Sentence examples for puzzling on from inspiring English sources

His indifference is puzzling on several levels.

"It was puzzling, on a human and a moral plane.

This distinction, puzzling on the surface, was foundational: "human rights" might be assigned to groups, classes, nations, and movements.

In the absence of strong, clearly defined dramatic action James's leisurely plots can feel frustratingly irresolute, and the characters' many scruples and hesitancies, so evocative on the page, can become downright puzzling on the screen.

As a feminist and a free woman, living a life of what was then striking promiscuity, her protagonist Anna Wulf displays some curiously traditional female behaviour, which is even more puzzling on rereading.

This is puzzling on a number of levels, the most obvious of which is that there are huge markets of wealthy guys who care about whether their jacket is double-breasted or single-vented, and for whom $4,000 is not an ungodly sum to spend on a garment.

This puzzling situation on the one hand impedes the assignment of discrete functions to individual proteins and thus hampers our deeper understanding of the molecular details; on the other hand it challenges our inquiring minds to discover more and more pieces of this constantly growing puzzle.

After half a dozen such assessments, it's puzzling to hear on Page 308 that "Gigi" counts as "one of Minnelli's few movies that occasionally feels like an overly studied work".

His casual vibe and blunt refusal to be offensive when the score dictates it makes Tomic one of the most puzzling players on tour.

The director, David Esbjornson, described Ms. Redgrave's focus on puzzling out her character as "laserlike and total," and this seemed wholly so.

Government biologist Shannon Rankin says that hydrophone operators first heard the puzzling sound on 7 November, launching the ship on a several hour chase.