Sentence examples for puzzled audience from inspiring English sources

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At one point Cassandra Compton (the thorny Rose) walks through the auditorium, leaving a puzzled audience looking at the empty stage.

He has turned these acts of indecency into a kind of origami over the years, sometimes prompting puzzled audience members to ask each other, "What's in his hand?" Seeing the Jesus Lizard live makes almost any other band seem like a bunch of layabouts by comparison.

This week, perhaps to make up for having been stumped, Mr Blair gave a speech to a friendly but puzzled audience at the London School of Economics, explaining that the party had explored the third way during its first term and was now entering the "third phase" in its second.For those still concentrating, the prime minister's latest theory of phases goes as follows.

He swore at an audience member who questioned him at a Young Republicans' meeting, expressed skepticism about global warming at a sustainability event (he was booed), and once trailed off midsentence at a candidate forum, telling the puzzled audience, "Sorry, lost my train of thought".

In the end he left a pleased and puzzled audience who could not find the answers to his "scientific experiments".

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He has also given up his promise for "revolutionary change" in education, a concept that left audiences more puzzled than energized.

The audience, including some puzzled Afghan soldiers, said, however, that they enjoyed the show.

The audience appeared more puzzled than amused, which isn't especially unusual in the course of a typical Galifianakis set; what was unusual was Galifianakis's response.

The missionary populism of a summer-long, plywood village, abstrusely polemical, convened artistic and demotic audiences in mutually puzzled enjoyment.

"We will withdraw from the ABM treaty on our timetable at a time convenient to America," he said -- as some elementary schoolchildren in the audience looked a bit puzzled about why the president had turned from answering their questions about sports, his daily exercise routine and the size of the White House to fielding reporters' queries about arms control.

Goodness, even those carefully-placed "news" stories about how George Osborne must scrap his tax on the super-rich, which once commanded at least a respectful audience, now meet with the puzzled mirth of a country that suspects a wind-up.

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