Sentence examples for puzzling way from inspiring English sources

At this point, in a puzzling way, things began to go wrong.

The puzzling way things have been going for Mussina led him to dissect the start for small shreds of optimism.

(While all this was unfolding, Amy Davidson had some tough questions about the puzzling way the case was covered in the press).

But the want of taste runs deeper than that — deeper, even, than the puzzling way in which pop loses every trace of kick and soul when sung in anything but English.

Scientists have only just begun to explore the natural history of play, but it already seems clear that it's not just a puzzling way kids kill time.

People have various distinctive features: we have moral status, we have mental properties like reasoning and being conscious, and we are associated in an intimate but somewhat puzzling way with living organisms.

At times the feature works in puzzling ways.

But, after Heath's work on the Camba, anthropologists began to take note of all the puzzling ways in which alcohol wasn't reliable in its effects.

In clever or puzzling ways, sometimes elegantly puzzling ways, he has revealed the two-dimensional underpinnings of photographs that give the illusion of three dimensions, the artifice at the center of photographic representation (and by inference other representation, too) and the fictions behind the medium's realistic facade.

Documents in the Xerox case also suggest the plaintiff lawyers spread the markup on temp attorneys among themselves, sometimes in puzzling ways.

And Twain will begin to seem strange again, alluring and still astonishing, but less sure-footed, and at times both puzzled and puzzling in ways that still resonate with us, though not the ways we might expect.