Sentence examples for the perplexity from inspiring English sources

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the perplexity

noun

The state or quality of being perplexed; puzzled or confused.

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The perplexity was understandable.

The perplexity seems genuine.

The perplexity of this situation is captured by a word coined by Stephen Colbert: truthiness.

How can they dole out the perplexity as it descends on each child?

There's also the perplexity involved in finding your way around the system.

At the head end we could see the surgeon's arms raised at the perplexity of it.

Its subject, though, is one that I don't remember Ms. Tharp tackling: the perplexity of young individuals amid the group.

Rather than helping fight obesity, it may simply add to the perplexity over what makes a healthful diet.

Part of the perplexity of strategic thought in the early 21st century stemmed from a restricted historical imagination.

The discovery compounded the perplexity and confusion raised by earlier detection of planets beyond the Sun's family, beginning in 1995.

[Below.] The perplexity of a family of pine-nut harvesters emerging from a chilly tent after helicopters descended beside their mountain camp at dawn.

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