Sloths, however, are a puzzling exception.
A 1994 report by Deborah Fulton Rau, prepared for the architectural firm of Beyer Blinder Belle, which had been awarded the contract for the renovation, took up an 80-year-old mystery: Why are the constellations, with the puzzling exception of Orion, displayed in reverse order?
While a great deal of media time and energy is spent discussing the latest translation of War and Peace or the artwork in the refurbished St Pancras station, there has been, with a few notable exceptions, a puzzling lack of effort when it comes to something as critical as expressing support for an increasingly demonised minority in our society.
The single exception is the puzzling, contrived presence of a transsexual called Rita (née Beniamino) Sanguedolce, a chubby childhood friend of Alba's who metamorphoses into a hybrid of Dame Edna, Margaret Thatcher and Cicciolina.
Because of how meaningful I found the study of philosophy, it has remained puzzling to me that, almost without exception, no one else who I have encountered who studied philosophy took away from it what I did.
It is thought that gene copy number reduction follows once the genes have improved under selection [ 24], and as this has not yet occurred in other AFP-producing fishes, it would be puzzling for the smelt to be an exception.
The city lacks its Trollope or Balzac in both fact and fiction; "The Education of Henry Adams" is the singular masterpiece, the exception that proves the sad and puzzling rule about the capital's literary portrayals.
However, a puzzling infantile disorder, long known as 'benign cytochrome c oxidase deficiency myopathy' is an exception because it shows spontaneous recovery if infants survive the first months of life.
It is puzzling that Obama would invoke the United Nations Charter's right of self-defense--the only exception to the charter's prohibition of military force.
So it's a little puzzling, with last-minute negotiations still unfolding, one of LA's top labor activist has released a statement pushing for an exception in the minimum wage ordinance for union workers.
Without exception, these are all cherished, brilliant academics, those we'd pop in and meet for half an hour to discuss the previous week's (puzzling) class.
