Word: dumbfoundedness
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Coincidence? She didn't think so. One younger student, she said, had dutifully memorized the 10 "nonverbal communication skills" from our handout (vary your gaze, lean toward the patient, nod frequently, use hand gestures) and performed them all in rote sequence, prompting her concerned patient to ask, "Are you O.K...
Bonner was no less dumbfounded, when she admitted, "I'm sort of confused--I feel like the purpose of Dining Services is to feed people." Touche. I smell re-election.
Lynn Roney and Pat Smith are clearly dumbfounded by such cluelessness. They co-wrote the very helpful investing primer Wow the Dow (Simon & Schuster; $14), which is based on 10 years' experience guiding their two girls, Shannon and Danielle, into the stock market. It is their belief that investing is...
SL: They absolutely, absolutely dreaded it. There's no question that they felt it was dehumanizing. Some of the cast and crew weren't familiar with blackface, actually. They didn't know what to feel and I could tell that they were just dumbfounded.
Pop! I felt a nerve tweak in the back of my neck from the massive cringe I suffered through the rest of the movie. After being crowned Miss Illinois, Mona tries to outdo Miss Texas (Bridget Wilson) who was hospitalized for giving marrow to her foster sister in meaningless altruism...