemused tourists wandering the retail center outside the theme park gawped and 'grammed.
Anyway, my point is that there are many films made each year that lack the depth of feeling, dramatic sweep, and unfussy honesty of Alonzo Mourning Bemused Acceptance Dot GIF, which captures the Miami Heat legend progressing from seething anger to a weary but wise comprehension.
After my fingers adjusted to this bemused sensation and I was a few thousand words in — and with the caveat that this is obviously subjective — I'd already concluded that this was the best keyboard I'd ever used on a portable device in terms of response and accuracy.
The announcement that the Interior Ministry will become the Ministry of the Interior, Construction and Homeland provoked a bemused mix of ridicule and anger, especially among younger urban liberals, who see the proposal at best as kitsch and at worse as a reversion to a sinister nationalism.
The group started snapping pictures and speaking in enthusiastic whispers, although it was hard to say whether they kept their voices low out of respect for the art, or for the dozens of students giving them bemused looks, hunched over seemingly endless rows of Mac computers.
When I rounded one last cluster of trees and finally saw it full on, I was even more bemused — by an intricate network of lattices, taking the form of a rough cube and rising some 40 feet into the air above a slope clad in wildflowers.
The front row crowd, which included fashion figures like Virgil Abloh and Luka Sabbat, sat on plastic chairs next to bemused but smiling local residents; lots of the latter also held small parties in their front gardens or hung out of their windows to watch the show.
He told memorable stories (like the one about a rat in a screening that he recounted at the Indie Spirit Awards, held the night before the Oscars) and gave memorable interviews in which he seemed both delighted by his success and a little bemused by it.
His Brad is so natural in his masculinity and in his bemused willingness to help without understanding much, except what he's attracted to—which is to say, after a while, the skeptical and then flirtatious Nyasha—that you start to laugh even before he speaks a line.
COLONEL (RET'D) SIMON DIGGINSCombined Joint Task Force Horn of Africa, AFRICOM, 2011Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire Judging from the tone of your article previewing the Australian election ("Heated debate", May 18th) you are probably bemused as to how the Liberal coalition, with its "reactionary" view on climate change, won the poll.
Casey's Hermit card features a woman lighting her way through darkness, a man spinning a gradient of bright stripes, and a sleeping figure; her Three of Swords—depicted in the Rider-Waite as a heart pierced by three blades—has a bemused Charlie Brown, Snoopy atop his head.
Tavassoli came across his drug, Compound 2516, more or less by chance, while designing a way to screen a new class of cancer drug, and he still seems somewhat bemused by the fact that his lab is now a front-runner in the race to develop an exercise pill.
But as a millennial with an innate resistance to liking anything associated with the extremely boring sport of golf, I mostly found myself bemused by the presence of golf carts in all these places where wealthy people are in abundance — but there&aposs not a golf course in sight.
She starts dating Kelley, the white guy who made the tape, and is bemused to find that all his friends are black and most of his ex-girlfriends were women of color; when he casually drops the n-word in front of her, she doesn't know how to react.
And they'd likely be bemused by To All the Boys I've Loved Before, in which the Korean American mom died years before the movie starts (no direct applications of intergenerational immigrant guilt here), leaving Lara Jean Covey (Lana Condor) to live with her doctor dad (John Corbett) and two sisters.
A girl found a dead body while playing, a group of teenagers used the app's in-game features to lure people close and rob them, and police departments have even issued mildly bemused warnings to players reminding them to do basic things like look both ways before crossing the street.
Fumbler?) Until then, all the times I have my single-ness shoved in my face (watching couples lovingly sway at concerts, or post on Instagram in honor of their first date or first couple's STD testing), I just look on with a kind of bemused incomprehension, like watching a nature documentary.
Despite Pemex's promise to issue no new debt and implement cost-cutting measures, along with the added benefit of tax cuts from the government, the company has bemused investors by favoring investment into oil refining over the profitable upstream oil and gas business, such as exploration and production (E&P).
As a rapper, he distinctly recalls 2 Chainz in his defiantly bemused tone and theatric bewilderment at the existence of people who don't consider him the greatest rapper alive, but he's more rhythmically inventive, enlivening his mechanical triplets with stutters, whoops, speedy juxtapositions of multiple flow patterns into a single verse.
"Are you saying it's the day without a woman and nobody told me," a bemused Bee, 47, announced after delivering a head-scratching sports joke that segued into a Trump administration quip featuring the name of former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn misspelled as "Micael Flyne" below a photo of Cookie Monster.
For this selfie, which I took on a train zipping through Belgium (attracting the bemused stares of a fiercely modest people), I wanted to see if I could minimize my cleavage with the blur function – some family members follow me on Instagram – as well as add a pop of color to my cheeks.
If you'd been a visitor to the English cathedral city of Lincoln on a grey December day six years ago, you might have encountered an odd sight—a hot and stressed young man darting through the town, dodging and diving past traffic and bemused pedestrians, a suit case flailing in his wake.
All three are characterized by a mood of free-floating homesickness, as well as the interplay of German anomie and American popular culture; all of them star the craggy, bemused Rüdiger Vogler, feature Mr. Wenders's wife at the time, Lisa Kreuzer (sometimes billed as Elisabeth Kreuzer), and show a remarkable eye for landscape.
I remember looking out a window from my girlfriend's apartment at one of these marathons, a little further down the route, and seeing a man wearing a plush costume that made him look like a pair of hair-studded balls, grinning and high-fiving a bunch of bemused strangers before taking off again.
But it's not just Stiles: The whole cast gets their moment to shine, from Lilli Cooper's co-star-turned-love-interest Julie Nichols and her understated remarks about Being A Woman Today to Dorothy's bemused, seen-it-all slacker roommate, Jeff (Andy Grotelueschen), who has always got the perfect quip at the ready.
Dressed in faded jeans and Gucci sneakers, an 18th-century jeweled necklace tossed over his vintage cabled Aran sweater, he seemed bemused by all that had transpired since he, a one-time accessories designer for the brand, was elevated after news broke in 2014 that Frida Giannini, Gucci's creative director, was being ousted.
If you can't or don't want to watch the video above, the joke is that an ostrich (which, you may recall, is a flightless bird) puts on a Gear VR headset and launches a flight simulator inside it, after which said ostrich is literally able (I think?) to begin soaring above its bemused companions.
" (Of course, they jump.) And whatever else you want to say about "Butch/Sundance" (that year's highest-grossing film despite mixed reviews), you have to believe that a writer has to have a pretty good sense of pacing and hearing to leave audiences repeating long afterward the fugitive heroes' bemused query, "Who are those guys?
In my memories I see the bespectacled, often bow-tied Simeon shaking his head in living room conversations among elders, speaking gravely one moment and looking almost bemused the next as he recounted the terror that he experienced after entering Alabama aboard a Trailways bus as a reporter covering the Freedom Riders in 1961.
Other low points of Abbott's stint as Australia's prime minister include the time he was widely denounced for giving Prince Phillip a knighthood, when he winked and smirked on a radio show while talking a call from an upset pensioner, and when he bemused Australians by taking a bite out of a raw onion on camera.
Simpson is bemused by this development: "I'm not black, I'm O.J." Whether or not this scene took place is unknowable, but Simpson was certainly no stranger to the sentiment; he uttered the phrase to friends and teammates as early as his running-back days at USC, when he first felt the exceptional force of 19403,000 fans cheering his name.
Readers, including Joyce Carol Oates who has a lifetime of difficult reading behind her, were gripped by the vestigial Bible tale and captivated by the spare writing style, even as they were bemused at the lack of conventional narrative landmarks and the fact that this so-called allegory turned out to be nothing of the kind.
In diaristic chapters addressed to him, she recalls his advice to, and affairs with, students; draws insights into the humiliations of the creative life from the history of art, literature, and music; and describes her own teaching with bemused rage ("Student B is concerned that so much of the assigned reading includes books that failed to make money").
" In its most lucid moments, "Severance" evokes traces of, if not Meghan Daum in her "misspent youth," then the essay "Goodbye to All That," when a young and equally bemused Joan Didion looks at gleaming kitchens through brownstone windows, considering New York not as a place of residence but as a romantic notion: "One does not 'live' at Xanadu.
Dripping in diamonds and cocooned in furs, many with bemused-looking husbands in tow, they beamed like small children at the collection, dozens of fantastical gowns with voluminous tiered silk skirts, or encrusted with hundreds and thousands of pearls, sequins and glass beads, or shivering delicately with cascading bouquets of 20173-D pleated organza and tulle flowers.
But the dismantling of a Confederate statue by a group of protesters on Monday in Durham, North Carolina, has kicked off a back and forth that's become all too familiar of late: a tweet full of conservative outrage being immediately hijacked by bemused liberals and progressives who then transform it into an expression of sheer absurdity.
Here they are:Best MakeupSuicide Squad (Alessandro Bertolazzi, Giorgio Gregorini and Christopher Nelson)Costume designAllied (Joanna Johnston)Best Sound Mixing13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi (Greg P. Russell, Gary Summers, Jeffrey J. Haboush and Mac Ruth)Best Visual EffectsDoctor Strange (Stephane Ceretti, Richard Bluff, Vincent Cirelli and Paul Corbould)While it's no Best Actress or Best Film, people are bemused.
In addition to bemused, self-deprecating, and often unabashedly saccharine narrations of family life, Gopnik's job at The New Yorker seemed to involve running around the city doing things that normal people imagine rich New Yorkers doing, like going to an artist's study on Friday afternoons for a "year or so" to draw nude models, or spending six years in psychoanalysis.
Since starting as a reporter on the tech-and-politics beat in November, I've observed a similar ritual for each of the Democratic primary debates: My editor informs me one is happening, I cancel my plans, and I watch in bemused horror, paying just enough attention to notice in case I need to scramble to cover any major discussions on tech-related issues.
If, beleaguered or bemused by the onrush of scandal and political antics, you're searching for some index of just how truly not-normal American governance has become, you might consider this: Standing on the White House lawn on Monday morning, his own government shut down around him, the president of the United States was asked by reporters if he was working for Russia.
Wandering the streets around Windsor Castle during Harry and Meghan's big day were a mix of bemused American tourists; hard-line Royalists who'd been camping out for a spot since 5 AM; blond boys in Hollister button-ups chatting about how Harry is "just one of the guys, really;" and a contingent of international Princess Diana superfans—who, apparently, do still exist.
Alternatively, in "JFK and Mary Meyer," Kornbluth — a veteran magazine journalist and beholder of the salon set where Mary rotated — delivers a slimmer but saucier fictionalization of the diary, one that feels and sounds more bemused, on the qui vive and reflective of the intellectual charmer whom Kennedy had been flirting with since his days as a student at Choate.
Early in the opener, a Milwaukeean with "a fairly decent life" is murdered by his "fairly decent wife," and soon the rich are gobbling all the extra fries as the rest of us hoard canned goods; in the one after that, a bemused tale about a stage door clicking shut transmutes into a meditation on the rage of everyone who'll never get a wristband.
Every sign has this relationship to another sign: Sagittarius is bewildered by you, Scorpio, Capricorn is dumbfounded by Sagittarius, Aquarius is bemused by Capricorn, Pisces mystified by Aquarius, Aries is at sea with Pisces, Taurus is baffled by Aries, Gemini is intrigued by Taurus, Cancer is curious about Gemini, Leo wonders about Cancer, Virgo is perplexed by Leo, and yes, even Libra gets puzzled—by Virgo.
The corporation of Thomas Edison and the light bulb has focused much of its recent advertising on shedding the public perception of it as a stodgy, staid institution — a dilemma the company self-deprecatingly poked fun at in a recent ad campaign in which a new GE employee struggled to explain why his job was more interesting than his bemused friends and family believed.
In all of this—the bemused/breathless live-tweeting of a stupendously tedious day of non-baseball, the presence of gawkers and dead-ender Tebow acolytes who like him, as one woman told the Wall Street Journal's Jared Diamond, "because he knows when to kneel"—you can see the late-arriving apotheosis of the whole weird Tebow Thing that was so inescapable back in 2011.
Yes, it's midsummer for most of us, but for Game of Thrones's stalwart viewership—who, if they were a country, would be the 57th most populous worldwide—July 16 means the end of a long thaw, as the seventh season finally premieres on HBO and non-fans watch bemused as their social media is engulfed in a dragon-shaped cloud of hype and spoiler alerts.
Lucey is a persistent detective and a bemused, sometimes amused, storyteller, attentive to interesting, hilarious, disturbing detail: Isabella Stewart Gardner's enormous diamonds, some of which had names and which she "wore atop her head on gold spiral wires so that they'd bob and sparkle as she talked"; the teenage Elizabeth Chanler, strapped to a "long machinelike" board for two years to "cure" her limp; Sally Fairchild, after a lifetime of serving as her mother's nurse and bodyguard, hitting her stride at 823 by seducing a 30-year-old married man.
Dick DurbinRichard (Dick) Joseph DurbinSenate Democrats push Trump to permanently shutter migrant detention facility House panel investigating decision to resume federal executions To combat domestic terrorism, Congress must equip law enforcement to fight rise in white supremacist attacks MORE (D-Ill.), asked recently if he thought Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellPelosi, Schumer press for gun screenings as Trump inches away The malware election: Returning to paper ballots only way to prevent hacking First House Republican backs bill banning assault weapons MORE (R-Ky.) could negotiate on behalf of the president, looked bemused and appeared to chuckle silently.

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