Early press coverage was " mixed ", generally a combination of " embarrassment and puzzlement ".

When first discovered, particle diffraction was a source of great puzzlement.

The board members themselves, who did not create the rankings and were unaware of it until the list was published, expressed disappointment and puzzlement.

Cuccurullo sent a tape and a request for an audition, but was turned down, with some puzzlement.

The Byzantine capital, Constantinople, was adorned with a large number of classical sculptures, although they eventually became an object of some puzzlement for its inhabitants.

Some observers, being then unconvinced that Iraq's secular government had any links to Al-Qaida, the terrorist group that attacked the U. S., expressed puzzlement that the U. S. would consider military action against Iraq and not against North Korea, which had claimed it already had nuclear weapons and had announced that it was willing to contemplate war with the U. S.

The name " Farina ", derived from a type of cereal, was chosen because its gender was ambiguous: As a toddler, Farina was portrayed as both a boy and a girl ( sometimes both genders in the same film ), much to the puzzlement of movie audiences.

Much to puzzlement of the McFalane staff it was decided to end the dragon line despite the fact that it did so well and no licensing had to be paid on it.

Instead, opinions remained divided, much puzzlement was expressed, and further research was recommended to help resolve the issue.

Alena went next and also succumbed to defeat the warrior but she was just happy about it ( to everyone's puzzlement ).

Poirot starts to investigate, finding out to everyone's puzzlement that Cronshaw was emphatically opposed to drugs, that Beltane's costume had a hump and a ruffle and that a curtained recess exists in the supper room.

Late in 2001, it was announced Gordon would drive the car the next year, to the puzzlement of many.

Anderson notes that " either the encounter with Fortinbras ' army nor Hamlet's brush with buccaneers appears in any of the play's sources – to the puzzlement of numerous literary critics.

Each instalment ends with Dr. Bob and his nurses looking around in puzzlement as a disembodied narrator tells viewers to " tune in next time, when you'll hear Nurse Piggy / Dr Bob / Nurse Janice say ....", whereupon one of the three ' medics ' will prompt a corny response from one of the others.

Such an examination challenged the implicit moral beliefs of the interlocutors, bringing out inadequacies and inconsistencies in their beliefs, and usually resulting in puzzlement known as aporia.

The extinction of the Rocky Mountain locust has been a source of puzzlement.

Midway through the film, Sean Astin had to leave, much to the puzzlement of his costars, and without ever getting to say a personal message to Cyndi Lauper that he intended to.

To the puzzlement of the leaders of the big railroads, who were unaware of Rogers ' financial backing, Page ( and Rogers ) did not give up.

" When Max Roach's first records with Charlie Parker were released by Savoy in 1945 ," jazz historian Burt Korall wrote in the Oxford Companion to Jazz, " drummers experienced awe and puzzlement and even fear.

Little wonder that, of all the Symphony's movements, this has come in for the greatest amount of criticism and puzzlement ( it has been seen by many as something of a let-down and somewhat superficial, dodging questions set by the previous movements ): its virtually unrelenting mood of celebration seems quite at odds with the dark character of the earlier movements – " a vigorous life-asserting pageant of Mahlerian blatancy ", is how Michael Kennedy describes it.

Part of the puzzlement here is because of the limitations of imagination: influenced by his Princeton colleague, Saul Kripke, Nagel believes that any type identity statement that identified a physical state type with a mental state type would be, if true, necessarily true.

This action caused considerable puzzlement since up until that time Pomare had been considered neutral, by himself and almost every one else.

An expression of disbelief or puzzlement.

", often received with bemusement or puzzlement by the listener.

Kádár and Béla Kovács noted with puzzlement the leadership's total lack of interest in the domestic Communist's experience and outlook.

But even a more independent assessment of Mr. Kerry can lead to puzzlement.

Her puzzlement is interrupted by the noises of a tremendous struggle coming from the library and two gunshots.

The introduction of code-letter names has been a source of much puzzlement and misunderstandings, especially among foreigners.

His excitement turns to puzzlement and then outright anger after learning that it had the initials J. S.

Socrates brings Meno to aporia ( puzzlement ) on the question of what virtue is.

Then suddenly there was a tremendous revulsion of popular feeling.

Now, under the impact of his wife's disclosures, he was brought suddenly to the realization that there was a limit to tolerance, however brilliant, however far-famed the offender might be.

On the south it ended sharply as though the lava had been cut off there suddenly.

My head began to ache, and the fumes of the tractor began to bother my eyes, and I hated the job suddenly, and I thought, there are only moments when one sees beautiful things, and these are soon crushed, or they vanish.

Essendon struggled to make the finals in 4th place, but once there they suddenly ignited to put in one of the most consistently devastating September performances in VFL history.

Note also that until well into the 20th Century, rather than an official readying the ball for scrimmage, the side entitled to the snap had complete custody of the ball and could snap it from the required spot at any time ; for instance, a tackled ball carrier might feign injury, then suddenly snap the ball while recumbent, there being no stance requirement yet.

Once while he was asleep there, his horses suddenly disappeared, and when he woke and wandered about in search of them, he came into the country of Hylaea.

A person who has extremely frequent or a suddenly increased sex drive may be experiencing hypersexuality, but there is no measure of what is a healthy level for sex.

The warming Arctic climate and summer retreat of sea ice there has suddenly turned the attention of countries from China to the United States toward the top of the world, where resources and shipping routes may soon be exploitable.

He died so suddenly at Rome on 6 November 1406 that there were rumors of foul play, which have been denied ever since: there is no evidence that he did not die of natural causes.

During sunrise and sunset sunlight is attenuated due to Rayleigh scattering and Mie scattering from a particularly long passage through Earth's atmosphere, and the Sun is sometimes faint enough to be viewed comfortably with the naked eye or safely with optics ( provided there is no risk of bright sunlight suddenly appearing through a break between clouds ).

Another mystery is that the making of pottery suddenly stopped ; there is no oral tradition among the people of Samoa that explains this.

If there is no distinct boundary, then the population of A suddenly stopped using the customs characteristic of A and suddenly started using those of B, an unlikely scenario in the process of evolution.

Because spacetime diagrams incorporate Einstein's clock synchronization, there will be a requisite " jump in time " in the calculation made by a " suddenly returning astronaut " who inherits a " new meaning of simultaneity " in keeping with that clock synchronization ( with its lattice of clocks methodology ) as explained in Spacetime Physics by John A. Wheeler.

: I was walking on a hillside, alone, one bright summer day, when suddenly there came into my head one line of verse – one solitary line – " For the Snark was a Boojum, you see.

:" Once upon a time there was a Boojum -" the Professor began, but stopped suddenly.

And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.

With the ending of the slave trade, the invention of the cotton gin, and opening up of new territories in the Deep South, suddenly there was a growing market for the trading of slaves.

However, Tolkien claims that he started The Hobbit suddenly, without premeditation, in the midst of rating a set of student essay exams, writing on a blank piece of paper: " In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit ".

In 1650 William suddenly died however, so there was no longer any need for Cromwell's support against him.

Graves tells that Turner would outline a scene, sit doing nothing for two or three days, then suddenly, " perhaps on the third day, he would exclaim ' there it is ', and seizing his colours work rapidly till he had noted down the peculiar effect he wished to fix in his memory.

Sadie died suddenly in 1991 and Shaw lived alone there for some years.