Sentence examples for prove puzzling from inspiring English sources

"The Absence of War," David Hare's 1993 play about Labour Party politics, could prove puzzling beyond British borders.

When he finally finished the work, he offered to the public a radically new creation that was part symphony and part oratorio a hybrid that proved puzzling to less-adventuresome listeners.

Written by Gosling and starring Christina Hendricks as a struggling mother whose teenage son is being bullied, the movie proved puzzling to early viewers.

But will any of these companies prove as puzzling as the National Ballet of Cuba, now at the Coliseum?

It proved a puzzling choice.

The two delegates who proved most puzzling were both from Delaware.

Understanding the Aussies has proved as puzzling to the former St Paul's choirboy Alastair Cook and his England cricketers over the past six weeks as it did initially to the fictional Culotta, who stayed and fell in love with the place and its people.

Clearly Obama should be given more time to prove his commitment to this, but it also remains puzzling why it took Obama until the second year of his second term to draw direct attention to the problem.

For much of the play, the professor (Simon Russell Beale) is puzzling over a lecture in which he hopes to prove the existence of God.

This prediction proves both correct and puzzling.

The city lacks its Trollope or Balzac in both fact and fiction; "The Education of Henry Adams" is the singular masterpiece, the exception that proves the sad and puzzling rule about the capital's literary portrayals.