Sentence examples for puzzling ways from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

Unfortunately, as soon as the author reveals this interesting bit of information, he proceeds to diminish its significance by dismissing such talk a "pie-in-the-sky" (p. 131), a puzzling way of treating interesting and fresh information, because it suggests that Darwin's wonderful opportunity was not quite so serendipitous as previously believed.