Sentence examples for if perplexed from inspiring English sources

You have been authentically touched or delighted only if perplexed, and very likely exasperated as well.

Older inhabitants were welcoming, if perplexed to see newcomers adopt the life they urged their children to escape.

By nature of human behavior, people dig around for the "best looking" item, pick and pull at the produce, and if perplexed they could literally engage the grower of said item, in a conversation.

My lesbian companions were supportive of, if perplexed by, my commitment to the Law of Chastity; they were protective of my innocence, in the same way another friend once knocked a pot cookie out of my hand, lest I become unwittingly stoned on her watch.

At the same time that she was mounting the MoMA exhibition, she was completing the editing of her first feature-length film, "Pepperminta," which made its debut in September at the Venice Film Festival and has been received so far with mostly positive, if perplexed, reviews.

But its budding popularity at high-end American social events signifies an intriguing if perplexing cultural moment: Long a proud symbol of the American Great Plains and its native, nomadic heritage, the tepee is reappearing as a luxury British import.

It's the terrific if perplexing Season 4 finale of Mad Men, and as always there be spoilers ahead.

He's bemused, if not perplexed, by our enthusiasm.

They lost an early goal and then laboured throughout, as if still perplexed by their circumstances.

The show provided breaks for Paul Nicholas, Elaine Paige, Marsha Hunt, Oliver Tobias and Sonja Kristina, and they received a generally warm, if slightly perplexed, critical welcome.

The climate of the examination rooms in this country is so dramatically different that when I explain the Honor Code to these students they are totally amazed, if not perplexed.