Sentence examples for perplexing nature from inspiring English sources

It's a sign of the scale and perplexing nature of this disaster — and the fix faced by the government that is too slowly confronting it — that the ludicrous option is the only one available.

The perplexing nature of social change is that it often doesn't look like change, especially early on, when the process can appear fitful, resistant to measure, spasmodic, fragmentary and ambiguous.

The controversial movie (some thought it silly, some, un-erotic) Eyes Wide Shut found the director once again studying the perplexing nature of dreams and reality, this time exploring them in a more personal and private arena: sexuality.

The "gray zone" is a fuzzy term used in military circles to describe the perplexing nature of lower-level conflicts, often involving non-state actors, that don't qualify as full-fledged wars.

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.

At his death in 1926, at 86, they remained in his studios at Giverny, France, near his elaborate aquatic gardens, their radical nature perplexing and even repulsing some of his most dedicated admirers.

If the reader emerges vaguely dissatisfied, still perplexed by the nature of both the man and his ideology, that is no fault of the authors.

"As I've been saying, I'm in a learning curve still," said Woods, who has seemed less perplexed by the unfixed nature of his game than those around him.

Mike is propelled into a new life under a false identity, living in the asylum, editing an anthology of the patients' writing and growing perplexed by the exact nature of Kincaid's therapeutic method.

The whys and the wherefores elude Mr. Thomas, who seems just as perplexed by the changing nature of British crime as were the judges and the police officers of the time, who tended to blame American films and comic books for everything.

But she's perplexed by other criticisms regarding the potentially sexist nature of McGregor's pas de deux.