Word: speechless
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...author said she was speechless when she heard the news. "I am so surprised and I still can't believe it," she said in a statement released by her publisher...
...crowd of working-class Australians near Perth, Rudd isn't as stiff as he's sometimes portrayed. In moments of crisis, his emotions resonate. When wildfires, some sparked by arsonists, ravaged drought-ridden Victoria earlier this year, killing more than 170 people, Rudd broke down on camera, momentarily speechless as he blinked back tears. Angrily, he equated arson with "mass murder." And he knows how to combat bureaucratic timidity with the power of grand gestures. Two of his first actions after taking office were making a landmark apology to Aborigines who were essentially stolen as children from their families...
...Takarazuka actresses - there are about 400 in five troupes - have been leaving audiences speechless with these marvelous and at the same time overwhelming works for 95 years. Founded in the town of the same name - by Ichizo Kobayashi, a locally born railway magnate who thought that lively entertainment would attract more tourists and thus increase rail traffic - the theater group now averages about 10 major productions a year, each with a lead time of about eight months. Faced with shrinking audiences and increased competition from all forms of digital entertainment, its producers are trying to make the shows more dazzling...
...Thomas (ThisIsRobThomas): Official. Michael jackson dies at 50. Speechless...
...agency and told me I had an audition. My agent got me into his office, and everyone was here, and a camera crew and posters of the cover. My first thought was just like, you know, Why is this here? Why are you tricking me? I was speechless for a few long minutes. Which doesn't happen often...