Sentence examples for perplexing third from inspiring English sources

Best known for a "little epic" in dactylic hexameter entitled "At the Baby Doll Lounge Salome Dances; the Baptist Tips Her a Ten Spot," the heroine of Binnie Kirshenbaum's perplexing third novel, "Pure Poetry," is, as she puts it, "as famous as any poet in America can get without being dead and having an intermediate school named after you".

Scott Grodesky's washy, linear paintings in the succeeding room are perplexing at first, and then become interesting when you notice the systematic reversal of perspective.

Monfils somehow survived the hottest day of the year (and who would have predicted that?), perplexing the seventh seed with his stop-start game before mustering his skills to win.

Scientists may find shopping for business attire perplexing at first, but this is easily overcome with a little research and the help of a few professionals.

The first modern visitors to the Parthenon were perplexed: a fifteenth-century antiquarian called Cyriac of Ancona thought it showed "the victories of Athens in the time of Pericles".

Some viewers (including this one) appeared perplexed at first, seeking out the conceptual and/or cultural codes embedded in much twenty-first-century art from Japan, whose most commercially successful practitioner, Takashi Murakami, dazzles with fun-house-mirror distortions of Japanese pop-cultural imagery, and whose reigning doyenne, Yayoi Kusama, pummels with polka dots.

Ethiopian authorities were also perplexed at first, officials said.

The recent New York Times article, "The Shroud over Rwanda's Nightmare" (January 9 , 2014, had me perplexed at first.

How such a thing could happen on a regular basis was, at first, perplexing.

Room after room, work after work, Tuerlinckx has been perplexing me since I first wrote about a memorable show she made for the South London Gallery years ago.

Kirsten was surprised and very happy, which made her inability to listen to the mixtape perplexing; the first song was "I Melt with You," and the second line of the song was "Making love to you was never second best," and though she tried several times not to, Kirsten always had to turn off her cassette player after that line.