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noun
The state or quality of being perplexed; puzzled or confused.
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"The main thing French people feel is perplexity, they don't understand what we do here," General Chavancy said.
And of course, Williams's firing comes at a time when there is perplexity over why certain remarks get journalists in big trouble, and others don't seem to.
Otherwise the strongest feeling aroused by this story of a pair of musical collaborators (played by Daphne Rubin-Vega and Malik Yoba), scared of and hungry for love, is perplexity over the lack of an apostrophe in the word "Everythings" in its title.
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My initial reaction was perplexity.
There was perplexity about the purchase and outside experts were consulted.
The first results on FLMs were perplexity calculations, e.g., on the Arabic Callhome corpus [6] or the Wall Street Journal corpus [7].
Second, there are perplexities raised by self-exemplification. Surely, some properties seem to exemplify themselves.
Therefore, the first and most important task of Heidegger's book is to recover our perplexity for this question of questions: Hamlet's "To be or not to be?" For Heidegger, what defines the human being is this capacity to be perplexed by the deepest and most enigmatic of questions: Why is there something rather than nothing?
For the old-school Norwegian fish breeders, there is more perplexity at the environmental community than shame for any ill effects.
Implicit within all that passes is the perplexity of death, that absence, confronted prematurely by a young girl and sensitively explained by her older companion.
"At the level of popular culture, you can find Trump piñatas and masks and fun made of him, but I think that among ordinary people there is mostly perplexity and worry — and it's obvious why," he said.
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