Example sentences for: bemused

How can you use “bemused” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Some critics call it his "best album in years" (Tony Scherman, Entertainment Weekly ). Others are bemused by Lanois' addition of xylophones, organ, Caribbean rhythm, and atmospheric hoopla.

  • I was amused and bemused by Martyn Ecott's The Franglais Blues [XX, 3].

  • A young CBC editor assured me that language was a political issue only for the older generation in the city, that the young people, Anglophone and Francophone alike, were all pretty much bilingual and were generally bemused by all the squabbling.

  • And its Creole-inflected language is described as "prose saturated in a kind of bemused gorgeousness" (Richard Bernstein, the New York Times ). The New Yorker 's John Updike dissents, calling Chamoiseau too self-conscious, "a Céline who has read Lévi-Strauss and Derrida.

  • Having just got off a 16-hour flight from Adelaide, the longhaired Aussie seemed somewhat bemused by all the fuss.


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