Sentence examples for a black cipher from inspiring English sources
His natural performing talents, channeled through this studied pose of Disneyesque moppethood with a strangely acute terpsichoreanism, happened to delight an early-'80s America poised to open up to a "black" cipher of a superstar, if not yet an actually black and actually emotionally available one.
Their red-black cipher heads bobbed on pink, tight-feathered stalks, floating above the heads of a crowd of fresh entrants.
Participants solve clues that lead them around their cities, using ciphers and other word puzzles to understand instructions like shining a black light on a painting or finding a woman dressed in red.
But because Obama was a cipher to most Americans at that time, who mostly knew that he was a black man with a Muslim name, he had no choice but to confront the public's concerns about his racial views.
He was an outlier, a whiner, a cipher.
He is often thought of as a nothing, a cipher.
It's saccharine stuff until it detours bizarrely into violent intrigue, as Sandler tangles with a local black hood (an altogether racist cipher, improbably played by Wu-Tang Clan rapper Method Man).
Imagine my surprise when I lamped the triple threat I speak of and registered neither a brooding cult genius nor a matinée idol but a wormy little cipher, myopic behind black-framed glasses and groomed loutishly in his idea of rural chic: all tweedy and woodsy, with cap and muffler, ready for the leprechauns.
She is a mystery, potentially a cipher.
