Sentence examples for puzzling lack of from inspiring English sources

For some time, these guys have been scratching their heads over the puzzling lack of mass out there in the cosmos.

And he can still be frustratingly inconsistent, given to illuminating turns in his best moments but offsetting those with muddled passages and a puzzling lack of subtlety.

So far progress has been patchy, not least because of Russian influence: Bulgaria's puzzling lack of interconnectors with Greece and Serbia is an example.

When his name comes up in conversation, the buzz over his puzzling lack of success and the anticipation of his next movie can bring people from all corners of a party to voice their affection.

For reasons having to do with a dearth of funding and a puzzling lack of interest in official quarters, no one has attempted to dive nearly as deep since.

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.

We have some striking findings to report, including the strong role played by universities in the building of China's national innovative capacity over the last 15 years, and the puzzling apparent lack of contribution of the public sector in reinforcing China's national innovative capacity.

While the behavior of inflation remains indeed somewhat puzzling, the lack of deflation appears to come largely from a strong anchoring of inflation expectations and a decrease in the effect of the unemployment gap on inflation rather than from a small unemployment gap28.

The story has been playing in my mind recently, because all summer I have been puzzling over the lack of reaction in Britain to the Snowden revelations about US and UK communications surveillance, a lack that at some moments has seemed even more remarkable than the revelations themselves.

Nothing could be more puzzling than the lack of any artistic common ground between the expressionism of the figure dreamed up in terra cotta by Bernini himself and the bland triumphalism of the sculpture created by Bolgi, presumably according to the master's instructions.

The technology can be liberating but can also constrain teaching, learning and social interaction....one of the main characters explains the "totem of chat" to her friend, who is puzzling over the lack of text messages from her sometime boyfriend.