In Alemi's hands, Sofia is a
sphinxlike figure, disclosing little in her speech or manner, forcing viewers to read her and her response to her predicament via the characters around her.
Like the Platonic dialogues, Rousseau's writings--with their dramatic ironies and
sphinxlike allusiveness--urge the issue of whether the author of, say, the Social Contract may be said to hold some set of positions consistent with those held by the author of the Emile.
Oranniwesna's art, with its spirit of quiet resistance--it is not confrontational, nor does it easily yield its message--works like an enigmatic riddle, a
sphinxlike conundrum that will reveal itself only to the right audience.
President Vladimir Putin's regime is as
sphinxlike as any that has ever ruled Russia, and now there is a new mystery afoot.
To the end of her life, Sally remained
sphinxlike. Despite the strengths of new biography, John Boles lets his imagination run wild when he writes that regardless of the vast difference in "their educational backgrounds," and, we could add, much else, "they shared memories of Paris," which, along with Jefferson's kind and gentle nature, casts a tender glow over their romantic bond.
Oliver said Cameron begged "lily-livered
sphinxlike" May to back him.
Sphinxlike paradoxes and words like "gnosis" and "kinesthetic" pepper his speech, and a seemingly straight-forward question can elicit a response like "the human mind is literally an antenna, it picks up waves and transmissions from the ultimate source, from the ether." Fittingly, Williams takes a figurative approach to avoiding creative burnout.
For all of Wang's
sphinxlike musings, it's unclear whether a bibliography of his references would foster an easier grasp of his works.
But things quickly fell apart, the BPP's precipitous fall rivaling its
sphinxlike rise.
And Yahoo could never get away with Google's
sphinxlike, nobody-home version of support.
It means to dust off Washington's image, penetrate the opacity that can most generously be called "
sphinxlike" and replace readers' "frosty respect" for Washington with "visceral appreciation",.