dumbstruck

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Musical theater is associated in France with happy-go-lucky American exceptionalism, and here it feels absurdly bright, leaving Bucky — who blames himself for abandoning his neighborhood — dumbstruck.

From New York Times

One former executive said she was dumbstruck when she inspected the buildings to see how the lack of security allowed “a free-for-all.”

From Los Angeles Times

Maria Pereira, a Bridgeport City Council member, said she was dumbstruck by the families’ stories, and the apparent slow response from city leaders.

From New York Times

“Don’t Look Up,” McKay’s hit Netflix movie about a comet heading for a planet seemingly full of movie stars, careens in tone between dumbstruck gallows humor and earnest melancholy.

From Los Angeles Times

“I was dumbstruck by his self-satisfaction,” Greenblatt writes, likening it to Starbucks boasting that 88 percent of its drinks don’t contain poison.

From Washington Post