Sentence examples for enigma with from inspiring English sources

Their colloquy is long on sustain and enigma, with compositions that frequently heed a stately, crawling abstraction.

He says, "I like animals" by way of an explanation, covers the enigma with an uneasy, ha-ha-ha little laugh and a cheery smile.

The historic Great Lakes wolf is an enigma, with scientists debating whether it is a subspecies of gray wolf or a distinct species.

She's Margit (Kristin Scott Thomas), an enigma with an "exotic" accent (and a flat in the Fifth) who slinks up to Tom, lights a cigarette and announces that she was her husband's translator and muse.

Mr. Willis plays Martin, the Shaw paterfamilias, a slit-eyed enigma with a craggy, coin-worthy profile and a grave aura who is shot to death in front of Will after the rest of the family is snatched off the boat while Will is ashore.

Within the political mainstream, Mr. Colón's candidacy remains an enigma, with some consultants saying that he was pressured to run for public advocate to help draw out Latino voters citywide to ensure that Fernando Ferrer, the Bronx borough president, at least makes it into a runoff.

"It was an investigation: Who are we, and how did we become the way we are?" The text of the book starts with a simple but telling declaration — "The essence of a portrait has more to do with enigma than with certainty" — and this conflict between seeing and not seeing emerges gradually throughout.

His new band, the Jicks, sounds less tentative and plays his latest enigmas with the buoyancy of a jam band.

8 P.M. (13, 49) THE MYSTERY OF EELS Snakelike and slimy, with a row of jagged teeth and, in some cases, a life span of more than 100 years, the eel is one of the natural world's few enigmas, with little known about where it goes, what it does and how it dies.

One of the greatest enigmas with regard to TKL is its functional distribution between different pathways that allegedly take place in the same compartment and that utilize the opposite directions of two readily reversible reactions.

He also recorded Elgar's Wand of Youth Suite No. 2, with the BBC; the Pomp and Circumstance Marches 1 and 4 with the LSO; and the Enigma Variations with the Philharmonia.