Sentence examples for cryptic language from inspiring English sources

They are cryptic language puzzles, solvable only if you already know the answer in advance.

Mr. Conrad's frankness was delivered in the cryptic language of budget experts, and many people might have missed the point.

The authorities, beyond some cryptic language about the death being sudden but not suspicious, have released no details.

She concentrates on the swarm of collective humanity, cities and legends, the cryptic language and the aromas of breakfasts and flowers.

Bluebeard's Castle, Béla Bartók's only opera, opens with a narrator addressing the audience in the cryptic language that characterises the work as a whole.

While the first film was flamboyant, the new "Sleuth" is full of spare, sometimes cryptic language, significant pauses and another familiar quality of Mr. Pinter's work: a hint of menace lurking beneath the surface.

Pictures and objects do not "argue" particularly well, so the tone of much contemporary American art became debased, with the cryptic languages of high abstraction and conceptual art put in the service of narrow ideological arguments.

"They developed their own cryptic, playful language and Darwin, in particular, liked to phrase things as puzzles — like the charades and poetic word games people used to play," Uglow writes.

;"4th Time Around" When The Beatles released their sixth studio album, Rubber Soul, in December 1965, John Lennon's song "Norwegian Wood" attracted attention for the way in which Lennon disguised his account of an illicit affair in cryptic, Dylanesque language.

It's an odd, cryptic speech.

Chiuri and Piccioli have only said, in that special cryptic fashion-language, that "Valentino and Gap synthesise the current trend of combining luxury with basics".