Sentence examples for was perplexing to from inspiring English sources

And the voting process was perplexing to outsiders.

Murrow's behavior during the war was perplexing to his colleagues, to his employers, and, apparently, even to himself.

If it was perplexing to be moved by these movies while acknowledging their contextual dishonesty, that dishonesty was how they managed to function at all.

Last year, he had toured European capitals asking, in substance, "what are you ready to give us?", which was perplexing to many.

They managed only one in the first leg, a 91st-minute free-kick, and it was perplexing to see a team normally renowned for attacking flair opting for the pea-shooter as their form of artillery.

President Trump's decision to pull the United States out of the Paris climate accord was perplexing to Europeans for many reasons, not least of which was their determination that climate change represents a for-profit opportunity.

Occasionally, while contemplating map stories for my own book, I was perplexed to find Jacobs had got there first.

And shortly after he left office, Carter was perplexed to find his opening anecdote in a speech to a college in Japan greeted with uproarious laughter.

I was perplexed to discover the works of the Scotsman, Alexander McCall Smith, the hugely empathetic writer of The No 1 Ladies Detective Agency series, on the Black Writing shelves.

One day he was perplexed to hear a mentor say that he seemed to have become more preoccupied with technique than with art.

Two years later he was perplexed to find that the image in his telescope had become a single object; Earth had crossed Saturn's ring plane, and, viewed edge on, the rings had essentially disappeared.