Sentence examples for perplexing to understand from inspiring English sources

It is perplexing to understand how he globally denigrated the sexual politics of the "Arab even Muslim world" as if the West is fully enlightened when it comes to sex.

Mr. Bloomberg's letter seemed intended to blunt two of the main criticisms of his attempt to change municipal elections: that he wants to benefit personally as a left-leaning Republican who does not fit neatly into a party himself, and that without party designations, voters would be too perplexed to understand who they were voting for.

Helping others understand that this person has a disorienting illness that can be confounding to him or her and perplexing to those who don't live with it.

And the voting process was perplexing to outsiders.

That EP adds perplexing to the list of adjectives one could reasonably apply to Mr. Marshall.

The classification of terriers can be perplexing to dog show followers.

These questions have perplexed Westerners, and Americans trying to understand their own society, for two centuries.

It's a popular rebuke made by climate change sceptics that environmentalism displays all the traits of a religion (the words "pot", "kettle" and "black", spring to mind for some reason), but I have to say I'm left perplexed when I even attempt to understand the logic of creation care through the prism of evangelicalism.

He relates several incidents that perplexed him as a boy, seeking to understand the relations between man and God, and the distinction between life and death.

535 West 22nd Street Chelsea Through Nov. 24 To understand Allan McCollum's perplexing installation, you first have to know what a fulgurite is: a glassy tube of heat-fused granules often created when lightning hits sand.

After emerging soaked, perplexed, fishless, he said, "My God, help me to understand the meaning of it!" Before long, he was chastising his fellow clerics for wasting God's time in recreational fishing.