Sentence examples for puzzled audiences from inspiring English sources

The work has puzzled audiences but garnered prominent fans, including Schoenberg and Webern, who appreciated its modernist tinges.

Since they ended up with 16 singers and sang a program based on 16th-century English works, they took a name that has puzzled audiences ever since, because the exact size of the choir changes according to its repertory.

However, the way the movie covered more than 2,000 years of history in its four interwoven stories of prejudice and oppression puzzled audiences and proved a box-office disaster, from which Griffith never fully recovered.

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

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".

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.

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

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

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

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