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This editorial asserts that "the greatest fear among cultured folk is that they will say something critical about a perplexing new painting, play, book, or novel that will, in a hundred years' time, be considered a towering masterpiece."
Perhaps the most perplexing effect of IL-2 administration is a rapid (within 1 hour) and paradoxical clearance of monocytes and lymphocytes from the peripheral blood (Figure 1a).
The KLM pilot's otherwise perplexing use of the very nonstandard phrase at take-off, rather than the more standard phrase taking off, appears to have been a subtle form of what linguists call code-switching, a process in which bilingual or multilingual speakers inadvertently switch back and forth from one of their languages to another in the course of a conversation.
Unknown to him, the conversation down at the harbor would be even more perplexing.
But one of the perplexing rituals of American politics is listening to candidate after candidate explain that he runs for office because he is driven to "represent the interests of ordinary Americans."