Sentences with phrase «express perplexity»

He had just left the Chelsea School of Art after an unsatisfactory period as a figurative painter in an institution that overvalued abstract expressionism, and was «thrashing about as an artist» attempting to express his perplexity and anger at the dismal political situation facing the left at the time.

Some express perplexity about the sacerdotal aspects of the Jesuit calling.

At the risk of oversimplification, the interlocutors argue for God's temporal as well as eternal justice, while Job expresses perplexity over their claim for his temporal justice.

In 1850, in In Memoriam, Tennyson expressed perplexity about the ancient earth and evolution, before On the Origin of Species was published in 1859: «Are God and Nature then at strife, / That Nature lends such evil dreams?»

These questions expressed his perplexity about the suffocating nature of an all - too - familiar world.

are expressing perplexity over the market for bonds, which is institutional and driven by accounting and regulatory concerns (ALM, pension funding regs, risk charges on surplus for holding equities, marking investment grade bonds at amortized cost rather than to market, etc.).