And some especially puzzling data have suggested that at higher achievement levels, the gap between black and white performance is wider than at lower levels.

Especially puzzling were the instructions to capture him.

It is especially puzzling since skis are designed to turn.

For tenants who have rented a vacant apartment after the rehabilitation occurred but before the allowance was granted, retroactive increases seem especially puzzling and unfair.

This was especially puzzling, as was the decision, by obviously art-savvy thieves, to steal the lesser Degas pictures rather than far more valuable works.

Dr. Cullen finds the other - an 18th-century map of coastal South Carolina - especially puzzling, since it has a limited market.

The derailment is especially puzzling because the eight stainless steel cars that made up the train, built from 1986 to 1988, were among the newest in the system.

Especially puzzling, if one believes that there was nothing more to the genocide than Hutu-versus-Tutsi ethnic hatred fanned by politicians, are events in northwestern Rwanda.

Mlicki's lack of success this season has been especially puzzling, considering how well he pitched during the second half of last year.

What's especially puzzling, though, is that film reviewers have by and large given Lucas a free pass.