Sentence examples for inscrutable figure from inspiring English sources

One was Marlon Brando, "an inscrutable figure who seems to have stepped from the audience itself".

It's impossible to say how much she is bothered by this fate, because for all of Mann's consistently energetic reporting, she remains an aloof and somewhat inscrutable figure, her attachment to her own celebrity never satisfactorily explained.

Despite efforts to divine his intentions, Raúl remained an impassive and inscrutable figure, though the death of his wife fellow rebel fighter who helped bring the Castro brothers to power, first lady of the Cuban Revolution, and women's rights activist in June 2007 likely had a profound impact on him.

But to the younger Mr. Everett, the rock singer known to fans and friends simply as E, his father was a shirt-and-tie-clad fixture at the dining room table, an inscrutable figure who preferred chain-smoking Kents to conversation, and scrawling calculations on yellow legal pads to parenting.

Mahathir Mohamad, who quit the job last October after 22 years in office, never left them in any doubt, whether he was extolling his country's economic success, or berating the foreign financiers who, he claimed, were conspiring to undermine it.His successor, Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, by contrast, is a much less outspoken and more inscrutable figure.

But in courtroom GD, Judge Masipa has remained an inscrutable figure, and Oscar Pistorius is unlikely to have any real sense of his fate until she has finished reading every page of a verdict that could take more than a day to get through.

Among the inscrutable figures we meet is Pedro Randolph Curtis Randd), who is sometimes Alaide's husband and sometimes a handsome stranger stalking through her fevered mind.

The motif of the backside of inscrutable figures has penetrated culture -- from the brooding photo of JFK during the Cuban Missile Crisis to the Following fan movie clip montage of people shot from behind on YouTube.

Mars can be something of an inscrutable public figure, which is not to say he is obscure — simply that it's difficult, sometimes, to figure out the precise shape of his interiority.

And let's not forget the eerie notion of the doppelganger, that inscrutable, shadowy figure threatening to swoop in and take over a life.

And let's not forget the eerie notion of the doppelganger, that inscrutable, shadowy figure threatening to swoop in and take over a life.