British supporters caught the mood, especially while the Guardian columnist Nicola Adams was bamboozling the world champion Ren Cancan to become the first women's Olympic boxing champion in history.
Ultimately, the best way to prevent the occasional Melmotte from bamboozling directors is to have directors who are willing to stake their reputations on their job.
His interlocutors in the past included former Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov, and Dimitri Kozak, another Putin ally whose eponymous 2003 memorandum was in some eyes the closest the conflict came to a resolution (and in others, a Russian gambit that came dangerously close to bamboozling the West).
And banking CEOs were past masters at bamboozling shareholders and directors.
Many voters turned up to choose their councillors and, confronted by a bamboozling question about electoral systems, voted No just to be safe.Fear must be accounted for, too.
Leaks are vanishingly rare.The White House press team is a master of the twin arts of bullying and bamboozling.
If this is, as promised, Steven Soderbergh's final movie, he's signed off on a crafty, bamboozling high with Side Effects.
In The Revenger's Tragedy, dead bodies are ignominiously bundled into bamboozling disguises and the sex-mad old Duke is tricked into kissing the poisoned skull, dolled up to look like a bashful virgin, of the woman he murdered.
Derren Brown makes a living by bamboozling his audience into behaving in extraordinary ways.
Subsequently, he spent five years travelling up and down the river, bamboozling illiterate African chiefs into signing their land over to King Leopold II.
The match was lighted up by Yoann Gourcuff, bamboozling the goalie Antonis Nikopolidis with a goal from an acutely angled free kick.
