"In a tone both ominous and bemused . . . Lewis suggests that they'll soon be running everything," Walter Kirn said here last year.

The soldier went on, still in that bemused tone, 'You cost me a fortune this afternoon, you know.'

"Truth," Straha said again, this time in bemused tones.

For as long as she can sustain it, Vivian adopts an acerbic, bemused tone.

Told that Pearl Jam was also getting into smashing as performance art, Mr. Hiatt paused and said in a bemused, parental tone, "Those scamps."

The strange story of Jonathan Franzen's stolen eyeglasses has come to an end, with the victimized author taking a decidedly bemused tone about the whole thing.

I didn't know that, and there was still a slightly bemused tone to Jeff Raven's voice.

The best clue to the bemused tone of "Men Behaving Badly" comes in its stylish opening credit sequence, the most cathartic in recent memory.

Commander Cressy had said almost the same thing in almost the same bemused tone of voice.

"Lingar Bewt," Tuek said, his tone bemused.