Mr. Romney is a supercompetitor, so the dismay that people express about his wildly shifting positions will naturally leave him feeling puzzled and misunderstood.
And, although it is efficiently staged by Dominic Cooke and decently acted by a strong cast, including Sophie Stanton, Claire Foy and Stuart McQuarrie, it left me feeling puzzled rather than enlightened.
After the location shoot was finished, Day was left feeling puzzled because "not once, in any situation, did A Hitchcock say a word to me that would have indicated that he was a director".
But it may be that one reason Mr. Dorman's music works so well is that he begins his compositional process, at least some of the time, by feeling puzzled about what the musicians who commission him want and why they want it from him.
A Viennese ball's traditions both overt and subtle can leave newcomers feeling puzzled, like "a visitor from another planet," Marc Abrahams, founder of the Ig Nobel Prize and one of the Science Ball's star guests, says.
The next theme entitled "being sympathetic", encapsulated the informants' ambivalent feelings towards patients as well as feeling puzzled as to how helping the patients cope with the stages of grief.
And in part because of the setup, this section is lighter; there's a bit of a "solve the puzzle" feeling, as the reader tries to discern who is writing what and when.
His daily life, his regular, ordinary world, becomes more and more relevant, and as the book progresses, the interactions among Daphne, Mr. Fox and Mary gain urgency, and that head-scratching "puzzle" feeling falls away.
Instead of feeling assigned to puzzle out what he is getting at, readers get there themselves on a rackety train ride through landscape that is highly suggestive if not totally recognizable.
Across the Atlantic, the New York Times declared: "Not only does Mr Berlin command all the materials of erudition, literary and philosophical, for his task, but he has a deep and subtle feeling for the puzzle of Tolstoy's personality, and he writes throughout with a wonderful eloquence".
