Sentence examples for cryptic spoken from inspiring English sources

Mark Felt, the F.B.I. official who was Watergate's Deep Throat, merely gave cryptic spoken clues to Bob Woodward — he absolutely depended on journalism to get the story out.

Variety reported in October 2009 that Nichols had been cast to star in The Loop (released as A Bird of the Air), in which she would play "a librarian who joins a highway patrolman to uncover the mysteries behind the cryptic sayings spoken by an ancient parrot".

"I don't like explaining myself," says Anderson's Plainview, perhaps reflecting the director's own wish that his poetic and ultimately rather cryptic film speak for itself.

When Brennan appeared before an open hearing of the Senate intelligence committee, the CIA director's comments were veiled and somewhat cryptic, but spoke to a seething resentment at the agency.

Maybe it's all the cryptic non sequiturs spoken by the townspeople, but something's definitely amiss.

Teens regularly post in-jokes and use song lyrics or cryptic references to speak to a narrower audience than might be accessing their tweets.

This self-effacement, mixed with a dark hint that he had actually contributed something better than "donkey work" to the computer, typified the cryptic way he spoke of himself.

Some of the characters had vague initial conditions given by Maeda, such as asking Na-Ga to draw an "all female band bass guitarist" in the case of Girls Dead Monster member Sekine and particularly the cryptic "character who speaks in puzzling English phrases" for TK.

When it came time to order dessert, I didn't want to break the peaceful mood, so I tried to tell the waitress, in a kind of cryptic parent-speak, that we would take the Valrhona Chocolate Mousse Cake Served With Vanilla Ice Cream and Caramel Sauce in the form of a piece of chocolate cake for one child and a separate dish of ice cream for the other.

Mr. Bush's aides said that they were the ones who had prodded them to do so, because they felt the doctors had spoken in a scientifically cryptic fashion the first time around.

He taught his men to speak in cryptic phrases.