perplexing
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And while every film doesn’t need to be an intensely demanding challenge, it’s perplexing that someone with such a compelling on-screen presence has trouble translating that force to her first outing as a director.
From Salon
Now, facing irrelevance and the perplexing 1960s, she falters.
The study also found a perplexing rise in unexplained illnesses.
In 120 paintings, drawings, photographs and especially sculptures, this Therrien exhibition offers objects hovering somewhere between immediately recognizable and perplexingly alien, wryly funny and spiritually profound.
From Los Angeles Times
It has been a perplexing and dramatic downturn in form - if not fortune.
From BBC
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