It is a dystopian farce about which even Kafka would be dumbfounded.
Indeed, if you were looking for a store here on earth to represent Plato's realm of the forms, you would be dumbfounded in Dehillerin, just north of the Louvre.
She said the top trade officials of America's leading economic partners would be "dumbfounded" if asked to negotiate with a United States official who held lesser rank, especially because the United States is often viewed as the power most eager to expand trade between nations.
The idea was that Karadžić's bodyguards, known as the Preventiva, would be dumbfounded and slow down their vehicle long enough for the Delta Force ambushers to fire a specially designed concussion grenade at the car doors to stun the passengers.
Patrons would no doubt be dumbfounded if the restaurant ever stopped preparing haute cuisine classics.
This newspaper has been rather sceptical of Civic Platform's record, particularly at home; it would be nice to be dumbfounded by a change.
"I mean, when I heard about it I was dumbfounded that this would have been done -- and done so soon after we reached this agreement that he obviously ballyhooed, went around with John McCain, talking about how great it was that we had reached this agreement," she said.
"Yesterday, when I saw it, I was dumbfounded.
"What?" I asked, as much confused by what he was asking as I was dumbfounded that he'd asked me.
I was dumbfounded, like I couldn't believe a physician would say something like that, because I just thought, you know, if there's nothing physically wrong but something's happening surely that means there's something psychological.
