Sentence examples for puzzlement from from inspiring English sources

The strategy drew expressions of puzzlement from many in the area.

The French government decided to back that decision, after a Gallic shrug of puzzlement from President Mitterrand.

The deal was met with puzzlement from analysts, who said marrying a troubled phone manufacturer with a tech company that creates software used by many phone makers was fraught with problems.

Mr. Holder's assertion and the F.B.I.'s account of official Iranian involvement in the plot, reportedly code-named "Chevrolet," provoked puzzlement from specialists on Iran, who said it seemed unlikely that the government would back a brazen murder and bombing plan on American soil.

An acid-tongued campaigner, Mr. McCarthy was sometimes a puzzlement, veering from inspired speechifying to moody languishing.

Part of the puzzlement comes from the target: Standard Chartered has until now been for the most part scandal-free.

My puzzlement arises from the fact that following a serialization of "Widower's House" that appeared in The Daily Telegraph, Bayley admitted to a London Sunday Times journalist that both Margot and Mella were other than flesh and blood.

The reaction in the academic community to the proposed legislation and to textbook challenges from so-called creation science in the 1970s ranged from puzzlement to incredulity.

The responses of those named have ranged from puzzlement to indignation.

For his fifth lifetime start, Puzzlement will break from the No. 8 post with Jean-Luc Samyn aboard.

Reactions ranged from puzzlement to bitterness, and pastors have been fielding questions and calming the waters in sermons.