He mingles them, sometimes freely, and makes a few puzzling choices — for instance, he uses the term "handmaid," derived from the King James, to describe the young woman whom Sarai offers up to sleep with her husband, Abram, after Sarai is unable to conceive, rather than Alter's term, "slave girl," which evokes the woman's subservient status.
John Lill, a great favourite with RSNO audiences, was the soloist in the Shostakovich, a puzzling choice of concerto for a typically powerful player.
In one puzzling choice, though, the book provides weights and measures for medium-size eggs, not the large ones that most recipes require.
It proved a puzzling choice.
CNN, Mr Khurana recounts, called Mr Walter "a puzzling choice".
It seems a puzzling choice to include them, essentially unchanged, in a work of fiction.
"It's a puzzling choice and a high-risk choice," said Amy Zegart, a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, who has written extensively on intelligence matters.
Her outfit was again transparent--deliberately this time, we assume--and an equally puzzling choice.
It seemed a puzzling choice to have international authors judge a very national prize, so I asked Elana Rabinovitch, Executive Director for the Prize and Jack Rabinovitch's daughter, for her thoughts and she told me their reasoning was simple.
