Sentence examples for a riddle which from inspiring English sources

"It is a riddle which shares with the universe the merit of having no answer".

At once both realistic and artificial, the picture seems to present a riddle: which is truer, the paint or the image?What is interesting, three decades on, is the extent to which Chinese painters are appropriating both the original, and Warhol's version, of Mao's image.

All fans have to go on at present is a scant synopsis mentioning the US National Security Agency and Silicon Valley, and two tantalising web videos, "Is Lisbeth Salander a psychopath?" and "Lisbeth Salander is a riddle", which the book's British publisher, Quercus, released on YouTube at the end of April.

On or about January 13, a title key was posted on pastebin.com in the form of a riddle, which was solved by entering terms into the Google search engine.

This may be a propitious moment to offer an up-to-date version of a classic riddle: Which came first, the chicken or the terrorist?

And unlike an enigmatic riddle, which is usually perplexing until a simple (and retrospectively obvious) answer is found, puzzles are hard to understand until most of the pieces are in place.

I couldn't recall how I had got dressed for the past week, or how I had ended up at his bedside daily, continually fretting about whether to take his hand, silently blazing my eyes into the NHS sheets like they contained some riddle which could offer a last-ditch solution, give him extra time.

Now, a German man named Norbert Blum has claimed to have solved the above riddle, which is properly known as the P vs NP problem.

Doubt replaced belief; death could not promise redemption but merely posed a riddle "of which the slain / sole solvers are".

Tom Morris, artistic director of the Bristol Old Vic theatre, said the arts council had been "set a riddle to which there is no fair solution".

I think it was Borges who said that in a riddle to which the answer is knife, the only word that cannot be employed is knife.