The phrase "and perplexed in a" is not complete and lacks context, making it difficult to determine its correctness in written English.
It could be used in a context where someone is describing a state of confusion or bewilderment, but it needs to be part of a fuller sentence.
Example: "She felt lost and perplexed in a world that seemed to move too fast for her."
Alternatives: "and confused in a" or "and bewildered in a".
Also a quick nod to the real life Quentin Blake illustration and reining overlord of the abstruse and esoteric, Ricardo Villalobos, who arrived late but pushed forward with a divisive set which hypnotized and perplexed in equal measure.
This was an attempt, never completed, at a vast synthesis of the known facts of the physical universe; it was published posthumously as Fundamental Theory (1946), edited by Sir Edmund Taylor Whittaker, a book that is incomprehensible to most readers and perplexing in many places to all, but which represents a continuing challenge to some.
Duelling may seem ridiculous, brutal, and perplexing in hindsight; it also seemed that way to many of its contemporary observers.
She says the simultaneity of seeing vivid stained glass colors and smelling fruity food odors was perplexing "in a good way".
This is perplexing in a picture about Russia in the seventies, but wasn't what really disturbed us.
The work must have seemed doubly perplexing in a country where public dance performances tend almost exclusively to folk dance and traditional ballet with a heavy Russian influence.
Or else the "Thinker," for instance, is the image of you, me, the archaeologists and historians confronted and perplexed by a "lost" culture in southeastern Europe that had quite a go with life back before a single word was written or a wheel turned.
For all his wealth, for all that Ferrari, Fiat and his other businesses could give him, football consumed him and perplexed him in the same breath.
However if you're good at math and still find yourself perplexed in getting the solution to the problem you can refer if but make sure you understand the solution.
But those attacks never materialized, and many American officials became perplexed in recent years over whether Iran had decided not to use terrorism as a weapon against the United States, at least outside the war zone in Iraq.
