Sentence examples for puzzling book from inspiring English sources

Whether the point of such strenuous self-improvement is to make the proletariat worthy of the vote or indifferent to it remains one of the great puzzles of this deeply puzzling book.

It's a puzzling book.

Billed as fiction, this puzzling book by the new Nobel laureate in literature is more nebulously a collection of essays, all but two previously published, embedded within the story of an aging novelist, Elizabeth Costello, as she goes on the lecture circuit.

And even more puzzling, the book contains no Contract With America, nor anybody resembling Newt Gingrich, surely a major player on the political scene during those midterm elections, a shooting star whose sudden rise and even more abrupt fall may well be the most compelling political story the baby boomer generation has produced.

There is really no way of reading these often rather costive and puzzling early books without wondering on every page what, in them, is leading towards the immense achievements of those two big last novels.

Even after 15 reprints and sales of 280,000 copies since May (30,000 during the pre-Christmas rush), publishing pundits are still puzzling over the book's popularity.

Is he insisting on the primacy of the personal (desire, love) over the universal (goodwill, benevolence)?" Part of what's puzzling about the book is that we can't tell how seriously to take such questions.

As we have said, Hegel's logic is meant somehow to generate a content to produce a type of ontology and this comes into explicit focus with Hegel's puzzling claim in Book 3 concerning a syllogism that has become "concrete" and "full of content" that thereby has necessary existence (SL: 616 7).

Personally I find all the admiration a bit puzzling, considering the book and film were about a teenage heroin addict who sells her body for dope.

Yet as new old books become available — listed, for instance, on Manybooks.net — you get the puzzling sense that books are leaping almost randomly from their shelves into the digital realm.

So it is puzzling that this new book is at once so dense and so slack.