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Second, the press had left him almost completely - and very puzzlingly - alone.

There was more, all of a puzzlingly personal nature.

He is talking about retirement, a puzzlingly foreign idea.

Why else would they be so puzzlingly keen to make lists of seven items?

During a summer heat wave, all the water in Warsaw is puzzlingly disappearing.

Puzzlingly, however, this risk appeared to decrease rather than increase with greater mobile phone use.

Fortunately (and puzzlingly), the enemy had not followed up their initial attack.

Yet British bands have played a puzzlingly small part in this retro revolution.

Yet despite the care lavished on them, their world has a puzzlingly second-hand feel.

We know that the Mayor's campaign this time has been puzzlingly, pettily negative.

Her eyes were puzzlingly clear, the same luminescent purple as my ex-wife's.

There was something puzzlingly wrong, and the Health Minister had lied about it.

More puzzlingly, no modern technology graces these pages, aside from the automobile.

Both in the new works and the Mendelssohn, the orchestra's playing was, as it often is, puzzlingly inconsistent.

It may be that the fish is actually a baby, but Balint leaves this puzzlingly ambiguous.

I know where to get more, and the requisitioning procedure is puzzlingly informal."

Not much except that they can all be lumped into the world-music category, however puzzlingly.

I stood outside and watched the ride start to spin and then, puzzlingly, slow down.

The film leaves puzzlingly open the question of who might have shot Flynt in 1978, paralyzing him, and why.

Then came the Hüskers split and what have been rather puzzlingly referred to as 'the wilderness years'.

His short letter puzzlingly lacks any special message for Vicki, which disappoints her.

Yet, puzzlingly, in cinema, that most exportable of art forms, expectations have so far been disappointed.

This show presents a puzzlingly hermetic body of work based on a two-step operation.

Puzzlingly, their complaints didn't appear to be related.

He adds, puzzlingly, that his natural inclination is to turn away from work, to loaf, glide, run for cover.