Around then Ms. Garanca, appearing at the Met as Carmen, was giving one perplexing performance after another, her golden voice wedded to temperamental blandness.
They will go into February top of the league, encouraged by the fact that the last eight titles have been won by the team leading at this stage, but this was a dishevelled, almost perplexing performance on an evening that will otherwise be remembered for a pitch invader handcuffing himself to the goalposts.
But for a reporter who was in Baghdad exactly 12 years ago, on the eve of the gulf war, the contrasts are unavoidable, beginning with the Iraqi leader's stubborn but at least comprehensible pronouncements then, and his perplexing performances now.
Most of the innovators in music use unconventional methods to wield their axes, such as Kurt Cobain and his rusty, spidery riff on Nirvana's Hairspray Queen, or Tool's alien-sounding Schism, or the math-rock brigade and their perplexing, pernickety performance style.
Clayton Kershaw, who seemingly raced ahead of his October ghouls by helping the Dodgers to victory in all four of his previous appearances in this postseason, was cursed again in a performance so perplexing one must acknowledge that he has not completely conquered his October big-game madness.
The results in performance can be enchanting, fascinating, perplexing, frustrating — sometimes all at once.
Assembly Deputy Speaker John Wisniewski, a Democrat, and chair of the Assembly transportation committee said in a statement that "Wildstein's performance before the committee today was perplexing and disappointing...
The dissection of Roger Clemens continued yesterday as one of the greatest pitchers of this era had another performance that added more confusion to his perplexing 14 months with the Yankees.
For the atonal, patience-testing "Mr. Solo Dolo," he rapped between two sets of fluorescent tubes, a short burst of performance art in the middle of this sometimes perplexing show, which featured songs from the mixtape and from his debut album, "Man on the Moon: The End of Day," due in August.
The perplexing short, directed by artist Marco Brambilla, illuminates the unusual connection between Marina's performance practice and team sports in general.
One of the bands we brought in on our bill was Korean husband-and-wife "total performance group," EE, who blend music, art, quirky fashion, and various other interesting and perplexing elements into their live performances.
