He can be hard to read behind his revolving kaleidoscope of expressions: perplexed, angry, smiling, wild-eyed, sometimes all at once.
At least, that's what the guests at the back of the room thought they heard him say, which provoked perplexed mutterings and wary smiles until it was ascertained, from a listener with keener hearing, that what Hertog had actually said is that the books are almost all long.
So what are we to make of Murray's two-set blitz of the Spaniard in front of his home crowd on Sunday night in a Madrid final that left Manuel Santana, the country's long-time retired regent, smiling with perplexed admiration for the Scot?
He spends most of his time smiling a silly grin or looking perplexed.
I waited for an opening, introduced myself, smiled — and absorbed his perplexed reaction.
Her video follows this chimera of a vehicle as it hauls debris from an urban construction site to a dump at the city's edge, attracting smiles from children and perplexed stares from nearby motorists.
Mr. Túpac Yupanqui, theologian, professor, adviser to presidents and, now, at the sunset of his long life, a groundbreaking translator of Cervantes, greets the perplexed reactions to these words with a wide smile.
Baldessari constructs a vivid, skewed world in which the viewer can either participate or smile and walk away — a world whose complicity with the one we know becomes increasingly perplexed as the exhibition unfolds.
Walking up to the first vehicle, Rascoe smiled, shuffled on the balls of her feet and wiggled her fingers to get the perplexed driver of a dinged blue pickup to roll down the window.
