Sentence examples for leaving perplexed from inspiring English sources

While the Incas spoke Quechua, they had no written alphabet, leaving perplexed archaeologists to wonder how they managed to assemble and run an empire without writing.

Further steady advancement appeared to be a formality for such an exciting prospect, yet Thomson's international career was over only four days after his 21st birthday, leaving perplexed observers to speculate on the reasons for such an unexpected loss of impetus at the highest level.

"With the Soviet Union dissolved, inflation reduced to virtually negligible levels, and the top tax rate cut to nearly half of what it was in 1980, all of Ronald Reagan's major stated goals when he took office had been achieved, leaving perplexed and fractious conservatives to fight over where they might now lead the country".

Today we are left perplexed by the same question - are Isis extremely selfish or just mad?

But he insisted Everton have no desire to sell and have been left perplexed at United's transfer strategy.

He said: "We have been left perplexed that a change of this magnitude is being brought in without any real consultation with all headteachers in the area.

In spite of, or perhaps because of, the very one-sided nature of Lord Hutton's criticisms, voters will be left perplexed.

The first theories, that she was either a jilted lover or a Taliban infiltrator, were firmly rejected by the authorities on Tuesday, but even her interrogators were left perplexed by her motives.

Some of the authors of its provisions, including Senator Orrin G. Hatch, Republican of Utah, said they were left perplexed by Mr. Reid's decision to scale it back and were now unsure they could support any bill.

And even the flashy reboot of Tarzan was set to have a kiss between Christoph Waltz's flamboyant villain and an unconscious buffed-up Alexander Skarsgård, but it was chopped after test audiences were said to be left perplexed by it.

Politicians in this ethnically fragile country have met to discuss the constitutional void, there have been repeated calls for a transfer of power to the vice president, federal lawsuits have been filed over Mr. Yar'Adua's absence, the news media have engaged in a frenzy of speculation about his health and Nigerians have been left perplexed about their apparently rudderless nation.