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Perplexed in sentence

110 examples of Perplexed in a sentence

But, I must also say that I was offended by it, disgusted by the depravity of most of its characters, and perplexed by the actions of others.
I'm sorry, but I'm absolutely perplexed at all those people who claim that this is the most accurate film adaptation of Wuthering Heights.
Van Heflin is properly perplexed in an undemanding role.
When I saw this evaluation of this Steven Bocho production, I was perplexed a little.
Their parents David and Jo, played by Timothy Hutton and Joely Richardson are perplexed as their kids quit acting like kids and start focusing on their new "toys".
However, "Man of Marble" was just too quirky for me, leaving me a bit perplexed.
I was much more perplexed why Jessie would be interested in a fish scientist who said he was 37 but looked more like 57!
I've seen this film this evening with my wife and I'm very perplexed about it.
The unseemly truth is that most physicists are perplexed and embarrassed by this question.
People everywhere are perplexed by the fact that horrific, systematic violations of human rights are treated differently in different countries.
The government, perplexed at first, tried unsuccessfully to make light of the presence of the PLA troops.
Finally, and perhaps most important, the next president will face a foreign-policy puzzle that perplexed Park for most of her tenure.
Putin is perplexed about how to counter the threat posed by slow growth.
The US representatives were perplexed; the Europeans were shocked.
Americans alone will determine the election result, but they should remember that a concerned and perplexed world is watching.
Italian voters are perplexed.
Observers are perplexed by why global trade, having long grown faster than world GDP, is now expanding more slowly.
But to make sense of the new administration’s overall performance, worried and perplexed observers inside the US and around the world should follow five general guidelines, rather than focus too much on discrete events.
But Russia’s muscle-flexing behavior leaves Western leaders perplexed and wary, which seems a dubious way for the Kremlin to secure Russia’s new stature.
The opposition, of course, was perplexed by the US call for compromise without any serious call to review the vote itself.
As Adam Schiff, the chairman of the US House Intelligence Committee, wrote in a letter to Trump prior to his recent summit with Kim, “We are perplexed and troubled by the growing disconnect between the Intelligence Community’s assessment and your administration’s statements about Kim Jong Un’s (sic) actions, commitments, and intentions.”
Where was the voice of those Spaniards who looked on, perplexed, at a direct breach of their Constitution’s guarantees?
Todd Phillips, Joker’s director, is perplexed by the “double standards” applied to his movie.
It was not the past when he lived happily with his wife that perplexed him, the transition from that past to the consciousness of his wife's infidelity he had already painfully passed through; that had been trying, but it was comprehensible.
He was quite perplexed when the music stopped and felt very tired as a result of strained attention quite unrewarded.
' "I come not to bring peace, but a sword," said Christ,' rejoined Koznyshev, from his own standpoint quoting quite simply, as if it were quite comprehensible, the very passage from the gospels that always perplexed Levin more than any other.
Pretty perplexed, Dumont d'Urville didn't know if he should give credence to these reports, which had been carried in some of the less reliable newspapers; nevertheless, he decided to start on Dillon's trail.
His mind was not perplexed by accounts of what it was in the past, two thousand years ago, or sixty years ago merely, in the days of Voltaire and Louis XV.
She looked perplexed for a moment, and then said, not fiercely, but still loud enough for the furniture to hear: "Well, I lay if I get hold of you I'll--"She did not finish, for by this time she was bending down and punching under the bed with the broom, and so she needed breath to punctuate the punches with.
Aunt Polly paused, perplexed, and Tom looked for healing pity.
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