Something had to point away from the stereotypical writer gestures (Gleason leaning morosely over his laptop keyboard; Gleason flipping his pencil between his fingers, biting his lip, pacing the room; Gleason pouring himself a huge glass of Scotch and swirling it gently before he takes a drink) and direct the audience subtly to the deeper perplexities of his crestfallen state.
You can get small slivers of critical input, advice, comments, but if you're deep in the perplexity of your own process, as you should be, sorting it out in your own way, nothing is going to guide you more than small gestures of encouragement.
This is presumably why in the opening chapter of De Anima Aristotle reports a deep and authentic perplexity about the best method for investigating psychological matters (De Anima i 1 402a16–22).
Jewish writers most prominently Chicago novelist Saul Bellow, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in l976, Bernard Malamud, and Philip Roth found in the "golden exile" of Jews in the United States a juxtaposition of surface affluence with deeper unease and perplexity that seemed to many of their fellow Americans to offer a common predicament in a heightened form.
There is no plot, merely a thematically arranged series of world-weary aperçus and epigrams, of the deepest Portuguese gloom and existential perplexity – eg "Who will save me from existence?
This is all too deep for the boy, who replies, in perplexity, "I'm only 9 years old".
Amazement — great wonder tempered by perplexity and even disorientation — is a deep feature of the Web; its users seek it, cultivate it and register it on message boards.
When, at last, her character receives a proposal of marriage, she blushes with perplexity, not joy, and the frown that furrows her brow tells of a deep dissatisfaction with the romantic norms.
But she has deep, dark eyes — time and again, the focus of the camera's gaze — and they widen with perplexity and alarm.
The perplexity seems genuine.
