Sentences with phrase «puzzled over what»

They pull away from a formerly loved mother or father, and often an entire extended family, leaving the rejected relatives puzzled over what they might have said or done that caused a total rupture in relations.

Professor Larry Barham, Department of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology at the University of Liverpool, added: «Archaeologists have long puzzled over what these round stones were used for — they're about the size of a tennis ball but much heavier.

Researchers puzzled over what sparked the fires, but a new study offers a possible explanation.

For years, scientists have puzzled over what prompts the intertwined double - helix DNA to open its two strands and then start replication.

Shoppers came in and inspected the produce presented to them, scratched their heads and puzzled over what to cook for their households.

For months, Morel — an elder (read: over 40) member of Moment who jokes that his white hair makes the LAWA reps feel more at ease — has puzzled over what he calls the logistical nightmare posed by the work site.

The upshot is drearily typical of the Protestant mainline - a sour estrangement between a self - consciously «prophetic» national bureaucracy and a mostly traditionalist membership that puzzles over what went wrong and wonders what might be done to set things right.

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.

So I was very pleased to be able to puzzle over what I could turn my surplus beets into.

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

Physicists still puzzle over what makes up dark energy, along with another unexplained cosmic constituent, dark matter, an additional kind of mass that must exist to explain observations of how galaxies and galaxy clusters rotate.

Tests using advanced technology could resolve a longstanding puzzle over what is driving the accelerated expansion of the Universe.

That still leaves a puzzle over what caused the 2013 signal.

And after decades of puzzling over what causes narcolepsy's fits of daytime sleep and muscle paralysis, researchers suspect it's a response to an autoimmune disease.

Schrödinger carefully outlines how the two groups obey different laws and puzzles over what the «paragon of orderliness» of living things may signify.

I will be travelling from the UK to the US for two and a half weeks from 25 September and am puzzling over what to pack.

And Margaret and Rob puzzle over what they should do to cure Em of her recurring nightmares.

I thought this was very weird and I still puzzle over what's going on in people's heads.

Creeping towards the publication of my second novel in a planned series of suspense thrillers, I'd already been obsessing over every comma, every unnecessary occurrence of the word «that» and every instance of throat - clearing phrases my fingers automatically type while I'm puzzling over what I'm really trying to say.»

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

We dived into the dizzying world of seafood, puzzling over what defines sustainable, and who defines it.

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What is even more puzzling is that while the President of the Treasury Board claims control over spending by pointing to the decline in the Estimates of $ 10.4 billion, or 4 per cent, the June 2011 Budget shows an increase of $ 9.7 billion, or 3.6 per cent, in expenses between 2010 - 11 and 2011 - 12.

Over the past half century or so, too many parts of the Catholic world have come to think of «reform» as something we conjure up from our own cleverness, as if we must puzzle out what makes the Church «relevant.»

That way you can talk about what you're reading, and puzzle over it together.

I have puzzled over this story of the bronze serpent, as the image of the serpent was what people were asked to look to for healing and yet the serpent was the very creature that caused their suffering and death.

Royce labored over the next thirty years to work out the implications of what he called «Absolute pragmatism,» venturing into psychology, logic, and even mathematics in an effort to puzzle out how minds can understand the will and ideas of the Absolute.

You may disagree with some of Winchell's assessments, taking offense at what he considers harmless or puzzling over omissions (where, oh where, is that Peter Sellers classic I'm All Right Jack?).

After all, what is there to puzzle over when The Baron barges off the bench, stomps, pounds his fist into his palm and tongue - lashes erring Wildcats?

What Calleri has to offer remains a mystery to me and why he is preferred over Ashley Fletcher despite contributing little is puzzling.

What I found puzzling over the years is how teams like Porto able to acquire talents like Hulk, Falcao and with all our resources, we fail to bring real world class quality to our club?!

First Signs My Child was «Different» Once I was able to stop worrying about problems like developmental delays and hearing loss, I found myself puzzled and amazed by what my son could do, reading his first word, for example, at just a little over 2 years of age.

So let's just say that I think about human behavior a lot, whether that involves puzzling over relationships, behavior change, or why humans do what they do (this election has provided plenty of fodder in the latter department).

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

So when I thought about what was the, what's been happening to military care of wounded soldiers over the last century, what I puzzled over was, How do we make progress?

Morello highlighted the importance of achieving the breakthrough using a silicon chip: «What I find mesmerising about this experiment is that this seemingly innocuous «quantum computer code» --(01 + 10) and (00 + 11)-- has puzzled, confused and infuriated generations of physicists over the past 80 years.

Thank you so much... I am grateful for a response... I am doing most if not all of what you suggest with a DC over the past two years... so I believe almost there but still need to find that missing piece of the puzzle..

The strict consistency recommendation seems puzzling to me — what do you do when you travel and have less control over your schedule and environment?

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For the first time in over a decade, RE7 felt like what a Resident Evil game should feel like and focused more on puzzles, survival, and horror rather than fancy gunplay.

Marcus is bewildered by the sequence of events that led to this moment, and spends the next few days puzzling over exactly why she chose to do what she did.

The final piece of the puzzle was for the students to write a reflective blog discussing what they felt they'd learned over the course of the five - day project.

At that moment, I glumly envisioned a new generation of superintendents shuffling teachers among schools — perhaps paying bonuses to do so — becoming frustrated at the disappointing results, puzzling over the departure of highly rated teachers, and wondering what had gone wrong.

So, we went over every comment we could find, to try and piece in the puzzle and help you figure out exactly what it's like to stay there.

What if I told you that there was a way to combine the over the top (movie reference intended) action of arm wrestling with the classic puzzle competition of multi-player Tetris?

That I keep seeing my ugly unshaven mug plastered all over the world and shining down from the sun is so weird and endearing you can tell those guys at Media Molecule care more about what they're trying to say with this game, and the creativity they're trying to foster, than they do about whatever platforming puzzles they've created.

Like I said there are little to no puzzles, the level designs are quite repetitive with no personality, the game ruined what made other Zelda games great, which was fun items / weapons to use, this game they are pretty generic, and the overworld map feels too small and looks like they pasted blah looking textures all over it.

You're never given clear direction in Rime or any real explanation as to the boy's past or purpose; as you slowly start to explore the island you'll stumble across artefacts that shed some light on the backstory, showing a grieving monarch with an inquisitive and familiar young charge, but an air of ambiguity consistently colours the game and you'll find yourself spending the first few hours puzzling over things like just how exactly is that fox spirit connected to everything, who is the mysterious figure in the red cape who watches silently from afar and is the source of our protagonist's vivid red cape, what tragic fate befell the bipedal robots who lay littered about the place and much more.

A simple puzzle game might require over fifty pages, including 3D modeling and scripts, so you can imagine what goes into much more complicated games like Halo or Call of Duty.

While a price point of $ 60 AUD might be a little over the top for some, Puyo Puyo Tetris combines some of the greatest puzzling elements from two vastly different universes for what is one of the best conventional puzzle titles we have seen in some time.