What is "bemusement"

Usage examples of "bemusement".

Meg replied with bemusement, sensing without the need of her powers that he had not precisely come to inquire about her health.

She found herself watching in bemusement as they began to do the kind of things that gearhead boys liked to do with cars.

You had to get to the cake shop quite early and then be quite ruthless in the queue because they ran out of Towcester cheesecakes quite rapidly, always, I have to say, to the total bemusement and bewilderment of the cake-shop staff who were as shocked as anyone to find that there were suddenly no more of the special cheesecakes left.

For Drake the morning passed in an elevated druglike state of private bemusement, shuttling endlessly between exhilaration and dolor as fluently as stepping from sun to shadow and back again.

Zos, Thrax brooded to himself, confused and afraid with the bemusement of a youth whose world was running down just as he was approaching manhood and thought he had made sense of it.

Otherwise, the mild and wide-eyed bemusement with which his Majesty responded to the charges might have won him too many supporters.

Before this we've had some trouble with youngsters, the tweeners not yet adult, who have been creating their own bemusements.

He stared in happy bemusement from the captain to me to the glass in his hand to the water dripping from the melting ice on his furs onto the corticene decking of the captain's tiny cabin.

That exercise had carried him all the way through his own brief part in the space battle, while he fired his popgun weaponry and evaded counterblows like a gnat ducking sledgehammers, through the concussions of near-misses and the shriek of tortured metal, and into an aftermath of dazed, confused bemusement that he did not seem to be dead after all.

He could see the expressions on the faces of the dignitaries: bemusement, kindness, curiosity, but no hostility.

But she was an exceptionally graceful young woman, with a charming smile and great, dark, expressive eyes in which lurked a sort of secret bemusement.

She watched in bemusement as he took away the pad of paper towels, tossing it into the sink with a sodden plop, and replaced it with the tea-soaked towel.

But after a moment, he sighed and sat back in his chair, an expression of bemusement on his pugnosed face.

They were too new, too far removed from all he had ever knowledge of, for him to truly believe that they could be successfully used to climb into the sky more than on the short soarings he had already attempted with more than a little bemusement and uneasiness.

With an equally inappropriately dressed Australian whom I'd met on the plane, I tramped around in the freezing autumnal rain and fog in T-shirts and flip-flops, to the bemusement of the dour Muscovites.