Sentences with word «bemusement»

In May of 2015, Simon Mignolet was voted Liverpool's player of the year by the former players association, to the general bemusement of a lot of fans and observers.

While Mickey Mouse looks on with bemusement at a fishing pier, a wild - eyed Donald Duck raves hysterically about the giant fish he thinks he's caught on the other end of his tugging line, shouting, «Look Mickey, I've hooked a big one!!»

It has not been announced or anything, so the fans of Arsenal and the other Premier League clubs can only look on in bemusement at the circus that Manchester United has become.

I often wonder if future generations will look back in bemusement at how ours probed the sub-atomic world, sent probes outside the galaxy, tamed nature and cured so many diseases, but still believe in Bronze Age Palestinian mythology

The nortoriously elusive street artist, Banksy, has created a new attraction, Dismaland Bemusement Park in Weston - Super-Mare.

We see him through the eyes of his daughters, who look on with bemusement as his behaviour becomes more erratic.

Street artist Banksy has created a new attraction, Dismaland Bemusement Park in Weston - Super-Mare.

Beck Taxis, of Toronto, is among the three operators to express bemusement as to why its drivers decided simultaneously to turn protected bike infrastructure into taxi ranks, and has promised to look into it.

Among the cluster of artists working in Salt Lake there was a wry bemusement about their standing in relation to the country's cultural centers and, especially, New York.

Firstly there's Detective Torres (John Ortiz), a classic Colombo type, always playing innocent with a look of childish bemusement on his face.

TV presenter Alan Titsmarsh has prompted bemusement by using an interview to insist gardening is «more important» than politics.

The unwavering camera forces the audience to endure watching this priest as he transitions from bemusement to concern to fear.

There was general bemusement at Sartre's reference — famous in philosophy circles — to «horses of butter,» and knowing nods when one student quoted Albert Camus insulting Sartre.

Dozens of taxis have been photographed illegally using bike lanes as taxi ranks in Toronto over one 24 hour period this weekend, causing bemusement among cyclists and, apparently, the companies they work for.

Bemusement all around!

There was a lot of online bemusement regarding the selection of Lucas Leiva to face Southampton in the opening match of the season on Sunday, so I thought I'd take a quick look at his stats to see how he performed and what the trends are, particularly with regards to his tackling.

I checked out the Turner Prize nominees with even more bemusement than usual this year.

Susan Luebbe, a Nebraska rancher who has fought for five years to keep the proposed Keystone XL pipeline from crossing her cattle ranch, reacted with bemusement when Wiese's comments were relayed to her by cell phone as she repaired a barbed - wire fence.

With his combination of leading man good looks and near - constant expression of wry bemusement, Paul Rudd is an ideal modern superhero.

We're not sure why this happens, but [expression of bemusement].

I wonder if he is causing as much local bemusement there as I remember him doing in Oxford in the 1980s.

Like most other thoughtful Americans — Christian, Jewish, secular, public or private — the editors talked themselves into bemusement about how to respond.

Firmly on the more liberal end of the Conservative spectrum, he caused consternation in Tory ranks and considerable bemusement in the media when he called on the party to pay less attention to Winston Churchill and more to left - wing Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee.

Byrne's notes have caused bemusement before.

Fresh Conservative ministers are embarking on a frenzy of cutting red tape, to the apparent bemusement of business secretary Vince Cable.

There is a sense of wary bemusement in the Efta secretariat about the possibility of a British application - a combination of concern and excitement.

Even a black candidate seems to just attract bemusement — what are they doing in the wrong party....

Whilst all the characters had depth, there were no real emotional peaks and valleys to enjoy here, just an impressed bemusement at the thespian antics on display.

Playing working - class Kim who views the expensive world she has landed in with amusement and often bemusement, Jones» brings a playful sarcasm which comes across witty, rather than bitter.

Only Tilda Swinton escapes with her dignity intact, in a brief cameo towards the end — her cool bemusement seems to be both a commentary on the film and the perfect attitude to take with the material.

He is precise yet baroque, contemplating each word with casual bemusement as it leaves his mouth.

The Darjeeling Limited (# 14) More controlled and elegant than The Life Aquatic perhaps, but it exists in the same Andersonian emotional realm: goofiness and pain experienced through a sieve of numb bemusement.

In Crystal Skull all the darkness and anger is purged from the Indiana Jones character, he wanders through the film passionless and uninspired, his dominant emotion is resigned bemusement.

Certainly Bruce Willis cracks wise in all of his action vehicles, but when it came down to business, he was a convincing tough guy; Affleck, on the other hand, has a look of smug bemusement on his face most of the time, as if to knowingly mock the ridiculous affair.

Huey's investigative partner is Frank Quinlan (William Hurt), a laid - back type who realizes the only way to survive a job like his is with perpetual bemusement.

Had those same hacks actually watched the film, they would've seen an extraordinarily moving and unguarded portrait of loneliness and existential bemusement as Akerman's beloved mother deteriorates physically and mentally in front of her hand - held camera.

At the time, lawmakers and educators throughout the state raised a collective eyebrow in skeptical bemusement.

Employing tones of bemusement leavened with wry detachment, Graham delivers both humor and angst in his reading of this compelling first novel, set at a small Wisconsin college.

I have also recieved comments that «marketing» my work will «cheapen it», which I respond to with great bemusement.

Every press agency is running the same news, almost verbatim, and the response thus far has been one of bemusement over anything else.

I started to feel that this place may not be much better than the Tate Modern, then I got to the picture below and stood there in indignant bemusement at the picture I've added below - unless the picture was an example of what an artist did when they were about 5 before they got good at art, then what is it doing in an art gallery??

Last summer the novelist (and UCLA faculty member) humanized his proteges for art outsiders in Spin, praising them as much for their wacky behavior - psychedelic drug use, zany costume parties, wrestling in a kiddie pool filled with fake blood - as for their art, which he describes with characteristic faux - naif bemusement as «crazy, large - scale, incredibly ambitious, and very sincere.»

Moderate Conservatives expressed bemusement at the idea Blair might give them his imprimatur.

Dismaland Bemusement Park is open for five weeks only to September 27 and costs # 3, either for a day ticket (11 am - 6 pm) or evening ticket (7pm - 11 pm).

Her unexpected departure for the Australian jungle in midweek prompted mixed reactions in Westminster, from bemusement to outright outrage.