Sentence examples for enigmatic subject from inspiring English sources

Gould, a Village bohemian and self-proclaimed genius, was Mitchell's most enigmatic subject: an "ancient, spectral figure;" "a banished man".

The contrast between these prologues gives a sense of the different tones of these two companion volumes, or rather the different tones that Shapiro discerns in the life and mood of his enigmatic subject.

The author of a stirring fiction trilogy about the Haitian revolution, Bell has also written an empathetic biography of its rebel leader, Toussaint L'Ouverture, another contradictory and enigmatic subject of Napoleonic bent.

Friends and acquaintances of Monroe's are also "played" by familiar movie faces — Adrien Brody is Truman Capote David Strathairnn is Arthur Miller — so that the film becomes a heady cocktail of journalistic rigor and show business flair, a blend that seems, in the end, just right for its blazingly famous, endlessly enigmatic subject.

The play and the transcripts and the tapes all sat in a drawer in Mr. Wright's New York apartment for five years while he concentrated on other projects, including his play "Quills," which opened Off Broadway in late 1995 and examined the life of another enigmatic subject, the Marquis de Sade.

Two of the Mighty Dead have been brought back to life in exemplary fashion: Shakespeare in Lois Potter's The Life of William Shakespeare: A Critical Biography (John Wiley), which very cleverly uses expert theatre-knowledge as a way of making her enigmatic subject seem plausibly substantial; and Keats in Nicholas Roe's John Keats: A New Life (Yale), which puts the poet properly in his place.

In 1978, she made her first attempts at fine art photography by creating small color prints of staged and somewhat enigmatic subjects that were later painted with red nail polish in a polka dot pattern.

Wittgenstein's views on ethics are enigmatic and subject to wildly different interpretations.

While often explicit, they are not especially erotic, though they are enigmatic: some subjects may be prostitutes, while others are said to be recognizable Turin society figures.

In the later work of Picasso and Braque, it is again possible to construe their pictorial code as referring plainly to the objective world in the case of Braque, to still life chosen with an appreciation of household things and, with Picasso, to emotive yet enigmatic human subjects as well.

Mr Modi is enigmatic on this subject.