bemused

That typically involves engaging a bemused media owner on the other end with knock-knock jokes that don’t have a punchline.

Assembled in the slick, now-familiar “docu-tainment” style that has become the fashion with high-profile shows of its ilk, “The Lady and the Dale” takes a deceptively bemused tone from the start.

A bemused line reading sneaks in when you are anticipating a hammy hard sell.

But the prevailing emotion that day, even among us awardees, was a bemused sense of boredom, restlessness and insatiability.

Some folks watch Bieber's challenges with bemused interest, others with disgust, and others with genuine concern.

Messina would introduce himself to bemused staffers and ask them to visit his office for a second or two.

bemused, two journalists behind me wondered aloud “what this guy is doing here.”

The truth is, I have a little lost my way, and stand bemused at the cross-roads.

But his trembling nervous fingers and bemused eyes could make nothing of the "case" thus so suddenly brought before him.

After a time I exchanged it for one of the volumes of sermons, only to be equally bemused.

She led him, unresisting but bemused, towards the gate, and into a confectioner's.

Harky pondered a question that has bemused all great philosophers: how can humans be so foolish?