Sentence examples for a mystery wrapped in an enigma from inspiring English sources

"It is a mystery wrapped in an enigma".

I am a mystery wrapped in an enigma wrapped in a pita.

The issue is a mystery, wrapped in an enigma, shrouded in an acronym".

In The New York Times, Brooks Atkinson called it "a mystery wrapped in an enigma".

The Prestige was a mystery wrapped in an enigma, then padlocked in a chest and dropped in the ocean.

Larval Mystery Is Solved As fossils go, Palaeospondylus gunni is a mystery wrapped in an enigma smothered in sandstone.

A play within a play within a trial within a play, it is also an enigma wrapped in a mystery wrapped in a conundrum -- or something like that -- which is one explanation for its being produced so rarely.

It is, as a paranoid Joe Pesci once railed in "JFK," a "mystery wrapped in a riddle inside an enigma". A collaboration with producer Tim Kirk, the film opened this weekend at Laemmle's Playhouse 7 in Pasadena.

This case is an enigma wrapped in an enigma.

The man himself is anything but straightforward - an enigma, wrapped in a riddle, inside a mystery: possibly, he is a bit of a puzzle even to himself.

It's an enigma wrapped in a riddle wrapped in a red herring wrapped in yesterday's edition of Norwegian daily Aftenavisen.