His serves, varied of length and speed and nearly always wildly spinning, were almost impossible to read – "Most puzzling!" chuntered our slightly confused Guardian Gent – allowing Brookes to advance to the net "as active as a cat" to volley "the hottest returns".
Given her past reticence, Ms. Clinton's decision to work at NBC News is almost as puzzling as wasCaroline Kennedy's short-lived plan in 2009 to run for the United States Senate seat left vacant when Ms. Clinton's mother,Hillary Rodham Clinton, became secretary of state.
But to my colleague it seemed to present a puzzling, almost unsettling, dissonance.
And, so, after almost 160 years of puzzling over such matters, The Economist has decided that the innovators of the world are due some special recognition.It is not possible to recognise all the countless innovations that have helped to spread wealth, health and human happiness around the world.
This puzzling work seethes, almost suppurates, with detail.
Her friendliness is puzzling — merely social, almost impersonal — and possibly touched with malice.
The economists' obsession with abstract models is puzzling, given that almost everywhere else supercomputers are being deployed to simulate complex systems: in fluid dynamics, neuroscience, epidemiology and above all climate.
Since splenectomy, or removal of the spleen, has been used to treat this condition for almost a century, it is puzzling why medical researchers are only now discovering the massive number of on-call monocytes camping out in the spleen.
Performers find initially that the music is surprising and unexpected – puzzling even – and almost always very intricate: the guitar guru John Duarte once told me that Dodgson could not write a simple piece of music if he tried, though that is not entirely true.
With this new mission, Noble said, the team can "go and solve this mystery that has been puzzling scientists for almost 50 years".
