Sentence examples for state of perplexity from inspiring English sources

Meanwhile, Europe and the rest of the world wait in a state of perplexity for the movie theater to go out of business.

LONDON — One thing, at least, is certain in both the fascinating new versions of Harold Pinter's "Old Times" that are keeping audiences in a rapt state of perplexity here: The man loses.

Through careful readings of Hegel's early handwritten manuscripts, Rosenzweig attempts to show that the Hegel of the mid-1790s found himself in a state of perplexity over the possibility of reconciling the radical subjectivity of the free individual human being with the objectivity of the world.

The infant Tommie (Maggie's baby brother), ever in a state of perplexity, fear, incapacity and struggling to stand up, doesn't make it, and it is no surprise to the reader when at the beginning of Chapter III, which is only a few pages into the book, the narrator frankly and without any affect announces that he has died.

All three choreographers devised many unusual steps to express states of perplexity and awkwardness.

Meantime, on the terraces of the Villa Serbelloni grand philosophers may still be found, in a state of postmodern perplexity.

Dr. Burkes submitted a letter from his psychiatrist, who said that Dr. Burkes's attention-deficit condition "interferes with his ability to organize and categorize information prior to thinking about it," and that he was in a state of "confusion, perplexity and overwhelming fear" the day of the guilty plea.

"My intention was to find someone trustworthy with whom to share my state of mind and my perplexity regarding a situation that was unbearable, not only for me but for many inside the Vatican," he said.

The weird stuff starts at the halfway mark, after Mitty loses one of O Connell's negatives on the eve of a corporate takeover, and jets off to Iceland for a high seas adventure battling sharks and volcanoes — so sudden is the pivot, in fact, that you were to take a toilet break at this point you would spend the rest of the film in a state of unending, head-scratching perplexity.

Open image in new window Fig. 8 Test perplexity values versus iteration count of the proposed HDLA model in comparison with state-of-the-art latent topic modeling approaches.

As a perplexity, mystery begins in a subjective experience of perplexity, astonishment, enchantment, or rapture; a state of cognitive or emotional jeopardy.