Sentence examples for bit of a cipher from inspiring English sources

The court intrigues and counterintrigues can seem rote, and Akbar remains a bit of a cipher.

Whyte sounds good, but dramatically is a bit of a cipher.

That allowed you, the player, to put yourself in his place, though it also made the character a bit of a cipher.

And Iris's sister, Hannah, indelibly incarnated by the graceful, strong-jawed Rosemarie DeWitt (Rachel in "Rachel Getting Married") is a bit of a cipher too.

Wilder, with his suspiciously perfect record, is a bit of a cipher, which isn't necessarily a bad thing, in commercial terms.

Huntsman said that in exchanges with Chinese officials, Mr. Obama was highly effective".But the Chinese were perplexed by President Obama," he said".Where does he come from?What does he think?He remained a bit of a cipher".

The hero, who watches these three, and stews quite a bit himself, is something of a cipher: he has amnesia — an admission, perhaps, of Mailer's inability to find an identity and a voice for himself after the enormous success of his first novel.

Mr. Putin's own tastes are something of a cipher.

Despite their intimacy, Ferrel remains something of a cipher.

Change of one bit in the plaintext should make theoretically a 50% difference [22] in the bits of the cipher.

In a few seconds of operation, trillions of bits of cipher can be processed, compared with the tens of bits per second possible with the first mechanized cipher machines.