She jolted slightly in alarm, before leaning back and, cocking her chin to the side, surveyed him in perplexity. |
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You can see perplexity and anger in their stance, their walk, their whole demeanor. |
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For all their cheerful harmony, his pictures were painted in solitude, with perplexity and misgiving until he saw them in their completed form. |
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Confusion and perplexity characterise the political establishment everywhere. |
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The sensory overload of such prose inspires perplexity and gives little assurance on rereading. |
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The entire film is reduced to an unsatisfying gimmick, and one is left somewhere between perplexity and infuriation. |
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Gradually the look of perplexity was replaced by the slightest of smirks as the boys' minds took in what was happening. |
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All they are trying to do is bring perplexity and division among the residents. |
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The ambivalence from the clash of voices results in mental and emotional states of perplexity. |
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This event was a source of embarrassment and infuriation on one level and complete perplexity on another. |
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We may come in love and sympathy, perhaps with perplexity or even anger, but we come to share and for a time of quiet reflection. |
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In the meantime, a strange mood of perplexity and foreboding has settled on Europe. |
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My face formed into a look of perplexity, and the fibers of my body clenched. |
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The true perplexity of it came clear several days later, when we were driving back from a two-day sidetrip to Waterton National Park. |
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This movie aims to evoke the same mystery, but settles for a sense of blank perplexity. |
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I pointed that out to her and watched her face change from its look of indignant perplexity to a very sad and hurt confusion. |
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That's a complex debate, which from the consumer's point of view, is probably a source of perplexity. |
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Our reading from Romans 8 contains gospel grist for any number of sermons and is a text to which we pastors resort often in times of loss and perplexity. |
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Jasmine scrunched her eyebrows together in an expression of perplexity. |
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The perplexity which faces a woman whose husband has just died may be lightened by his thoughtful arrangement of his estate during his lifetime. |
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Pleasure replaces perplexity as the viewer joins Morandi in a game of perceptual hide and seek. |
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It has become or reverted to being an obstacle to US interests, a state prompting reconsideration, question marks and perplexity. |
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I have accepted the invitation to write for thismagazine withmuchhappiness,gratitude and some perplexity. |
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Some perplexity stems from the poor drafting of the act, which has caused confusion and concern among many religious groups. |
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There is some perplexity in regard to this point in the Report of the Minister General. |
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The ban has been met with a combination of anger and perplexity. |
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But my perplexity went well beyond the lack of easy egalitarianism. |
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The defining images of the tournament so far have been ones of American disappointment, frustration and sheer perplexity at the force of their rivals. |
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As president, Harding would eventually prove to be confused, prejudiced, and inconsistent, and this perplexity would sometimes lead to antilabor acts and pronouncements. |
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He must concede, first, that the history of the present crisis is a history of market failure, and second, that perplexity, or indeed sheer ignorance, dominates on all sides. |
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A million things ran through her mind, like the many intricate threads in a spider's web, only these threads were made out of fear and perplexity. |
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I am not sure how helpful that is, except that the communing certainly keeps us from feeling totally isolated in our perplexity. |
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As well as Joyce there was TS Eliot, whose densely allusive poem The Waste Land prompted such perplexity that the poet felt prompted to provide his own notes. |
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It is the perplexity of this situation that has caused most of the paralysis in Congress. |
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Greeted with derision in some corners and perplexity in others, the movement's new magazine launches at CPAC today. |
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This change in plan was a source of perplexity bordering on irritation to the Queen. |
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The Committee cannot but express its perplexity at the considerable differences that exist between the sentences handed down on each of the MPs in respect of similar charges and prosecution evidence. |
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Union Syndicale is perfectly aware of staff's perplexity when confronted with information, which by its bulk and complexity, makes if difficult to form an opinion. |
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This approach would cause more perplexity than currently exists. |
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The advice seems to boil down to shopping less often, keeping less stuff, watching less TV and sending fewer e-mails. Life coaches offer to help with the perplexity of bigger choices. |
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Yes, but an irresolution he offers to share with the perplexity of the viewer, whom he seeks neither to satisty nor to provoke, neither to gratify nor to abandon. |
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Van Helsing's sternness was somewhat relieved by a look of perplexity. |
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Children are maturing when they begin to think through the tangle of their conflicting desires and the perplexity of conflicting advice toward a set of personal convictions of good and bad, right and wrong. |
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And yet, while the progress of the biomedical sciences is raising unprecedented expectations, it is also a source of unwonted perplexity whenever the question of its moral legitimacy is raised. |
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Hence he is lost in perplexity and anxiety. |
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His perplexity is not caused by rules of grammar or syntax. |
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Whereupon the soldier dispossessed himself of his burden, and stood looking down upon it in great perplexity. |
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A similar perplexity already shows through in many older commentaries whose object was not to discuss making art out of horror but rather the coexistence of the two. |
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This has been a source of perplexity for public opinion and for policy makers: which indicators should one focus upon, which should be priorities for further development? |
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The dearth of relevant literature compounded my perplexity. |
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At that time, the comments of certain officials, and your own comments, Commissioner, showed the same perplexity and disappointment that you have expressed today. |
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I sat here listening with great perplexity. |
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The crises of adolescence, the perplexity of youth, the search for a new way, the institution of the schools and the communities, the rapport with the Church and the world-all were oriented to the Divine Will. |
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Such a situation is obviously a source of perplexity for the statistician. |
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Its chief impediment seems to lie in the danger of bias attending selection of the facts to be compared, and the perplexity of discriminating wisely. |
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