But unlike Vonnegut or Heller, his writing showed startling amorality — no pity or grief, just a great perplexity and confoundedness.
Unfortunately, none of these standards are being met; hence, the great perplexity plaguing our country over fact, fiction and plain old common sense.
These, Protarchus, are the real difficulties, and this is the one and many to which they relate; they are the source of great perplexity if ill decided, and the right determination of them is very helpful.
But, to the great perplexity of many Chinese (especially officials), their country's extraordinary progress toward "wealth and power" has not in itself managed to deliver the full degree of admiration that they once imagined these heroic accomplishments would automatically confer, and which they fiercely feel to be rightfully theirs.
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.
Nay, 'twill be this hour ere I have done weeping... my mother weeping, my father wailing, my sister crying, our maid howling, our cat wringing her hands, and all our house in a great perplexity, yet did not this cruel-hearted cur shed one tear..
One of the great perplexities of fiction — and the quality that makes the novel the quintessentially liberal art form — is that we experience sympathy so readily for characters we wouldn't like in real life.
Niebuhr worried about "life's many ambiguities," and concluded that Graham's message — Jesus as the answer to life's problems — was "rather too simple in any age, but particularly so in a nuclear one with its great moral perplexities".
But Daniele Capezzone, spokesman of Mr. Berlusconi's People of Freedom party, said that Tuesday's ruling prompted "great preoccupation and perplexity," the Ansa news agency reported.
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.
The concept of identity, simple and settled though it may seem (as characterized by the standard account), gives rise to a great deal of philosophical perplexity.
