An equaliser from Blackburn Rovers at Old Trafford recently caused perplexity and the visitors, who lost 2-1, could have taken a point.
It is already a cause for perplexity that John Barrymore was once passionately regarded as the greatest of American actors.
Attendance at an event without proper paperwork on file (release/health info form etc). may also cause unnecessary perplexity and stress and should be avoided as well.
The growing conflation of the economic and the cultural in the minds of voters has been a cause of great perplexity for thinkers who have long seen the two realms as distinct, and the cultural realm as the secondary concern of unserious men who don't know where their self-interest lies.
A platitude perhaps, but still a crucial feature of the world, and one which causes many philosophical perplexities — see for instance the entry on Zeno's Paradoxes.
They live — so many of them women — amid the perplexity their neighbors cause, like the woman in "The Office," a writer whose landlord thinks of writing as a hobby, a "blessing for the nerves".
Since Kevin Payne's appointment as Toronto FC's new (and inaugural) president, in November, the former DC United executive has caused equal amounts of enthusiasm and perplexity among the fan base.
"The unfamiliar plan of [the] tomb repeatedly caused us to ask ourselves in our perplexity whether it was really a tomb or a Royal Cache?" Carter wrote in his journal.
Stoltenberg, recounting the perplexity that their relationship seemed to cause people in the press, summarized the relationship by saying, "So I state only the simplest facts publicly: yes, Andrea and I live together and love each other and we are each other's life partner, and yes we are both out".
The perplexity seems genuine.
