It may seem paradoxical, then, that part of what makes the exhibition's 73 photographs so compelling is how enigmatic they are.
In the best detective stories, the mysteries of human character are as compelling as the enigmatic clues, and as central to the plot, which explains why Fox structures her book as a triptych of biographies.
The song leaked online, and proves, if nothing else, that the singer has the potential to be as soulful, enigmatic and compelling as he was at his peak.
In "Saints Have Mothers" we meet Jean Mulray, one of the most enigmatic and compelling first-person voices in recent literature, an anti-Virgin Mary who abandons her own literary aspirations on behalf of her suffocatingly righteous child while internally resenting her ordained role.
An enigmatic and utterly compelling story of incinerated art, unbridled egos and exotic plants, "Missing Victor Pellerin" purports to investigate the 1990 disappearance of Mr. Pellerin, a painter and supposed star of the Montreal art scene.
Their grotesque faces, tragicomic anatomies and enigmatic postures make for freakishly compelling images.
However inscrutable she might find wickedness, equally enigmatic, as well as more compelling for her, is the improbable power to recover from it.
Alexandra Iosifidi was another statuesque Myrtha but entirely compelling: the multifaceted nature of her dances — enigmatic, poignant, devout, intense, heroic — was unusually absorbing.
The minor and sporadically compelling force of Mr. Shechter's choreography — best here in patches of enigmatic mime with the physical quality of whispering — is overwhelmed by the dulling obviousness of what he seems to be trying to express.
