| 单词 | puzzling |
| 例句 | Initially, one of the most puzzling features of animal domestication is the seeming arbitrariness with which some species have been domesticated while their close relatives have not. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It was while puzzling over this problem that Bohr was struck by a solution and dashed off his famous paper. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z He keeps picking up things, puzzling over them, and then setting them down again. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z This is puzzling, because I’ve seen French people, there are lots of them up north, so he couldn’t have conquered all of them. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z She frowns, puzzling for a moment, then seems to remember what she’d waited to ask me. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z As I follow my brother into the main room, I’m puzzling over how Mr. Washburn could have gotten here all the way from Washington to deport us when the grocery store incident just happened? Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z And now we see why the opening to A History of Warfare is so puzzling. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Here is the explanation for what was so puzzling about the rosters of the Czech and Canadian national sports teams. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z She fell asleep puzzling over it, and woke no more illuminated. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z After puzzling over this for some time, Kepler hit on the idea that the number of planets might be related to the number of regular solid figures that can be constructed using Euclidean geometry. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z That night, while I was puzzling over my algebra, Jim stuck his head in my room. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Marshall was puzzling over his buttons, which were on the wrong side, and he didn’t answer. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z There were seven; each with a puzzling code stenciled on it. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z They talked about it among themselves, the four girls, as they often did now about the many puzzling things in this new country. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z He let his fingers feel along the length of chain as far as they were able, still puzzling over where Van Eck had brought him. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z A forbidden game to be sure, but Kira found herself puzzling over it often when Thomas wasn’t watching, and the puzzles had begun to explain themselves to her. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z As Matt approached the cleft at the top of the mountains, he began to hear another puzzling noise. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z But the sun's in my eyes, and while I'm puzzling over it the gong rings out. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Equally puzzling is the failure of people to domesticate flax in its wild range in western Europe and North Africa, or einkorn wheat in its wild range in the southern Balkans. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It was while puzzling over these matters that Hutton had a series of exceptional insights. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z These puzzles remind one of equally puzzling non-inventions, or else disappearances of inventions, in small isolated societies, including Aboriginal Tasmania, Aboriginal Australia, Japan, Polynesian islands, and the American Arctic. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I was puzzling it out, whether to press him further or to play it casually, when Call blurted out, “You don’t seem like neither spy.” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z That ended the discussion because it was so puzzling to the children that they decided to go no further with it. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z It may have been puzzling to me, but it only took Mom about a second to make up her mind. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z So I drifted from one class to the next in a daze, puzzling over the Jade Key riddle, reciting it again and again in my mind. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The conversation with Red Corn, though, prompted me to probe more deeply into perhaps the most puzzling of the Osage murder cases—that of Charles Whitehorn. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z In 1913, while puzzling over the structure of the atom, Bohr had an idea so exciting that he postponed his honeymoon to write what became a landmark paper. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z As I washed my ankle I thought it was a most peculiar wound, and puzzling. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z At last his curiosity got the better of him, and he asked something which had been puzzling him for some time. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z We pull over to the side of the road, leaving the car, and walk through the abandoned entrance, puzzling at the barrier that must have been put in place after the gate came down. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Manetti’s account is puzzling and unsatisfactory, but it is all we have. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z It sometimes took him a while to figure out Crane-man’s riddles, but he preferred puzzling over them to being told what they meant. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z As he read it, puzzling out the runes and symbols one by one, a horror came over him. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z Within a year of her joining the convent, her father began to receive puzzling letters from her in the mail. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z They were powerful and puzzling and even fearsome, but also they could do pleasing things. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z Most puzzling was, “Ralph isn’t that kind of mouse. He’s nice!” Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z This was mighty puzzling, but the only thing I could figure was I must’ve done a lot a running ’round in circles, which would probably be why Pa caught me so easy. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z Those cases, initially so puzzling to us moderns accustomed to viewing writing as indispensable to a complex society, included one of the world’s largest empires as of A.D. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z This, to a Renaissance intellectual, is a deeply puzzling concept. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z You may find yourself inspecting a nearby ponderosa pine, perhaps, or an aspen or sweet gum, puzzling out the magic. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z “If the Total Fertility Rate in industrialized countries had remained at or below 2.1—” Luke saw that reading this book would be like puzzling out the letters Dad got from the Government. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z Did a linguistic or cultural factor account for the otherwise puzzling failure of complex Andean civilizations to develop writing? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z But there is a puzzling gap between the scale of the changes in policing and the size of the effect on places like Brownsville and East New York. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She was still puzzling over it when the door opened and a rat came in. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes, not surprisingly, the results of these experiments were puzzling. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z In light of Rose’s statement to Morrison and the fact that the rooming house owner had confirmed Rose and Joe’s alibi, the Kaw Indian’s statement that Rose had confessed to her seemed puzzling. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Nobody scored any goals, and I felt nothing but confusion when time was called and another, equally puzzling activity was introduced. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z This is not an impossible combination—indeed, it seems to describe Sarrotti rather well—but it is certainly a puzzling one. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “It is a puzzling life in Gramarye,” he said to himself, trying to keep his mind off the young Queen. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z He still got to say all the lovely and puzzling things he said in the other Gospels. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The angel, startled by Amarante’s voice, froze stiff with its ears lying back flat; and then, realizing there was no immediate danger, it turned to observe the puzzling natural phenomenon. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z It is a puzzling time, but a very good time. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z To my eye, historians have been puzzlingly ready to dismiss such connections. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z We are simultaneously participants and bystanders, which is a puzzling role to play. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z That the bone didn’t attract greater interest is more than a little puzzling, for its appearance came at a time when America was in a froth of excitement about the remains of large, ancient animals. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The day they were due to reach Ento, Kaede spent nearly the whole afternoon puzzling over the enigma of her classmate. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z The puzzling thing was that he no longer wanted to. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z This was doubly puzzling, as I did not think he read Arabic; nor, to my knowledge, did he have borrowing privileges at the Williams College Library. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z “I’ll give you a lift home then. Any idea what this says? Been puzzling over it for half an hour.” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z But Kvasir merely smiled, and he left the gods puzzling over his words, and he put on a traveling cloak, and he left Asgard and walked the rainbow bridge. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z Mrs. Coulter stayed where she was, puzzling over the workings of the intention craft. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Nor, more puzzlingly, did he gain any fame or even much attention from half a century of consistent and increasingly selfless achievement. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z She could hear echoes of Ned in his voice, as he sat there, puzzling over the map. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z It is a puzzling fact that chickens can run around in a frenzy for some seconds after being decapitated, but I do not think they do this for a whole hour. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z Biddy had her face all twisted up like she was puzzling something out, but when I said that, she seem like she understood what was wrong now. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z When she’d first stumbled across the notion of Wyrdgates, days ago, it had seemed interesting, and so she’d researched, digging through piles of old parchment, only to find more puzzling theories. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z They are as obsolete as the old anecdotes in which they played their puzzling, ambiguous roles, and we have no more need for the beasts than for the stories. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I became bookish, puzzling to all my family. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I found his return puzzling but thought no further about it—the cramp was quickly getting worse. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Then he leaned back in his chair as though puzzling something out. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z The big bang, the most puzzling event in the history of the universe, is a zero in both theories. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z But then a puzzling thing came up, a thing we’re still not sure about even now. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z The balance of this book will take these ideas and apply them to other puzzling situations and epidemics from the world around us. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Negotiating the puzzling, infirm terrain demanded unceasing concentration, an all-but-impossible feat in my punch-drunk state. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z This proved impossible, as he couldn’t stop puzzling over what Malfoy was doing that needed lookouts. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z I went through the next week puzzling over it, and even more confused because I knew nothing definite of where I stood. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z But Wittgenstein’s texts are puzzling, problematic, and unfinished. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Mom just stands there holding Kingston’s water bowl beneath the faucet, puzzling. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z The most puzzling member, perhaps, and the least anticipated. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Butler scanned the sheet: basic field equipment, a few eyebrow raisers, nothing too puzzling until... Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z "I have left off puzzling about the origin of Strata and content myself with knowing that it is so," he recorded. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z As I stood puzzling, three daisies floated through the air. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The failure to find Howard after so much effort was frustrating and puzzling. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z In writing about his discoveries Galileo was not obliged to write in a way that others found puzzling or incomprehensible: it was what he said that caused consternation, not how he said it. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Calder was going over everything he’d seen Mr. Watch ever do that was puzzling—why did he spend so much time in the art section of the store? Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z I’m puzzling over their reappearance when I realize that this must be it, the day of the execution. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z She loved the advertisements especially, so gorgeously puzzling. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z His coat was thin, and it was obvious he would not get his kiss, which he found puzzling. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z He stopped and looked at me like he’s puzzling, then said, “I’m going to have to do some more contemplating over this. On the one hand this might be an act of conjuration.” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z But Jinny had plenty to think about without puzzling out Sam. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z It can best be approached by concentrating attention on historical patterns that remain puzzling after the effects of major environmental factors have been taken into account. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I carried out armloads of fabric and wood and metal put together in all their puzzling ways, and marveled that I’d ever felt comfort in having such things. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z This phenomenon, causing sparks with a beam of light, was very puzzling to classical physicists. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z She could see that he was still puzzling over her words. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z There were accusations and counter accusations, but no one would admit to writing the mysterious and puzzling words that straggled across the back of Ken’s question. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z And then, because we notice that Lolo is puzzling over which way to open the folding chairs, Lena, Hannah, and I scramble to our feet to help him with the rest. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z It made perfect sense that Mother would speak to her, but the presence of Crocodile Guts was puzzling. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z This is puzzling, because I’ve seen French people, there are lots of them up north, so he couldn’t have conquered all of them. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z More puzzling, at least to present-day eyes, were the equally vehement objections voiced by professional archaeologists and anthropologists, especially those at the Smithsonian Institution, which had established a Bureau of American Ethnology in 1879. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Armstrong’s lawyers found it puzzling that no whites had been charged with crack offenses, given that most crack users are white. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z That seems especially puzzling and self-defeating, since a microbe that kills its host kills itself. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z She supposed the dinner would be at his college, where the porter, he’d said, was a gossip, though, of course, there was more than one porter at Jordan; nevertheless, it was puzzling. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Geographic differences in the means by which food production arose are also puzzling. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z This puzzling question of their origins was posed to me 25 years ago in a simple, personal form. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z A puzzling nickname since there was nothing remarkable about his shoes, or even his feet so far as I could see. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z She paddled toward the beach, puzzling all the while at what had just happened. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Yet there's something intriguing about its puzzling mix of realism and absurdism, which are ultimately reconciled in the dazzling display of Albee's fearless theatricality. 'Delicate Balance' teeters slightly but always fascinates 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z “I began to write less discursively, more puzzlingly, I suppose less wittily,” he told The Paris Review. John Hollander, Poet Known for His Range, Dies at 83 2013-08-18T22:06:10Z All of which makes the actor’s position on feminism more puzzling. Susan Sarandon: ‘I thought Hillary was very dangerous. If she'd won, we'd be at war’ 2017-11-26T05:00:00Z More puzzling are the show’s most recent works, each of which feature a cinematic superhero. Elaine de Kooning and Andreas Gursky in Close-Up in the Hamptons 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z For people who didn’t know Brandt beyond his perky persona, it must seem puzzling that someone so vivacious and accomplished would take his own life. Dr. Brandt, the Lonely Showman 2015-04-11T04:00:00Z The concert got off to a puzzling start with Billie Holiday's 1946 recording of Bernstein's vocal blues song "Big Stuff" from "Fancy Free." Bernstein's spirit brought back to the stage, from 'Fancy Free' to '1600 Pennsylvania Avenue' 2017-11-19T05:00:00Z While watching the show, I was simultaneously observing myself laughing, delighting and puzzling over what I was experiencing. 'Soft Power' at the Ahmanson: Big, bold, overly complicated and spectacularly unique 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z Which is why it’s puzzling that products that enable babies to sleep in unsafe positions exist at all. Perspective | The Boppy recall is a reminder that there are no easy answers to baby sleep 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z But, for now, the story of “Watchman” remains a puzzling one. What Harper Lee’s attorney doesn’t say in an op-ed is revealing 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z Shamelessly kitschy and often puzzling, the results were also thoughtful, witty and poetic. Design: Erupting Beauty at Furniture Show 2010-04-18T16:11:00Z Seen at the second performance Tuesday, the staging proved consistently entertaining though sometimes puzzling - and with tenor Jonas Kaufmann in the title role and Daniel Barenboim conducting, musical values were in supremely capable hands. Review: Kaufmann triumphs as La Scala's Lohengrin 2012-12-12T13:42:19Z “And so the puzzling, tangling, nerve-racking consciousness of color envelops and swathes us,” she concludes. The Forgotten Work of Jessie Redmon Fauset 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z But for as difficult as the “what” of the film is to sort out, the “why” of a player like Tom is more puzzling still, because his motives are seemingly so obscure. Miller's Crossing at 30: the Coen brothers' unknowable gangster drama 2020-10-05T04:00:00Z In the absence of strong, clearly defined dramatic action James’s leisurely plots can feel frustratingly irresolute, and the characters’ many scruples and hesitancies, so evocative on the page, can become downright puzzling on the screen. Translating Henry James for the Screen 2013-04-28T03:43:13Z It’s puzzling, therefore, that the first two episodes of Season 2 walk that moment back a bit. ‘Better Call Saul’ better get busy 2016-02-14T05:00:00Z Using previous material for a new LP is a puzzling choice, one that unfortunately highlights a band not entirely sure of itself and its increased exposure. The Avett Brothers’ Slick but Charming New Album 2013-10-18T09:45:18Z That may seem like a puzzling announcement in November, but at least one Manhattan site considers it routine: the American Museum of Natural History. 5 Things to Do This Thanksgiving Weekend 2021-11-25T05:00:00Z Perhaps it also made this “Cinderella” seem more puzzlingly at odds with itself than it really is. Dance Review: ‘Cinderella’ at Edinburgh International Festival 2012-08-31T22:50:44Z Notes on view in the exhibition reveal that he made an exhaustive study of one Log Cabin quilt from the early 1860s, puzzling over the breaks in its mostly symmetrical pattern. Last Chance: Folk Art Museum Quilts Show Has New Perspective on Form 2013-12-26T21:42:29Z The “Sopranos” finale was ambiguous and a bit of a shrug, but not puzzling; to me the “Lost” finale, in the immediate aftermath, felt forced and, well, a bit of a cop-out. 'Lost' Watch: Embracing the White Light 2010-05-24T15:28:00Z It’s the lack of care that’s so puzzling, especially in a book so attentive to language. An Account of Surviving Assault Mixes Horror and Humor 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z There are still points in the quartet that remain puzzling. Music Review: One Fresh Score in Place of Another 2011-03-09T22:30:16Z The decision for Cain to even sit down with a Wisconsin newspaper is puzzling given that the state's presidential primary is not until mid-April. Cain has a 'Rick Perry moment' on Libya 2011-11-14T22:58:00Z The broadcaster's decision to move the family comedy to Sundays for its second series may be puzzling – but it doesn't seem to have distracted from an increasingly confident show. Have you been watching … Friday Night Dinner? 2012-11-07T12:22:15Z While Castle’s intentions cannot be discerned, the pleasure comes in puzzling out the connections in his vast and often mysterious visual universe. Soot, Spit and Paper: James Castle’s Transfixing Worlds 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z Like many new operas “Mosheh” looks at broad philosophical issues, here the sometimes puzzling interaction between a prophet and his God and the people around him. Provocative Opera at 2 Extremes: Early and New Music 2011-12-17T05:03:15Z Archaeologists are puzzling over why three handsome 17th-century bowls, one celebrating the marriage in 1674 of the original owner, ended up dumped in a rubbish pit in a Southwark back garden. The mystery of the 17th-century bowls dumped in south London 2010-07-12T12:53:00Z While he was at Yaddo, he kept thinking about the girl and the construction worker, puzzling over what he had seen, and began writing a fictionalized story about the years leading up to the encounter. ‘Mad Men’ Creator Matthew Weiner’s Foray Into Fiction 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z This was new to me, and so puzzling as to upset the foundations of my understanding of what counts as sleep, and thinking. Rick Gekoski: In praise of wakefulness 2012-12-14T14:30:22Z Even if Mr Grant is right that the economy emerged from depression largely unaided, it is puzzling why this should be considered a victory given the staggering economic cost that he documents so well. The searing Twenties 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z And just as the crowd was cycling through its questions, he seemed to be puzzling through a few of his own: Why feign seriousness in a frivolous world? Review: Jingle Ball Tour Shows Radio Still Rocks 2016-12-11T05:00:00Z A modern commodity corn farmer would have laughed at it from the air-conditioned cab of his $350,000 combine, and even a backyard gardener growing sweet corn would have found it puzzling. T Magazine: Children of the Corn 2011-09-22T01:30:18Z Johnson certainly delights in creating puzzling distractions, but even if his film is as deep as a layer of onion skin, it is immensely engaging. Cozy up to "Glass Onion," the droll "Knives Out" sequel that delivers all the murder mystery goods 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z The puzzling “Nevaeh” is now the 65th most popular girl’s name. Gene Weingarten: The name shame of Axl, Anakin, Arya ... 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z What ensued in the wake of this flurry of puzzling behavior was a brief psychiatric hold, and a California judge granting her conservatorship to her parents. Amanda Bynes tweets conflicting stories of a bipolar diagnosis 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z A 1713 almanac from Rhode Island provides puzzling weather predictions like “suspicious.” Antiques: A Restored Louisiana Plantation and Its Lifeblood 2013-07-25T18:56:22Z They can be brutal, unnerving and also puzzling. ‘France’ Review: When the Journalist Becomes the Story 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z Prior to 1990, films displaying patently adult material received an X. Graves recalls the climate surrounding the NC-17 switch as somewhat puzzling. NC-17 Turns 20: What the Film Rating Means Today 2010-10-05T09:00:00Z He seems like a living meme — something unexpected, usually wonderful, or puzzling, with a uniquely strong image.” Jeff Goldblum’s a movie star, jazz pianist and an inescapable meme. What’s behind his enduring appeal? 2021-04-27T04:00:00Z The puzzling reality is that human depression is increasing in an era when environmental conditions are relatively benign. You’re making your depression worse: Self-help is bringing us down 2014-02-16T16:30:00Z In one particularly puzzling episode, Willow is busy in the sewers, starved and filthy, when she suddenly buys a railway ticket to visit her husband in prison. 'Pearl of China': Anchee Min's version of the life of Pearl S. Buck 2010-04-07T22:30:00Z With the election nine days away, people are talking once again about the allegedly puzzling phenomenon of the ubiquitous Non-Voter. I understand non-voters. What I don’t get are the ‘undecideds.’ 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z Unfortunately, we are unlikely to agree about too much else after that -- say, what has produced the long and puzzling history of failure in American education, and still less how to fix it. "Waiting for 'Superman'": Can public education be saved? 2010-09-23T01:01:00Z The effect is oddly depersonalizing, but also puzzling. Dance Review: What to Expect When Fairy Tales and Reality Are Just as Strange? 2011-02-05T00:03:32Z Fifty years later, Five Easy Pieces still puts us in Catherine’s shoes, puzzling over this charismatic mess of a human being. Five Easy Pieces at 50: a troubling yet thrilling arrival of a new leading man 2020-09-12T04:00:00Z The answer still feels unsatisfactory and frankly puzzling. Sha’Carri Richardson, Tara Lipinski, Johnny Weir and others push back at doping decision leniency 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z But instead of reading "Hamlet" or "Great Expectations," he found himself puzzling over abstruse literary theory whose essential tenets he took literally. 'Death of the Author' finds life in academic theory 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z At least it does after a few puzzling, artistically pretentious early scenes in the Fellowship for Performing Arts’ infinitely thought-provoking production at the Pearl Theater. Review: In ‘The Great Divorce,’ Searching for Greener Pastures 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z Her songs track what it’s like to experience something, and then to find yourself changed by it—the strange and often puzzling way our bodies and minds rearrange themselves at unforeseeable intervals. The Seismic Emotion of Mary Lattimore’s Harp Music 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z Here at Wine School, we reserve special respect for wines that have stood the test of time, even if they are puzzling to the modern palate. The When and Why of Amontillado 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z There's nary a tree nor a flower to be seen in either of these re-imaginings, yet both manage to offer some fresh insights into this most mystical and puzzling of operas. 2 updated visions of Wagner's last opera 2011-02-21T13:16:05Z Several friends and colleagues of Mr. Smith described the Oscars altercation as a puzzling aberration for a man who has spent his career almost fanatically hewing to professional standards. A Slap Could Sting the Smith Family Brand 2022-04-02T04:00:00Z Written by Gosling and starring Christina Hendricks as a struggling mother whose teenage son is being bullied, the movie proved puzzling to early viewers. Warner Bros.: Ryan Gosling down with limited release for directing debut 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z On the terrorist’s laptop, Odelle finds puzzling files that suggest that an American corporation is transferring funds to terrorist organizations. Review: ‘American Odyssey,’ a New NBC Series, Stars Anna Friel 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z The delay of the museum is the latest puzzling development for the estate. Prince’s Paisley Park Museum Opening Snared by Zoning Vote 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z If anyone is puzzling over what a “deckle” is, I think this stems from a misunderstanding of Canadian pronunciation. 2010-01-30T05:29:00Z And they are critics and philosophers of a kind, puzzling over old and stubborn questions. Review: ‘The Price of Everything’ Asks $56 Billion Questions About Art 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z So when the first puzzling bill arrived, she knew it wouldn’t be the last. The bewildering ordeal of getting billed for a coronavirus vaccine 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z It reveals her as adept in the delineation of eccentric characters and the possessor of a keen sense of humor as well as the ability to concoct a puzzling mystery yarn. Classic Crime Novels That Still Thrill Today 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z A puzzling roadblock in Malawi delays a team; contestants consider sabotaging other racers. Sunday TV Picks: AMC's new 'Hell on Wheels' 2011-11-02T23:38:04Z Which is why it’s puzzling to see people like Dylan Byers object so strongly to the pretty uncontroversial claims being made right now about Abramson, sexism in the media and women and power in general. We don’t need to know exactly why Jill Abramson got fired to say that sexism was part of her downfall 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z It’s puzzling because an upbeat piece in Inc. magazine in November claimed Gravity had “defied doubters” and profits had doubled. Dan Price: the CEO who took a pay cut to give his staff a $70k minimum wage 2015-11-29T05:00:00Z Vanessa James’s set, too, is puzzling, given that it needs to work with the projections. Review: In ‘Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein,’ a Monster to Love 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z The one puzzling thing about “High Heels in Low Places” is that Panti hasn’t updated it since the vote. Review: Panti’s ‘High Heels in Low Places’ Delivers Identity Politics in Stilettos 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z Determining which bottles to age and when to open them is among the most puzzling aspects of wine. When to Open a Bottle: Aging Wine Without the Anxiety 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z It is a little embarrassing that even the Golden Globes, which used to be famous for their puzzling nominations, now recognize great new series and breakout performances before the Emmys. Emmys 2015: Our take on bad habits, bright newcomers, 'Modern Family' 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z In the meantime Mr. Dutoit is a classy caretaker, though I found his lackluster “Apollo” puzzling. Music Review: A Stravinksy Program With Ancient Inspiration 2011-05-04T18:58:03Z It's still puzzling why she felt the need to compare herself to others; she was already up on the stage receiving accolades. Jane Campion’s "petty" acceptance speech highlights the issues with insidious white feminism 2022-03-14T04:00:00Z The story is dark, but it isn’t burdened with psychologically puzzling tangents and thematic bloat. It’s wild and weird, but will ‘Westworld’ become the big hit drama HBO needs? 2016-07-31T04:00:00Z For Joyful Noise, the vinyl crunch has also presented a puzzling problem. Vinyl Is Selling So Well That It’s Getting Hard to Sell Vinyl 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z His characters are round and puzzling, not just sour. Playlist: Styles That Can?t Be Pinned Down 2010-10-22T08:06:00Z I found it puzzling, maybe even a little disturbing. One nation, in all its flavors, captured on these pages 2017-11-03T04:00:00Z Stephen Colbert on Monday poked fun at Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the deputy White House press secretary, after she tweeted a puzzling slew of emojis — less than two weeks after President Trump’s famous “covfefe” tweet. Seth Meyers Asks What Trump’s Tweets Would Sound Like if Legally Vetted 2017-06-13T04:00:00Z Their split is less puzzling to some observers than the fact that Murphy, 37, a three-term U.S. representative, even invoked the pop star as a voice of authority in the first place. Congressman's brief bout of 'Bieber fever' cured 2011-02-18T21:18:16Z Milosevic started several years ago by painting a hole on her thigh and posting photos on Instagram - leaving viewers puzzling over whether it was real or not. Tying herself in knots, Serbian skin artist boggles senses 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z If Mr. Zanini was not a sensitive designer, the one-dimensional quality of his show wouldn’t be puzzling. Fashion Review: Balenciaga, Balmain, Rick Owens, Mugler, Rochas, Van Noten: Paris Fashion Review 2011-09-29T23:21:01Z In the Observer, Benjamin Markovits found it "puzzling" and "odd" but praised it wanly as "a somewhat magical escape act ... he invents new predicaments, chapter by chapter, and resolves them". Book reviews roundup: The Childhood of Jesus, Daphne du Maurier and her Sisters and Who Owns the Future? 2013-03-08T16:00:02Z “Your brain keeps moving, but it also kind of shuts down,” she said of puzzling. Puzzle swap celebrates jigsaw ‘barter culture’ amid pandemic chaos 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z For many parents, their young sons’ near-obsessive attraction to mixed martial arts is puzzling, to say the least. Mixed Martial Arts Catches On With the Internet Generation 2012-03-14T21:49:31Z This is an important recording, if sometimes a puzzling one. Bach, Reich, Bartok, Beethoven and More 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z "When we heard about Glenn Beck, it was puzzling," the Rev. Al Sharpton said. Glenn Beck plans Lincoln Memorial rally on anniversary of King's 'Dream' speech 2010-08-26T15:15:00Z While one series of rooms was inspired by the “Star Wars” franchise — “Luke I Am Your Cousin,” read one sign — others, like “Olympic Fish,” were more puzzling. The Facebook Breakup 2016-03-12T05:00:00Z “Così” is set on the Italian coast, but the shape of Ms. Hadid’s ingenious, puzzling set is more Sahara than seaside. Dudamel Leads Mozart’s Opera With a Zaha Hadid Set 2014-05-25T04:00:00Z Science's failure to date to spot this weird life may seem puzzling. Life on Earth… but not as we know it 2013-04-13T23:05:01Z The puzzling Emmy shutout of Starz’s “Outlander” could have been rectified here, though the line between leading and supporting actors in that series is a hazy one. Neil Genzlinger on the Emmy Awards 2015: Predictions, Wishes and What-Ifs 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z The piece, "Grand Canyon Illusion," certainly is puzzling to the eye, blending the visitors who pose in it with a scenic, infinite backdrop. Artist brings 3-D pavement art to Grand Canyon 2012-07-16T17:49:12Z The new Bec Fin is an excellent but rather puzzling place. Bites : Restaurant Report: Le Bec Fin in Philadelphia 2012-12-14T16:28:55Z According to Vulture's puzzling Rotten Tomatoes exposé, the integrity of criticism is at stake due to publicists and public relations firms buying off critics to game the review aggregate website's critical scores. Do audiences even trust movie critics anymore? The downfall of Rotten Tomatoes and media criticism 2023-09-07T04:00:00Z The story opens with Sean puzzling over a coded radio signal he believes is a message from his missing grandfather. Journey 2: The Mysterious Island?The Rock's Latest Family Role 2012-02-09T14:30:12Z I find this puzzling, because the bean asks so little of us and gives so much in return. The humble bean: Good for soups, great for the apocalypse 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z I found the novel as powerful as it was puzzling. The allure of the first novel 2013-01-12T08:30:01Z But I made sure to avail myself of the opportunity to get clarity on an issue that had been puzzling me for the last 15 years. Why did Wu-Tang Clan's Ol' Dirty Bastard die? 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z The recent case of Cleveland Browns quarterback DeShaun Watson has been puzzling to many. Analysis | Five years on, what happened to the men of #MeToo? 2022-10-16T04:00:00Z In short, he brought a sense of China that was at once inviting, puzzling and pathetic. Critic?s Notebook: An Artist Takes Role of China?s Conscience 2011-04-05T22:31:29Z The scarcity of women in the field, and their absence from the big-year contestants, is notable and a bit puzzling. | 'The Big Year': ?The Big Year,? With Owen Wilson and Steve Martin - Review 2011-10-13T21:45:11Z It’s puzzling because, like I said, I would classify myself as a feminist. I like to be objectified 2012-11-20T01:00:00Z Through much of the 20th century, it bears recalling, the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius remained a puzzling figure, an outlier from the frozen north largely preoccupied with exotic local color. Review: Celebrating Sibelius and His Slowly Imparted Secrets 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z As was evident in her debut collection, “This Is Not Your City,” Horrocks is adept at playing with perspective, delving into the minds of puzzling, sometimes troubling, characters. Stories of Everyday Strangeness, in the Midwest and Beyond 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z According to a Facebook post from Utah's Bureau of Land Management on Saturday, the puzzling structure was removed from "public lands by an unknown party." Mysterious Utah monolith evoking "2001: A Space Odyssey" has vanished 2020-11-30T05:00:00Z Still, it is sometimes puzzling what Blackwell omits or plays down. Chris Blackwell Is Music’s Quietest ‘Record Man.’ His Artists Speak Loudly. 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z In response he receives this telegram from his agent: “Political opinion puzzling we think that unnecessary stop No reaction from Warner Bros but one story like this is plenty.” Books of The Times: ‘Mission to Paris’ by Alan Furst 2012-06-03T22:37:20Z While that might seem like a puzzling choice to American audiences, the move is part of an ambitious business strategy to bring Peanuts to new generations of children around the world. Peanuts comic will come to life in French TV series 2014-12-25T05:00:00Z We found what seemed to be a greater number of recipes that were flawed or inexact or just plain puzzling as to how they ended up in print. Washington Post Food section’s best cookbooks of 2014 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z They will be opting out of the Googling, the puzzling and the now-outdated sense that stopping bleeding marks the twilight of life. I’m angry, sore, and bloated. Is this the menopause? The more I read, the less I know 2019-08-17T04:00:00Z The Australians’ desire for civilized tableware in remote places is poignant yet a little puzzling. Antiques: Polar Artifacts, Murals at Yale Gallery, Old Dictionaries 2012-11-29T20:46:49Z The chemistry was clear if puzzling: Bombarding uranium with neutrons produced barium, element 56, about half as heavy as uranium, element 92. Letters to the Editor 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z Advertisement Advertisement The family’s youngest member, Ted, was only 9 years old when Rosemary vanished from family life with minimal explanation, a frightening and puzzling loss. ‘Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter,’ by Kate Clifford Larson 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z What I retained was the rigid, puzzling format of our interaction. How My Worst Date Ever Became My Best 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z Why anyone would run the transaction in reverse is puzzling enough to be worth pondering, and also too depressing to contemplate. Review: ‘Entourage,’ the Screen Is Bigger, but Nothing Is Better 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z “The Newsroom” came to a close Sunday on HBO, and even after three seasons, this Aaron Sorkin series is still puzzling. ‘The Newsroom’ Ends Its Final Season on HBO 2014-12-14T05:00:00Z It is a bizarre and baffling turkey, one of the most purely puzzling features to be released this year so far. Hereafter ? review 2011-01-27T22:15:02Z The words are intense and puzzling, alluding to the Holocaust in dreamlike terms that the instruments then expand and deconstruct. Hebrides Ensemble/McFadden ? review 2011-03-10T17:39:33Z It was a little puzzling, because it's a very different culture from mine – southern Italian, Sicilian. Good fellows: Martin Scorsese and Colonel Blimp 2012-10-28T13:00:01Z Mr. Martin returned to puzzling over the ballet in his Sunday column a few days later. Weekend Entertainments From the Archives of The New York Times 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z “Romantically Challenged” is comically challenged, and while that is puzzling, it’s not intriguing at all. | 'Romantically Challenged': Alyssa Milano as a Lovelorn Single Mom With Pals 2010-04-18T22:48:00Z As pleasing as these challenges are, The Talos Principle is as much a game about reading as it is a game about puzzling through logic exercises. The Talos Principle Prompts Thinking Beyond Virtual World 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z Often the subject he chooses to focus on is fraught with difficulties: the place is dangerous or hard to get to; the people are puzzling or unsettling. Art Review: David Goldblatt?s South Africa Photos at Jewish Museum 2010-07-01T21:52:00Z Readers of Freud’s writings on dreams are often drawn to his accounts of decrypting his patients’ puzzling nocturnal imaginings, which read like virtuosic detective stories. Review | A brain researcher on what Freud got right 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z It's witty, it's fast-moving, the plot is ... puzzling and incisive and quite dark in places. Tom Cruise defends role as "Jack Reacher" 2012-12-11T03:11:23Z Fittingly, there’s not much sex in “The Sandman,” but what little there is can be puzzling. Review | Oh, the horror! Why it’s hard to look away, even when a book is full of gore. 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z Graphical coups tend to push out psychological, found-footage and other adventures in perception, and the short shrift given to certain voices is puzzling and arbitrary. Movie Review: ‘Free Radicals,’ by Pip Chodorov, on Experimental Film 2012-08-02T20:51:21Z But “I think I am worse than others” seemed like a puzzling option. Want to Change Your Life? A New Exhibition Offers a Path. 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z The door was locked, and the group began puzzling over a table set with a poker hand. A Night Out With Renée Elise Goldsberry of ‘Hamilton’ 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z But this flavour is dissipated by the puzzling "splintered how" and the seeming modernity of the climatic "my now". The Marlowe Papers by Ros Barber – review 2012-06-15T21:55:03Z Madonna has been posting “Quarantine Diaries” from her home, which are puzzling to say the least. Coronavirus cabin fever: the best celebrities to follow, from Robbie Williams to Florence Pugh 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z But along with that, Anna is puzzling things out. What it means to be a red wine mom in Netflix's "The Woman in the House" 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z Ever since receiving Turnage's score, Westbroek has been puzzling over the motives of the woman whose skin she will have to inhabit. Anna Nicole: the opera 2011-01-02T00:04:04Z The result is photography that is emotionally accessible, often funny, puzzling, and lyrical. How to Capture a Bird 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z The whole movie is very 2009, which is amusing and puzzling and possibly kind of a relief, given what “very 2019” might look like. ‘Zombieland: Double Tap’ Review: Back to Crack Wise and Crush Skulls 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z But on a recent evening, Dan Jurafsky, a linguistics professor at Stanford, was puzzling over the redundancy of “local upstate New York grits.” Decoding a Menu at Root & Bone 2014-09-15T04:00:00Z Step by complicated step, the pieces of this puzzling case fall into place. ‘Monogram Murders’: Thanks to Sophie Hannah, no ‘Curtain’ for Poirot after all The highlight of the day was puzzling out the moves of Makona, a short overhanging route with big, dynamic moves straight out of “American Ninja Warrior.” Is Rock Climbing the Future of Tourism in Malawi? 2022-11-15T05:00:00Z But, perhaps most puzzlingly, “Lucy” is the third film in seven months in which Johansson has played a superhuman creature who exceeds her design parameters and destroys men’s lives. From coquette to cold-eyed killer: How Scarlett Johansson became the face of female horror 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z It is a difficult movie to summarize, but not to watch, and obscure less in the manner of a puzzling poem than of the jungle at nightfall. Film: All Creatures Great and Lizardy, and Humans, Too 2011-03-18T21:35:47Z The short span of the show and the unlikely venue are puzzling. 3-day free exhibit of Lennon’s art coming to Seattle 2013-06-06T20:35:34Z A long-distance relationship with a worldly, refined, emotionally puzzling and highly desirable fashionista was exactly what I needed to cure my breakup-induced depression and heartbroken social reclusiveness. Lord of the engagement rings 2013-02-20T01:00:00Z Aside from the fact that the filmmakers made the puzzling decision to repeat the plot beats of a widely derided trilogy capper, the film didn't even do anything particularly inspiring with the old material. What can we learn from the "Dark Phoenix" flop? 2019-06-22T04:00:00Z But at the same time, the established codes of modern movie comedy are scrambled and subverted in ways that are puzzling, amusing, horrifying and ultimately astonishing. | 'Young Adult': Charlize Theron in ?Young Adult? - Review 2011-12-08T13:00:01Z In a laboratory, he finds scientists creating mini-brains out of differentiating neurons and puzzling over whether what they’ve created are simulacra of real brains. What Does It Mean to Be a Living Thing? 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z The baroque social structure, puzzling pecking order and cacophonous clamor on display made it easy to conjure the inspiration for “Lord of the Flies.” What's it like to hear the L.A. Phil play your music in Disney Hall? Ask these composers, ages 16 to 18 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z It was my own surprising little discovery, born of walking and puzzling. The Myth and Magic of Generating New Ideas 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z There are precious few other high-status figures outside of the festival circuit, which is puzzling for a large nation with such a glittering history of stylish mavericks. Thermae Romae: is Japanese film feeling the heat? 2012-05-29T13:56:02Z The introduction of the Netherlands as a locale may inspire viewers to start puzzling out a connection between “The Widow” and “Heart of Darkness,” but the show cannot withstand that level of scrutiny. Review: How Amazon’s Kate Beckinsale Series, “The Widow,” and Netflix’s New Ricky Gervais Show, “After Life,” Get Grief All Wrong 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z Using deeply scientific methodology, we've uncovered the reasons behind this puzzling phenomenon. Women we love to love and women we love to hate 2013-03-22T22:00:00Z She finds the United States alluring, dangerous and puzzling in many ways. ‘Oleander Girl’: searching for secrets across the ocean 2013-03-27T22:27:35Z This is not the first time that the Swedish Academy has left scores of readers in the English-speaking world puzzling over the winner or, perhaps, even privately worrying about their own literary credentials. Why You Haven't Heard of Patrick Modiano, Winner of the Nobel in Literature 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z Or rather, Mailer — affecting a puzzling Irish brogue, as he was known to do — shot barb after barb at a somewhat amused Vidal, who responded levelly. 20 memorable moments from talk show history 2021-11-27T05:00:00Z That Harris trusts Pollard is puzzling; that he’s fond of him is mystifying. ‘The Law of Return’ Revisits the Jonathan Pollard Case 2014-08-10T04:00:00Z It’s puzzling that this symphony continues to be overshadowed by its successors. Music Review: Philadelphia Orchestra at Carnegie Hall 2014-02-04T21:59:54Z The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees’ mass appeal remains puzzling to some. The popular — yet polarizing — Red Hot Chili Peppers plays Seattle on Friday 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z Her narratives are elusive and bewildering, and half the fun of reading them is looping around, testing the walls, engaging and puzzling out their labyrinthine structures. A Quicksilver Mystery That Flickers, Flashes, Twists and Turns 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z And a puzzling promise was made from one character to another that a reunion would occur in 25 years. How ‘Twin Peaks’ Got Lost, and Found Its Way Back 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z His acolytes will be puzzling over it for decades. The Childhood of Jesus by JM Coetzee – review 2013-02-27T10:00:01Z From there, for the bulk of “The New Pope’s” episodes, we are adrift in Sorrentino’s puzzling lack of theme or plot. Review | ‘The New Pope’ has all of the style but none of the substance that ‘The Young Pope’ had 2020-01-12T05:00:00Z That might sound puzzling, given that Grisham has sold more than 300 million copies of his thrillers. Nobody wanted John Grisham’s first novel — but now it’s buried treasure 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z “Unsung Hero” includes a couple of redneck novelties — one quite funny, the other a little puzzling — clearly aimed at the Nashville hit machine. Davies’ album showcases rock, country and pop 2013-03-27T02:54:35Z And today, Trash can solve the mystery puzzling the film world: who is the genius behind the fake Michael Haneke Twitter account? Trailer trash 2013-03-10T00:05:47Z It is puzzling, now, to think that music like this once dominated the pop scene. The Pure Weirdness of the Psychedelic-Rock Icon Roky Erickson 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z It’s puzzling why Mr. Amis spends so much energy questioning whether Lionel is smart; just because he’s an amoral lout doesn’t mean he isn’t clever. Books of The Times: ‘Lionel Asbo: State of England’ by Martin Amis 2012-08-19T18:59:48Z Its success and staying power is puzzling; how did an alternative song from a relatively unknown artist blow up and become the unofficial anthem for hipsters, little children, TV brothers, ravers, and rock purists alike? Rating Breakup Anthems: How Does Gotye?s ?Somebody That I Used to Know? Stack Up? 2012-05-15T10:00:50Z "Anna Bolena's" late addition to the repertory is puzzling in one sense, since it's a wonderful opera, full of glorious melodies and dramatically charged scenes. 2 Annas: Netrebko as 'Bolena' conquers Met 2011-09-27T05:08:08Z As the daughter of Nigerian immigrants, she found it puzzling to be repeatedly told that she wasn’t “African enough.” Nine Plays, One Truth: Mfoniso Udofia on Her Immigrant Experience, and Ours 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z Others may bring visitors up short, like a set of shackles presented with the initially puzzling date of 1866. How Black Citizenship Was Won, and Lost 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z But in a puzzling move, it has done away with its vintage practice of presenting the opera in five acts. Review: The Met Brings Back a Shorter, Weaker ‘Don Carlo’ 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z His relationship with Theresa is the most fascinating mystery in a play that is puzzling for all the wrong reasons. SCR's 'Mr. Wolf' sharply provokes, then turns blunt 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z The leadenness of “The Son” is puzzling given the ingenuity of Zeller’s “The Father,” which positions the audience within the point of view of an aging man with dementia. ‘The Son’ Review: Father Doesn’t Know Best 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z But some choices of subjects lead to results that might seem puzzling for a series about “design.” Celebrating Design Without Contending with It 2017-02-14T05:00:00Z The most puzzling addictions are those that don’t involve the consumption of any substance. We are all addicts now 2013-05-11T23:00:00Z But on the flight back to Washington, more stories published on the puzzling outfit choice. Meet Melania Trump’s enforcer. It’s not her husband. 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z Trust, I love puzzling out a show, reading endless threads that dissect tiny clues, charting minuscule hints and decoding ancillary materials. ‘Madam Secretary’ Proved TV Didn’t Have to Be Hip to be Great 2019-12-08T05:00:00Z When I have been asked to teach photography", he muses in Why People Photograph, "I have found myself puzzling over three questions: 'Can photography be taught? Writing and photography ? is a picture really worth a thousand words? 2010-08-04T05:00:00Z I am going to use my journalistic skills to clear up some questions based on puzzling facts I have recently encountered: Are brown-eyed people losers, and other burning questions 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z While frequently atmospheric, the images are puzzlingly mute. ‘Annie Leibovitz: Pilgrimage’ Reflects on Past Greats 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z Certainly, there's a puzzling comparison to be made between him and Paul Thomas Anderson. Will Todd Haynes's small-screen shot at Mildred Pierce spell his big break? 2010-11-19T14:57:00Z He edited Horace and Terence and restored an elided Greek consonant to manuscripts of epic poetry, thus accounting for previously “puzzling gaps in Homer’s meter.” ‘Philology’ by James Turner explains what happened to a discipline that flourished “It’s quite astonishing, puzzling and disappointing that this is still an issue to this level,” Ewing said. ¡Americano! A real Dreamer story debuts off-Broadway 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z The play, which is more “melodramatic heroic comedy,” as one handbook puts it, than tragedy, takes a bloodier turn here but the impact is more puzzling than powerful. 'Iphigenia in Aulis' at Getty Villa: Chasing the ever-elusive Euripides 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z So it’s slightly puzzling that this smartly designed production, at BAM Fisher, feels labored. Review: ‘The Medium’ Is Less a Message and More a Museum Piece 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z The lag in La Cumbiamba eNeYé’s set was more puzzling: the band took a strangely long time to lock in, as its corps of hand drummers thumped polyrhythms that felt lashed together with twine. Music Review: A Solitary Stroll Gives Way to a Full-Band Excursion 2011-01-06T23:00:03Z Young Femmes Fatales, Doing Their Job “Violet & Daisy” is a story of young female friendship with a violent and somewhat puzzling twist. Movie Review: ‘Violet & Daisy,’ by Geoffrey Fletcher 2013-06-07T01:36:07Z Mr. Martins’s 30th season, more than most, also showed how puzzling a figure he is. Critic’s Notebook: Peter Martins and City Ballet Over 30 Seasons 2013-06-11T21:24:09Z The Wooster Group, now in its 46th year, has acquired a reputation for cerebral, often opaque productions, and it’s true that the company’s shows can be puzzling. Review: ‘The Mother’ Rises Up Again in the Name of Revolution 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z If this is a misdirect made to confuse the audience as to who is the hunter and which party is the prey, it’s also a puzzling and somewhat clumsy one. Arya versus Sansa, the other battlefront on “Game of Thrones” 2017-08-27T04:00:00Z “Anti-Jewish feelings are definitely very alive and now coming from the left, and that’s rather puzzling. I don’t think people realise how pernicious that is.” Son of Saul's László Nemes: 'Our civilisation is preparing for its own destruction' 2019-05-10T04:00:00Z Scott wrote in his review for The Times, “which is amusing and puzzling and possibly kind of a relief, given what ‘very 2019’ might look like.” What’s on TV Thursday: ‘Never Rarely Sometimes Always’ and ‘Shaq Life’ 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z The first, though intriguing, is more puzzling than illuminating. ‘The Two Popes’ Review: Double Act at the Vatican 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z Facebook Twitter Pinterest Adventure Time Photograph: Cartoon Network The decision is made more puzzling by the fact Cartoon Network is incredibly progressive in so many other ways. Steven Universe censorship undermines Cartoon Network's LGBTQ progress 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z I wasn't just left puzzling over the events in the book because of the bewildering prose – there is a genuine sense of mystery. Not the Booker prize 2012: The Casablanca Case by Simon Swift 2012-10-03T10:07:25Z As with most plays lacking a conventional arc, “Sleeping Car Porters” ends on yet another puzzling note as Billy dies by shooting but also by hanging. ‘Sleeping Car Porters’ Review: Billy the Kid Meets the Zodiac Killer 2019-12-08T05:00:00Z More puzzling was a crude joke at the expense of Jodie Foster. ?The Artist? and ?The Descendants? Win Golden Globes 2012-01-16T05:19:04Z Given the access the filmmakers were granted in recent years, other editing choices are more puzzling. If "Jeen-Yus" is in the eye of the beholder, this film doesn't adequately explain Kanye West's 2022-02-16T05:00:00Z It is puzzling that Au Za’atar would pop up so close to Balade, an older, more charming Lebanese restaurant a block west. Shauna Lyon: Lebanese Fare at Au Za’atar, Balade, and Toum, in the East Village 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z Your letter indicates a puzzling degree of gratitude towards this man for entertaining the prospect of you as a partner. My boyfriend cheated on me but I want to move in | Mariella Frostrup 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z So part of the dazzle of “The Affair,” a Showtime series that begins Sunday, is that it puts a puzzling, almost maddeningly enigmatic frame around the least mysterious impulse in the world. ‘The Affair’ on Showtime Stars Dominic West and Ruth Wilson 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z She is blissfully pregnant while he’s puzzling over who stole Napoleon’s dessert plates and other odd items. Review | Five great new mysteries and thrillers to look forward to this spring 2021-04-16T04:00:00Z And that twist is bringing her back into the spotlight, and is puzzling, not to mention enraging, some of the people who once saw her as a role model. The Curious Case of Susan Estrich 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z Davies’s position is fraught and somewhat puzzling for reasons that have less to do with fairness than with his own past work: He has previously used straight actors very successfully in many gay roles. Should Straight Actors Play Gay Roles? A Star TV Writer Says No 2021-02-24T05:00:00Z The season closed on a successful note overall, with a script by written series creators Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan that was as electrifying as it was puzzling and frustrating. “Westworld” season finale: Violent delights, violent ends and new questions 2016-12-05T05:00:00Z One of the puzzling features of the intense identification of readers with Connell and Marianne is that they inhabit a pretty rarefied cultural niche, with its own intellectual and political snobberies. 'The stakes were really high': the stars of Normal People on bringing Sally Rooney's novel to TV 2020-04-12T04:00:00Z Mr. Pilati would not be showing puzzling things like white cotton dresses scattered with strawberry appliqués, as he did a year ago. Yves Saint Laurent Assembles a "New Tribe" 2010-10-05T10:16:00Z Philosophers have been puzzling for millennia over what it is about those organised but apparently meaningless sounds that we find so compelling, joined more recently by anthropologists, sociologists, psychologists and neuroscientists. Music is a vital strand of our social fabric 2012-08-02T19:00:00Z Mikkelsen gets a lot of mileage over people puzzling over him, the way we would at a houseguest choosing to socialize only when it becomes necessary. The magical magnetism of Mads Mikkelsen 2022-04-17T04:00:00Z We are capable of enormous deception, to the people around us but more puzzlingly to ourselves. An old friend is harassing people online. What can I do? 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z The pictures you sent show a reddish interior that’s puzzling because the type of wood you mention, from the Alstonia scholaris tree, is typically very light-colored. Repairing a Nativity scene that lost a head 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z It’s reasonable to conclude, looking back, that many people in science and government had decent intentions and simply didn’t know what to do about AIDS, an epidemic of a new and puzzling variety. How AIDS activism changed America 2012-09-22T17:00:00Z The whole movie was a visual feast, with bright costumes and playful dance numbers, and it never explained the puzzling genealogies of its characters. ‘Hamilton,’ ‘The Simpsons’ and the Problem With Colorblind Casting 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z The plot twists of “The Hour” can at times be puzzling, but the series is never dull. | ?The Hour?: Espionage in the Government and Shenanigans at Work 2011-08-16T12:00:00Z An antique lock and key, a puzzling interaction with border control, and a bit of wordplay that could explain it all. 18 New Works of Fiction to Read This Spring 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z When she strings the monologues together, she does not offer any narration or editorial frame, preferring to leave gaps for the audience to fill in, puzzling out why these voices, and why in this order. Anna Deavere Smith Contains Multitudes 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z While some of them are reasonable, such as accommodating a fellow traveler with a disability, others are puzzling to airline passengers. Perspective | Some flights have extra restrictions. Here’s what to do if you’re on one. 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z You can enjoy these elements while puzzling over the narrative, which seems to baffle even the characters. Theater Review: ‘Chang in a Void Moon’ at Incubator Arts Project 2014-04-01T22:05:43Z More puzzling, we never find out whether Spider-Man signed the accords. 20 Easter Eggs You Probably Didn't Notice in 'Spider-Man: Homecoming' 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z But looking closely at other numbers reveals some D.C. statistics that are dubious distinctions, puzzling anomalies and causes for concern. Round House Theatre can thank Google for its set design 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z The timing of the account’s popularity is a bit puzzling. What Does It Mean to ‘Yassify’ Anything? 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z The results may seem puzzling, but it is clear that at the time they were all convinced that art was poised to enter an era of unlimited possibilities. Sonderbund show recreated 100 years after galvanising Europe's art world 2012-10-02T13:00:29Z Like so many others, I’ve been puzzling over the Trump phenomenon for months. What would Joseph Campbell say about Donald Trump? He should’ve already been exposed as Darth Vader 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z After puzzling over the dueling claims, I set out to determine which city is worthy of fashion bronze. We Settle a Big Fashion Rivalry: Nashville vs. Columbus 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z Instead, puzzling over the ghostly beauty Yuko is an off-ramp to anyone who doesn’t want to dwell on the ugliness of what happened to tens of thousands of our own people. The politics of Important TV: Why "The Terror" and "Our Boys" won't get the "Chernobyl" treatment 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z Then he delivers a line that jolted me out of puzzling. Are you ever too old for pop music? 2012-06-16T23:06:03Z “A Charge to Keep,” the campaign book by Gov. George W. Bush of Texas, is a puzzling exercise. Revisiting George W. Bush’s Memoir “A Charge to Keep” 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z About two years ago, when we started going through the millions of photos in The New York Times archives for the Past Tense archival storytelling project, we noticed something puzzling. The Mrs. Files 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z What is puzzling is how he was able to write and draw so finely without, as far as is known, using magnifying devices. Astounding Feats in Pen, Ink and Magnifying Glass 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z After Trump’s piece created a backlash, the paper’s editorial page editor, Bill Sternberg, offered an unsatisfactory and puzzling explanation. Perspective | USA Today gave Trump ‘leeway’ for his opinion. Instead, he deceived in almost every line. 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z “By wading into the unknown first and puzzling through it, you are far more likely to learn and remember the solution than if somebody first sat down to teach it to you,” the authors write. 7 Tips to Improve Your Memory 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z What he’s up to with his trio, which played at Smalls on Tuesday night, isn’t new in the temporal sense or “new” in the art-movement sense, which is to say it isn’t confrontational or puzzling. 2010-01-21T05:41:00Z For a child who hadn’t done anything wrong, “it was puzzling.” The Historian Annette Gordon-Reed Gets Personal in ‘On Juneteenth’ 2021-04-21T04:00:00Z In the summer of 1984 a close friend of mine developed a puzzling inability to heal or recover from minor ailments, and by early November he was dead. The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst 2011-08-05T21:55:02Z Somewhat puzzlingly, Mr Lo believes a better Russian foreign policy is not just necessary, but also possible. Blind alley 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, there still is that puzzling matter of why family-film openings are so tough to predict. Family flicks firing up summer box office 2010-07-13T05:31:00Z What does this have to do with “Watchmen”? The HBO series takes an entirely new and surprisingly effective approach to puzzling out this fraught history. In “Watchmen,” just as in real life, feelings about Vietnam remain uncertain 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z I’m still puzzling over why I can’t engage with his music on an emotional level. Lou Barlow: “The thing that I equate most with Beck is generosity” 2014-02-26T00:32:00Z Itch's new, mysteriously warm bit of rock is intensely radioactive yet puzzlingly stable. Itch: The Explosive Adventures of?an Element Hunter by Simon Mayo ? review 2012-05-18T21:55:06Z They help explain his art’s unforgettably puzzling texture and its surprising weight. A Lesser-Known Modernism Inspired by African-American Culture 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z At other moments, it seems puzzlingly sincere about the benefits of touchy-feely corporate seminars. 'Rain Dragon': searching for greener pastures (organic version) 2012-05-02T19:30:06Z Holt’s other conversations are with people who do marvel at being, but they also confirm Grünbaum’s point about the puzzling nature of nothingness. ‘Why Does the World Exist?’ by Jim Holt 2012-08-03T22:40:08Z But Macklemore’s wins in three rap categories were puzzling — apparently even to him. Macklemore’s ‘Same Love’ set the agenda at 2014 Grammys 2014-01-29T23:55:10Z In her indispensable essay "The Esthetic Ghetto: Some Thoughts About Public Art," Goldin was puzzling out art's shifting relationship to different conceptions of a viewing public. At satire's forefront, cartoons press against hard lines 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z Now she returns with the story of Antonia Vega, a retired professor mourning her husband and puzzling over the sudden disappearance of a sister who is “always in crisis.” 7 New Books to Watch for in April 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z Less remarked upon were the protests staged in O'Brien's name which, at the time, were as diversionary as they were puzzling. It was Conan O'Brien's choice to leave late night this time – and we've never identified more 2021-06-26T04:00:00Z There are unexplained deaths, weird coded signals and strange behavior, but perhaps the most puzzling thing in the pilot is the ahistorical ambience. | 'Rubicon': James Badge Dale Stars in AMC?s Espionage Series 2010-06-10T23:17:00Z Human Rights Watch senior Asia researcher Nicholas Bequelin said it was puzzling that Relativity appeared comfortable cozying up with the city's political leadership. Activists slam US studio for filming in China city 2011-10-30T11:35:18Z Photograph: Kadist Art Foundation, Paris A couple of years ago I began a blog called Some Kind of Explanation where people could ask about anything in the whole of the universe that was puzzling them. Some kind of explanation: unspeakable nougat and trained cats 2012-06-25T11:00:00Z It is a puzzling show: it takes considerable looking and thinking to assemble its pieces into a coherent whole in your mind. 2010-01-08T04:44:00Z The film soon muddles this decision, making its own story puzzlingly opaque. ‘La Dosis’ Review: Dictating Death 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z While Valentine, the current owner of the house, dismisses their sleuthing as trivial, he is equally obsessed with his ancestors, puzzling over Thomasina's unfinished theorem, in which she mapped the future. Arcadia 2010-05-27T22:30:00Z His started his mini-concert off with the odd choice of the national anthem, though soulfully rendered, then in another puzzling moment, teased a bit of the "Price Is Right" theme. R. Kelly, Cee Lo, Whitney perform for Davis gala 2011-02-13T12:46:04Z More puzzling is the exclusion of Zadie Smith, whose forthcoming novel NW has had early readers in raptures. Booker prize judges should be applauded for favouring eccentricity and invention 2012-07-25T18:42:48Z It seemed her fans had a tough time puzzling out the discrepancy between her sunny stage persona and the realities of the workplace she oversaw. Ellen DeGeneres, a Signature Star of the Obama Era, Says Goodbye 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z The effect could be puzzling, entrancing or a combination of the two, as in the beginning of “Flow Chart,” a 1991 book-length poem: John Ashbery, Prize-Winning Poet, Is Dead at 90 2017-09-03T04:00:00Z The puzzling community, however, is more particular than some others. Puzzle swap celebrates jigsaw ‘barter culture’ amid pandemic chaos 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z And then there are the gigantic oil drums, ominous and puzzling. Farewell to ‘Stomp,’ a Show at the Beating Heart of New York 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z Eugène Ionesco's 1952 absurdist classic is a bit like that, too, ditching as it does conventional characters, psychology and plot in favour of rootless, puzzling moments of being. The Chairs 2010-08-29T20:30:00Z “Watch — and see what life teaches,” urged the Log Lady, who was just one of the odd/creepy/puzzling characters that inhabited the amazing TV series “Twin Peaks.” Diane, 7:30 p.m., July 31: ‘Twin Peaks' night at SAM 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z For those of us who are old enough to remember the cassette tape as a common format of music consumption, their resurgence is somewhat puzzling. Audio cassettes: despite being "a bit rubbish," sales have doubled during the pandemic — here’s why 2021-03-29T04:00:00Z Using every sense but sight, they operate in an often puzzlingly luxurious world. ‘For the Benefit of Those Who See:’ the resilience of the blind 2014-01-29T23:32:56Z As I crested the last hill, I saw it all at once: the key to modifying the algorithm we’d been puzzling over was to flip it around, to run it backward. The Myth and Magic of Generating New Ideas 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z Gelfand’s thesis is that mapping the tightness or looseness of the cultures of various groups — nations, regions, social classes, companies, friendship circles — helps explain things that might otherwise be puzzling. Is Your Culture ‘Tight’ or ‘Loose’? The Answer Could Explain Everything 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z The ruling called Glasgow's reasoning "puzzling.""This change in the state's position is puzzling," the ruling states. Prosecutors win ruling in Drew Peterson case 2012-04-12T19:36:00Z That scene is gross, puzzling and oddly tender — a thing that happens in the world without context or explanation, and that requires skill, care and concentration on everyone’s part but the dog’s. Review: ‘Monrovia, Indiana’ Is a Sharp, Lyrical Look at Small-Town America 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z In 1988, while reading about a symposium devoted to Levi and his work, Styron detected “a tinge of disapproval” concerning Levi’s suicide, as if it represented “some puzzling failure of moral strength.” “The Great God of Depression,” An Insightful Podcast About William Styron, Writing, and Mental Health 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z An example is "One Summer," a set of fragments in which each paragraph starts with "One summer ... " and goes on to relate, with puzzling diffidence, a series of inconsequential remarks. Nicholson Baker's 'The Way the World Works': on Wikipedia and weddings 2012-08-01T19:59:04Z And also the lack of tension, at least at the beginning — one full minute of the premiere episode documents her puzzling over a concert review of that tour in The New York Times. Television Review: ‘Kesha: My Crazy Beautiful Life,’ a Documentary on MTV 2013-04-22T21:45:35Z Much of the book’s interest lies in the puzzling questions it raises about the appeal of Islam to unlikely sorts. There and back again 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z Some things, though, are always going to remain puzzling. Readers recommend: songs about Jesus – results 2013-06-13T15:01:36Z It's a dense work, maybe not the most upbeat or lightweight of viewing experiences, but urgently important for anyone who wants to learn more about the strange and puzzling subject of contemporary Russia. Alex Gibney on "Citizen K": Real-life thriller of an oligarch who turned against Vladimir Putin 2020-01-18T05:00:00Z Considering the fact that there are many Japanese actresses in Japan’s thriving film industry, it was a puzzling decision. Five ethnically insensitive casting decisions 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z The experience was fun, if a little puzzling. Review: ‘Spanish Nights’ of Falla and Massenet 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z Other scenes are more oblique, if not downright puzzling. Review | A little earnest absurdism about bodily functions goes a long way in the Welders’ ‘LadyM’ 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z Architecture spent the year puzzling over its own self-sufficiency, finding various ways to wonder if it is capable, for the first time in a long while, of standing on its own two feet. The future is in the past: Architecture trends in 2014 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z Indeed, sometimes Mr. Hilton’s logic about what is offensive is puzzling. Perez Hilton Pursues Redemption 2012-10-17T23:02:30Z Ms. Eagly’s “Group Dynamics and Visual Sensitivity” was even more puzzling and less interesting. Dance Review: Alone With Thoughts and an Audience 2011-02-19T00:44:47Z There are some odd gaps and puzzling emotional elisions in this memoir. Books of The Times: Remembrance of Flavors Past 2011-02-24T16:00:29Z Each of these recent reality hits offer up new ways to get at the same results that people have been puzzling over for ages: how to find love. From "Love Is Blind" to "The Circle," the new breed of reality TV reformulates how we connect 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z It becomes one of the enduring moments of the campaign, if also the most puzzling. A year for enduring pop culture icons to shine 2012-12-19T18:34:09Z And her choices of younger artists can be puzzling. Art Review: ‘Oh, Canada’ Exhibition at Mass MoCA 2012-08-30T21:44:01Z Such juxtapositions are part of what the gallery calls “puzzling through new ideas,” and they may ultimately lead to a more elegant style. Galleries: ‘Kaleidoscope,’ ‘Aviary Wonders,’ ‘Interconnected,’ ‘Are You Gonna Eat That?’ This obviousness isn’t necessarily a flaw — but it is puzzling. Her Novel Became a Best Seller. The Trouble: The Manuscript Was Stolen. 2023-05-16T04:00:00Z Brown's religion-themed mystery novel "The Da Vinci Code," riddled with codes, keys, conspiracies and other puzzling symbols, was published in 2003 and was made into a hit film starring Tom Hanks. New Dan Brown novel "Inferno" due out May 14 2013-01-15T15:10:15Z And so however puzzling the boy's father's gesture had been, I can't deny that it still hit its mark. Should you tip your kid's camp counselors? The answer is tricky 2022-08-06T04:00:00Z Major Crimes The team works overtime to investigate the puzzling murder of a technology entrepreneur who had shady morals and possible connections to organized crime. Monday's TV Highlights: 'Longmire' on A&E 2014-08-03T04:00:00Z A dip of the toes into Iceland’s puzzling culture, much of if seemingly inspired by weirdly awesome landscapes, is only a dip of the toes. L.A. Phil's Reykjavík Festival begins with music of the Earth and singing in teacups 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z There are kids who fit in, very naturally, and the world is not puzzling really for them. Mark Haddon: 'What I love about theatre is that it's like being a kid again' | Interview 2010-03-28T00:06:00Z The remainder of this long, often puzzling film unfolds as a fugitive road movie. ‘Ride or Die’ Review: Killing for Love 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z It’s a puzzling disclaimer, not least because any organization of facts, however simple, always requires — and reveals — an argument. ‘Two Sisters,’ About Teenage Girls Who Left Norway to Fight With ISIS 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z Q. What do you say to one of the most puzzling questions regarding found-footage movies: Why do characters keep shooting video when bizarre things are happening to them? Filmmaker Oren Peli on the End of ‘Paranormal Activity’ 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z Although the production starts rather slowly, and some of the initial happenings are puzzling, by the second act it is totally captivating. Review: 'Tale of Jemima Canard' is a whole different kind of Beatrix Potter 2011-04-27T01:38:04Z Iyer negotiates these ideas – of detachment, of faith, of home and belonging, of love, of displacement – turning them over and over like river pebbles, puzzling over their place in his own life, thinking them through. The Man Within My Head by Pico Iyer – review 2012-06-15T21:55:03Z A female chorus in male drag swirls around the pop star to puzzling effect. With 'Summer: The Donna Summer Musical,' heaven knows the Queen of Disco deserved better than this 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z Jefferson's multitudes of crops included what were, for their time, unique and sometimes puzzling additions. 25 things you might not know about Thomas Jefferson 2022-04-30T04:00:00Z If you can’t figure out some of the portmanteaus below — the Empress herself spent lots of hours puzzling over the 1,000-plus entries — check out this week’s Style Conversational at wapo.st/conv1346 for an answer key. Style Invitational Week 1346: AZ if — balancing acts 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z It’s puzzling that Washington would be concerned about Hercules’s possible flight, since he had previously granted him some limited freedoms. The man who fed the first president — and hungered for freedom 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z But there is also something puzzling and regressive about Cemetery Junction. Cemetery Junction: Film review 2010-04-15T11:30:00Z Thirty years on, it is puzzling to find them revived. Dance Review: Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane at New York Live Arts - Review 2011-09-18T22:16:05Z Her most puzzling discovery relates to Easy Nofemela, who was found guilty of the murder and subsequently granted amnesty and hired by the foundation. Time of death 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z I came out puzzling it and thinking about it," says Shearsmith, "and I don't think you generally do with films. Reece Shearsmith: 'I'm very unsure of myself as a person' 2013-07-10T11:39:30Z “God Bless the U.S.A.” — with its puzzling refrain, “I’m proud to be an American, where at least I know I’m free” — remains a ubiquitous, if obsequious, presence. Perspective | A song doesn’t have to scream U!S!A! to be patriotic. Just ask the NFL. 2020-09-02T04:00:00Z That’s why it’s so puzzling that the piece has never really caught the imagination in this country. Uplifting music, deep themes: Seattle Symphony to perform Elgar’s ‘Dream of Gerontius’ 2016-11-27T05:00:00Z This memoir lives outside the village of standard memoirs in a few ways I found puzzling. Review: A Widow Documents Her Loss in ‘The Iceberg’ 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z “Sweatshop Overlord” sags a bit in its last third, and one moment meant to be solemn is puzzling instead. ‘Kristina Wong, Sweatshop Overlord’ Review: Our Sewing Superhero 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z Well, that makes this a little puzzling, doesn’t it? “This service is for women only”: Male survivors of sexual assault need help, too 2015-05-26T04:00:00Z Recalling her angst over choosing her own path, she shared a puzzling conclusion. What's Wrong with the Mommy Track? 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z Some of these puzzling inclusions might benefit from more commentary by Willis on individual photographs. Henry’s ‘Out [o] Fashion’ exhibit takes boundaries off beauty 2013-03-29T21:15:08Z A MEDIUM-SIZE seaport teetering on the edge of what we recognize as Italy, Trieste is a mysterious and puzzling place. In a Quiet Corner of Italy... Trieste 2011-04-29T19:35:37Z As several readers have pointed out, it’s an enormous and puzzling topic to try to cover in three bottles, as is our usual approach. Orange Wines: A Genre With a Large Gray Area 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z One day you’re puzzling over how an exploding rose ended up on multiple dust jackets, and the next you’re confronted by an onslaught of twee illustrations. Eight trends in book cover art, from busy botanicals to women walking away 2020-08-26T04:00:00Z One work at Springfield, for example, is a puzzling collage by Michelle Williams Gamaker that depicts an ape overlaid with clusters of fruit, flowers and Greek statuary. Bringing World-Class Art, and Wonder, to Mental Health Patients 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z “Savages”: Oliver Stone, back on drugs at last Topics: , Oliver Stone, Savages, Thrillers Oliver Stone is a puzzling phenomenon, but on balance we’re better off having him than not having him. “Savages”: Oliver Stone, back on drugs at last 2012-07-05T21:15:00Z Had he been given it to read as a boy, he admits, “I suspect I would have found it puzzling or even dull.” The First English Translation of Hayao Miyazaki’s Favorite Childhood Book 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z “The Son of Joseph,” written and directed by the American-born French filmmaker Eugène Green, is a droll comedic moral tale whose baroque trappings make it an initially puzzling but eventually winning delight. The Hidden Gems of 2017 Movies Are on ... Netflix? 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z Kiarostami’s surfaces may seem puzzlingly plain, but there’s nothing straightforward about his films. What Makes Kiarostami a Modern Master? Start Here 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z She is writing his biography, due for the 2015 centennial of his birth, and numerous other academic studies are now in progress to sort through his puzzling legacy. Antiques: Retrospectives for Harry Bertoia’s Grids and Gongs 2013-07-11T21:43:46Z Like about a third of the puzzling students, Lucido is a computer science major. Crossword puzzlers craft perfection across and down 2010-12-07T06:58:00Z We learn the answer to one of the puzzling questions of our time: Why millennials do not like to answer the phone. Review: Aziz Ansari’s ‘Modern Romance’ Explores Dating in the Digital Age 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z Mr. Diamant has published a book, “The Drawings of the Electric Pencil,” and is still puzzling over them. Antiques: Elvis and Toreadors, Aglow on Black Velvet 2011-02-03T22:55:03Z David Rooney, critic for the Hollywood Reporter, told Reuters of "Gravity", which is not in competition: "You sit there watching completely immersed in this atmosphere and puzzling over how they achieved all this." Clooney, Bullock launch Venice into orbit with 'Gravity' 2013-08-28T21:00:11Z Mr. Orange struggled for several years with the structure, puzzling over how the characters’ lives fit together, and discarded hundreds of pages and entire chapters delving into different characters’ family histories. With ‘There There,’ Tommy Orange Has Written a New Kind of American Epic 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z At one stroke, this puzzling book renders Berryman perhaps the only major American poet about whom you can say: If you want to read his best stuff, avoid the selected poems. John Berryman Is Reconsidered in 4 New Books 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z It was only after our relationship ended in a cascade of lies that I remembered the puzzling way it started. Perspective | Pat Conroy said he was ‘the most falsely open man’ I’d ever met. He was right. 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z Sunday's premiere of Verdi's perhaps most popular work was noteworthy for two things - inspiring performances and direction and staging that was puzzling for its skimpiness. La Traviata in Vienna shines but staging weak 2011-10-10T13:33:08Z It builds on the puzzling, changing identifications of works that are transmitted via the scholarly hands of the monkish middle ages, or those dug up from the sands of Egypt. 'You may now turn over your papers' 2010-09-24T23:06:00Z The sound “Serial” has made is a personal one, that of a smart woman puzzling it all out. Dwight Garner Reviews the 'Serial' Season Finale 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z Dance as ritual is Mr. Battle’s forte, but the ritual in “Awakening” remains puzzling, and not in an ultimately illuminating way; the pieces, polished as they are, amount to a tenuous whole. Review: Alvin Ailey’s ‘Awakening’ Projects a Sense of Fight-or-Flight 2015-12-06T05:00:00Z This is a puzzling omission because here is a chastening demonstration of what happens to the social fabric of a community when its employment patterns collapse. Social deprivation in Britain: how a writer's life turned to tragedy 2010-10-17T15:00:00Z Hence his advice to a doubting would-be counselor is to seek answers and inspiration in Kafka's puzzling parable, a short work that opens like so: "The Good Fight" makes the Kafka-esque dream of a People's Court a reality 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z In fact, these terms are fairly new and often puzzling to me, too. Don’t know what ‘genderqueer’ is? Meet someone who identifies that way. 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z Long after “Blues” ended, clusters of people remained in the atrium, puzzling over the work in animated and fraught debates. Dance Review: Sarah Michelson and Deborah Hay in MoMA Series 2012-11-05T19:39:22Z A puzzlingly complex command like “Go tell your mother she wants you,” intended to stun you into perplexity, meant he truly wanted you gone. The Cost of Defying the President 2017-02-12T05:00:00Z The pairing of the previous version of the bill, coupled with Newsom's puzzling Skittles example led to the internet glomming onto the rainbow candies as a prized, yet incorrect, example. Don't toss your Skittles just yet: California's latest food ban, explained 2023-10-18T04:00:00Z Experts at the Jewish Theological Seminary in Manhattan are puzzling over curly bits of ancient paper recovered from a closet in a Cairo synagogue. The Cairo Geniza, Under Piecemeal Restoration 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z The Voynich Manuscript has been puzzling emperors, antiquarians, and cryptologists for at least 400 years. 5 historic codes yet to be cracked 2021-10-11T04:00:00Z Or, more puzzlingly: “Did you ever notice, kid, that the words obit and orbit are separated by one little letter?” Books of The Times: ‘Sutton,’ by J. R. Moehringer, a Fictional Biography 2012-10-09T12:00:00Z If you view biographies as, by definition, accounts of psychological development, you may find this one puzzling. The Biography of Alexander Calder, Part I 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z What felt puzzling was the balance of material in the set. Music Review: Words and Music: A Jazz Trumpeter Plays, Sings and Blogs 2011-03-02T22:19:39Z Now she directs her own daringly intelligent, challenging and occasionally puzzling production. Antony and Cleopatra ? review 2010-10-16T23:07:00Z The awards show is increasingly in step with the Academy Awards, despite once being dismissed by critics for some puzzling movie nominees. Golden Globe Awards set for Jan. 5 next year 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z Given the genre’s current tendency toward bloat, material that accomplishes nothing is doubly puzzling, bland garnish burying a tasty dish. Please Stop With the Cheesy Documentary Re-Enactments 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z So it was puzzling when Ice Cube, who titled his 1990 debut album “AmeriKKKa’s Most Wanted,” decided to lend his credibility to a president who embodies White grievance politics. Some famous rappers backed Trump’s campaign. Did it matter? 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z But something more complicated than hate-watching fuels its puzzlingly diffuse parody “Too Many Lenas 3: Let Them Eat Cake,” directed by David Bernstein at the New Ohio Theater as part of the Ice Factory Festival. Poking Fun in ‘Too Many Lenas 3: Let Them Eat Cake’ 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z Paul Taylor’s American Modern Dance, a puzzling project on paper, is proving so in performance as well. Review: Paul Taylor’s American Modern Dance Offers New and Old 2015-03-22T04:00:00Z I'm still puzzling over its strange, unsettling conclusion, still delighted by its evocation of the Vancouver Island wilderness. Not the Booker prize: and the winners are ... 2010-10-12T11:31:00Z "My brain literally never stops whirring, thinking and puzzling over who to book for Bestival," said the Radio 1 DJ. Pulp and the Strokes top the bill at Reading and Leeds festival 2011-03-21T19:15:00Z Taken as a whole, the exhibition suggests a postmodern artist puzzling his way through a problem: Centuries after the creation of those works hanging in Detroit, what more is the medium good for? What to See Right Now in New York Art Galleries 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z But then we encounter a series of puzzling incidents. ‘Heirs of the Body’: Daisy Dalrymple back on the case 2013-12-12T20:53:22Z But as puzzling as the central question of your in-laws’ persistence is, I’m more intrigued by the missing context and missing spousal input. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: New mom’s loitering in-laws take offense when she asks them to leave 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z Many practitioners and pundits caution sternly against didacticism in books for children, a stance I find puzzling. Picture Books to Help Kids Weather Our Age of Anxiety 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z “Citizen” begins quietly, with descriptions of how encounters between people of different races can turn hurtful or puzzling or disconcerting in the space of a few words. Claudia Rankine on ‘Citizen’ and Racial Politics 2014-11-28T05:00:00Z Our short stay in Flagstaff is appropriately Arizonan: we photograph sunsets, devour Tex-Mex and marvel at the Grand Canyon, with its puzzling depth and winding trails occupied by mountain goats and blue Mexican jays. Views you don’t get on the freeway … across America by train 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z The puzzling narrative structure makes a kind of poetic sense as myth. Julie Otsuka Dives Into the Underground World of the Community Pool 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z A short distance away, the words on Ken Dresser’s headstone — “whose artistry is known to millions” — may be puzzling until one learns that he created Disney’s Main Street Electrical Parade. Love and death: The legacy of Congressional Cemetery’s ‘Gay Corner’ 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z Strangely this season's cancel culture conversation in "The Morning Show" feels simultaneously behind the times and timely, a puzzling liminal state indeed. "The Morning Show" looks at how consequences catch up to some people sooner than others 2021-11-13T05:00:00Z So wonderful that it's a puzzle why it has taken a broadcaster so long to give Buxton his own series, and even more puzzling why that broadcaster wasn't the BBC. Six to watch: Adam Buxton 2012-07-06T14:46:09Z She found happiness hard to recall most of the time — misery was stickier, puzzling, more intense — but she could be happy in the moment.” Denise Mina’s ‘Blood, Salt, Water’: An atmospheric, chilling thriller 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z We made sure that Hope will be able to meet her donor, in an effort to ensure that, although the pages might be puzzling, they will all be there. Donor siblings: do the ties of blood matter? 2017-01-21T05:00:00Z It was imitated by much larger competitors and, in death, served as a template for a new, similarly puzzling and even more powerful generation of short-form video apps. Vine Made the Internet Fall in Love With Short Videos 2020-02-22T05:00:00Z And for Keaton Henson, a man who gains comfort from the idea of solitude, this new world is both an exciting and puzzling affair. Keaton Henson: fame, stage fright and the discomfort of strangers 2012-10-03T13:46:03Z It turns out that it was made in 1998, which, if you think about it, raises puzzling — but here unanswered — questions. Art Review: Plains Indian Culture, as Seen Through the Ingenuity of the Tepee 2011-03-14T22:32:12Z It promises to be equal parts funny, moving and puzzling, a unique collaboration between two quite extraordinary theatrical personalities. This week's new dance 2010-06-18T23:06:00Z Information from Mr. Connor and Mr. Youngworth ultimately led to my dark trip through that Brooklyn warehouse, and later to the puzzling paint chips. Isabella Stewart Gardner Heist: 25 Years of Theories 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z In her catalog essay, Natalie Bell, an assistant curator at the museum and one of the exhibition’s organizers, explains these puzzling works. Review: Sex, Death and Little Subtlety 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z From this perspective, its prominence in the modern Hanukkah tradition is puzzling. Dreidel: A seemingly foolish game that contains the moral world in miniature 2019-12-22T05:00:00Z But will any of these companies prove as puzzling as the National Ballet of Cuba, now at the Coliseum? National Ballet of Cuba: National Ballet of Cuba, in London in ?La Magia? 2010-04-07T23:26:00Z But tops never seemed to go with bottoms, and dresses and outerwear were puzzling, too. Gap Dismisses Design Chief as Brand?s Slow Sales Persist 2011-05-06T06:07:02Z Nigel Saul's clear-sighted history makes these survivals all the more apparent, and all the more puzzling. For Honour and Fame: Chivalry in England 1066-1500 by Nigel Saul ? review 2011-07-22T21:55:04Z One problem trailing the strategy of beginning with intuitions about fruitful semantic concepts rather than puzzling phenomena is that the different schemata linked to a concept confer divergent meanings to the same term. Science doesn’t know everything 2013-06-02T18:00:00Z They danced a Waltz to Journey’s "Open Arms" and he glided around the floor with a detached expression on his face, puzzling over that whole global warming fuss. "Dancing with the Stars" recap: Bad music edition 2010-05-11T12:12:00Z Because, as the wisecracking fellow critic sitting next to me observed, every time the story gets puzzling the characters call a timeout and explain it. "Inception": A clunky, overblown disappointment 2010-07-15T01:01:00Z One thing I thought was rather puzzling was the exercise that asked if a pulse was on the beat or off the beat. How musical are you? 2011-01-10T20:00:02Z I find this type of repetition puzzling, unless you don’t anticipate readers who pore over every single page, enjoying the Book Review’s high standards. Summer Reading, the I.R.S. and Other Letters to the Editor 2021-06-18T04:00:00Z Though technology binds campus-to-campus relationships, text messages, calls and virtual images still provide just a momentary — and sometimes puzzling — window into a partner’s life. Education Life: A L?ng-Distance Affair 2011-01-07T17:21:29Z A creator who made all of these but was so highly uninventive about body plans is puzzling. Questions about Noah's Ark that may bug creationists 2011-01-18T14:15:10Z The most recent episode of Watchmen ended, as it so often does, on a puzzling note. Riddle me not: why I'm sick of TV shows that revel in WTF storytelling | Charles Bramesco 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z This can be puzzling even for Cunningham devotees, since no choreographer worked harder in some works to make dances that were solely about dancing. Merce Cunningham’s Multifaceted Mirror, Held Up to Nature 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z And looking at them together — one a dynamic composition with pointed political undertones done by the artist at the peak of his powers, the other static, unconvincing and entirely tame — might be puzzling for some. My Grandfather Was a Famous Artist. He Also Made Greeting Cards. 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z For many people, visiting an old house is a puzzling introduction to an alien world; a voluntary, paid-for act of self-education. Why Alan Bennett is wrong about the National Trust 2012-11-21T19:00:01Z Put your smartphone in airplane mode — no Googling for answers — and let the puzzling commence. Seattle Times Geography Quiz 2017: Test your knowledge of the world 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z Similarly, the Persian phrases, usually idiomatic ones, that pepper the dialogue are translated for the reader throughout the book — often, puzzlingly, by the person who just spoke them. He Tried to Change the System, Then Became It 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z It was a puzzling end for a filmmaker who had maintained a busy pace, with a sequel to "Top Gun," his biggest hit, in the works. Tony Scott: A man of action films, pure and simple 2012-08-20T10:16:05Z Times classical music critic Mark Swed says there were moments that were explosive, touching and puzzling. Essential Arts & Culture: Misty Copeland and Dudamel, 'Heisenberg' uncertainty, authenticity in casting 2017-07-14T04:00:00Z Thompson goes to Uruguay to find the puzzlingly hard-to-locate referee, but ends up uncovering more than he expected about the corruption, violence, and poverty of the world that produced Suárez. Weekend Reading: Soccer Violence, Nazi Hipsters, and More 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z When the publishing company team outgrew the space, they moved them to a building in town, and Mr. Smith began puzzling out how to add detailing and flourishes to the gutted space. Joye Cottage, a Love Story 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z Dr. Ores accepts this reality, although he finds it unfair, even puzzling. Disappearing ink 2012-12-26T01:00:00Z I suppose it was a bit puzzling – why would you, as the star, want to be the person who told the world you'd changed the airwaves? Radio Review: Jonathan Ross 2010-07-19T05:45:00Z And those holes gets more puzzling with each new twist. Books of The Times: ‘Broken Harbor’ by Tana French 2012-07-18T20:18:22Z Soy milk chawanmushi and a dark blotch of intentionally burned applesauce would have been puzzling with sea urchin even if the urchin hadn’t tasted metallic and iodine-heavy. Restaurant Review: Momofuku Ko in the East Village 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z And this, seen by Steve Warren at his local swimming pool, is very puzzling: "Please allow slower swimmers the opportunity to let you pass." Michael Winner, David Cameron and the Tories' approach to women 2013-01-25T17:45:30Z At a recent Baked pop-up shop in Tokyo, he said, the saltiness of the caramel brownie was puzzling to Japanese customers: “It hasn’t sunk in there yet.” Brownies With Caramel: Sweet and Salty in a Committed Relationship 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z The world is a puzzling place, and it always seems like there are people better-equipped to understand it than ourselves. Why Michael Ian Black Doesn’t Like Mystery Novels 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z If true, then regarding the three puzzling points above, This Game of Thrones Theory May Explain That Tower of Joy Scene 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z Mikkelsen gets a lot of mileage over people puzzling over him. The magical magnetism of Mads Mikkelsen 2022-04-17T04:00:00Z She dictated which of her writings should be published and when, and there are puzzling gaps, since she destroyed some material. Antiques: Meret Oppenheim’s Works at Martin-Gropius-Bau 2013-08-08T20:49:46Z Much of the advice seems sound, if occasionally puzzling. Among the Vulgarians 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z Her would-be messiah is a puzzling drifter marginal to his own story; the ferocity of Barabbas and Judas seizes the narrative and occupies its centre ground. Books of the year 2012: authors choose their favourites 2012-11-23T22:55:14Z There are puzzling omissions — the composers he chooses tend to be white and male — but Mr. Thomas’s efforts have nevertheless been essential to keeping in the repertory works by singular, often overlooked voices. After 25 Years, San Francisco’s Maverick Conductor Moves On 2020-06-05T04:00:00Z Three puzzling artworks welcome visitors to “Youth and Beauty: Art of the American Twenties,” an expansive and exhilarating exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum. Art Review: ?Youth and Beauty? at Brooklyn Museum - Review 2011-11-03T14:00:00Z The cumulative effect of Tillmans's art may be puzzling, but it isn't a puzzle. Wolfgang Tillmans: Everything and nothing 2010-06-23T20:30:00Z A woman receives an unexpected call from a former classmate asking for help deciphering a puzzling interaction, and from there, Smith spins out a broader story about loneliness, refuge and freedom. 14 New Books Coming in May 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z Had she gone, Americans might well have found her puzzling. After Such Kindness by Gaynor Arnold – review 2012-08-10T21:55:02Z They ask puzzling questions and produce overelaborate answers, not so much like machines but like people doing their best to fail a Turing test. Review: Colin Farrell, Nicole Kidman and ‘The Killing of a Sacred Deer’ 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z The light source for these subtle visual pyrotechnics is initially puzzling — but not for long. 'Helen Lundeberg: A Retrospective' downplays the painter's key early works 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z His innate sweetness in the face of such mad-dog cruelty is more of a mystery, one we’ll look forward to puzzling out in his next adventure. The Scene of the Crime: Four Mysteries in Ominous Locales 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z The anger on the right was always puzzling to East Coast establishment people like my parents. Richard Nixon would be “drummed out” of GOP today as a liberal: “He passed as much social welfare legislation as Lyndon Johnson” 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z But it’s puzzling that The Catch, in its very early going Rhimes’s most outright light-hearted show yet, bears the weight of two stars’ baggage. 'The Catch' Proves Why Casting is So Important 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z This adventure concludes early, however, after which the narrative becomes a puzzling love triangle, as Clemens, we are meant to believe, falls in love with Stanley's wife. Posthumously published 'Twain & Stanley' a bit too presumptuous 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z Both pieces are puzzling – but as with the best puzzles, you get caught up in them nonetheless. Scottish Dance Theatre ? review 2011-03-22T19:15:01Z Parks finds it “puzzling that our brains are made up of things—computers—that we ourselves only recently invented.” Do We Have Minds of Our Own? 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z He posits himself in this moment a kind of latter-day Hamlet, puzzling over the fate of Yorick. Review | David Byrne brings his entertaining brain to Broadway in ‘American Utopia,’ and it’s totally dope 2019-10-20T04:00:00Z The ending is puzzling, when it wants to be devastating, and the political and personal sides of the story, rather than illuminating each other, fight to a stalemate. Review: ‘In the Fade’ Is a Tale of Grief and Violence in Modern Germany 2017-12-26T05:00:00Z Yes, Ezekiel apparently has a pet tiger, which seems puzzling in a show set in the American South. ‘The Walking Dead’: 7 Questions for the Season 7 Premiere 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z This dereliction is all the more puzzling given Logan’s polemical aims. Poetry’s Hanging Judge Tries On a Detective Hat 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z Unfortunately, the popular Battle Mode, where the object is to eliminate other drivers rather than beat them to the finish line, is hamstrung by a puzzling decision to place the battles on linear tracks. Review: Nintendo’s ‘Mario Kart 8’ defies gravity 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z Among other insights, Professor Ackerman showed that many of the more puzzling features in the Laurentian Library were solutions to specific structural problems. James S. Ackerman, Author of Enduring Books on Architecture, Dies at 97 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z The result is a movie that is less provocative than puzzling. Movie Review: ‘Adore’ Gives Young Lovers to Robin Wright and Naomi Watts 2013-09-05T21:32:42Z He tilts at this windmill with formidable energy and considerable literary imagination, with an earnestness at once lavish and puzzling. Architecture’s Most Irredeemable Cad 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z As a local journalist named Mabel Norris Reese put it at the time, this was a puzzling turn from an office “that gloats over the ‘crime record’ of Negroes.” A True-Crime Mystery From the 1950s, Fueled by Racism and Corruption 2018-04-25T04:00:00Z Walking the streets and puzzling out how West Fourth Street could be right next to West 12th, I realized that I was doing alone what my mom had done with me years before. Greta Gerwig: My Mother, My City 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z The result is like watching the Grand National without a commentator or a race card, but rather longer and far more puzzling. La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet 2010-04-24T23:08:00Z His subsequent fall from grace, partly, it's said, as a result of threatening to kill senior figures at his publishers, Faber & Faber, remains puzzling and part of the Healy enigma. Barbaric Genius – review 2012-05-27T13:43:01Z I mean, the puzzling thing for me about World War II's position in the United Kingdom is, at the extreme right-wing end you literally get British fascists doing Hitler salutes next to a war memorial. "It's our foundation myth": PBS' "World on Fire" challenges the World War II narrative we know 2020-04-05T04:00:00Z It is puzzling, too, that Evans's own English translation switches to the original Italian for the Hades scenes. Orfeo – review 2013-01-24T17:46:08Z Faden, who said she’d been puzzling through the same surveys, noted that women are typically charged with being the guardians for their entire family’s health. Perspective | Why might women be less eager to get the coronavirus vaccine? An investigation. 2020-12-15T05:00:00Z I mean, there was a lot of puzzling on the set — Kelly Macdonald talks to Salon about stepping into a starring role with “Puzzle” 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z I found these puzzling, mainly because these basic items can be found almost anywhere, in similarly conservative cuts, and generally at a fraction of the cost. Critical Shopper | Calvin Klein: Critical Shopper: What Comes Between Brooke and Her Calvin Kleins? China. 2010-03-24T17:28:00Z Now the Burch brand is facing a puzzling retail riposte from her ex-husband, J. Christopher Burch, a venture capitalist who helped found her company and is still a chairman of its board. Critical Shopper: C. Wonder Stores ? Critical Shopper 2011-11-29T19:26:35Z But the longer he rests from his old day job, the more puzzling it all becomes. Extreme Fishing Challenge; Food & Drink – TV review 2013-02-26T07:00:05Z Which is why it’s a bit puzzling that no prominent politician right now sports a beard of any kind. The glory of the beard: It’s the one bandwagon politicians can’t jump on 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z This distinction, puzzling on the surface, was foundational: “human rights” might be assigned to groups, classes, nations, and movements. The Coruscating Moral Vision of André Glucksmann 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z And yet there is something puzzling about our obsession with imaginary food, as Gilbert’s book fascinatingly explores. The Allure of Imagined Meals 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z Amazon's choice to release the entire series at once is puzzling. "The Underground Railroad" is a relentlessly tough, yet gorgeously rendered television masterpiece 2021-05-14T04:00:00Z The town house is being emptied and the contents consigned to auction houses, and new owners are puzzling over Mr. Anderson’s sometimes misleading records. Antiques: Scrimshaw in New Book From New Bedford Whaling Museum 2013-01-10T21:54:56Z Here’s what I’m still puzzling over, six episodes later: This is supposed to be the story of how Harry and Meghan won their freedom. Perspective | Meghan and Harry made a fairy-tale escape. They still seem trapped. 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z Last year, Whoopi Goldberg added puzzling commentary when she conflated black women wearing straight blond extensions with cultural appropriation. What Black Women Need to Know About Hair Loss 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z Léo’s motives are at times as obscure as Mr. Guiraudie’s, and the film’s studied obliqueness is intriguing as well as puzzling. Review: The French Countryside Holds Surprises in ‘Staying Vertical’ 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z Although edited versions are still released for many new albums, there are puzzling exceptions. Cardi B’s ‘WAP’ Proves Music’s Dirty Secret: Censorship Is Good Business 2020-10-27T04:00:00Z I met a few new characters; some previously puzzling points made more sense. Review: ‘Mosaic’ is a Frustrating Soderbergh Story, Some Assembly Required 2017-12-13T05:00:00Z Tookie is in the midst of puzzling all this out when the pandemic arrives and the world turns upside down. A New Novel by Louise Erdrich Haunted by Covid and George Floyd’s Death 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z Innovatively, he created color prints by cutting up blocks, coloring the pieces and puzzling them together. Review: The Darkness and Light of Edvard Munch’s Work 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z Professor Tuomas Eerola, Professor of Music Cognition in the Department of Music said "previous research in music psychology and film studies has emphasized the puzzling pleasure that people experience when engaging with tragic art." "I’m the problem, it’s me": Why do musicians revisit their pain and doubt in their art? 2022-11-25T05:00:00Z But I’m still puzzling about that phrase “root to leaf.” ‘Root to Leaf,’ reviewed: Solidly seasonal, but hardly compost-free 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z Contact with outlandishly puzzling events is what makes Lloyd and Hill fascinating – the way their minds and lives work when faced with seemingly impossible situations. Partners in crime fiction 2011-07-22T08:00:02Z We are honored to be the publisher of what we believe will be the foundational book on one of the most beloved and most puzzling figures of the twentieth century. ArtsBeat: Biography of J. D. Salinger Coming in September 2013-01-29T14:04:44Z One puzzling part of the coverage was when commentators repeatedly referred to the anticipated size of the tsunami - 6 feet, 3 feet or whatever. Tsunami anticipation unusual event for TV 2011-03-11T21:04:10Z “It’s also somewhat puzzling, why someone is creating a pill that contains Xanax and fentanyl,” said Gualtieri in a press conference last March, warning the public about the counterfeit pills. 'Death pill': fentanyl disguised as other drugs linked to spike in US overdoses 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z The recent history of the Academy Awards is littered with puzzling and short-lived plans. 10 Years Later, an Oscar Experiment That Actually Worked 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z If the reasons for her homecoming are puzzling to her relatives, many of whom yearn to emigrate, the talking cure is an even tougher sell. Stream These Five International Films Now 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z Vice President Mike Pence is largely airbrushed out of the book, which is puzzling given how influential he was in tapping cabinet officials and staff. From ‘Fire and Fury’ to Political Firestorm 2018-01-08T05:00:00Z These recent displays of enmity towards vegans represent a puzzling escalation in hostilities, just as a consensus is starting to form that eating less meat would almost certainly be better for everyone – and the Earth. Why do people hate vegans? 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z For the opposite side, after a bit of puzzling, and given my physical and mental state, I shakily wrote: “Of course it’s all right for librarians to smell of drink. — Barbara Pym.” A Critic Sells Books Down by the Seashore 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z First she asked for her sibling’s favorite Diana Ross film, then a choice some readers might have found more puzzling: “‘No Me Queda Mas’ or ‘I Could Fall in Love’”? Selena’s Special Genius 2020-12-03T05:00:00Z Another measure of this book’s limited appeal is that it offers little incentive to try to piece together such puzzling chronology. Books of The Times: In ‘Frog Music,’ Emma Donoghue Delves Into Unsolved Crime 2014-04-07T20:53:50Z The crude black-and-white style of the first story belies what blossoms by the last—a neon-colored future that is robust, puzzling, and convincing. Close Encounters with O. Schrauwen’s Mesmerizing “Parallel Lives” 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z Even so, the best reason for watching this “Corsaire” is to add to your knowledge of Mr. Ratmansky, that valuable, important, internationally influential but puzzling figure. Critic?s Notebook: Bolshoi Sends Alexei Ratmansky?s ?Corsaire? Into Cinemas 2012-03-12T22:19:26Z Six months later, a new division of the Miami P.D., led by a former paramour of Mike’s, is puzzling over the ammo that hit the detective. ‘Bad Boys for Life’ Review: In a Minivan, but Still Riding 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z While the relationship between Vargas Llosa the novelist and the political activist remains puzzling and, for many, problematic, the Nobel prize may help restore his fiction to its central place. Llosa's life should not eclipse his work 2010-10-07T16:30:00Z Hitchens understood the secular nature of Saddam’s Ba’ath Party, which made all the more puzzling and problematic his stubborn insistence that Saddam was colluding with Al Qaeda. The real New Atheism: Rejecting religion for a just world 2013-12-14T19:00:00Z And the message is one perhaps puzzling to fans: “THANK YOU NY for being one of the few states to @freethenipple.” Miley Cyrus wants you to free your nipples 2013-12-16T16:02:00Z In that context, Nicolas Sarkozy's decision to install €75,000 ovens – proper ovens you can actually roast things in, not microwaves – into his new presidential jet is all the more puzzling. David Mitchell: 'Sarkozy has the only plane in which you can make Yorkshire puddings' 2011-07-30T23:05:53Z Together, the Hess winery and art museum may well be one of the most puzzling one-man grands projects since the Pyramids of Egypt. In Argentina, Wine, Art and Altitude 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z I like to think that much of our fascination with this topic arises from our heritage as practical problem-solvers — the curiosity that drew our ancestors toward danger in order to begin puzzling ways around it. How will the world end? 2012-06-17T19:00:00Z It’s exhausting to even think about how much effort we will expend puzzling over these glamorous celebrity spokesmen of the offender class. Louis C.K. Slithers Back, Whether We’re Ready or Not 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z Johnny is drawn as an African-American child, a choice that has proven puzzlingly “controversial,” suggesting that it is possible to create a controversy about anything. A Mark Twain Tale, Brought Back From the Dead 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z The Wrap’s Candice Frederick put it more plainly, clocking the Aster’s latest as “just about the coldest – and most puzzling – film to be released this year so far.” Extended scares: in defense of the two-hour-plus horror movie 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z Swaths of the transcript are redacted in black, and in the weeks leading up to the premiere, Ms. Satter was still puzzling out how to dramatize them. Staging Reality Winner: An F.B.I. Transcript Becomes an Offbeat Thriller 2018-12-30T05:00:00Z What is puzzling is why Britain's film industry is much less than the sum of its parts. French films glow with confidence and culture. Ours should do the same 2010-08-07T23:05:00Z Perhaps the most puzzling aspect is the choice of Jenner — a rich, white celebrity — as leading lady. “New level of wokeness to understand this”: New Pepsi, Kendall Jenner commercial leaves bad taste 2017-04-04T04:00:00Z While I was puzzling over how to match a dish to the existing menu and logistics, chef Drew Flanders flipped my soup into an entirely different gourmet territory. Food writers host FareStart dinner 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z Some matches are revealing, but many seem puzzling. Artificial Intelligence as a Bridge for Art and Reality 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z But what’s puzzling about the “Romeo and Juliet” presented by The National Asian American Theater Company in partnership with Two River Theater is how little any of that adaptation adds. Review: A ‘Romeo and Juliet’ That Clowns Around With Tragedy 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z That ending, like other moments in the production, was as puzzling as it was exasperating — why not let her leave alone and empowered? Opera Roars Back With Dueling Wagner Premieres 2021-07-06T04:00:00Z Still, passers-by might find themselves puzzling over the barbed wire strung across the gallery’s plate-glass windows. Cheeseburgers, Oil and Minimum Wage: Building a Museum of Capitalism 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z There are a few puzzling odds and ends, but Davies is returned to London, quickly confesses to both murders, and seems destined for a certain end on the gallows. A Capital Crime By Laura Wilson 2010-10-01T23:15:00Z Then Frank Ocean mainstreamed the company when he was photographed at ComplexCon in one of the hoodies, puzzling his fans along with Worldnet employees who wondered where the singer had gotten it. Worldnet Is FedEx for the Fashion Crowd 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z Ten years ago, "Lost" premiered on ABC, and millions of fans were destined to spend six years puzzling out the myriad puzzles, hints and clues the show's creators, J.J. 'Phineas and Ferb' will commemorate 'Lost's' 10th anniversary 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z All of which makes Odd Future's apparent homophobia more puzzling. Frank Ocean and the courage to come out 2012-07-04T17:03:00Z It’s “that person” who is presumed to have created the contents of a walk-in environment of walls covered gridwise with numbers, lists of words and puzzling symbols painted in black on paper. ‘Sites of Reason’ Underway at Museum of Modern Art 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z But then, as he finally revealed the truth, he said there was still something puzzling him. Fox News' Brian Kilmeade on Santa's amazing dedication at Christmas 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z The networks may never be prone to experimentation, but they can usually be counted on for one or two oddball or simply puzzling choices. The Fall TV Season Is Back, Smaller Than Ever 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z The climax is a bloody tour de force that is less terrifying than puzzling, in part because it also seems, like the business with the apple tree, aggressively obvious. ‘Men’ Review: Putting the ‘Male’ in Malevolent 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z Frances Ha, by contrast, is about a young woman in modern-day New York puzzling over her future. How black-and-white movies made a comeback 2013-06-29T23:05:47Z There is something a little puzzling, a little shocking, quite amusing, and consistently unappetizing in each of these photos. Real Food, No Filter 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z But recently, to paraphrase the Rolling Stones, the nature of his game has been puzzling us. Devil's advocate: are satanists now the good guys in the fight against the evangelical right? 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z This was sometimes puzzling to Jonah Hill, the actor, who grew up with her. The Most Watched Editor at Fashion Week 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z The most puzzling outburst came on Wednesday, when the campaign allowed Senator Ted Cruz of Texas to speak, knowing that he would — pointedly — not endorse Mr. Trump. A Donald Trump Speech Whose Sunny Spots Came Mostly From the Stage Lights 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z The humans are less realistic but more puzzling. These faces from the ice age give the lie to our idea of civilisation 2013-02-08T07:00:11Z It seemed a little puzzling that Mr. Johns would want to wear the button so many years after the protest had ended. Jasper Johns Still Doesn’t Want to Explain His Art 2018-02-07T05:00:00Z More puzzling was a version of “Hit the Road Jack,” sung by Shannon Powell, a passable Ray Charles proxy who happens to be a fantastic New Orleans drummer, not that he showed it here. Music Review: New Orleans Jazz Orchestra’s ‘10 Years, 1 Night’ at Carnegie 2012-10-09T21:59:37Z Pencils for puzzling over crosswords and marking walls with the upward progress of one’s progeny? | Pencil This In 2011-03-02T20:30:43Z Also, in a rather puzzling and frankly silly move, Grisham has deemed that the culprits or suspects in this book should be characters you are hardly familiar with. Theodore Boone: The Accused by John Grisham - review 2012-08-30T14:00:00Z Natural scientists typically select a puzzling phenomenon as the primary reason for initiating research. Science doesn’t know everything 2013-06-02T18:00:00Z In America, Hinduism was more puzzling than anything. Christopher Isherwood's Liberation 2012-06-01T21:55:14Z Get past puzzling over why Donald Trump talking about early colonists is in any way edifying, and what you're left with is history in broad strokes presented with the help of reconstructions and CGI muskets. I Am Slave 2010-08-30T05:45:00Z Certain omissions are particularly puzzling, because the book seems to anticipate them. Books of The Times: ‘A History of Opera,’ by Carolyn Abbate and Roger Parker 2012-12-27T22:03:04Z But the consensus that Beyoncé somehow sullied sacred ground is as predictable as it is puzzling. Alan Freed or Beyonce? False debate rages around Rock Hall 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z I do find it slightly puzzling that it was nominated in the book of a musical category, since the show is almost sung-through, but it’s the kind of juggernaut that we haven’t seen in years. ‘Hamilton’ Aside, Where the Real Tony Competition Lies 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z All of this appears designed to impart to the potential audience member the fact that much of what awaits them will be puzzling and arcane, and some of it simply unknowable. Inception: confusion can be good 2010-06-04T09:25:00Z Despite that, a couple of entries really are puzzling. What the Queen Mum played on one's gramophone 2011-03-14T20:00:02Z “Paramour,” which includes classic Cirque touches like aerial acts, board jumping and acrobats on teeterboards, has chosen — somewhat puzzlingly for Cirque’s maiden voyage to Broadway — to celebrate classic Hollywood. Review: Prepare to tumble for Cirque du Soleil’s ‘Paramour’ 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z The Observer's Alexander Linklater also deemed the novel's central family narrative most successful, and saw its technique as puzzling: "Why laboriously split or splice narratives instead of pursuing a central theme or story?" Critical eye: book reviews roundup 2011-08-05T21:55:07Z I’ve been puzzling over this since last year, when I returned to Princeton University to teach, more than two decades after I had graduated. Motherlode: After Class, Skimpy Equality ? Motherlode 2011-08-26T21:03:49Z And the researchers are still puzzling over how to read a third name. Uncovering Lost Black History, Stone by Stone 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z Smith’s portrait of Eliot’s honeymoon with Cross, on the other hand, plausibly brings to life a puzzling period of her life. George Eliot’s brief marriage got off to a really, really bad start 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z Both showed a sure compositional hand but involved relocating players to puzzlingly little effect. A Weekend Can Span Centuries at Tanglewood 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z Those who have may find the above description puzzling, given its plot. “Chefs do that”: The underappreciated holiday joy of “The Long Kiss Goodnight” 2016-12-17T05:00:00Z "People's intolerance, I find puzzling," she says, a vertical crinkle appearing between her eyes. Kick-Ass Jane 2010-03-21T00:05:00Z But Camille Cosby’s criticism of him was puzzling because he issued an all-important pretrial ruling that seemed to help the defense and dealt a crushing blow to prosecutors. What’s next for the Bill Cosby sex-assault case? 2017-06-18T04:00:00Z And even some of its backers were left puzzling over a question that has not often troubled the movie business lately: What went right? 2010-02-06T05:37:00Z Still, not every passer-by is necessarily interested in, much less inspired by, the puzzling forms and obscure ideas usually found in contemporary art. Outdoor Sculpture and More in the New York Region 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z Then, this past spring, the Animal Planet unveiled its new, puzzling slogan: "Animal Planet: Surprisingly Human." Animal Planet's monstrous makeover 2011-01-31T22:32:00Z One of the primary questions puzzling researchers like Feldman is exactly where and how intelligence is generated in the brain. The “rage to master”: What it takes for those scary-smart kids to succeed 2015-06-13T04:00:00Z |
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