(1) Passion, Sondheim's most operatic work, continues to baffle the ear and bemuse the mind.

(2) Players who bemuse the opposition are exciting but those who confuse themselves as well can be simply glorious.

(3) This movie is more of a camp festival of excesses, where tone and temperament are identified and altered to confuse and bemuse the audience.

(4) I'm bemused by the continual croaking and moaning that goes on about budgets.

(5) I was bemused to hear two men in conversation while they were rummaging through shop bargains.

(6) All of these things cause my brain befuddlement, bemusement and general confusion.

(7) As bemused commuters hurried by, small chanting groups poured out from the early morning bars.

(8) IT is very easy to be snooty about the work of John Steinbeck who, to the bemusement of many, won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962.

(9) He looked utterly bemused by the question, shook his head and smiled broadly.

(10) John grinned bemusedly , a girly, naive grin that often made the girls back home swoon.

(11) After the show I ask him what he thought of the proceedings, and he says he was bemused by most of the criticism.

(12) Evidence of this came two years ago when, to some bemusement , property prices began to play catch-up with less traumatised parts of the county.

(13) He is still bemused by the enigmatic arrival and departure of his illness.

(14) Asked to describe its colour, she replied u2018gosling greenu2019, much to the bemusement of the locals.

(15) He seems bemused by his new surroundings goats, geese, Shetland ponies and a variety of other animals.

(16) Environmental groups and other observers were left scratching their heads in bemusement .

(17) Morris was contacted, and became increasingly bemused by the investigation.

(18) The staff have always been congenial, the atmosphere bemusedly chaotic, the pizza a dripping success.

(19) The old lady who had been inside smiled a little bemusedly , holding the lift door open for them as they pushed by her.

(20) But he laughed anyway, and then bemusedly muttered u2018Oh, this is funny.u2019

(21) Shoppers in Swindon were bemused to see snorkellers in the town centre.

(22) The parents in turn grabbed some food, had some nice Australian white wine, German beer, good conversation and bemusedly watched their kids race around.

(23) Firefighters were bemused to wake up and find a large brown and white horse tethered by a rope to their station.

(24) He is a decent sort, bemused by the essential strangeness of life, with more questions than answers.

(25) He took the offered hand and shook it firmly, bemused by the looks Mrs. Davis was giving him.

(26) In cities such as Prague, expatriates were glued to televisions in bars, bemused locals looking on.

(27) When the first Icehotel in the world opened, some people were a little bemused by exactly what it was.

(28) It bemuses me that I need a face-to-face situation in order to be able to construct my own argument without feeling overwhelmed.

(29) U2018But you are the carrier company,u2019 I said bemusedly .

(30) Then, before my hungry and bemused family could answer, he turned and vanished into the swirl of tables.