When I did no more than dumbly blink back he straightened and gave me a rather speculative look before finally breaking into a slow smirk. |
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Given the gory, carnage strewn 250-plus pages that precede that statement, the reader can only nod dumbly in agreement. |
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When he was done speaking, he kind of ushered me offstage with him, and, dumbly, I followed. |
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Her most obvious talent is an ability to stare dumbly at her interviewees in a manner which, she hopes, suggests interest. |
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I was standing there dumbly trying to absorb the enormity of what I had witnessed when it struck me that I had a family to worry about. |
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The employees stared dumbly after him, all of them dressed alike, members of the same club. |
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He nodded dumbly as he walked over to the medicine cabinet and took out the pill bottles stored there. |
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And I could only stare, my mouth hung open dumbly like a cow gumming its cud. |
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We all grinned dumbly at him, not one hundred percent sure what to say. |
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I just stood there staring dumbly like someone under a spell. |
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They have mostly sat dumbly, showing no sign of being capable of leading the country. |
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Merfyn knew what it all meant, and looked anxiously and dumbly from his father's face to mine. |
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It refuses, in fact, to do anything that will help its owners earn their living, just stands dumbly in its stall. |
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Doesn't it seem that she herself is dumbly stupefied by the strangeness of the form that she quickly made in the flesh of her lower abdomen when she grimly etched the shape of a triangle with clips on her belly? |
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Totally unwary, the great auks dumbly stood their ground and let Cartier's crew club them to death. |
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After all, I was trying to read a newspaper, or compose a hilarious tweet about EastEnders, or dumbly gaze out of the window like a cow obliviously trundling towards an abattoir. |
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The dumbly absurd situations are often characterized by supposedly awkward, but in fact physically highly demanding and even acrobatic, perfectly timed movements. |
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