they are no longer a puzzling aspect of intricately variable, local planetary motions.

The puzzle is solved when one of the players is able to recite the narrative the host had in mind, in particular explaining whatever aspect of the initial scenario was puzzling.

That aspect of scientific method resembles also a situation puzzle in facing ( unlike Twenty Questions ) a puzzling scenario at the start.

Besides the aspect of materialization and dematerialization he cited the " poltergeist " phenomenon experienced by some people after a close encounter ; the photographs of UFOs, some times on only one frame, not seen by the witnesses ; the changing form right before the witnesses ' eyes ; the puzzling question of telepathic communication ; or that in close encounters of the third kind the creatures seem to be at home in earth's gravity and atmosphere ; the sudden stillness in the presence of the craft ; levitation of cars or persons ; the development by some of psychic abilities after an encounter.

A puzzling aspect of Rimbaud's style is his use of foreign words within the French text of Illuminations.

This is puzzling to an outsider conscious of the classic tradition of liberalism, because it is clear that these Democrats who are left-of-center are at opposite poles from the liberal Jefferson, who held that the best government was the least government.

It is puzzling to the occidental mind ( to mine at least ) to assign `` sacredness '' to animal, insect, and plant life.

This behavior is so puzzling that it has been called the black hole information loss paradox.

The puzzling phenomenon of two individuals being exposed to the same evidence and being able to reach different conclusions, has been frequently explained ( particularly by Daniel Kahneman ) by reference to a ' bounded rationality ' - that is most judgments are made by fast acting heuristics ( system 1 ) that work well in every day situations, but are not amenable to decision making about complex subjects such as climate change.

Glenn A. Baker, author of Monkeemania: The True Story of the Monkees, commented in 1986 that " for an artist as versatile and confident as Jones, the relative failure of his post-Monkees activities is puzzling.

Black hole entropy is deeply puzzling — it says that the logarithm of the number of states of a black hole is proportional to the area of the horizon, not the volume in the interior.

Why opposite sides of the mountain should show different styles of deformation is puzzling.

This may be puzzling, because quantum mechanics is generally thought of as more complicated than classical mechanics.

Such a correction concerns the temples dedicated on the Capitol ; it does not address the question of the dedication of the temple on the Island, which is puzzling, since the place is attested epigraphically as dedicated to the cult of Iuppiter Iurarius and Vediove in the Fasti Praenestini and to Jupiter according to Ovid's.

Understanding Fort's books takes time and effort: his style is complex, violent and poetic, profound and occasionally puzzling.

This rule by itself is very puzzling since it looks like it could be used without bothering with fuzzy logic, but remember that the decision is based on a set of rules:

Astronomers think that the sun had about 70 – 75 % of the present luminosity, yet temperatures appear to have been near modern levels even within 500 Ma of Earth's formation, which is puzzling ( the faint young sun paradox ).

Their stay is brief but puzzling, for Tom and Goldberry are clearly more than they seem.

As a copy command, this is puzzling: " Go back four characters and copy ten characters from that position into the current position ".

The first dance part is known as a hash call, which is characterized by its unstructured and often puzzling dance choreography.

An elaborate and not very amusing joke, this " puzzling " poem has been considered historically significant by some scholars as a signal from Ibycus that he is now turning his back on epic themes to concentrate on love poetry instead: a new vision or recusatio.

Many modern readers will find it puzzling that one and the same thing is called the Good, the source of being ( the being of the forms, at least ), something that ( somehow ) sheds light on all other forms, and a universal.

What many consider to be the most puzzling teosinte is Z. m. huehuetenangensis which combines a morphology rather like Z. m. parviglumis with many terminal chromosome knobs and an isozyme position between the two sections.

In Sanchuniathon's account Hadad is once called Adodos but mostly named Demarûs, a puzzling form, possibly a Greek corruption of Hadad Ramān.

The existence of discounts is puzzling since if a fund is trading at a discount, and if permitted by the rules or constitution of the fund, theoretically a well-capitalized investor could come along and buy up enough of the fund's shares at the discounted price to gain control of the company and force the fund managers to liquidate the portfolio at its ( higher ) market value ( although in reality, liquidity issues may make this difficult since the bid – offer spread will drastically widen as fewer and fewer shares are available in the market ).

This bias gives the theory its predictive power, shedding light on otherwise puzzling, irrational, and even destructive behavior.

Nowadays the wedding breakfast is not normally a morning meal, so its name is puzzling.

Whilst some critics praise the film's visual performance, use of color and soundtrack, others have criticized it for its lack of sense and puzzling storyline.

As Ebert's behaviour became increasingly puzzling to the revolutionary workers, the soldiers and their stewards, the SPD leadership lost more and more confidence of its supporters without gaining any sympathies from the opponents of the revolution on the right.

Group polarization has been widely considered as a fundamental group decision-making process and was well established, but remained non-obvious and puzzling because its mechanisms were not fully understood.

In both film and literature, anterograde amnesia is used for its ( often puzzling ) dramaturgical possibilities, and both its humorous and tragic implications, often as a plot device ; more often than not, the story relies on the condition.

This fact is puzzling considering that although AMPK protein abundance has been shown to increase in skeletal tissue with endurance training, its level of activity has been shown to decrease with endurance training in both trained and untrained tissue.

The modest dimensions of the structure and its lack of rich decoration are at first sight puzzling in light of Hitler's predilection for gigantic dimensions, but in this case the focal point of the building was the Führer's sarcophagus, which was not to be dwarfed by dimension out of all proportion to the size of the sarcophagus itself.

Not an authorized version but a puzzling confluence ; not merely the resolution of difference but its wholehearted embrace.

There is a rather puzzling contrast between Carnotaurus ’ deep, robust-looking skull and its shallow, slender lower jaw.

One of the most puzzling features of the Hildebrandslied is its dialect, which is a mixture of Old Bavarian and Old Saxon.

Writing in The Washington Post, longtime Book World reviewer Paul di Filippo states, “ Overall, the Weisses exhibit fine taste and editorial restraint, although ... their selection of the opening piece is puzzling ... But then a challenging story such as John H. Ritter's ‘ Baseball in Iraq ( Being the True Story of the Ghost of Gunnery Sergeant T. J. McVeigh )’ comes along and dispels all cant and cliché with its elegant portrayal of the reviled terrorist working out his karma .”

This is puzzling that trehalase is present in higher plants, though its substrate is absent.

The generic name was stated to be derived from Greek αἴνιγμα, ainigma, " riddle ", after the puzzling and unusual shape of its pelvis ( hips ); at the time little was known about therizinosauroids.

In December 1969, physicist James E. McDonald called the Report " inadequate " and said " it represents an examination of only a tiny fraction of the most puzzling UFO reports of the past two decades, and that its level of scientific argumentation is wholly unsatisfactory.

In the 19th century a number of scientists noted puzzling geological and zoological similarities between widely separated areas.

Jansky discussed the puzzling phenomena with his friend, astrophysicist and teacher Albert Melvin Skellett, who pointed out that the time between the signal peaks was the exact length of a sidereal day, the timing you would get if the source was an astronomical one, " fixed " in relationship to the stars and passing in front of the antenna once every Earth rotation.

The parrotbills are somewhat tit-like birds that in the past were moved about between the timaliids, the tits, and distinct family status ( under the telling name Paradoxornithidae — literally, " puzzling birds ").

The play's puzzling and intriguing nature has meant that Troilus and Cressida has rarely been popular on stage, and neither during Shakespeare's own lifetime nor between 1734 and 1898 is there any recorded performance of the play.

On the Italian Peninsula and Corsica, the two species are replaced by the Italian Sparrow, a puzzling type of sparrow apparently intermediate between the Spanish Sparrow and the House Sparrow.

To this contrast between the active life and contemplation there corresponds a distinction in our understanding of what it is to be human between reason conceived as puzzling things out, solving problems, calculating and making decisions-referred to by the Greek words phronesis and dianoia, or in Latin by ratio-and reason conceived as receptive of truth, beholding, looking-referred to by the Greek words theoria or sophia ( wisdom ) or nous ( intellect ), or in Latin intellectus.