I just stared at him mouth open, perplexed and maybe even slightly flustered by his strange double-talk. |
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Many students have xeroxed booklets of Jody calls and brought them in, thrilled to have perplexed their fellow workers. |
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The ravers danced, the normals tapped their feet and the rockers looked a little perplexed. |
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North Dakotans sees a channel to the Red River as a natural remedy for the problem and are perplexed that Manitoba would object. |
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I spotted my friends at our usual table with perplexed expressions upon their faces. |
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They rushed outside to meet with their comrades who were also perplexed by their findings. |
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So when I found myself sitting astride a large horse at 11 am last Saturday I was a little perplexed to say the least. |
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Still panting, Ermo slowly removes her babushka and the many layers of her winter clothing, as a perplexed Xiazi looks on passively. |
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And the show went on and the private eye finally solved the murder, leaving televiewers a little perplexed. |
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When they come tell you about, act grossed out and perplexed, then go in and pick it up barehanded. |
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Puzzled and perplexed by all this, I went a bit further into the material to hand. |
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The man upstairs's painted as a lonely misfit who's as perplexed by his role as everyone else. |
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They sat there with expressions perplexed, paranoid, perturbed, patently unamused. |
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Almost all find writing slash utterly natural, with some seeming slightly perplexed at being asked why they do it. |
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We perplexed everyone around us by walking up the unfrequented road the quarter mile or so to the museum. |
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It is no wonder the protean character of the enlightener has perplexed mythologers, for he is a perpetual paradox. |
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As secular identity becomes enervated, incoherent, and perplexed, as we grow tired and unstrung by self-doubt, hating them offers odd comfort. |
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Critics were perplexed by this seemingly perfect specimen, and swiftly termed her bland and banal. |
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Audiences, on the other hand, seem perplexed that their response differs so markedly to those reflected in the film's notices. |
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Our failure to look at ourselves in the mirror is the tragedy future historians will be perplexed to read about. |
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The clockwork appearance of periodical cicadas in late May to mid-June has long fascinated, and perplexed, entomologists. |
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The children were perplexed by her unexpected good humor, but they admired her good-natured bravery in the face of personal tragedy. |
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I was perplexed when my results were quite different from those reported in the article. |
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Physicians are often perplexed about how to interpret abnormal results within the panels. |
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Having lived for years in a neighbourhood which has been ignored, local people are naturally perplexed and jealous. |
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I sat up and looked at him oddly, almost as though the question perplexed me more than anything else. |
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That edginess was not helped by the sort of erratic refereeing which caused perplexed reactions in both technical areas. |
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Imagine dozens of wheezing, perplexed pugs romping, sneezing, and peeing on anything immobile. |
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At the same time, all this does is alienate liberal supporters who are perplexed by her insane and pointless maneuvring. |
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Now the problem which had perplexed Bolyai most in his study of mathematics had been the independence of Euclid's Fifth postulate. |
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A muscle in his jaw was working as he slightly loosened his cravat and sent her a perplexed glance. |
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How, a perplexed public is asking, did a thirty-nine year old crock manage to swim through the air and prevent what was a certain goal? |
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In his first over he bowled only long hops and full tosses and was relieved and perplexed to get away with a maiden. |
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Some might feel perplexed by the differences in the psychometric properties of the test in the two university samples. |
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The perplexed liberal democracies in Central and Western Europe are increasingly egoistical, and are now teetering along an uncertain course. |
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Westerner's perplexed by the artificiality of Hangzhou's dredged, diked and manipulated Xihu need only recall their own foundational myths. |
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Another staff member felt perplexed and sad about the fact that one of the campers seemed angry with her all the time, for no explicable reason. |
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Marion Price said she was perplexed by the crudity of the approach. |
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Steve bolted from the office leaving a perplexed Mrs. Smythe in his wake. |
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He was perplexed by her question and it more than a little baffled him. |
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I returned the sneakers to their boxes, slightly less perplexed by their cultish appeal. |
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Sophie looked up at his perplexed face and started laughing. |
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Meyerson is clearly perplexed by politicians who not only espouse principles but act according to them. |
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Sipping tea before the botanic feast of flowers and trees that surrounds the bowling green, the men and women in white were perplexed by the slurs. |
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It took some time to sink in, and I stood dim-wittedly in the heavy rain staring at Charles whose expression grew increasingly perplexed when I didn't get in right away. |
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God's word repeated as prayer, spoken to one another as encouragement, reflected on when we are perplexed, can still cut through pain, confusion, and lukewarmness. |
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It contained nothing but sand and encrustation, so I left perplexed. |
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He is genuinely perplexed that people don't think he has done enough. |
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The lovely line of boy shorts, thongs, bra-top camisoles, slips, drawstring pants, and tees will have you delightfully perplexed as to how and where to wear them. |
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He often looks perplexed, as though interrupted from a dream, and you wonder if in the noisy belligerence of the dressing room he does not fade from view like an apparition. |
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In mid-August, a group of mainland Chinese business executives made such a stink at a Chicago hardware fair that most attendants were left perplexed and appalled. |
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In fact, a number of officers were perplexed that religious freedom was considered to be a serious issue within the service. |
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But little has perplexed me in recent years quite so much as the supposed miracle that is Soylent. |
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The New York Times also quoted Diana Buttu, an Arab-Israeli lawyer who said she was perplexed that Kerry sounded so upbeat. |
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In a short moment a smile had formed on Seth's once perplexed face. |
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Our family is fanatically loyal to accommodating businesses and avoid those that seem perplexed by us. |
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A CDC that seems perplexed by the ABCs of containing a highly predictable outbreak. |
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A man shall be perplexed with knots, and problems of business, and contrary affairs. |
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As expected, Shirin perplexed the critics, who may have appreciated its conceptuality yet remained unsure as to what to make of it. |
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The end result, Janken tells us, is that the NAACP remained just as perplexed about its racial identity as did Walter White. |
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A confessed music obsessive, Dam perplexed neighborhood kids with his dedication to craft and burgeoning audiophilia. |
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A young Martin, perplexed by this, asked his parents for an explanation. |
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Your first sighting of a bee orchid can leave you feeling a little perplexed. |
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I am a little perplexed by where the Marmite comes in with croustades of seared salmon and tarragon mayonnaise, though. |
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Sand flies are bugs that come from a various organic team as well as must not be perplexed with the attacking midgets. |
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What was thought obscure, perplexed, and too hard for our weak parts, will lie open to the understanding in a fair view. |
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The Cubists, Futurists, Imagists, Impressionists, Vorticists had all taken a hand at rejuvenating the sad and perplexed Muse. |
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A non-evidential extension of the dubitative marker is associated with mirativity, found in contexts when the speaker is stunned or perplexed by a discovery. |
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After perplexed librarians could not retrieve some titles, the initial stopword list was pruned to match the minimal list used for LC's main catalog. |
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He is perpetually puzzled and perplexed amidst his own blunders. |
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Leaving the White House after a unilateral chat with Coolidge, Actress Barrymore, in stitches from laughter, was confronted by perplexed newsmen wondering what was so funny. |
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When the Maximo Park frontman opened up the show with album track While You're In The Bath, a number of perplexed expressions appeared across their faces. |
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In the few minutes during which we were waiting for tea, he dropped some drolleries so new to me, and so intense, that I was perplexed what to do with my laughter. |
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Surely those seeing his floppy vessels for the first time as they were produced must have been perplexed at the least and possibly even shocked or revulsed. |
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