bemuse

Today, Troll Haven still stands sentry on the Olympic Peninsula — just as Bandy’s Southern California castles continue to amuse and bemuse Burbank residents and workers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 8, 2023

Her response is to clam up, presenting “a terminal face—nothing in it, nothing behind it, a well-turned-out nothing” that “I thought would bemuse the gossips, confound them.”

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 3, 2018

What does surprise and bemuse me is the number of fans who have denounced it.

From New York Times ● Oct. 23, 2016

Still, the story of Stephen and Natasha Spender retains its power to shock and bemuse.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 4, 2015

Many wild conjectures I made and patiently built upon, which, if I were to write them down here, would merely bemuse the reader or drive him to think me crazy.

From Sir John Constantine Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica: Beginning with the Year 1756 by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

It’s like a magical realist novel in which the Carry On star bemuses the architect of the Russian revolution with a camp remark.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 4, 2015

Although exactly what male activists are fighting for, when men still dominate so many important areas of society, bemuses many others.

From BBC ● Jan. 30, 2014

Of many examples in my life, it bemuses me to remember that I used to be a devotee of Philip Glass.

From Slate ● Apr. 10, 2012

Endocrine-disruption research certainly addresses mechanisms but has an applied aspect, as a chimeric field that interweaves many disciplines and perhaps bemuses the unimaginative.

From Scientific American ● Jul. 11, 2011

It bemuses an audience and gravels the players—as the queer uncertainty of touch of so skilful, so conscientious an actor as Mr. Ainley sufficiently betrayed.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, May 3, 1916 by Sir Owen Seaman

He was bemused when he talked to Slate on Sunday about the debate during an event in Charleston.

From Slate ● Aug. 25, 2026

With a voice at times bitter, befuddled and bemused at his own wrecked life, Busby emerges as a self-aware, sympathetic survivor who knew his best work came at the beginning.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

Army, the world of avant-garde film, the gay-liberation movement, the popular-music industry—and speaks of them with bemused frankness.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026

Then came the World Cup, and for a month, a curious if somewhat bemused country sampled the world’s game up close.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 7, 2026

Her eyes turned to Penelope with desire to make her lord, her husband, known—in vain, because Athena had bemused the queen, so that she took no notice, paid no heed.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

The delivery to get Brook was breathtaking: dipping and turning sharply into the top of off stump, thoroughly bemusing the England man.

From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2024

Perhaps the most bemusing example of misinformation came in a bankruptcy case where a law firm submitted legal briefs using research derived from ChatGPT — including citations to six legal precedents that the AI fabricated.

From Washington Times ● Dec. 24, 2023

What Gaines does not miss is Gregory’s spirit, and its effect — amusing, bemusing, inspiring — on the world around him.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2021

But Wednesday’s game vs. the Cubs at Sloan Park provided an anecdote that some might consider to be bemusing irony or fitting coincidence.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 3, 2021

Pallas Athena and Zeus All Provident will see you through, bemusing our young friends.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer