Sentence examples for enigma it was from inspiring English sources

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

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.

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

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.

If Hadrian is indeed an enigma, it's because so few accounts of his life have survived, and this is where Everitt — whose books rely heavily on primary sources — runs into difficulty.

If Hadrian is indeed an enigma, it's because so few accounts of his life have survived, and this is where Everitt whose books rely heavily on primary sources runs into difficulty.

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.

Pica, the craving and subsequent consumption of non-food substances such as earth, charcoal, uncooked rice, starch, and ice, has been an enigma since it was first documented by Hippocrates in the 4th century BC [1].

This is a good move from Enigma, particularly since it was its poor security that caused the incident in the first place.

Duration of treatment also remains an enigma; it should be continued until there is no further improvement in signs and symptoms.