Sentence examples for enigma in which from inspiring English sources
Annunciation scenes are profound moments of enigma in which a woman encounters the divine in the quiet of her home.
"Twin" (2012), set to ambient electronica by Aphex Twin, is more substantial, a darker enigma in which the excellent John Eirich is fenced in and menaced by strange others.
In honour of his approaching centenary, the Brooklyn Academy of Music have just commenced a major de Oliveira retrospective, comprising 18 films, including his latest, 2007's Christopher Columbus - The Enigma, in which he contemplates the explorer's Portuguese origins.
Dawson's inspiration came from Autism: Explaining the Enigma, in which Uta Frith claims the historical Wild Boy as the first documented autistic child - not a noble savage at all.
Floriane is an enigma in which her surprising vulnerability vies with her reflexive manipulativeness.
One is "Enigma Variations," in which the English composer Edward Elgar interacts with friends at the turn of the 20th century, and "The Two Pigeons," an enchanted love story set to music by Messager.
Just a decade before, Turing had done perhaps more than any individual to defeat Hitler by cracking the Enigma code in which Nazi military instructions were delivered, and then calculating precisely how much of this information the Allies could act on without giving the game away.
The first concert included Elgar's Enigma Variations, in which Cardus judged Monteux to be more faithful to Elgar's conception than English conductors generally were.
"But for all the debate that his re-emergence in the public eye has caused, the fact is that Cheney the man remains an enigma, and the manner in which he utilized his power and experience to become such a dominating political figure, have been left largely unexplored.
Mr. Northam, who nearly stole "Gosford Park" with a song, is the only performer in "Enigma" -- which opens today in the New York metropolitan region, Los Angeles, Chicago and Lexington, Ky.
By 1910 de Chirico was living in Florence, where he began painting a unique series of landscapes that included The Enigma of an Autumn Afternoon (1910), in which the long, sinister, and illogical shadows cast by unseen objects onto empty city spaces contrast starkly with bright, clear light that is rendered in brooding green tonalities.
