Sentence examples for had been perplexing from inspiring English sources

On listening however, he found that what was hypnotic read aloud had been perplexing when sight-read for meaning only.

Seamus Heaney - as an undergraduate at Queen's Belfast - found that on hearing Eliot's "Four Quartets" read aloud by the actor Robert Speaight "what had been perplexing when sight-read for meaning only was hypnotic when read aloud".

It was true — they had been perplexed.

Ms. Gibbs said many families had been perplexed by the guidelines that were laid out for them.

Yet, apart from the speck of DNA on the bag, detectives had been perplexed by any sign of the presence of a 'third party' anywhere else in the MI6 officer's home in Pimlico, south west London.

Two days before the accident, his former student Julia Kristeva had spoken to him by phone and had been perplexed by an awkward turn of phrase that she put down to his depression.

The judge said he had been perplexed because an F.B.I. agent had recanted crucial testimony about Dr. Lee's behavior, and because prosecutors had fought furiously to keep Dr. Lee incarcerated claiming that he could cause the loss of "hundreds of millions of lives" -- and then simply dropped its case.

Chancellor Merkel's strategy has been perplexing.

One fact that emerged last week has been perplexing me.

But the uninterested way UConn has played at points this season has been perplexing.

Cano's cold streak has been perplexing, especially considering his body of work earlier this season.