Sentence examples for so bemused from inspiring English sources

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There is, too, the extraordinary instrumental invention that so bemused the first audience.

In fact, the Chinese media were so bemused by the feminist reaction that it actually reported on "western media's reporting" as news in itself.

The beard ruling that so bemused Celtic had actually been in existence since 1970 when Ajax drew 17 Nentori in the European Cup.

We are so bemused by the exclamatory delight and prophetic wisdom with which Emerson greeted the unknown poet that we often forget the void of indifference in which the books sell.

Thanks to the drip, drip, drip of distorted tabloid reporting, the public became so bemused that an Amnesty poll found the British believed they were taking in 24% of the world's refugees when the whole of Europe was only absorbing 3%.

'After lunch, you can come and help me buy it.' I am so bemused by the idea of Julie dressed as a Sloane that her bombshell quite passes me, so she has to repeat: 'I'm getting married next week!' Oh gosh, yes, congratulations.

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What would Melville, the author of "Moby-Dick" so often bemused by human stubbornness and captivated by specialized techniques, have thought of Maine's curious smelt-fishing scene?

So did everyone bemused by the continued presence of bare breasts in a popular daily newspaper, which is a lot of people.

But his efforts walk the line between irony and sincerity, sophistication and awful taste, and ham-fisted power and delicacy so adeptly that bemused ambivalence may be the best response.

So I was bemused this Fourth of July weekend when four of us old-timers were sitting around the breakfast table, each lost in his or her own world -- some reading the newspaper, some doing the crossword -- absorbed in our own distractions without a word shared among us.

Suddenly our important writers seem less like color commentators, sifting through the emotional, sexual and intellectual detritus of how we live today, and more like a mountaintop Moses, handing down the granite tablets every decade or so to a bemused and stooped populace.

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