Kitty Goes to Washington posted:

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“Tell me how the hear­ings went to­day.”

I was sup­posed to be her spy, then? “I think C-SPAN was broad­cast­ing. At least they had cam­eras there. You could have watched it for your­self.”

She nar­rowed her gaze. “I was in­dis­posed.”

I shrugged, non­plussed. “You could tape it. Heck, you could prob­ably down­load it off the Web.” I didn't know if the old vam­pires even used the In­ter­net. She prob­ably let her min­ions do that.

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non·plussed
adjective /nän'pl?st/

(of a person) Surprised and confused so much that they are unsure how to react
- he would be completely nonplussed and embarrassed at the idea

(of a person) Not disconcerted; unperturbed


Web definitions

at a loss(p): filled with bewilderment; "at a loss to understand those remarks"; "puzzled that she left without saying goodbye"
wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

(nonplus) perplex: be a mystery or bewildering to; "This beats me!"; "Got me--I don't know the answer!"; "a vexing problem"; "This question really stuck me"
wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

Confusion (from Latin confusio, -onis, noun of action from confundere "to pour together", also "to confuse") of a pathological degree usually refers to loss of orientation (ability to place oneself correctly in the world by time, Citing: Dorland's Medical Dictionary for Health Consumers. ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonplussed

(Nonplus) Konstruktivits is a British industrial band. Formed in 1982, they were mostly active in the 1980s, with recording activity continuing until today.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonplus

Bewildered; unsure how to respond; Unfazed, unaffected, or unimpressed
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nonplussed

(nonplus) A state of perplexity or bewilderment; to perplex or bewilder someone; to confound or flummox
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nonplus

does not mean you don't care; non-plussed means you're bewildered.
english-language-skills.com/item/111-deepen-your-vocabulary.

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nonplussed

Pronunciation:/n?n'pl?st/

adjective
1 so surprised and confused that one is unsure how to react:
Henry looked completely nonplussed
2 North American informal not disconcerted; unperturbed.

Usage
In standard use nonplussed means ‘surprised and confused’, as in she was nonplussed at his eagerness to help out. In North American English a new use has developed in recent years, meaning ‘unperturbed’ — more or less the opposite of its traditional meaning — as in he was clearly trying to appear nonplussed. This new use probably arose on the assumption that non- was the normal negative prefix and must therefore have a negative meaning. It is not considered part of standard English

Onslaught. posted:

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I still prefer that kind of thing to Gaiman or King who think using multiple paragraph long run on sentences is okay if they feel that it fits the pace of the introduction or plot line that they're trying to introduce or that stringing together lots of conjunctions is completely fine as long as you are expressing some kind of concise point describing imagery or fundamentals of character development along with providing something that is marginally interesting to say so long as it fits in to what your idea of good writing is, and who is to say what good writing is; Both of them are best selling authors so they can pretty much get away with doing whatever the hell they want(of course sometimes they do it with brackets and other such nonsense as though they're writing an aside and it makes it very confusing to understand what they're saying as a whole, but they just keep on going without giving the reader a chance to take a break).

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