| The entire film is reduced to an unsatisfying gimmick, and one is left somewhere between perplexity and infuriation. |
| For all their cheerful harmony, his pictures were painted in solitude, with perplexity and misgiving until he saw them in their completed form. |
| The sensory overload of such prose inspires perplexity and gives little assurance on rereading. |
| The ambivalence from the clash of voices results in mental and emotional states of perplexity. |
| In the meantime, a strange mood of perplexity and foreboding has settled on Europe. |
| 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. |
