(1) However, as we watch Blade Runner , Deckard doesn’t feel like a replicant; he is dour and unengaged, but lacks his victims’ detached innocence, their staccato puzzlement at their own untrained feelings.
(2) His comments have drawn puzzlement from bankers familiar with the financing of the presidential candidate’s business empire.
(3) The affair caused puzzlement among Kremlin watchers at the time.
(4) Now, when I talk with some others who were there that day, we share a certain kind of puzzlement over something we’ve noticed: many people who only experienced the attacks on television want revenge much more than my friends and I do.
(5) Once his eyes opened, he stared at the sun with a deep unearthly puzzlement and then at the sky around the sun.
(6) However, after the decision of the Malaysian owner, Vincent Tan, caused puzzlement at the Welsh club there is a recognition that the Scot's position is now precarious.
(7) In the sequence that may have caused most puzzlement among non-Britons, Boyle examined the rise of social media through a miniature soap opera, complete with a guest appearance from Sir Tim Berners-Lee and a collaged soundtrack racing from My Generation and My Boy Lollipop through Tiger Feet and Pretty Vacant to Dizzee Rascal live in the stadium.
(8) All such modifications often promote a loss of the subject's usual landmarks, a relative degree of puzzlement, sometimes even a destruction of pre-existing harmony that may impair the psychological balance of the subject.
(9) We’ve really enjoyed it.” Martin O’Neill, the Republic of Ireland manager, expressed puzzlement at Wales’s ascent from pot six of the World Cup qualifying draw alongside the minnows four years ago.
(10) She herself described her readers as "women and educated men", and expressed "puzzlement" when Margaret Drabble left her out of her 1985 edition of The Oxford Companion to English Literature.
(11) They really could have just restructured at DHS how the NCCIC works to really move threats together in a comprehensive fashion, and a real-time fashion, where you could actually get some value out of it,” said Tony Cole, a top executive at the cybersecurity firm FireEye, who said he was hearing similar puzzlement from industry leaders about the new center.
(12) A useful therapeutic model embraces dilemma, promotes toleration of puzzlement, and views the therapist as editor of the patient's developing novel.
(13) This is a common source of puzzlement amongst some, but let me solve this apparent conundrum.
(14) Talking to developers ahead of Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) at San Francisco, one detects a sense both of puzzlement and excitement.
(15) His all-embracing attitudes caused widespread puzzlement.
(16) The puzzlement extends to British officials and business.
(17) Kenyatta's assertion is likely to cause puzzlement.
(18) There was puzzlement at the Old Lady of Threadneedle Street.
(19) What was interesting was how present and real the bull felt to me, how close the animal's pain and puzzlement was.
(20) Within the country, the mood was one of puzzlement – and abandonment.
Quizzical
Definition:
(a.) Relating to quizzing: given to quizzing; of the nature of a quiz; farcical; sportive.
Example Sentences:
(1) Judges, reviewing cases for release, have looked quizzical when the patients' active participation in a "law course" has been used as evidence of satisfactory progress.
(2) Although Tennant is best-known in the wider world for his quicksilver portrayal of the tenth Timelord in Doctor Who – and more recently, a quizzical detective in ITV's doomy thriller Broadchurch – his theatrical pedigree is impressive.
(3) Tom was unsuited to the home-improvement periodicals for which he wrote in the late 70s, but in 1980 his droll and quizzical reviews began to appear in New Music News, an underground rock weekly launched by Felix Dennis to fill the vacuum left by the strike-bound NME and Melody Maker.
(4) When I come into class with mud-caked hands I get some quizzical looks but things become clearer as we are learning to read and write instructions.
(5) To discern and anatomise the meaning of Englishness, you need outsiders, with their quizzical perspectives.
(6) Boris Johnson: how he has flip-flopped over Russia and Syria Read more “Instead we had the Boris circus-show: lots of table thumping beforehand about how he was going to deliver sanctions (‘Boris is no poodle,’ his spin doctors briefed, a little hysterically), followed by that familiar quizzical expression at the post-summit photocall when he had delivered precisely nothing.
(7) When the minister for the natural environment and fisheries, Richard Benyon , last week posted a picture on Facebook of himself bravely pulling up a ragwort plant while being watched by a quizzical cow, he probably thought the image of a true countryman being tough on weeds would go down well with the voters.
(8) Emerson, like other respectable citizens of Concord, was sceptical of enterprise so personal and quizzical, confiding to his journal that "Thoreau wants a little ambition in his mixture ...
(9) Referencing was operationalized as looks directed toward the mother following a look to the rabbit, accompanied by quizzical facial or vocal expressions.
(10) She nods, raises a quizzical eyebrow and stomps off.
(11) Emma Payne, headteacher at St Mary Redcliffe primary in Bristol , is gazing quizzically at a wooden shed that stands just behind her school kitchen.
(12) He shrugs, and on his face is the sort of slightly quizzical expression that Uncle Bryn might use when confronted with the limitless mysteries of the universe.
(13) Outside her native Australia, Gina Rinehart's name is likely to be met with quizzical looks – but all that could be about to change, because the 57-year-old from Western Australia is on track to become the world's richest woman.
(14) repeated a quizzical Finn and a couple from Texas, rolling the name around their mouths like that of a particularly obscure Qin dynasty philosopher.
(15) More quizzically, there are a couple of cushions on a sofa bearing images of fluffy "Westies" – West Highland terriers like her first dog Buddy.
(16) His quizzical style made him a good interrogator; if a subject said something stupid he would simply repeat it deadpan, perhaps raising an eyebrow.
(17) A porcelain model of a laughing pig is staked quizzically on a poll by the drive.
(18) The trailer for the film – featuring only quizzical grunts and alarmed cries from Paddington rather than Firth's drily plummy tones – was recently released, and features the bear fresh from darkest Peru trying to understand bathrooms and the London Underground system.
(19) He was wonderfully quick-witted, funny, several steps ahead in exact and ironic understanding of any matter being talked about; but he was equally and happily prone to a dawdling, quizzical slowness.
(20) It is a theatrically cluttered space full of her varied knickknacks, including cushions embroidered with images of her beloved dogs , a DVD of a BBC docudrama on Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor and, quizzically, a book titled The Married Kama Sutra.