gobsmacked

"It's big," she said, explaining the gobsmacked look on her face, "and it shouldn't be in the air."

And here's the context for McCain's most notable moment of gobsmacked speechlessness.

To the gobsmacked horror of the broadcasting industry, the FCC granted his petition.

'Somebody's got it wrong,' she assured a gobsmacked Beatrice.

"Gobsmacked," for instance.

It was worth -it - a gobsmacked silence followed by the 'ooh's' and 'aah's'to end them all.

It works and the confident Binn finally confesses his feelings to a gobsmacked Flo, who returns his affections.

Dave O'Connell, reviewer for The Connacht Sentinel, "watched gobsmacked and cringed quite a bit", though later admitted the show had been "compulsive viewing".

Out of the corner of her eye, Hernandez saw Lieutenant Commander el-Rashad turn toward her from his science station, a gobsmacked expression on his chiseled, mocha-colored features.

If we do so and go back till page 144 while trying to understand how having two contradicting explanations is supposed to work, we might feel gobsmacked for there was even a third expanation given:

DAVIE PROVAN, in the past a favourite at Parkhead and now a radio summariser, wore the expression currently described as 'gobsmacked' when he entered the press lounge at half time.

A case in point, via a gobsmacked Tim Lee, comes in Monday's Wall Street Journal, whose editors argue that executive surveillance powers "contracted under this year's political compromise that greatly expanded the role of the courts in intelligence gathering."