Word: stumped
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...about to leave you guessing whether or not you will see a spectacle. The action, for example, begins with four Beatlesque Tweedledees singing something of a disclaimer on a giant chess board, lit in blue, that rises up into the air and ends bordered by a giant tree stump on the left and a plump mushroom on the right...
...When he painted the flamboyant and overweening Olivares on his rearing horse, in front of a city (perhaps the Basque town of Fuenterrabia) that is being burned for its disobedience to the crown, he went to some pains with the kind of detail one overlooks at first -- the pruned stump of a tree branch above the commander's head has fresh green shoots, suggesting that the state is replenished by merciless excision. The Weavers would satisfy anyone as a genre picture of women at work, spinning the woolen yarn for the Royal Tapestry Factory of Santa Isabel; but its meanings...
...been a long day of campaigning, and the Prime Minister had a cold. Wrapped in a violet overcoat, she leafed through stump speeches as the 1953 Convair turboprop plane bounced around over the stubby mountains of the Norwegian coastline...
...guests toast the newborn rhino. The calf, who according to Bentsen arrived looking more like a wrinkly little moose than a rhino, is now a 70-lb. miniature of its mother with a tiny stump of a horn sprouting from its nose. The curious youngster, who is just learning rhino etiquette, leaves its mother's side to approach the visitors on the other side of the bars. It paws the ground, huffing and snorting like a grownup pachyderm...
...done this in other federal programs, so this should not be any different," Kildee says. "We don't just put money out on a stump for people to pick...