Trying to merge these two theories into a single picture of creation has yielded an explosion of perplexing new ideas.
An exhibition about the Yuan style that primarily shows Ming- and Qing-era paintings may seem perplexing, but it illustrates the idea of a legacy.
Love it or hate it, and the British do both so well, when you get down to it the EU is a beautiful and inspirational idea, as bureaucratic and perplexing as it can often be - that after two wars that tore the soul out of the continent, it should choose unity over cynicism, hope over destruction.
Instead, the studies ended up giving their name to the "Hawthorne effect", the extremely influential idea that the very act of being experimented upon changes subjects' behaviour.The idea arose because of the perplexing behaviour of the women who assembled relays and wound coils of wire in the Hawthorne plant.
The new observations definitively rule out some theories that had attempted to explain the perplexing dimness of Sgr A*, such as one idea that most of the light there was being emitted by a potential group of rapidly rotating low-mass stars.
He drew on Orientalism, classicism, English eccentrics and his ideas about the future, combining them in complex and often perplexing ways.
Page 9 Week in Review THE JOY OF UPDIKE Though a brilliant man, John Updike, who died on Tuesday, was not a novelist of ideas, but the great chronicler of middle-class America in the perplexing age that was the 20th century.
Perhaps the most perplexing reaction of all in the comment cloud is the fear of new ideas, new forms, new experiments in this thing most of us should never call journalism.
But perhaps the most perplexing result of the displacing plot techniques of Mad Men is the idea that the show isn't about men at all -- it's about American women.
In his work, Mr. McQueen drew on Orientalism, classicism and English eccentrics, and also his ideas about the future, combining them in ways that were complex and perplexing.
