Sentence examples for enigma from from inspiring English sources

The problem isn't that Kelly remains an enigma from start to finish (nothing wrong with a little mystery when it comes to the human soul), but the absence of detail, texture, life.

The main enigma, from the audience's point of view, involves the connection between Holberg's killing and the death, from a rare genetic disease, of a girl in a Reykjavik hospital.

The new World War II submarine drama "U-571," which focuses on the efforts to retrieve a Nazi code-making machine, the Enigma, from a German sub, brings to mind the Kurt Vonnegut line from "Slaughterhouse Five" about the Germans' cutting a better figure in their uniforms than the Americans, whose gear made them look like postmen.

He has utilised his star clout to serve as a producer on two films about one of his heroes, James Brown (the biopic Get on Up and documentary Mr Dynamite), as well as Michael Apted's second world war thriller Enigma, from 2001.

Now, in "Solitary Sex: A Cultural History of Masturbation," Mr. Laqueur, a professor of history at the University of California at Berkeley, tackles another enigma from the annals of sexual history: Why did masturbation, an activity regarded with benign indifference for millennia, provoke sweeping moral and medical panic around 1700?

The apparent tectonic mobility of serpentinites inferred from field observations has been an enigma from this rock mechanics perspective and the role of water released by serpentine dehydration has long been suspected as a solution to this enigma (Raleigh and Paterson 1965).

Gunvor group does not report its profits.In this section Riddles, mysteries and enigmas From Petrograd to petrodollars ReprintsGunvor's break came in 2004.

Most TV shows tilt too far away from enigma for my liking, but Lynch often just runs at it headlong, like Johnny Horne into the wall, with no actual assurance of an exit plan.

Tomorrow: the 23 enigma Taken from Rogerson's Book of Numbers by Barnaby Rogerson.

Efforts to save Bletchley Park, the historic site where wartime code-breakers cracked the Germans' infamous Enigma code, from further disrepair have been given a boost by a donation of $100,000 £57,0000) from two large American hi-tech firms.

The president, Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed, is a bit of an enigma, coming from a long line of Sufi clerics, yet rising to power in 2006 as part of an Islamist alliance with a decidedly Wahhabi bent.