dumbstruck

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Matt Damon, riding the success of “Good Will Hunting” and “The Talented Mr. Ripley,” plays Cole as a sensitive lad dumbstruck by love.

From New York Times

“I was dumbstruck by John’s performance,” he told the California newspaper The Fresno Bee in 2008.

From New York Times

The best reference point, again, is early-days Twitter; I’m old enough to remember logging on in the late ’00s and being lost and faintly dumbstruck by the scene there.

From Los Angeles Times

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