Sentence examples for enigmatic life from inspiring English sources

Shevelow recreates Charlotte's prodigious theatrical rise and precipitous fall, and her enigmatic life offstage as a cross-dressing single mother and memoirist.

Unless you've been marooned in the middle of that oversized mud puddle for the past week, you probably know that Pearlman has taken an unflinching look at Payton in a biography called "Sweetness: The Enigmatic Life of Walter Payton".

The book is "Sweetness: The Enigmatic Life of Walter Payton," and its author, Jeff Pearlman, says if people would just read the full 460 pages of this "definitive" biography they'll find it's far more than a rip job.

But for those Bears fans still actually living in Chicago, there may be something even worse: reading Jeff Pearlman's "Sweetness: The Enigmatic Life of Walter Payton," which lands at No. 14 on this week's hardcover nonfiction list.

Public Servant, Secret Agent: The Enigmatic Life and Violent Death of Airey Neave Paul Routledge 392pp, Fourth Estate, £16.99 Paul Routledge would not have written this life of Airey Neave had it not been for the manner of Neave's death.

Harman recounts the enigmatic life of the chemist turned population geneticist George Price (1922-75), and surveys 150 years of scientific history to examine the theoretical problem at the core of behavioral biology, sociobiology and evolutionary psychology: Why do organisms sacrifice themselves for the benefit of others?

The images he collects offer fleeting glimpses of his enigmatic social life and serendipitous compositions of light, shadow and movement.

The artist was enigmatic in life as in art, donning new identities with the same ease with which he switched styles.

For every misty landscape, weathered barn door, or rain-wet leaf, there's a solarized female nude, an enigmatic still-life, or the image of a small-scale sculptural construction that anticipates the recent work of Sara VanDerBeek.

Oedematous malnutrition is an enigmatic and life-threatening condition, covering a clinical spectrum from simple nutritional oedema to fulminant kwashiorkor, with anaemia, hepatomegaly, mental changes and dermatosis, in addition to oedema.

In any case, such awkward re-enactments -- even when believable -- add little to our understanding of the enigmatic woman whose life is the ostensible subject of this book.