Sentence examples for puzzlement that from inspiring English sources

Ms. Cooke's fading old Bostonians share a puzzlement that lurks in our own more universal calendars.

She walked the store's aisles with an air of rock-star puzzlement that may have been heightened for my benefit; she did not want to seem like a housewife.

When mentioning my home turf, I have got used to the look of puzzlement that settles on the faces of cosmopolitan journalists or government folk, more familiar with the souks of Marrakech than this unglamorous patch of north London.

But it's a deeper state of puzzlement that brings me some pleasure.

Doing some research in the French papers, I discovered the same puzzlement that I had about Le Fooding.

They also voiced puzzlement that it came to a head within hours of President Obama's re-election.

"Because you feel a lot of the suspense of the movie derives from that puzzlement and bafflement that this was for these men".

As a result, the endless twists of this plot keep the audience laughing for two hours and viewers can see through every one of the sometimes murky puzzlements that so delighted Elizabethans.

It is natural, then, that his work should enchant younger readers, to whom the problems of being are still fresh, as well as others who never grew out of such puzzlements – that his books should seem an outstretched hand of sympathy to anyone who feels that they too have been tossed, without their permission, into a labyrinth.

It is with some puzzlement, then, that one flips back to O'Brian's "The Far Side of the World" to discover that Aubrey's perfidious foe was not French but American — a bullish frigate by the name of Norfolk.

Getting the formula just right is a puzzlement; one that, given retirement, time and unlimited funds, I'd be happy to solve.