Sentence examples for puzzling notes from inspiring English sources

Striking his usual insolent tone, he sends Carella a series of puzzling notes providing clues to his covetous designs on two cultural treasures, the Stradivarius violin that a celebrated guest soloist is scheduled to play at a concert and the rare First Folio edition of Shakespeare's plays from which the actor Patrick Stewart will read at a library tribute.

On the face of it this does not have a lot to do with the specialised mechanical discipline that is fast bowling, or indeed the career of Steven Finn, England's own talented, statistically prodigious man-of-the-moment-before-last, whose falling away from the front rank is one of the more puzzling base notes of a generally puzzling tour of Australia.

The immune reaction is puzzling, she notes, given the lack of obvious neuropathology; there's nothing in autistic brains like the plaques in Alzheimer's patients, for example.

He himself notes puzzling counterexamples: for instance, the Ache, a tribe of Native Americans in Paraguay, show violent behavior despite low testosterone.

Aides to Mr. Powell said they regarded some of the recent attacks as both puzzling and misguided, noting that the secretary had been extremely careful not to undertake any initiatives without explicit approval from the president.

It ends on a puzzling and provocative note: "I have a suggestion for this genius.

The adaptive benefit of male sterility in an otherwise-hermaphroditic individual is puzzling, as first noted by Darwin (1877), and several hypotheses have since been proposed to explain it (reviewed in McCauley and Bailey 2009; Dufay and Billard 2012).

Szacki notes a puzzling gap in Znaniecki's research: while he was well-read in, and engaged with, most previous and current theories, he largely ignored the works of some notable sociologists of his time such as Max Weber, Vilfredo Pareto and Talcott Parsons.

"From an efficient-markets perspective, these results are puzzling," Brunnermeier and Nagel noted.

The note is puzzling given the totalitarian nature of the society Lowry depicts.

In a landmark study, "Bowling Alone" (2000), the Harvard political scientist Robert D. Putnam noted a puzzling three-decade decline in what he called "social capital": the networks of support and reciprocity that bind people together and help things get done collectively.