A similar act of arrogance at a local hangout with Min's friends leaves them dumbfounded and him genially oblivious.
His attempts to stump Avery with highly absurd pairings in the parlor game Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon leave him dumbfounded at Avery's prowess.
The difference in cultures left him dumbfounded: "Where I came from, you got a room in a motel, spent ten hours making a lavish and possibly irredeemable mess of it, and left early the next morning," he wrote.
On a previous trip home, a man had remarked to her how nice it was that they didn't have teen pregnancies in Orange City as they did in Modesto, and she, dumbfounded, said to him, "Do you really think they're not happening?
On this World AIDS Day, I think about the HIV positive young man I met outside of a mobile testing van who shared with me that he was positive, and then asked, "Do I look HIV positive?" I remember looking at him, dumbfounded, I was all of 20 years old, and I had just started my new job as a temporary HIV Prevention Associate at an AIDS service organization in Brooklyn.
"I was dumbfounded," he laughed.
In Merida in the Yucatan, for example, a taxi driver was initially dumbfounded when I asked him to take me to the cemetery (I was trying to locate the perfect family mausoleum for a funeral scene I had in mind).
(The musical director, Larry Pressgrove, sitting humbly at the keyboard, looks dumbfounded when Jeff asks him a question. "It's O.K., Larry, Jefff says. "We've worked it out with the union, so you can talk".) The passages that follow the eventual triumph at the festival, the show's natural climax, are less compelling.
"Dumbfounded, I stared at him speechless and he said to me, 'What's a matter?
