Morris was contacted, and became increasingly bemused by the investigation. |
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Anyway, bemused etymologists eventually tracked down the source of this confusion. |
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After the show I ask him what he thought of the proceedings, and he says he was bemused by most of the criticism. |
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Then, before my hungry and bemused family could answer, he turned and vanished into the swirl of tables. |
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I left bemused, bewildered and even more interested in a region of complexities and complications. |
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In cities such as Prague, expatriates were glued to televisions in bars, bemused locals looking on. |
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I was bemused to hear two men in conversation while they were rummaging through shop bargains. |
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When the first Icehotel in the world opened, some people were a little bemused by exactly what it was. |
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He is a decent sort, bemused by the essential strangeness of life, with more questions than answers. |
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Twice the fish is close, the tuna boat far behind, bemused fishermen watching our manoeuvres with some trepidation. |
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She gushed while Sol just looked at me with a bemused expression and raised one shoulder in a short shrug. |
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Familiar bends and twists in the hallway lead her past cubbyholes and labs of other Engletech researchers, including the bemused Thatcher. |
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I have been told more than once, usually by bemused colleagues in Chinese art, that Japanese art history is a bastion of ultraconservatism. |
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I used to be bemused how left wingers have an incapability to ever admit they made a blue. |
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The young couple she confronted with this information today seemed bemused and uncertain how to react. |
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Because we are all Canadians, and therefore painfully polite, he mistakes our bemused muteness for rapt attention. |
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For myself I have also met up with people and been bemused about my lack of conversation. |
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She looked a little bemused to see me but immediately unslung her bag from her shoulder and swung it towards me. |
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Aside from a few bemused looks from passers-by and a few words with the police, nothing untoward happened. |
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Aiming for the fourth title of the season the local favourite netted a goal in each session, outplaying its bemused opponent. |
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I've talked to spam-senders, and some of them are quite bemused by the venomousness of some of the replies they get! |
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Mr Wight said his father, who died in 1995, was bemused by the enduring popularity of his books and the spin-off shows and films. |
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Police were bemused when they found the bunny, which they dubbed Hoppy, on a roadside verge in Manchester and decided to take him into custody. |
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He's a somewhat rumpled everyman, frequently with a bemused half-smile on his face. |
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Like most of his political tendency and generation, he was mostly bemused by 1968, though open-mindedly so. |
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The song ended in a caterwaul of feedback as they stumbled off stage, leaving in their wake trashed guitars and a bemused Jonathan Ross. |
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With a bemused shake of her head, she started to leave, when suddenly an idea struck her. |
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A huge, bemused fiberglass giraffe looks down on the proceedings from a fake rock outcropping in the middle of the course. |
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Their pop sensibility, spangly make-up and subversiveness bemused, charmed and totally won me over. |
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Sometimes when I look back on my life as a child or young adolescent, it is through the eyes of a bemused observer. |
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Elderly people were bemused at the temporary closed sign as they turned up to collect their pension money only to find the shop shut. |
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Probably weighing around 20 stone, a bald man with a moon face stood there, looking sad and bemused. |
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This ebullient crime caper is the author's bemused look at the commodification of history. |
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I was bemused by the four advertisement insets adorning the right side of the aforementioned article. |
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Meanwhile the project seems to have provoked some bemused commentary among art connoisseurs. |
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In general, however, most film theorists still seem either embarrassed or bemused by bodies that often act wantonly and crudely at the movies. |
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Confronted by full-frontal nudity, Ms Bakewell came across like a slightly shocked, bemused English teacher. |
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It might not mean much to the bemused passers-by, but in the sport of geocaching this little baby represents treasure. |
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Photographs of her, looking slightly uncomfortable and bemused before disembarking, achieved equal prominence. |
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Jan was bemused that few of the divers on our boat talked about what they had seen on the dive. |
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As my ninth presidential inauguration in Washington approaches, perhaps I should be jadedly bemused. |
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En route to a hotel, we handed out sparkling new cooking pots and jerrycans to bemused beggars. |
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The painter exchanged a bemused look with his assistant, but agreed, quoted a price, and asked what subjects I would like him to paint. |
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Gattuso never let him rest on the ball, and delighted fans when he jinked past his bemused opponent. |
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Mendieta curls an absolute beauty, wrong-footing a bemused Arendse, which flies into the corner. |
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Disappointed and bemused, Don demoted me to sanding square table legs with a belt sander. |
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Bligh felt bemused, standing in this trench with its perfectly revetted walls and neat dug-out bunkers. |
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In the centre of it all stands a bemused young Fijian, a pair of lifebelts extending from outstretched arms, being a tree. |
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I am calm, understated and quietly bemused at every swipe of toilet humour that assaults my ears. |
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Also, American audiences and Sassenachs will be bemused by the strong accents. |
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Firefighters were bemused to wake up and find a large brown and white horse tethered by a rope to their station. |
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Much of the corporate frenzy is being lavished on the bemused core of the Barmy Army. |
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We joined the swarming shoals of surgeon, basslet, butterfly fish, damsel fish, fusiliers and some bemused jack fish. |
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Fans will be bemused and bealing that it was their own gaffer who shattered their dream of a clean sweep. |
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The narratives tend to focus on family members left behind, in states of bemused and angry grief. |
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It had all happened so fast and now we too were bemused, not knowing what to do next. |
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Shoppers bustled by, some with the full set of designer carrier bags, others with only a bemused frown. |
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You wondered for a moment who was most bemused by this monumental and possibly decisive swing of the pendulum. |
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He seems bemused by his new surroundings goats, geese, Shetland ponies and a variety of other animals. |
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He looked utterly bemused by the question, shook his head and smiled broadly. |
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As bemused commuters hurried by, small chanting groups poured out from the early morning bars. |
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He took the offered hand and shook it firmly, bemused by the looks Mrs. Davis was giving him. |
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I'm bemused by the continual croaking and moaning that goes on about budgets. |
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Courtney, plumply likeable in a snug hat, looked politely bemused. |
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Kirkwood's views chimes with that of the Queen, who is bemused by Kate's constant Main Street looks. |
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They camped out at a local garage rock band's house and played noisy, careening rhythms to a small number of bemused punks at the old Multipurpose Rumpus Room. |
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I have gone back into a restaurant on discovering I have been undercharged, and of course the staff have been outwardly grateful, if slightly bemused. |
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Far from being alarmed at what modern poets were doing with free verse, Riding and Graves tried to explain what was going on for the benefit of the bemused common reader. |
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The piece is bemused, tender and funny, the dancing evocative not only of the disgraced president's choppy gestures but also of the coltishness of adolescent girls. |
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Messina would introduce himself to bemused staffers and ask them to visit his office for a second or two. |
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But the prevailing emotion that day, even among us awardees, was a bemused sense of boredom, restlessness and insatiability. |
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With so many brands and types of wine on the shelves, many bemused Scottish consumers plump for a bottle because the design on the label looks good. |
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But, as befits the actor whose screen character is a smart but lairy chancer who finds himself out of his depth, Conlon is a bit bemused at his rising reputation. |
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She seemed more perturbed and bemused than shaking in her boots. |
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Shoppers in Swindon were bemused to see snorkellers in the town centre. |
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After all, their little spat in front of 50,000 bemused Geordies lasted almost as long as some of boxing's modern day heavyweight world title bouts! |
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The pews were no longer haphazard and broken, instead they now were arranged in neat rows leading up to the front, where a bemused Tane and a fully clothed Ferik sat. |
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Now, I suspect that most of us read this anecdote with a somewhat bemused attitude at the daring of the vicar for having asked something so time-consuming of his bishop. |
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A bemused line reading sneaks in when you are anticipating a hammy hard sell. |
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Kildare Town residents were bemused when a statue of Lord Edward Fitzgerald appeared in Market Square recently as if he appeared by magic or as if aliens had beamed him down. |
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Some folks watch Bieber's challenges with bemused interest, others with disgust, and others with genuine concern. |
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To me, it seems that every five minutes, another bemused foreign celebrity is being presented with Akubra hats and ugg boots, and invited to manhandle native fauna. |
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No one wins when the political field is populated exclusively by the incorrigible right and the bemused left. |
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With barely an apology, the bemused travelers were hustled off the train at Wellingborough and shovelled over the bridge to catch the next train south. |
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He is still bemused by the enigmatic arrival and departure of his illness. |
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Indeed, his Japanese publisher has been so inundated by bemused readers that they have set up a website to explain some of the mysteries of the book. |
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The finale using Guarani Indian music was invigoratingly jolly but the clumsy ending left the audience bemused. |
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Many years later, as a professor at Cambridge, Wittgenstein distributed copies of Weininger's book to his bemused academic colleagues. |
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I was slightly bemused by his Oxford donnishness, a role assiduously cultivated. |
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Tears bestreamed her face, and the Elder of Midpoint was somewhat bemused at this reception. |
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This bonkers bus stop has left drivers and families in a Tyneside town bemused. |
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The task of data gathering is not a random walk, a sensual search, or the bemused collectings of a beachcomber. |
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Perry is a collector, but even he is bemused about how he ended up taking on this online for parts for an old gas pump he owns, and one thing lead to another. |
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Rey fears that his high-end customers will now become bemused and either head over to the Kardashians cosmetics or be embarrassed to say they wear Chroma in case of a mix-up. |
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The bemused pair of ageing soap duds could hardly believe they were being seriously out-performed by a foul-mouthed dipso whose only talent is incontinence. |
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After a lot of shopping and consultation with bemused sales staff in Australian craft stores, she discovered the wonders of the plastic backing used for cross-stitch. |
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The pair followed the 1930 Test series between England and Australia with great interest, and regaled a bemused Jelka with accounts of their boyhood exploits in the game. |
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On the night, nothing more mind-bending than joss sticks while 10 local lasses in flowered mini skirts stood outside the Paget Rooms handing out flowers to bemused passers-by. |
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