When I asked Mayer about the recent romanticization of New York's rent-controlled downtown seventies, and of its key personalities, she was bemused; she doesn't remember that era with much fondness.
His mother, Roslyn Wolfers, said she was bemused by this analysis.
She is bemused by the attention: an hour discussing her "scruffy" style with a newspaper?
She is bemused by the existence of the group Republicans for Choice.
She was bemused last year when her son and colleagues at Pinterest alerted her that a 1984 portrait of her by Norman Seeff, taken for Rolling Stone, had turned up on Reddit in the subreddit of "old school cool".
"She is not looking to be a vigilante, and has the utmost respect for the law, but when the police explained to her that even if you're at home alone and you have an intruder, you are not allowed to protect yourself, she was bemused".
And, like all of her compatriots, she is bemused by the realisation that Scandinavia is now a cultural superpower: "A friend of mine has a theory that, with the world economy being where it is, people wanted to see something more downbeat and realistic than American TV".
Abi Brown, leader of the Conservative group, said she was "bemused" by why the council was moving premises at all.
Who let him out?" I see she is bemused, almost smiling.
Letts was dubbed "Jihadi Jack," but his mother Sally has said her son did not leave the UK for Syria to join the Islamic State, saying she is "bemused" by reports that he did.
