Nobody has puzzled longer over the roots of his creativity than Dylan himself and this riveting, poetic memoir is the result. |
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You might well be puzzled by this bizarre attempt to create a difference where none exists. |
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Then she stares at the stranger, her puzzled expression swiftly turning into shock. |
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His many readers, including me, had become increasingly puzzled and concerned by his uncharacteristic silence. |
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They were puzzled at the undemonstrativeness of the conquered people and thought them strangely sullen. |
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Crowley, for his part, was puzzled by the referee's decision to penalise him. |
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Rachael spoke softly, her voice chiming musically, and Sarah heard a deeper meaning in her words and was puzzled. |
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Indeed, many of the colonial terms which puzzled the new chums were not colonial-grown, but borrowings from various British dialects. |
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She then returned alone into the pub, necked her drink, stared at everyone in threatening manner and left to puzzled looks all round. |
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Jenia's look of bitterness slowly melts away to be replaced by a somewhat puzzled look. |
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For 70 years, physicists have puzzled over sonoluminescence, a process where sound waves create thousands of hot, luminous bubbles in water. |
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The Helots, and the Spartans ' severe treatment of them, at first puzzled and later disturbed the more sensitive Greek observers. |
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A few sentences into his answer and he was looking rather puzzled despite himself, as I was now vibrating like a blancmange on a spin dryer. |
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My cable TV was working fine, so I was puzzled as to why the cable modem for my internet would be non-functioning. |
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Several Novembers ago, off the coast of Greenland, the captain of a fishing vessel was puzzled by one of the fish caught in the boat's gill nets. |
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Similarly, a young novice entered St. Martin's cell and was puzzled not to find him there. |
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So, people are on edge and are a little puzzled as to exactly what comes next and what's happening at the moment. |
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But I am puzzled by the apparent conviction that the golden rice project is somehow compromised by the industry offensive. |
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My acquaintance was a little puzzled, expecting me to stick to the original subject. |
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I puzzled over how best to build a box for her collection, and the idea finally came to me around 3 a.m. one night. |
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Fabricius, who was fascinated by anatomy, recognised that the veins in the human body had one-way valves, but was puzzled as to their function. |
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In my early years I was puzzled by the fact that a priest from a neighboring men's cloister came to celebrate the liturgy exclusively for women. |
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I must have looked puzzled at his sudden, overnight turnaround in demeanour, because he immediately adopted a genuinely apologetic expression. |
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And all this time Adam looked at his brother as the condemned look hopelessly and puzzled at the executioner. |
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I am puzzled by all those who think that a closing time of midnight will spoil the tourist trade in Thailand. |
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She turns round, puzzled but incurious at the noise, as impassive as livestock. |
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She ignored their puzzled stares and left the fast-food restaurant as fast as she could. |
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This lack of any Conservative alternative to the council tax initially puzzled me. |
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The toy is small, yet the artist stares intensely at it, puzzled by the magnitude of the myth. |
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Later on he successfully puzzled over the riddles of some bawdy conundrums. |
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The findings of these studies puzzled media researchers and opinion pollsters at the time. |
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A counter-argument comes from the Argentinian, Borges, who claimed to be puzzled by his huge North American reputation. |
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But you seem to have asked the question a couple of times, and I am a bit puzzled by that. |
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Pleased with that, I was ready to move on when I realised that my guide was looking puzzled, and pointing back in the direction of the frogfish. |
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Henry is also puzzled about Matilda's attitude until he sees her looking daggers at Cassie and Ric as they flirt together. |
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Her doctor is puzzled how she walked around with such a big gash without feeling a thing, and it is odd. |
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This puzzled the doctors and some even thought it had something to do with the supernatural. |
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In other rich people news, we're still puzzled beyond belief by the whole McCartney story. |
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I am very puzzled why people with no helmets are stopped by police and these extremely noisy bikes have a free range. |
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I was puzzled that my doctor saw this as a cause for celebration but they are a breed apart. |
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I can understand why you are puzzled, and certainly there is a somewhat surprising explanation for this. |
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Local people are puzzled by the find and were disgusted that anyone would dump carcasses in such a way. |
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Doctors were puzzled because the fungus was thought to be found only in mosquitoes and other insects. |
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We were puzzled by your remark that you had the standard and there is no other design, so we did a little detective work. |
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John puzzled at the possible reasons for the break in speech, but decided that reason had very little to do with it. |
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I puzzled for quite a long time over the sort of threshold that I thought might be most appropriate. |
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And there's something I need to work on about forgiveness, to myself and others, but I haven't puzzled it out quite yet. |
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Well, it doesn't end with a rooftop concert played for a puzzled and scant audience of bystanders. |
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Stockdale's question was mistaken as the puzzled musings of a lost and confused man. |
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Looking surprised, a little boy peers at the elderly woman, who takes the puzzled gaze as a question. |
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The question parallels the large question ringing in the ears of millions of puzzled Americans. |
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The puzzled Marine tried to explain he had only X-funds allocated for silencers. |
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Nick blinked in puzzled surprise at the sight that greeted his tired eyes as they entered the camp. |
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When dinner time rolled around on Saturday evening, I was still puzzled as to where I could take him. |
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They also were puzzled by the presence in the enclosed courtyard of a new glass-walled room that seemed to be a guardhouse. |
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Andy was puzzled by how discombobulated I was on the phone, and I was too flummoxed to say anything until she'd left. |
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My students were not at all puzzled by this, although they were discomfited that their parents were paying six figures for such an education. |
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The Cat seemed somewhat puzzled by this comment, and his stride became less confident, while his tail wagged in apparent disconsolation. |
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A Gazette article earlier this year highlighted an enigma that has long puzzled me. |
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Police are puzzled as to how the stock of a double-barrelled gun arrived there or how long the waterlogged part had been there. |
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Maura gave him a puzzled glance but closed the account book and made her way to the entrance. |
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Mass, instantaneous velocity, acceleration, magnetic forces, and energy puzzled them much more. |
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His soft brown eyes slowly drifted to meet my very confused and puzzled gaze and with a simple wave of the hand gestured for me to take a seat. |
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Tyler, who wore a politely puzzled expression, sat very comfortably on the couch, with one leg resting on top of the other. |
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He gave them all a puzzled look but could tell they were in a serious conversation, so he didn't push it. |
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After a few minutes of puzzled winds and twists and turns and curses muttered under my breath, I come upon the bed. |
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Catching view of her father's puzzled look Kerri came to the realization that she was standing on the table holding her spoon up in the air. |
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They exchanged puzzled looks but gave it no more thought as they took their place in the receiving line. |
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The policy of Irish Rail to serve alcohol on their trains has therefore always puzzled me. |
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Anjar looked puzzled, unable to link the act of writing with the printed text on a page. |
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She sighed, and regretfully disentangled herself from Steve, who looked puzzled. |
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The groom, a genuine nice guy, has stuck around for three years, a bit puzzled by his love's reluctance. |
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Jones says he was a bit puzzled by feminist critics who took the film to task for being misogynist. |
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Ron regarded the cartoon flashing brightly across the screen with glazed eyes and a puzzled frown, not pretending to understand it. |
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I'm puzzled, a bit worried, and not a little peeved that this should be the case. |
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She was absolutely delighted, but at the same time puzzled, that he asked her to dinner on such a romantic night. |
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I watch as John starts to log the vehicle's details on his computer, but am slightly puzzled when he leans over and closely inspects its wheels. |
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She plopped the fish back in the clean water where they swam round and round, looking puzzled. |
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Every time Katy left her with him, she'd head straight for the back room, then wander round the house with a puzzled unhappy look on her face. |
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I was a little puzzled why Harper came to the debate dressed only in a loincloth and carrying a sharp stick. |
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After taking a step back from him, she noticed the puzzled look crossing his face. |
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No wonder our students are puzzled by the disjunction between course readings and academic writing assignments. |
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They were puzzled and frustrated by the decision to get rid of all the guns when loyalists remain fully armed. |
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A few puzzled tourists stand around, scouring their London A to Zs for alternative routes to their destinations. |
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Since he had put the point in a friendly, avuncular way, I asked him about something that had long puzzled me. |
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Officers today said they were puzzled why car makers' badges were being stolen in Eldwick and Gilstead. |
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Ms Manners said women who feel isolated and puzzled by complicated legal talk are much more likely to bail out of cases. |
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That's why outsiders are often puzzled by the success of games that would appear to be nothing but screamingly offensive content. |
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For centuries, theologians have puzzled and debated the topic of predestination. |
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The Eagles look at each other, puzzled, while he leafs carefully through the pages. |
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And a caring, slightly puzzled expression covers Seibei's face as his senile mother constantly asks him which family he is from. |
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But if they had been watching, they would have been puzzled by the sequence of events that followed. |
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Passing drivers tooted their horns in support of the 200-strong protest, while some passers-by looked puzzled. |
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When I was young, I was puzzled as to why we would pledge allegiance to a flag. |
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Do a search and you will find newsgroups posters exclaiming the phrases and leaving puzzled and angry observers. |
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Calissa and Isabelle both looked puzzled at Lucy, when suddenly it clicked in Isabelle's head. |
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Violet, however, was genuinely deep in thought, her lips shaping the words as she puzzled out the riddle. |
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The seriously wooden actor is a dull love-interest, playing a cop with an air of puzzled bewilderment. |
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I stood there puzzled for a minute or so with the tightly stoppered flask in my hand, holding it up to see what I could make of the stuff. |
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Picking up an unwashed dish at random, it puzzled him to see that bacteria had failed to colonise around a mysterious mould which had coincidentally appeared. |
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The Speaker was puzzled at first, Simpson recalls, pointing out that he was a Republican and Mazzoli a Democrat. |
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Yet I am continually puzzled as to how other clubs in the First Division are continuing to not only survive, but employ quality players relative to this level. |
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He was puzzled for a minute before he exploded into hard sobs. |
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Immense amounts of money were squandered, reputations were tarnished, and the consumer was left, as is so often the case, chagrined, puzzled, shortchanged, miffed. |
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I puzzled for a minute, then gave a totally unconvincing answer. |
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She received a few puzzled looks, but got no verbal responses. |
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He began to read, raising his eyebrows with a puzzled, whimsical air, which made me tremble with suppressed anger. |
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Where else in Europe do the traces of pre-classical life leave so much to be puzzled over by antiquarians, anthropologists, historians, and psychologists? |
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My parents had both given me puzzled look but proceeded to do their nightly rituals of either going over their case, or reading over a new fashion magazine. |
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This horizontality has always puzzled and offended Americans. |
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I am puzzled and troubled by this in light of my previous decision. |
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Feeling slightly awkward, she threw a puzzled glance over her shoulder. |
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He smiled at her puzzled, then stood up, helping her also to stand. |
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At first we were much puzzled as to the origin and constitution of this extraordinary race, points upon which they were singularly uncommunicative. |
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You may be a little puzzled that two of the country's biggest intelligences should be so preoccupied by such a trifling matter as the future of a second-rate footie outfit. |
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I am not asking this facetiously, I am genuinely puzzled as to why you decided to include this column over others in what I heard was a pretty heated competition last term. |
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Most people who've learned English in this part of the world would understand if you said something was skookum, but those from elsewhere would be puzzled. |
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For that matter, mainstream microeconomists or game theorists might be puzzled as well, for our authors aren't really describing economics but rather econometrics. |
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Nearly 2,000 years ago, in the Mishnah, rabbis puzzled out 39 activities that constitute work and are forbidden on Shabbat. |
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Seeing the puzzled look on her face, I came to an impulsive decision. |
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The attitude of the local colleagues at first puzzled us, and then made us snicker in a superior way. |
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I was at first puzzled that Russell had imbued Polito with such benevolent qualities. |
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No, what puzzled us was Chuck Colson's elliptical logic and weird similes. |
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Evolutionary psychology has puzzled over the question of what is it about crying that would have been advantageous for survival. |
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A puzzled cantor lifted his head up and a bewildered congregation turned their eyes to their leader. |
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A volatile guy, big-hearted and very smart, Moran is not facing any opposition, and his retirement puzzled Price. |
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I was puzzled for a moment, until I felt a slight tickle along my arm. |
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I was puzzled about how to eat the long and large segment of pig's bone positioned in the middle of the plate in front of me with a straw stretching into it. |
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Many jazz fans were puzzled by this finding, which seems incompatible with the lackluster sales figures in the genre. |
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That all sounds great, say his inquisitors, who must be exchanging puzzled glances and looking incredulous during this, but it's not really you, is it? |
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I have long been puzzled by the supposed crackdown on drugs and vice that steadfastly ignored the home grown Thai problem of all pervasive corruption. |
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So when Nikos Kaklamanakis, who won a gold medal for windsurfing at Sydney four years ago, walked out there were more than one or two puzzled expressions. |
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It has often puzzled me why modern Germanic languages lack future tenses, and instead make do with an impoverished selection of auxiliaries of indeterminate meaning. |
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The doctor was puzzled, for the disease must have taken hold long ago. |
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That question has puzzled astronomers for decades, but a new study published just last week may have the answer. |
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As much as I'd just like to watch the shenanigans down Walford way I'm a bit puzzled. |
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The book ends with this sentence fragment and mixed metaphor and it leaves me puzzled. |
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While many parents are puzzled by the fascination with manga, Walker said she gets it. |
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She took the proffered cheque and stared at it with puzzled amaze, dazed by her own behaviour. |
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Authors of the University papers, Martin Dodge and Richard Brook are puzzled by the location of Birmingham's heliport. |
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The puzzled playcaller will demand his roster re-evaluates its game ahead of this weekend's double-header against Bradford and Leicester. |
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That asymmetry, which favors matter to a very small degree, has puzzled scientists for many years. |
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The ethnocentricity of that position at first puzzled, and even confused, Amerindians, but it has lately begun to anger them. |
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We all went and it was very good, but the grandkids were a bit puzzled, so we explained it. |
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When his gambols were over, I looked at the paper, and, to speak the truth, found myself not a little puzzled at what my friend had depicted. |
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Starting as early as William of Malmesbury in the early 12th century, historians have puzzled over Edward's intentions for the succession. |
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The poor guide had been sitting through the shauri open-eyed and open-mouthed, intensely puzzled by the whole performance. |
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If you ve ever puzzled over the bill that the doctor s office gives, then like most of us the bill is incomprehensive. |
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Yet scientists have been puzzled at the relatively small size of sauropod eggs. |
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Mason of Blencogo was a strong fellow, with no great science or action, and how he disposed of Nichol of Bothel, who was one of the best hypers of the day, puzzled not a few. |
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He gave a wide-handed gesture, puzzled as to why she was at his flat and picking up from the way she clenched her mouth so tightly that she was very tense. |
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Haven't got time. I must mosey up to the North End to see a man who has got a lovely throat. Nobody can find out what is the matter. He has puzzled all the doctors. |
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For his austere but decorative designs he was recognized by continental and American critics as a prominent artist, while British critics were puzzled as how to evaluate him. |
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Jessamy looked round her in a puzzled way, but there was nothing to see but the pale oblong of what looked like a star-pierced sky behind the bars of the nursery window. |
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He was puzzled about a 24-year-old man whom he viewed as psychiatrically healthy except for intense depression that lasted for several hours after sex. |
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He is perpetually puzzled and perplexed amidst his own blunders. |
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A legion of tailors came to Adonize him, but he puzzled them all. |
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I am certainly puzzled by the diagram in which 'some English archaeologists' are apparently denying both Celtic and even Gaulish identity to Vercingetorix. |
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