Sentences with phrase «puzzle over meaning»

I used to puzzle over the meaning of the story which appears in the early part of John's gospel about Jesus changing water into wine.

Copying word - by - word and line - by - line, she begins to puzzle over meaning apace.

For centuries, viewers of this masterpiece have puzzled over the meaning of Bellini's composition and have sought explanations in a variety of pictorial and textual sources.

Not exact matches

These sorts of odd - ball questions — logic puzzles, brainteasers and riddles — have been favoured by some employers as a means of testing problem - solving and communications skills for over half a century.

Rather than puzzle over soft drink sizes, many consumers simply pick a size and stick with it, ordering a medium or a large at every restaurant even though these words have different meanings depending on the establishment.

Now, this is completely un-Greek; II Clement 3.2 avoids this construction while explicitly quoting the saying in its Matthaean form, the version in Rev. 3.5 does not have it, and the Greek fathers Heracleon, Clement of Alexandria and Chrysostom all puzzle over what it can mean.

Alabama's All - America tackle dominated the college ranks, but his ill - advised combine walkout and an unimpressive pro day workout have NFL scouts puzzling over what it all means

Casual users puzzled over line drawings of animals, while others wondered what it meant if they were bad at subtracting by sevens.

This set uses over twenty verbs with a primary focus on the following ten: * acostarse ducharse * vestirse bañarse cepillarse * despertarse * divertirse levantarse * sentarse * dormirse The ten verbs below and additional support vocabulary are also included: peinarse desayunarse * ponerse secarse maquillarse quitarse llamarse quedarse mirarse estirarse There are four resources included in this bundle: * Guacamole - Word scrambles, puzzles and games to practice the meanings of the verbs.

I'm not convinced that regression toward the mean explains these patterns, but I'm still puzzling over the possibility.

I mean already have to read Facebook posts from authors about hitting every conceivable niche bestseller list for that day or hour on Amazon but now I have to puzzle over what it means to be a NYT bestselling animal book (which is, I assume, by topic rather than author — though I suspect my collie Hamish would love to be on this list!).

The soundtrack is excellent, but the limited variety means that if a puzzle takes you a little longer than others, you will hear the same bit over and over again.

That doesn't mean the Early Access isn't worth checking out, though; an active community has already emerged, and there are over 200 user - created puzzles available for download from Steam Workshop.

After he'd finished his work, Dupont stood back and puzzled over the larger meaning of what he'd just helped to deliver.

The puzzling over what it might mean is all mixed up with the making.

Turns out that economists are puzzled by the fact that people make «irrational» choices, meaning that they're unpredictable, which in turn casts «a grey cloud over economics.»

That could mean resisting the urge to cram over breakfast or on the way to the interview, and doing a crossword puzzle or listening to a podcast instead.

As a small child, I puzzled over that picture and what it could possibly mean, since, clearly, «nobody has 3 feet.»