Sentence examples for puzzling plot from inspiring English sources

The traditional comforts of the British country house mystery — puzzling plot, attractive setting, brainy detective, interesting characters — spill from P. D. James's latest novel, THE PRIVATE PATIENT (Knopf, $25.95), like harvest bounty from a cornucopia.

It is a puzzling finale for a puzzling game.

This quartet puzzling method plots the probability of each possible quartet closest to the topology that it favors.

By a puzzling, and entirely unconvincing, contrivance of plot, Dave is one day invited upstairs by one of his fares, a beautiful businesswoman named Michelle, to have sex.

Eugène Ionesco's 1952 absurdist classic is a bit like that, too, ditching as it does conventional characters, psychology and plot in favour of rootless, puzzling moments of being.

In 1983 A Little Local Murder was published to much critical acclaim in the US, where one critic described it as "maliciously funny, closely plotted, acutely observed and genuinely puzzling".

The plot twists of "The Hour" can at times be puzzling, but the series is never dull.

Dehaene has spent most of his career plotting the contours of our number sense and puzzling over which aspects of our mathematical ability are innate and which are learned, and how the two systems overlap and affect each other.

Similar puzzling choices regarding set changes and scene placement also work against the plot and drain it of much-needed tension.

A puzzling fact is the strong variation in plant species composition of nests across study plots, this composition being relatively homogeneous within study plots.

Chaucer's "Nun's Priest's Tale" has puzzling naturalistic details that can be cleared up only by referring the poem to an assassination plot in which the Earl of Bolingbroke was involved.