Word: puzzlements
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...alienation and danger—more than one reviewer has found the word “unwell” an apt term for their feel—touched a nerve in America, which speaks volumes about how quickly things changed. The band’s frontman, Thom Yorke, admits puzzlement at why they continue to catch on, telling a reporter he’s “never been able to understand why so many people get it.” But given the temperature of the times, it should surprise no one that their dyspeptic experimentation is popular...
...that many people, especially young people, use marijuana mainly for “partying and hanging out”. And most non-users (at least until they learn of its medical value) believe that is all cannabis is useful for. This stereotype is so powerful that reactions ranging from puzzlement to outrage greet claims to the contrary. Anyone who attributes more than recreational and medicinal value to marijuana runs the risk of being derided as a vestigial hippie. So it is not surprising that many people who use cannabis do so behind drawn curtains...
...make any great claims for Chester. When I would arrive home, I fully expected to find Hugo reading the newspaper. Not Chester. Chester would try to make his way through a narrow sliding door, find himself stuck halfway and then look at me with total and quite genuine puzzlement. I don't think he ever got to understand that the rear part of him was actually attached to the front...
That may not have been evident at Betty Parson's Manhattan gallery, where Pollock watched the guests snort in puzzlement. Later came the reviews ("monotonous intensity"). The sales? Two canvases. But within the American avant-garde, a world consumed by disputes that consumed him too, the show was a loudly argued challenge. When the mostly skeptical mass media came around, the Abstract Expressionists, who had been germinating for years, exploded American art onto the world stage for the first time...
DIED. JOHN WEITZ, 79, proudly populist fashion designer; of cancer; in Bridgehampton, N.Y. Among the first to engage in licensing agreements for the production of neckties, men's cologne and socks, Weitz was also, to the puzzlement of fashionistas, a historian and an author, whose works include a biography of Hitler diplomat Joachim von Ribbentrop. He was the father of filmmakers Paul and Chris Weitz, who directed About a Boy and American...