Sentence examples for our perplexity for from inspiring English sources

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?

Dover becomes a mirror of our perplexity.

(He heightens our perplexity by adding, "I want my own sort!") When Flora says to the governess, "I don't like to frighten you," is she explaining why she is universally admired for good behavior, or is she making a covert threat?

The stunning events of our age of anger, and our perplexity before them, make it imperative that we anchor thought in the sphere of emotions; these upheavals demand nothing less than a radically enlarged understanding of what it means for human beings to pursue the contradictory ideals of freedom, equality and prosperity.

It's a confusing tale, with all the aleatory illogic of a dream, and as author Katherine Langrish takes us through it, she pauses to acknowledge our perplexity.

Our own irascible versifier, Morrissey, expressed our perplexity well with his song title "How Soon is Now?" because the evanescent character of the present means it seems to be simultaneously always advancing before us, yet equally ever retreating behind.

Meanwhile, Europe and the rest of the world wait in a state of perplexity for the movie theater to go out of business.

Sturrock regards the disappearance of Sofie Magdalene's letters with genuine perplexity: "For a man who kept so much correspondence, it is doubly surprising that not one letter survived".

Since the New Worlds days he has carried on writing at a furious pace, weaving an ever more complex web of novels and stories, filled with associations, refractions and knowing references, a delightful maze for his fans and a source of perplexity for bibliographers.

The growing conflation of the economic and the cultural in the minds of voters has been a cause of great perplexity for thinkers who have long seen the two realms as distinct, and the cultural realm as the secondary concern of unserious men who don't know where their self-interest lies.

We calculate the perplexity for results on the validation set and training set, as shown in Fig. 7.