Sentence examples for would be puzzling from inspiring English sources

If Victorian history were as muddled as that of early Renaissance art, generations of scholars would be puzzling their way through the coexistence of two distinct Lears.

It would be puzzling if the conflict were not central in the minds of the Arab public: since the creation of Israel in 1948, five major Arab-Israeli wars, mostly losing and devastating, have shaped the collective psychology of several generations.

Thus, a precise estimate of a wage effect of zero would be puzzling given the evidence of disemployment effects.

It is thought that gene copy number reduction follows once the genes have improved under selection [ 24], and as this has not yet occurred in other AFP-producing fishes, it would be puzzling for the smelt to be an exception.

The difference between the results of their study and ours, despite a similar study design, would be puzzling were it not for our finding that DHEA replacement improved glucose tolerance/insulin resistance only in those participants who had abnormal glucose tolerance, with no improvement in those with normal glucose tolerance.

He said that a while ago he'd been puzzling over an Israeli-Palestinian cartoon idea all morning, in frustration, and then had had an epiphany when he looked at a lunch menu.

"I know a few Juleses but no Jims who fit the bill," the writer William Norwich said, confessing that he'd been puzzling over Jim's identity ever since Trump name-checked him.

I'd been puzzling over mine for hours.

If Mr. Zanini was not a sensitive designer, the one-dimensional quality of his show wouldn't be puzzling.

If we scrapped it, the message to the countries that matter to the UK – to the US, to our European neighbours, to Canada and Australia – would just be puzzling.

The rampage would be less puzzling had it been conducted by, say, a band of rapists on parole.