Sentence examples for perplexing statement from inspiring English sources

This is a perplexing statement.

He offered a perplexing statement — sympathetic in tone but in its substance still consistent with the official denial.

The following day, the mission released a perplexing statement, claiming that after having interviewed residents in the town, none of them "confirmed that any incident of rape took place in Tabit".

The unusual calls left the CEOs "totally baffled," according to CNN, and Mnuchin's perplexing statement injected a fresh dose of uncertainty into jumpy markets, The New York Times observed. .

What to say?" It was a perplexing statement coming from Le Pen, at a moment when she has been trying to repackage the National Front as softer and more moderate.

"The references by different representatives of the administration to the supposed involvement of the Syrian government in the incident allegedly using chemical weapons in Eastern Ghouta last week are especially perplexing," the foreign ministry statement said.

In addition, they are unchanging and entirely causally inert — that is, they cannot be involved in cause-and-effect relationships with other objects.[1] All of this might be somewhat perplexing; for with all of these statements about what abstract objects are not, it might be unclear what they are.

But if tabulating untruths seems Sisyphean, at least we can catalogue them, the same way lepidopterologists catalogue butterflies each wrong statement may be beautiful or perplexing in its own way, but if we pin them down under glass we can sort them out into a few discrete species.

He merely presents this statement along with every other possible facet of Guy Waterman's perplexing story, then gets out of the way.

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...

A perplexing 10-minute film with the comic overtones of "Jackass" served as Bernhard Willhelm's spring statement.