Sentence examples for riddle without from inspiring English sources

Given the challenge of coming up with something that will excite customers during a recession, many designers are finding themselves tangled in a riddle without an answer.

The famed anthropologist and classical scholar Sir James Frazer said of Pausanias: "without him the ruins of Greece would for the most part be a labyrinth without a clue, a riddle without an answer".

Islam and the West -- A Riddle Without a Solution?

Nobody knows what the painting means, if indeed it has a meaning; whether it might be a narrative, an allegory, a pseudo-riddle without an answer or a scene painted purely for its atmosphere of fathomless mystery.

That sense is even more evident in "All the Ways," which asks in its opening moments, "What is the weight of a lie?" And because this is a play by Mr. LaBute, who doesn't believe in riddles without punch lines, the question will be answered with exact literal-mindedness.

At our Edinburgh event, Nick is going to talk about his line drawings for my book of poems, Crazy Mayonnaisy Mum, so I hope to find out how he imparted characters to cliffs (the Seven Sisters), how he approached another poem full of questions about the universe, and how he managed to illustrate riddles without making the answers too obvious.

But there is somehow a sense of avoidance in Mr. Maksik's writing, as if, much like his characters, he might find a way to answer the riddle of alienation without ever truly letting anyone else into the room.

In a lasting put-down Truman Capote called Warhol 'a sphinx without a riddle'.

Borrowing from what Bismarck said about Napoleon III, Mr Cummings damns David Cameron as "a sphinx without a riddle".

He was also to become a stern critic of David Cameron (whom he described as a "sphinx without a riddle").

Is she a sphinx without a riddle, as Truman Capote said of Andy Warhol, selling solipsism as social commentary?