How To Use Perplexity In A Sentence
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Doctor Gozzi, who was an ubiquitarian, made to all those questions answers which had not even the shadow of good sense, and which of course had no other effect than to increase a hundred-fold the perplexity of his poor mother.
The memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
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For yet another year, indigenous performance arts showed incredibly minimal growth, with creativity seemingly dedicating itself to the devoir of producing perplexity rather than refinement.
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Confessions of perplexity are, it is assumed, not wanted.
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Part of the perplexity arises from a sudden onrush of doubt: did we misread the earlier texts, overlook the clues that would explain this surprising volte-face?
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She jolted slightly in alarm, before leaning back and, cocking her chin to the side, surveyed him in perplexity.
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Time enough, always proves little enough_: Let us then up and be doing, and doing to the Purpose; so by Diligence shall we do more with less Perplexity.
Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
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I finally managed to disentangle myself from perplexity.
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The spokesman returned in a state of even greater perplexity to confront the television cameras and assembled press corps.
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I pointed that out to her and watched her face change from its look of indignant perplexity to a very sad and hurt confusion.
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His comments have been the source of much perplexity and debate.
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You can see perplexity and anger in their stance, their walk, their whole demeanor.
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An argument, then, of this kind is the most incisive, viz. the one that puts its conclusion on all fours with the propositions asked; and second comes the one that argues from premisses, all of which are equally convincing: for this will produce an equal perplexity as to what kind of premiss, of those asked, one should demolish.
On Sophistical Refutations
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Jasmine scrunched her eyebrows together in an expression of perplexity.
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But my perplexity went well beyond the lack of easy egalitarianism.
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To remove our perplexity, Pascal gravely tells us, that _it is necessary to judge the doctrine by the miracles, and the miracles by the doctrine; that the doctrine proves the miracles, and the miracles the doctrine_.
Good Sense
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They gazed at her work with puzzled perplexity.
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All they are trying to do is bring perplexity and division among the residents.
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‘I guess I'd say we're a metal band,’ he says with some perplexity.
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She gazed up at me in myopic perplexity, as if my face were a puzzle she'd completed only to find herself holding an unaccounted piece.
Excerpt: Inamorata by Joseph Gangemi
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Ling Chu, his impassive Chinese servant, had observed those symptoms of perplexity before, but now there was something new in his master's demeanour -- a kind of curt irritation, an anxiety which in the Hunter of
The Daffodil Mystery
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The true perplexity of it came clear several days later, when we were driving back from a two-day sidetrip to Waterton National Park.
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The perplexity of the public has grown in recent weeks.
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I'll take simple rock chord progressions or melodies and throw some perplexity or confusion into the mix - like adding garlic to vanilla ice cream.
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A million things ran through her mind, like the many intricate threads in a spider's web, only these threads were made out of fear and perplexity.
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To him, the ganoid was a huge perplexity, none the less because neither he nor the ganoid troubled Darwinians, but the more because it helped to reveal that Darwinism seemed to survive only in England.
Twilight (1901)
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A gentle attempt to pluck these pedals was not met with success, which only amplified my perplexity and confoundment.
Ethical Technology
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Hereupon Nur al-Huda laughed till she fell backwards and rolled round on her side. 145 Then she said to him, “O my friend, take thy time and observe me attentively: answer me at thy leisure what I shall ask thee and put away from thee insanity and perplexity and inadvertency for relief is at hand.”
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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He began counting them and then, with growing perplexity, counted them a second time.
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At first I expressed some perplexity at the questions having emanated from her royal highness, and I told her afterwards that I understood cabalism, but that I could not interpret the meaning of the answers obtained through it, and that her highness must ask new questions likely to render the answers easier to be understood.
The memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
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She never noticed the loss of them, nor looks of perplexity from uninitiated listeners.
A DEATH IN THE FAMILY
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Gradually the look of perplexity was replaced by the slightest of smirks as the boys' minds took in what was happening.
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The building, with the comely address of 11 Spring Street, has inspired conspiracy theories, fear, loathing and - in the pages of the New York Times - utter perplexity.
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How Pantagruel convocated together a theologian, physician, lawyer, and philosopher, for extricating Panurge out of the perplexity wherein he was.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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I finally managed to disentangle myself from perplexity.
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At about the age of fifty, Tolstoy relates that he began to have moments of perplexity, of what he calls arrest, as if he knew not "how to live," or what to do.
The Varieties of Religious Experience
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That judicious senate, very sagely perpending the reasons of his perplexity, sent him word to summon her personally to compear before him a precise hundred years thereafter, to answer to some interrogatories touching certain points which were not contained in the verbal defence.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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Here was a terrible state of perplexity for our asthmatical abbé, who, for all that, did not lose courage, but set to work with all his might to discover the great physician.
The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851
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Notwithstanding such an editorship must have resembled the perplexity of Sinbad in the Valley of Diamonds, Mr. Hood's volume is almost unexceptionably good, whatever he may have rejected; and one of the best, if not _the best_, article in the whole work, has been contributed by the editor himself.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 340, Supplementary Number (1828)
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The sensory overload of such prose inspires perplexity and gives little assurance on rereading.
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The perplexity of mannerliness will not let him feed, and he is sharp set at an argument when he should cut his meat.
Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters
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Holmes halted before the next exhibit in some perplexity.
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‘Yes,’ he agreed, his tone quiet and unemphatic, and regarded her with what seemed to be mingled perplexity and embarrassment.
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Ah Cho looked at him in abrupt perplexity and said:
THE CHINAGO
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The spokesman returned in a state of even greater perplexity to confront the television cameras and assembled press corps.
WALL GAMES
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The ban has been met with a combination of anger and perplexity.
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Our reading from Romans 8 contains gospel grist for any number of sermons and is a text to which we pastors resort often in times of loss and perplexity.
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For all their cheerful harmony, his pictures were painted in solitude, with perplexity and misgiving until he saw them in their completed form.
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Dinna ye ken, Nelly woman, his presence will vex you no longer? you're at liberty to go your own gate, and be as you have been -- that was his propine," whispered Lady Staneholme, in sorrowful perplexity, but without rousing Nelly from her stupor.
Girlhood and Womanhood The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortunes
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We may come in love and sympathy, perhaps with perplexity or even anger, but we come to share and for a time of quiet reflection.
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Would you have the gauger's wife, sister?" inquired Blanche, with a face of renewed perplexity: "I think my dear Lady Maria would be pleased if I bid the dame - for the gauger is a good friend of his Lordship - hot-headed, they say, but that does not make him the worse - and his dame takes it kindly to be noticed.
Rob of the bowl : a legend of St. Inigoe's,
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The dinner stood, but there was a desire already more powerful than the appetite for shows, already more efficient in turning the man’s mind away from his grim prepossession with his past than any theatre could be, and that was an enormous curiosity and perplexity about this Boomfood and these Boom children — this new portentous giantry that seemed to dominate the world.
The Food of the Gods and how it came to Earth
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Great Scott, Dan!" and the "sonny" addressed stared at him in perplexity,
That Girl Montana
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His comments have been the source of much perplexity and debate.
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I went down stairs and walked up the street, in the greatest perplexity; for -- let me whisper it into your ear, reader, I had not a sufficient amount of the current coin of the realm in my pockets to create a gingle upon a tomb-stone.
My Life: or the Adventures of Geo. Thompson Being the Auto-Biography of an Author. Written by Himself.
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Disappointment flooded through her, curbed only slightly by perplexity.
PASSION AND ILLUSION
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The defining images of the tournament so far have been ones of American disappointment, frustration and sheer perplexity at the force of their rivals.
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Confusion and perplexity characterise the political establishment everywhere.
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While this was settling, Edgar, in some confusion, drew Camilla to the door, saying: 'To avoid any perplexity about your throwing, suppose you step into the haberdasher's shop that is over the way?'
Camilla
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The single word of the Marconigram had left the American in perplexity.
The Lighted Match
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‘No I didn't,’ Duke replied with a look of perplexity.
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In my perplexity, I rang the council for clarification.
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Perhaps the perplexity, if any, arose from Anne Duchess of Hamilton, the inheritress of the ducal honours by virtue of the patent of 1643, after the deaths of her father and uncle _s.p. m. _, having obtained a _life dukedom_ for her husband,
Notes and Queries, Number 179, April 2, 1853. A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc
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The master-at-arms or chief petty officer in charge would ceremonially tip this residue into the scuppers at the edge of the deck, from where, to the daily perplexity and annoyance of thirsty seamen, it would drain into the sea.
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As well as Joyce there was TS Eliot, whose densely allusive poem The Waste Land prompted such perplexity that the poet felt prompted to provide his own notes.
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My face formed into a look of perplexity, and the fibers of my body clenched.
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I see that I am standing beside an iron seat of poor design in that grey and gawky waste of asphalte — Trafalgar Square, and the botanist, with perplexity in his face, stares from me to a poor, shrivelled, dirt-lined old woman — my God! what a neglected thing she is! — who proffers a box of matches ....
A Modern Utopia
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Part of the perplexity arises from a sudden onrush of doubt: did we misread the earlier texts, overlook the clues that would explain this surprising volte-face?
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He did in these extremities, as I conceive, most humbly recommend the direction of his judicial proceedings to the upright judge of judges, God Almighty; did submit himself to the conduct and guideship of the blessed Spirit in the hazard and perplexity of the definitive sentence, and, by this aleatory lot, did as it were implore and explore the divine decree of his goodwill and pleasure, instead of that which we call the final judgment of a court.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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She stared at the instruction booklet in complete perplexity.
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The spokesman returned in a state of even greater perplexity to confront the television cameras and assembled press corps.
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This movie aims to evoke the same mystery, but settles for a sense of blank perplexity.
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The ambivalence from the clash of voices results in mental and emotional states of perplexity.
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While this was settling, Edgar, in some confusion, drew Camilla to the door, saying: 'To avoid any perplexity about your throwing, suppose you step into the haberdasher's shop that is over the way?'
Camilla
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Margaret Morrison's prim frown gave way to perplexity which in turn yielded to a certain wariness.
SAN ANDREAS
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In the meantime, a strange mood of perplexity and foreboding has settled on Europe.
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The laws which excuse, on any occasions, the ignorance of their subjects, confess their own imperfections: the civil jurisprudence, as it was abridged by Justinian, still continued a mysterious science, and a profitable trade, and the innate perplexity of the study was involved in tenfold darkness by the private industry of the practitioners.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire