Sentence examples for a perplexity from inspiring English sources

It was a perplexity.

Her second novel, Cecilia (1782), had abstract nouns as chapter titles: A Supplication, A Provocation, A Perplexity, An Admonition.

When I asked why she would endure such a process so young, Diana looked at me with a perplexity that bordered on pity.

The surface topography of a conventional diamond grinding wheel can be characterised as having a perplexity of abrasive particles with random crystallographic orientations resulting in different heights of protrusion from the bond and inherent varying inter-particle spacing.

Pirandello's themes are Tom Stoppard's themes, and in Stoppard's ingenious, frisky, obtrusively demotic 21st-century version of Henry IV it's impossible to tell where Pirandello ends and Stoppard begins: a perplexity that is itself very Stoppardian, very Pirandellesque.

Loyalists from Mr. da Silva's own Workers Partyy and other allies on the left are experiencing "a perplexity that is being transformed into indignation," while the right is "delighted, elated and nearly orgasmic," as the columnist Clovis Rossi put it recently in the daily Folha de São Paulo.

Mightn't one ask, so what if there is a fourth perplexity, a realm of mystery that remains mysterious in the face of scientific and theological knowing alike?

Ideally, a language model should have a small perplexity and a small OOV rate on an unseen text.

Even the hero of "Rushmore," though nominally a teen-ager, radiated a grave perplexity, as if he could not understand why one should have to wait until midlife to enjoy one's crisis.

A god omniscient and omnipotent and also powerless to stop evil remains a theological perplexity, even as it becomes a prop of faith.

So, the task of Being and Time is reawakening in us a taste for perplexity, a taste for questioning.