Sentence examples for cryptic theme from inspiring English sources
Here he opened the set with "Phryzzinian Man," a calmly cryptic theme from "Black Codes (From the Underground)," the landmark post-bop album that Mr. Marsalis made in 1985.
On second glance, though, it's an admirably tight theme: We get very cryptic theme clues — SON, TIN, LIP and FIN — that don't give us much headway when it comes to cracking the code of Mr. Lim's construction.
Monk's cryptic, angular themes, such as 'Evidence' and 'Epistrophy', are notoriously difficult to master, but Coltrane bounces through them with almost jocular ease.
Araucaria did not invent "themed" cryptic puzzles, but he greatly developed the art form.
A series of cryptic parables explore themes of honor and conscience in ways that hover between a specific Japanese context and dreamlike universality.
I will admit that there has been a tendency for more themed Cryptics to appear in the paper than of old.
One of the best things about crosswords at Christmas is the wealth of special puzzles: themed cryptics around Dickens, say - or better still Wallace and Gromit - and jumbos and tricks with which to pass a peaceful afternoon.
Photograph: Sunshine Press/Getty Images 11.24am BST Crossword Today's Guardian cryptic crossword has a surveillance theme, with questions including "Finally witnessing US vice leads to Edward Snowden making judgement (5)" and "PRISM, for example, is old scheme (5)".
These works were intimate, handmade reveries, cryptic yet resonant with outsize themes: history, death, love, fame.
Credited with evolving the artform of the cryptic crossword, he also produced themed puzzles on topics as varied as the UK shipping forecast and the 250th anniversary of the death of Bach.
A coolly gorgeous and self-consciously cryptic meditation on his trademark themes of masculine identity and emotional release, Jesper Just's new film trilogy, "It Will All End in Tears," showcases this Danish artist's unconventional approach to narrative logic and cinematic mise-en-scène.
