During rehearsals, he's careful to insist that, within the limits of period etiquette, his courtiers and peasants behave like real individuals, rather than ballet ciphers.
The characters are ciphers, and Von Trier veers wildly between the visual beauty of his early films and the digital blur of his recent work, while Handel blasts majestically on the soundtrack.
The men are ciphers, but you can't have everything.
The bogeymen of our times are stumbling ciphers for outside concerns.
Nor do Catherine, Miss West and the others come alive under Mr Mishra's pen: they are ciphers to us as well as to him.
This resilience is unusual, given that other ciphers from the period have yielded their secrets.On the other hand, the text could just be gibberish and the book which may have been passed off to Emperor Rudolph as the work of Roger Bacon, a 13th-century natural philosopher, in exchange for the princely sum of 600 gold ducats a grand hoax.
In "The Hard Problem", with the exception of Hilary, the characters are little more than ciphers to facilitate discussion.
That is possible because, besides trying to defeat the cryptographic efforts of others, the NSA also helps produce ciphers for Americans to use.
(See Product ciphers, below).
This led to the development of extensive and complicated codes and ciphers as necessary adjuncts to military signaling.
Ciphers, as in the case of codes, also replace a piece of information (an element of the plaintext that may consist of a letter, word, or string of symbols) with another object.
