"Donald Trump is a puzzlement" to Chinese officials, Lieberthal said.
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He left as a source of puzzlement and bemused annoyance.
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Asking how many people here attend Sunday Mass elicits puzzlement.
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Yet I came away from the first three episodes with...puzzlement.
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Police officials and criminologists continue to express puzzlement about the upsurge.
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In Japan, ranchers and farmers have greeted the announcement with puzzlement.
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On the slave's face, you could read the most confusing puzzlement.
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More broadly, the broader public reacts to Trump with puzzlement and amusement.
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His musings may leave you smiling — and scratching your head in puzzlement.
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Almost as an afterthought, the hosts asked the commissioner about a puzzlement.
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In other words, there was never really much real puzzlement on this subject.
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Let's discuss them before the same puzzlement interrupts your next trip to Target.
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Katz's main export, the pastrami sandwich, is a source of puzzlement for me.
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And as the regulatory deliberations drag on, that only adds to the puzzlement.
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"Cunningham" registers the resistance that its subject encountered: the puzzlement, the thrown fruit.
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Fans have met his latest series of erratic incidents with puzzlement and some anger.
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A quick survey of my colleagues who work in Silicon Valley elicited only puzzlement.
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Its swift entry into force has been a cause for celebration - and some puzzlement.
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Watching yourself become irrelevant, an object of pity or puzzlement if acknowledged at all.
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For Sessions, though, the choice is simple, and he expressed puzzlement about the Bush family.
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First they noted, with some puzzlement, that they had not spoken to Mr. Dylan personally.
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Somewhat to the puzzlement of her parents, she passed up three scholarships at Florida State.
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She probably laughed a little as she said it, to express her puzzlement and disdain.
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For a long moment, the squid seemed to explore the strange non-jellyfish in puzzlement.
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Love made a gesture of puzzlement afterward; perhaps Draymond Green caused him to lose control.
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" When others in the room looked at her in puzzlement, Ms. Abedin clarified: "Not President Obama.
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" The writer added, "This is one more puzzlement facing this octogenarian in today's world gone mad.
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I tried to hide my puzzlement while I asked where they would like their meals placed.
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Multiple Democrats also expressed puzzlement about how the college savings provision made it into the tax bill.
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The 'bunny problem' Initial public response to the statute ranged from puzzlement to indifference to outright derision.
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Staring in puzzlement at tables holding blighted stalks of wheat, she leaned down to swat a bug.
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Far from a model to copy, American society is widely viewed by outsiders with puzzlement if not suspicion.
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" Sometimes, that puzzlement was cast in a negative light: "They would be like, 'How did this get made?
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For them, Ningxia's emergence as the Bordeaux of the East was a cause for excitement but also puzzlement.
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Interviewers often expressed puzzlement that a medium as unpromising as brewer's yeast could be a scientific gold mine.
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It's a source of puzzlement, but it's a bridge to Britain, which is going to need the love.
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Trapped in their genteel surroundings amid the remnants of the soirée, they succumb to claustrophobic puzzlement and, eventually, anarchy.
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While at first Crew looked confused to be surrounded by carrots, his puzzlement soon turned into an adorable smile.
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And Trump's recent dust-up with NATO ally Denmark over Greenland was greeted with puzzlement throughout Europe (The Hill).
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His gargantuan brow furrows with puzzlement and suspicion, and spittle drops from his teeth when he roars in rage.
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Some critics greeted the poem with outrage, some with puzzlement at its sudden changes in location, time and narrator.
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Jackson expressed puzzlement at Wyer's resistance to going a step further and explicitly confirming that documents would remain intact.
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Some have expressed their concerns and puzzlement over inclusion of Aadhaar in everything, asking if it is necessary and helpful.
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Following initial puzzlement over what had caused the leak, the answer, it turned out, was kitty litter—organic kitty litter.
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" As if anticipating my puzzlement over what Patrick was getting out of this, Alig continued, "It isn't a manipulative relationship.
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" Red Horse, in his sign-language account, expressed puzzlement that "among the soldiers were white men who were not soldiers.
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There was puzzlement over why the team had just paid Mike Glennon a lot of money to be its quarterback.
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His expressions of puzzlement, though amused, were sincere enough to give him a half-innocent path to gleeful, relentless disdain.
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Our Nets fandom is like membership in a secret society, whose disclosure would mark us as eccentric and produce puzzlement.
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But as we discussed last week, Angela's bag-lady turn was too cartoonish to inspire much beyond puzzlement, at best.
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In the glow of the phone, his doggy face had the solemn puzzlement of someone making an enormous effort to understand.
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My husband and our friend drink beers, and we watch a professional yo-yo artist performing for the crowd with puzzlement.
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Conversation always flowed freely, often focusing on the weather, trail conditions, hut recommendations and the inevitable foreign puzzlement about American politics.
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We were sitting in Liang's modest, unadorned office, drinking tea, and as I spoke he cocked his head in apparent puzzlement.
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Even one of Flynn's former military colleagues expressed puzzlement Monday at the dark turn his pronouncements on social media have taken.
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Maybe it was because puzzlement can be fun, and Ms. Harrison has set it as one of the tasks for her work.
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But the puzzlement, on both side of the Atlantic, about what Trump is trying to achieve with his behavior in Britain remains.
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The reason for the puzzlement is that the euro's initial exchange rate when it began trading in 1999 was around $1.17 EUR=.
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Mr. de Blasio's sudden support for Fortis, and his abandonment of his effort to keep the hospital, remains a puzzlement to some.
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He commented with some puzzlement and perplexity, the "deep refreshment and revitalization" he always takes away from gathering with these neighborhood healers.
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Politicians and diplomats across the political spectrum were quick to express puzzlement over his Syria/Turkey strategy and condemn or ridicule his language.
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As a timorous, sickly child, prone to sinus infections and tears, he was a source of puzzlement and some disappointment to his parents.
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But to the puzzlement of the world, and to the dismay of the Rohingya, Suu Kyi has been silent on the military's recent actions.
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Still, conversations about Mr. Roth within the industry invariably include some degree of puzzlement over his evolving appearance and his fondness for the spotlight.
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"Puzzlement can be fun, and Ms. Harrison has set it as one of the tasks for her work," Mr. Cotter wrote in his review.
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Trump has defended Erdogan's decision to buy the Russian system, to the puzzlement of US officials, claiming that it is former President Barack Obama's fault.
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In Beijing, the Times reporter Keith Bradsher asked Mr. Lo about the company, and he expressed a level of surprise and puzzlement that appeared genuine.
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Those worries have occupied a larger portion of the official minutes with each passing meeting this year, reflecting the growing puzzlement and concern among officials.
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When she was heckled, she casually dropped a sharp-tongued retort — "OK boomer" — and, unfazed, continued talking amid the puzzlement and silence of the room.
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Months ago, when Trump first took the lead in the polls, there was genuine puzzlement that so few candidates seemed interested in actually attacking the frontrunner.
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I'm treated with a mixture of puzzlement, deference and scorn because I'm American, my money and my plane ticket back to the U.S. overriding my blackness.
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As the Soviet Union put its nuclear forces on high alert, Lieutenant-General Leonard Perroots, the American air-force intelligence chief in Europe, reacted with puzzlement.
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Most seem to agree that she needed to go, but there's a great deal of puzzlement over the decision to hire her in the first place.
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Originally released in the US in 1993 to much puzzlement and shock, a rare 35mm print of Urotsukidōji: Legend of the Overfiend will screen at Nitehawk.
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But in a new interview with The New Yorker this week, Cohen expressed his puzzlement that prosecutors haven't appeared to pursue a case further against Trump.
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In New York, news of this event caused puzzlement: an editor then at Ballantine recalled feeling that Mallory "hadn't done enough" to earn such a position.
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But the mayor's trip, the next morning, to his gym for a farewell workout underscored New Yorkers' worries and puzzlement over his handling of the crisis.
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It is puzzlement — ranging from the amused to the appalled — at the gulf between her public preoccupation with ethical action and some truly filthy private behavior.
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Also there was the artist Marilyn Minter, expressing puzzlement that Ms. Trump would be associated with an ideology that Ms. Minter says she found personally troubling.
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For some, excitement turned to confusion, puzzlement, and outright anger by the time the credits rolled, and Lucas's grand cinematic experiment was off to a rocky start.
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Over the weekend, a number of Republican lawmakers and officials expressed puzzlement at how the White House could allow Sadler's remark to go without a public apology.
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Mr. Browder expressed puzzlement over what Mr. Putin might have been referring to on Monday when he claimed that Mr. Browder's associates steered $400 million to Mrs.
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But the actions and statements from the Trump administration concerning the economic relationship between the two countries have provoked equal parts anxiety, puzzlement and anger in Canada.
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" Sergey asked with a degree of puzzlement that suggested that either the city was very far away or there was some existential impossibility of getting there. "Now.
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When white people react with puzzlement or consternation, he calls them "brother" and explains to them that the rebel flag is, in fact, the black-power flag.
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The BoE's push to normalize policy in the face of significant risks to the British economy from Brexit has been a source of puzzlement for some investors.
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Editorial The bromance between President Trump and President Vladimir Putin of Russia, long a source of puzzlement and alarm in the West, has gotten even more disturbing.
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The BoE's push to normalise policy in the face of significant risks to the British economy from Brexit has been a source of puzzlement for some investors.
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The sense of incoherence comes from not understanding the contextual situation of each book and the type of literature, giving rise to puzzlement, occasional strangeness and difficulty.
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A Justice Department official confessed puzzlement about why the White House regularly asserted that no one from the Trump campaign had any contact with the Russian government.
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One senior NATO official, who insisted on anonymity because he is not authorized to speak on the issue publicly, expressed confusion and puzzlement over the sudden shift.
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It was a gigantic puzzlement that she would poison herself with pills, and that the toxic reaction to whatever she swallowed would create an impulse for self-mutilation.
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And to the puzzlement of those who think the death penalty is on its way out, the number of supporters of capital punishment is on the increase again.
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Zagury's insight into Abdeslam will no doubt be part of how France chooses to deal with Abdeslam, whose actions were already the subject of much derision and puzzlement.
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It would seem senseless to undertake that kind of action, he said, and he expects it would be greeted with "strong condemnation and puzzlement" by the Muslim faithful.
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However, Turkey has been among the worst affected due to its a gaping current account deficit and growing puzzlement over who exactly holds the reins of monetary policy.
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He was the master of a particular kind of story in which puzzlement turns gradually to acceptance of an impossible-seeming reality, and ultimately to full-blown panic.
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In Kaysersberg, which has flourished from tourists who flock here for the restaurants and hotels, and for the bucolic landscapes nearby, residents expressed puzzlement at Mr. Bourdain's death.
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Chinese officials have expressed puzzlement to visiting Americans about why the administration has not responded to the 142-point list of proposals they sent to the United States.
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The sport, however, is not accustomed to being at the center of such a high-profile case, so the news sowed confusion and puzzlement among the curlers here.
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Raids often seemed to happen overnight — a company that existed one day would belong to someone else by morning, much to the puzzlement of employees and the owners.
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As a kid, I bawled my eyes out because there is something so sad and desperate in the way Pikachu's puzzlement gives way to increasing panic and then, despair.
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Mr. Downie, 52, is a household name in Canada, and the news of his illness quickly lit up social media, to the puzzlement of some beyond the country's border.
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada joined a chorus of world leaders, the State Department, medical professionals and social media users who expressed outrage or puzzlement at the appointment.
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People may look back with puzzlement at the two decades when Goldman Sachs was the undisputed king of the investment-banking industry and investment banking seemed to rule the world.
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An effort to rectify that during the sesquicentennial has prompted puzzlement over the proposed bird, complaints about experts overruling the public and grievances about the United States' power over ornithology.
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Is it measured by the projected response of a future audience — puzzlement, recoil, sheer indifference — or by the distance between what you envision and what ends up on the page?
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He had seen Shilpa wither to less than 493 pounds in the last years of her life, had felt the shame and puzzlement that her condition brought to his family.
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The poll doesn't break down votes by gender and age at the same time, and young women have preferred Sanders in the past, to the puzzlement of older feminists backing Clinton.
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GOP sources say that announcement caught congressional Republicans off guard, and there has been a round of puzzlement over what is in the plan that Trump says his team is crafting.
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Yet I keep reading news analyses expressing puzzlement that men who were strident deficit hawks in the Obama years so cheerfully signed on to a budget-busting tax cut under Trump.
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My puzzlement is not about why you feel that something needs to be done about the problem but about why it isn't being done by the people whose responsibility it is.
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" Showing a little puzzlement, he adds, "I don't know who's given him these, because I only gave him a few and he's got at least 25 different little Hot Wheels cars now.
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Immersing yourself in the slow rhythms of Noh can take some time; it's best to prepare by setting aside your expectations of modern Western theater entirely; otherwise, boredom and puzzlement will await.
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At the same time, though, and to the puzzlement of the researchers, a small portion of dog owners never walked their dogs, and those owners almost all were young, healthy and female.
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But then, as I walked my actual dog in the chilly after-midnight air, having my nightly chat with myself, my initial cheeriness wore off, replaced by a sense of puzzlement, then sadness.
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At a bill-signing in May, Mr. Trump said that major drug companies would, within two weeks, enact "voluntary massive drops" in prices, a statement that was met with puzzlement within the industry.
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Privately, Republicans expressed puzzlement over the handling of the letter by Ms. Feinstein, who said her decision-making had been driven by the accuser's demand for anonymity and unwillingness to press the issue.
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A photograph of Trump greeting Farage in front of a gilded elevator shortly after the U.S. election caused consternation in EU capitals, many of whom view Trump with a mixture of fear and puzzlement.
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The Internet's collective puzzlement began when Twitter user Craig Calhoun tweeted a photo of the man on a bus, where he and his tasty treat appear to be taking up at least two seats.
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She grows increasingly anxious and paranoid — to the puzzlement of kindly William — and her descent keeps the reader engaged, even in the absence of conventional sources of suspense, until almost the end of the novel.
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug 9 (Reuters) - The water in the Olympic diving pool appeared to turn a bright green hue on Tuesday, causing puzzlement among divers and audiences as the women's 10 metre platform final progressed.
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When Ursula von der Leyen, the incoming chief of the European Commission, unveiled her top team this week, one new job title — "vice president for protecting our European way of life" — provoked puzzlement, and then outrage.
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When Ursula von der Leyen, the incoming chief of the European Commission, unveiled her top team this week, one new job title — "vice president for protecting our European way of life" — provoked puzzlement, and then outrage.
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In Ilya Marritz's great piece on this topic for WNYC and ProPublica, several people involved in previous inaugurations were quoted expressing puzzlement over how Trump's team could have possibly spent over $100 million for what they got.
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Early in his run, Trump was a source of puzzlement for rich Republicans, such as those who gathered one Sunday in early August in the Hamptons, New York's gilded summer retreat destination, to discuss the 2016 race.
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Trudeau did not see Fidel Castro during his official visit to Cuba in November His statement was met with puzzlement and derision by some Americans, including U.S. Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, who is of Cuban descent.
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In Marritz's great piece on this topic for WNYC and ProPublica, several people involved in previous inaugurations were quoted expressing puzzlement over how Trump's team could have possibly spent more than $100 million for what they got.
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Southwest Airlines, the nation's biggest user of 737 MAX jets, initially expressed puzzlement about Trump's announcement, posting a statement — later taken down — that said only that it was "aware of media reports" about the planes being grounded.
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A female android looking at its hands in puzzlement is projected against a starry sky when Joana feels most detached, while a ghostly apparition (Lisa Giobbi) sleepwalks in the background when Joana longs for her dead mother.
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Even now, I can relive the shared puzzlement of that summer day when we rode together on his bike to the beach at Koroen to abandon a striped cat, a cat that totally got the better of us.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Collective puzzlement has reigned among cryptocurrency analysts and traders since bitcoin's dramatic jump on Tuesday, with the mysterious spike shedding harsh light on flaws in a market the mainstream considers too opaque, too volatile and too risky.
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Violence at rallies, incendiary speeches, race baiting, attacks on journalists and judges, proposals to bar Muslims or Mexicans — the primaries signaled a sudden sea change that left non-Americans watching with fascination, puzzlement and a profound sense of trepidation.
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Trade with the United States is a critical part of Canada's export-dependent economy, and the actions and statements from the Trump administration concerning the two countries' economic relationship have provoked equal parts anxiety, puzzlement and anger within Canada.
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At that point, the arguer sits back and basks in his or her victory, and expresses complete puzzlement at how you could possibly get upset when he or she was simply posing a logical rebuttal to your post. Gah!
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Hopes among European leaders that Mr. Trump's bombastic tone as a candidate would somehow smooth into a more temperate one as commander in chief are dissipating, replaced by a mounting sense of anxiety and puzzlement over how to proceed.
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Herbert wasn't alone in his puzzlement over this mysterious and little-studied group of cells that keep turning up in unexpected places, from the thymus (a small gland in the chest where pathogen-fighting T cells mature) to the pancreas.
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A trans-Atlantic wave of puzzlement is rippling across Sweden for the second time in a week, after a prominent Fox News program featured a "Swedish defense and national security advisor" who's unknown to the country's military and foreign-affairs officials.
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Anyhow, today's passage describes this fantastic creature; it also includes some scientific terminology, which is always hard to deduce, but it paints a charming picture that's worth the puzzlement (which is, after all, our very specific niche, so no complaints).
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A puzzlement was why, given the credible reports that Jackson had a weakness for the bottle and was careless about doling out opioids to White House aides, two previous presidents, George W. Bush and Barack Obama, had given him such high marks.
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Trump told Brady during their White House meeting that he hoped to have a bill on his desk by Thanksgiving — a comment that provoked some puzzlement, since the more likely aim is to have legislation get through the House by that point.
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John Kasich is still out on the campaign trail, even though all of the following is true: Presidential candidates in a situation like this generally tend to quit the race, and there's been a great deal of puzzlement about why Kasich hasn't done so.
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While work-force development advocates praised the executive order, some expressed puzzlement at the seeming disconnect with Mr. Trump's budget proposals, which included a 40 percent cut to the Labor Department's funding for the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act, the biggest federal worker retraining program.
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Pokora's puzzlement lasted a few moments before he remembered that he'd named his one-man corporation Xenon Development Studios; the business processed payments for the Xbox service he operated that gave monthly subscribers the ability to unlock achievements or skip levels in more than 43 different games.
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No. I had been taken by a friend to a park in central London where, to the puzzlement of dog walkers, I spent an hour desperately trying to keep my arm straight, not flick my wrist, all of the above, and failed to catch even a leaf.
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And yet, of course — and this I've always known, even in my puzzlement and disappointment — what draws me back to them is a truth that sits beneath the surface of the twin, universal facts of our beginnings and endings: the unequivocal triad of mother-father-self.
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Julie Davidson, the director of the Kleptocracy Initiative at the Hudson Institute in Washington, a research organization that works to expose the investment of ill-gotten gains by foreign officials, expressed puzzlement that the allegations against Mr. Lesin did not appear to have prompted an investigation.
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Jacobs belongs to that small tribe of people (as does, say, the director David Lynch, or the artist Lynda Benglis) whom the world initially greets with puzzlement, but whom, having proven themselves forerunners to so much else in the culture, no one can imagine the world without.
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Scavino is viewed by colleagues with a mix of reverence, for his uncanny ability to mimic the President's moods and whims, and puzzlement, for his unlikely rise from Trump's golf caddy to his club manager to gatekeeper of the most powerful Twitter account in the world.
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"Ever since the discovery of the acceleration in the Universe's expansion, almost two decades ago, there has been a puzzlement about the strange value of the corresponding cosmological constant Λ , the simplest, and so far most successful, theoretical model that could account for the observed behavior," the authors note.
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And so it's a genuine puzzlement that Pelosi spent nine months of negotiations, along the way creating deep rifts in her caucus—all while not actually talking about drug prices—in order to avoid letting her caucus pass one of the two better ideas they had in their pocket.
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"If you want to try to get the Japanese into talks," Mr. Reinsch said, "I think the best way to do that is to tell them we're prepped for rejoining the T.P.P." The Japanese responded to Mr. Trump's statement about the trade pact with a mix of puzzlement and cautious optimism.
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The reason for this is I am getting... Her fans have reacted with puzzlement, as one might imagine; Myrkur has attracted a lot of music fans who are new to metal, and aren't familiar with the intricacies of extreme metal scene politics, which is one of the main black marks against the band in certain books.
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But with less than a month before the Iowa caucuses, this volatile 2020 presidential primary has taken yet another eye-popping turn: Bernie Sanders is being recognized by the Democratic establishment, sometimes in puzzlement and others in fear, as the real deal -- a legitimate contender, even a front-runner, to become the party's next presidential nominee.
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TOM PHELAN Freeport, N.Y. The writer, who was born and raised in Ireland, is the author of "The Canal Bridge," a novel set in Ireland during World War I. To the Editor: Lawrence Downes professes puzzlement at pretty much every aspect of the 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin except for a firm belief that its leaders were misguided and mistaken.
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The Times reports, based in part on previously undisclosed emails, that acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney tried to freeze the military aid on Mr. Trump's behalf as early as June, prompting puzzlement and backlash within the administration — to the extent that Defense Secretary Mark T. Esper, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and then-national security adviser John Bolton convened a White House meeting with Mr. Trump to urge release of the aid.
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Mr. Pompeo "said he was referring it for investigation," Mr. Giuliani said, adding that he had since heard that the matters detailed in the memos were referred to the State Department's inspector general and the F.B.I. Last month, the department's inspector general turned over to congressional impeachment investigators a package of materials, including the memos and the timeline, in a Trump Hotel-branded envelope, prompting widespread puzzlement on Capitol Hill about its provenance.
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