Sentence examples for be perplexed by from inspiring English sources

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Therefore, the first and most important task of Heidegger's book is to recover our perplexity for this question of questions: Hamlet's "To be or not to be?" For Heidegger, what defines the human being is this capacity to be perplexed by the deepest and most enigmatic of questions: Why is there something rather than nothing?

The papermakers he met tended to be perplexed by his interest, but he persisted.

The president is reported to be perplexed by Lagardère's public display of affection.

Even Joyce would be perplexed by the appearance of a city he helped make famous.

I daresay many would be perplexed by the notion of euthanasia.

The Sri Lankans are not supposed to be perplexed by this type of bowling.

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She was perplexed by the question.

But evolutionists, too, were perplexed by them.

"Most of us are perplexed by this".

"I'm perplexed by you," she says.

The Archbishop was perplexed by his own state of mind.

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