So The Great British Summer, narrated by Titchmarsh, was perhaps even more puzzling for me than it would have been otherwise.
It was all the more puzzling for Min, who was learning English by watching "Mister Rogers Neighborhoodd" and teaching herself to type on a keyboard she'd drawn on a shoe box she found in a Dumpster, and who came from a country whose only acceptable form of self-expression meant trying one's hardest to embody "the bolt that fit the machine" of Communism.
And there are more puzzling nicknames, for characters who amount to no more than stage dressing: Disco Ball, Little Stevie Horse 'n' Phone and the Drunken Elf, who we are supposed to believe is called "the Drelf" by everyone in town.
The more puzzling vogue for Joyce, whose "Ulysses" sold more than 85,000 copies when it was first published in Chinese translation in 1994, may reflect an interest in avant-garde writers once dismissed or banned as "decadent," said Jeffrey Wasserstrom, a historian at the University of California, Irvine, and the author of "Global Shanghai: 1850-2010".
9.31pm BST "I don't know what's more puzzling and infuriating for the Barça fan - the general constipation of their play, Messi's deployment out of harm's way, Madrid's all-round greater solidity and speed, or Pepe's choice of a hair-style that is an exact replica of Samuel L. Jackson's Jheri wig from Pulp Fiction," muses Charles Antaki.
During the press conference, the company has compared the new $999 laptop with various MacBooks, making it even more puzzling that it opted for a limited operating system.
More puzzling is the reason for the fivefold (pentaradiate) symmetry of the echinoderms.
Russian officials admitted this week that they had given up hope the previous Monday which makes it all the more puzzling that they told pointless lies for several more days.When Norwegian divers reached the Kursk, they opened an escape hatch in a few hours; it had defeated Russian rescuers for days.
It's rare to find an issue that Vice President Mike Pence and left-leaning free speech advocates agree on — a fact that makes the apparent internal support for Dragonfly even more puzzling.
The move ends one of the more puzzling limitations to the company's strategy for Surface, which is meant to compete with the iPad.
This makes the need for 'solitary confinement' even more puzzling".
