Sentence examples for perplexed in from inspiring English sources

Investigators are perplexed in their efforts to unravel how he spent much of that money.

I haven't enjoyed being so confounded and perplexed in a long time.

I watched my daughter silently perplexed in front of these televised images of destruction.

But the Orioles and Major League Baseball declined, leaving the Yankees perplexed, in the words of Granderson.

But as a lifelong Roman Catholic he was perplexed in 2009 when Howard Megdal, in his book "The Baseball Talmud," called Goossen the seventh-greatest Jewish first basemen ever.

But those attacks never materialized, and many American officials became perplexed in recent years over whether Iran had decided not to use terrorism as a weapon against the United States, at least outside the war zone in Iraq.

Duelling may seem ridiculous, brutal, and perplexing in hindsight; it also seemed that way to many of its contemporary observers.

This is perplexing in a picture about Russia in the seventies, but wasn't what really disturbed us.

The ship itself, the crew, the passengers, are perplexing in the extreme, but never believable enough for us to feel that getting to understand them would be worthwhile.

The work must have seemed doubly perplexing in a country where public dance performances tend almost exclusively to folk dance and traditional ballet with a heavy Russian influence.

As a tragedy, it is perplexing in that the chief figures of the play (apart from Hector) do not die at the end, and the mood is one of desolation and even disgust rather than tragic catharsis.