He gazed at me coldly, a look of perplexity in his eyes, as if he had no idea why I was crying.
At another moment, when the inevitable hideous cell phone went off, he held open his jacket in mild perplexity, as if the source of the sound might be inside.
Even the hero of "Rushmore," though nominally a teen-ager, radiated a grave perplexity, as if he could not understand why one should have to wait until midlife to enjoy one's crisis.
He shrewdly describes the painter's spurned wife, Gloria, who uses vagueness as her revenge, behaving with a "ripple of perplexity, as if she can't quite recall who I am".
But the current perplexity in the economy seems to be softening our gaze.
A language model is rated as better if the perplexity PP value is less.
The court performed something like a cost-benefit analysis to answer the Medlens' perplexity that they could seek sentimental damages if a taxidermied Avery, rather than a living, panting Avery, had been negligently destroyed.
Yet by the time Amis came to publish his long, opaque, self-lacerating satire of literary envy and male mid-life crisis and perplexity, The Information (1995), it seemed as if his energy were diminishing, the satirical edge of his sword was blunted, his purpose distracted.
Mightn't one ask, so what if there is a fourth perplexity, a realm of mystery that remains mysterious in the face of scientific and theological knowing alike?
