And as scientific advances rocket far ahead of both our bemused journalistic establishment and our limping regulatory apparatus, the reality becomes ever more pernicious.
My first encounter with this volume left me somewhat bemused at how to respond to such an absorbing and wide-ranging collection of essays.
The authors, perhaps bemused by the figures, have not provided such a discussion.
Among other things, they compete for the president's eye and ear, bemusing him in the process.
It is bemusing, for example, to find a leftwinger who takes a jaundiced view of the introduction of child-care facilities.
One's completely bemused with geological ages.
Set of mathematical symbols - the end for layman, he must be bemused with endless mystery.
A number of boys responded with uncontrollable laughter and many others, although they did not laugh, appeared bemused; some said they did not understand what it was about.
