Sentence examples for enigma it from inspiring English sources

But as a portrait of an enigma, it is as good as we are likely to get or wish for at this remove.

As Michael Kennedy observes in his masterfully succinct study of the composer (Richard Strauss: Man, Musician, Enigma), it was an end, not a climax.

Given that Banksy's real identity is an enigma, it is difficult to distinguish real social accounts showing the artist's work from fakes, but people familiar with Banksy say anything linked to by his official Web site is officially Banksy.

He is a master of the cinematic enigma – it was Carrière who advised Michael Haneke to prune some explanatory material from The White Ribbon to intensify that picture's enigmas.

Yet at 32 years old, I've been forced to recognize that my metabolism is no longer the all-devouring enigma it was in my 20s, and the fact of the matter — the fact of the waistline, you could say — was that a little tuneup wouldn't hurt.

Warning: beyond this point, spoilers reign Shutter Island is no impenetrable art-house enigma: it's an old-fashioned noirish thriller that ends with a massive plot twist.

"People say it is an enigma, but it is much more mysterious than that".

"It's an enigma, but it's also nice to see that if we go back 25,000 years, people didn't have much technology and life was probably hard, but nevertheless they already endeavored in producing art.

Nathan Redmond 6 Hugely likeable off the field, something of an enigma on it.

That shouldn't make him an enigma, but it certainly makes him an anomaly.

Frank H. T. Rhodes, president emeritus of Cornell University, my alma mater, wrote: "Our mortality is as much an enigma as it is a certainty.