Gregg Wallace

Spending time in Soweto, and looking at the issues, and experiencing the poverty first-hand, had an enormous impact. I was brought up in a council house in South East London - I didn't have a privileged or wealthy upbringing - but looking at the scale of the problems there just left me dumbfounded.

English Celebrity

Gin Wigmore

I've got a very short attention span, and this has been part of the reason I'm so kind of dumbfounded at the fact that I've still stayed with music. Nothing has ever stuck for me, and music's the only thing that's managed to stick out for a long period of time.

New Zealander Musician

Ntozake Shange

There was quite a ruckus about the seven ladies in their simple colored dresses. I was truly dumbfounded that I was, right then and there, deemed the biggest threat to black men since cotton pickin', and not all women were in my corner, either.

American Playwright

Zoey Tur

When I saw that Google bought YouTube for $1.65 billion, I was dumbfounded! Why would Google get into bed with thieves? They've built a huge audience on the backs of copyright holders - and then they say I have to monitor them?

American Journalist

Abdoulaye Wade

The teacher that I was for decades, and that I still am in a certain way, wondered what was meant by the word education. I was truly dumbfounded at the very thought of dealing with such an essential and extensive subject.

Senegalese Statesman

Martin Freeman

I can't actually believe how good 'The Sopranos' is. I genuinely am dumbfounded by it. It's like when you realize how good The Beatles are, and you think, 'How did they do that?

English Actor

Bob Saget

It's still a soft R, but when I watch other people's standup, I'm dumbfounded that people call me dirty. That's only because I did family television.

American Actor

Morgan Spector

I was completely dumbfounded because not only am I a huge fan of David Simon, but I'm a huge fan of Philip Roth.

Leo Rosten

I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.

American Novelist

Francis Lee

I'm dumbfounded, but nothing surprises me in this game.

English Athlete

Use 'dumbfounded' to express a high level of surprise, more than just 'surprised' or 'shocked'.

Surprise Intensity

'Dumbfounded' often implies being so amazed that one is temporarily unable to speak.

Speechlessness

Can be used for positive surprises like winning an award or negative ones like an unexpected breakup.

Negative or Positive

 but rather, I was just dumbfounded about how I could have missed this whole age of reason thing. It was too late for me, but maybe I could help someone else, someone who could use the information. They had to fit two they had to be old enough to be able to understand

Letting go of God PIPE...

 singing he followed the sound of the music and found six-year-old aretha he was completely dumbfounded by her skill a lot of stars have to align to create a musical genius and aretha franklin very easily could have been another bright talent that

The Secret of Musical...

 stood there dumbfounded. We didn't really know what to do.