Sentence examples for enigmatic words from inspiring English sources

R.E.M. showed a generation of collegiate rockers how to wind taut guitar lines around enigmatic words.

One distinct characteristic of Ms. Dulaney's work is the use of poetry; enigmatic words inscribed directly into the wet acrylic paint.

To do this, Augustine would have to burrow into the enigmatic words of Genesis more deeply than anyone had done before.

And sooner or later, her enigmatic words give way to oohs and ahs and la-las, inviting singalongs as they head for what she calls "the secret land of sound".

More important, the edgeless fields of grisaille or colored atmosphere in which his enigmatic words hover evoke the infinite desert sky at dusk, the silver screen or simply Los Angeles's great empty overlighted noir-ness.

Flight 93 heroism rested on a few brief cellphone calls - most notably, medical-device executive Thomas Burnett's remark to his wife that they were going to "have to do something" - and the last enigmatic words of software salesman Todd Beamer, after reciting the Lord's Prayer, overheard by an Airfone operator: "You ready?

But tricksy though Mammon is, it seems that enigmatic word – Mammon's answer to Citizen Kane's Rosebud – linked two suicides that were five years apart.

You can imagine the creative persona Basquiat's art conjures, muttering and chortling to himself while compulsively improvising his chartlike compositions of cartoon images, glyphic signs and enigmatic word lists.

The definitive, if enigmatic, word on that subject is to be found in a famous, early short story by Borges, "Pierre Menard, autor del Quijote" ("Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote") — and notice how, even in such a straightforward title, the extra syllable, and the Anglicized spelling and capitalization, create a mild warp — a sense of foreignness that can't be bridged.

The enigmatic final words of his mother, "Live and become," resonate through the rest of the film.

When Marlow finds him on his deathbed, he utters the famous and enigmatic last words: "The horror!