perplexity
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Even so, a certain perplexity attaches to his supposed realism.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
The mainstream press expressed perplexity at his embrace of an Irish cultural identity "despite being born and raised in England".
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2025
“It seems that the sea was calm,” Francis said, seemingly expressing perplexity that such a grave tragedy could happen in those conditions.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 18, 2023
The two researchers had no idea what the animals were doing, and their perplexity increased as they watched a male goat approach a group of sheep.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 17, 2022
I was tired but I couldn’t sleep; my irritation and perplexity were growing stronger, kept in motion by a ridiculous sense of unease.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
The performances, too, are more likenesses than full characterizations, which, admittedly, is wholly in keeping with the perplexities being dramatized.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2024
The paper focuses, as Kripke puts in, on “the perplexities some philosophers have felt concerning the simple first person pronoun ‘I’.”
From Scientific American ● Aug. 17, 2019
Stephenson carefully lays out the perplexities of this situation.
From Slate ● Jun. 3, 2019
Among the perplexities of our age is that art is becoming less durable and kitsch more so.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 4, 2018
He set down his loneliness and his perplexities, and he put on paper many things he did not know about himself.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
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