Sentence examples for with some puzzlement from inspiring English sources

Far below a pair of seals lay on their backs in the water, watching us with some puzzlement.

And in a slightly goofy Gospel book painting of St. Mark looking up, with some puzzlement, at a distinctly sleepy-eyed lion, his celestial muse, floating overhead.

For more than 40 years musicians have gazed, perhaps with some puzzlement, at this visionary artwork, suggestive of birth, creative dynamism and human aspiration.

Then he'll turn around and sponsor a dramatic series that has nothing but bloodletting and eye-gouging in it," he says with some puzzlement.

Hassan Sobir tells of a visit to China where an official scrutinised his passport with some puzzlement and eventually asked, politely, whether his country might have changed its name recently.

Meanwhile, Chortle – the comedy world's version of Whatsonstage – opened voting for its awards this week, but was met with some puzzlement: only two nods for solo female comics out of a total of 54 nominations.

There has already been a certain degree of mockery about Moscow's advice to one of the agents, that she should "build up little by little relations" with a financier, and some puzzlement as to why such an elaborate setup might be required when so much information is these days accessible in other ways.

MUSWELL HILL, England — When first exposed to the art of Ben Wilson, or to Mr. Wilson in the act of creating it, people tend to respond with some degree of puzzlement.

Some noted, with puzzlement, that the law would not apply to the area's two biggest meatpacking plants (including Hormel, the largest employer) because they are just outside the city's official boundaries, and that the law would also not apply to "casual labor for domestic tasks" around Fremont homes.

I am a little skeptical of this last, most recent addition to the hotel bathroom arsenal; as one who has spent part of at least one bleary morning trying, with growing puzzlement, to work up some lather from a headful of moisturizer, I know it is now only a matter of time until, on some future bleary morning, I take a mouthful of shampoo.

The critics hailed it as a season highlight, but some audiences have reacted with puzzlement, and even hostility, at its unusual structure and oblique purposes.