"perplexing experience" is a correct and usable part of a sentence in written English
You can use it to refer to a situation or event that is confusing or difficult to understand. For example, "I had a perplexing experience when my computer suddenly stopped working and I had no idea how to fix it."
Judging the Forward prize for poetry must have been a perplexing experience for Jeremy Paxman: he has suggested the need for an "inquisition" in which "poets [would be] called to account for their poetry", and explain to their audience why they chose their subject and form.
It is difficult to know whether that has actually been achieved since, as a journalist excluded from so many sessions, viewing these two trials has been a slightly perplexing experience.
The prospectuses now provide an incredible and perplexing reading experience.
It turned out to be a joyous yet thoroughly perplexing publishing experience.
These GIFs, commissioned by GIPHY, mix the crafty aesthetic of the Etsyverse with the internet's increasing acceptance of sexuality for a truly perplexing visual experience.
Yet nothing in that riotous history is more perplexing than David Cameron's experience in America this week.The Tory prime minister was on a three-day trip to lobby the superpower on two issues he hopes to push when Britain hosts a G8 summit next month: staunching the bloodshed in Syria and a putative free-trade deal between America and the European Union.
On the other hand, it is poetry alone that can satiate the passion of the mystic to express the ambiguous and perplexing nature of the mystical experience; where clear boundaries of the law give way to the paradox of the supra-rational.
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I've never been someone who sees a "short" video game as representing poor value for money – if I've had an absolutely glorious, genuinely moving, or palpably perplexing time with an interactive experience, hands on pad and brain engaged, then whatever the price, it's been worth it.
And for many people, social phobia is still experienced as a perplexing series of private defeats.
Fishing in Utopia: Sweden and the Future That Disappeared Andrew Brown Granta £16.99, pp261 Sweden, along with its Scandinavian neighbours, has for some years been a top performer in those vaguely perplexing polls that calibrate the general experience of a population.
