Nonplus Quotes

We were a bit nonplused. - James Wolfensohn

The proverbial German phenomenon of the verb-at-the-end about which droll tales of absentminded professors who would begin a sentence, ramble on for an entire lecture, and then finish up by rattling off a string of verbs by which their audience, for whom the stack had long since lost its coherence, would be totally nonplussed, are told, is an excellent example of linguistic recursion. - Douglas Hofstadter

I was the only reporter there, and Watt and his handlers were a little nonplused that I wasn't more easily evaded. - Bob King

I think people are nonplus about some of the TV advertising. They want to see if candidates are real, that they can touch and feel and look them in the eye and tell them what they think. - Jack Hill

I am a spy in the house of me. I report back from the front lines of the battle that is me. I am somewhat nonplused by the event that is my life. - Carrie Fisher

Despite strong signs of economic growth, the financial markets were nonplussed, leaving mortgage rates to hover around the same affordable level for yet another week. - Frank Nothaft