Sentence examples for perplexing notion from inspiring English sources

It's a perplexing notion, and the law itself is troublingly vague.

I wanted to take from the Carroll books the perplexing notions of what is real and what, a dream; how we tell who we are and who we are not; whether we are mad or sane -- and apply them to Margaret's attempts to make sense of the past.

And in the Dziga-Vertov film of 1971 called "Vladimir and Rosa," about the Chicago Seven, with its intentionally only half-intelligible conversation between Godard and Gorin pacing up and down on either side of a tennis net, Godard seems to be posing a notion still more perplexing to him than anything in Descartes.

At first sight, it is somewhat perplexing how to formalize this notion of nonmonotonic inference, since it seems to require a circular definition of provability that can't be replaced with an inductive definition, as in the nonmonotonic case.

Less a documentary than an experimental essay tapping age-old notions of the sublime, it's a perplexing artifact that flirts with the banal yet moves with lovely intuitive rhythms.

And so, her head filled with art for art's sake and scarcely a political notion or two, she found herself flung into the perplexing contradictions between the revolution's zealotry politics -- both popular and policed -- and its gingerly and suspicious patronage of the arts.

In his popular book Where Good Ideas Come From1, Steven Johnson debunks the notion that great innovations come from brilliant scientists sitting in solitude, pondering perplexing questions.

3– 5 The notion of IL2 possessing a "dual capacity" to promote both activation and tolerance has remained enigmatic and perplexing for some time.

I find it perplexing".

"That was somewhat perplexing".

A perplexing court indeed.