How To Use Enigma In A Sentence

She is an enigma wrapped in a riddle trapped in a really bad haircut. Times, Sunday Times
Hence the quotation from ‘Shepherd's Hey ’, which is skilfully counterpointed with the ‘Enigma’ theme in bar 25.
You beautiful enigma, you Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner, you little house on the prairie of the existential oversoul.
And that in itself becomes the great terrible mystery of the film - the monstrous enigma that propels the townspeople towards some inexplicable, and therefore, inextricable, oblivion.
At dawn alert next day Suwanti chained the dogs away from a round jungle-green enigma then bowled the baby into the hedge to its kind.

That explains the enigmatic smile. The Sun
The Enigma machine looked like a typewriter in a wooden box, with an electric current travelling from the keyboard through a set of rotors and a plugboard to light up the ‘code’ alphabet.
Chinese people have used it for over 2000 years as a purgative medicine, although some scientists consider it a medical enigma.
She seemed to exist in a rarefied air of lonely but enigmatic beauty. Times, Sunday Times
Mom and dad are setting the table for supper, a weird enigmatic smile on their face.
To many, he remains an enigmatic figure. The Sun
Make Blog has a great roundup of links and coverage for the opening of Bletchley Park's recreation of the Polish "bombe" code-cracking devices that were instrumental in breaking the German Enigma cipher in World War II. Boing Boing
His alcoholism took a toll on his enigmatic, sphinx-like charm.
prophetic texts so enigmatic that their meaning has been disputed for centuries
We also observe very fine rims of apparent new zircon of enigmatic origin at lower grade in the aureole.
In May 1941, solution times for an Enigma-enciphered message averaged three or four days. The U-Boat Enigma
Not that its mysteries will readily reveal themselves: one finds oneself rereading passages to crack its subtle enigmas, tantalised by the missing puzzle piece that lies just beyond all that is visible.
All I could find about this enigmatic term was some World of Warcraft guy, and some scientific stuff about the embryonic phase of an animal preceding the "gastrula" phase. YesButNoButYes: Caption Competition
It has also occultized and enigmatized itself in their image in order to open up and clear to the way to a particular void, to a certain non-sense - unlike the media which remains relentlessly bent on filling up all interstices.
The play, after all, is the very antithesis of the romantic drama its enigmatic title might suggest.
Instead, she flashes another of those enigmatic, megawatt smiles. The Sun
If he had also thought to write them down himself, he would not remain such an enigmatic figure. Times, Sunday Times
Being alone in the office with her boss evoked the scene with the father and the sense of enigmatic, inexplicable menace. Times, Sunday Times
His string quartets and piano sonatas (particularly the enigmatic masterpieces of his final years) still rank as supreme tests of interpretation. Times, Sunday Times
His enigmatic features gaze down in every public place of assembly.
More often the delicate simplicity of a blue question mark posits the faceless face beautiful in enigma, the shadowy mysterious introvert edging to the boundary of a looks obsessed society.
Oh, and I read "An Enigmatic New Lambeosaurine Hadrosaur (Reptilia: Dinosauria) from the Upper Shale Member of the Campanian Aguja Formation of Trans-Pecos Texas," a weird beast named Angulomastacator daviesi, known thus far only from its boomerang-shaped maxilla bone. Waking the Witch
One page is blank except for the enigmatic line: 'The aisles are but narrow. Times, Sunday Times
This is the story of the enigmatic Catherine Weekes and the mysteries surrounding her.
Dr.W. John Martin, chief of immunopathology at the University of Southern California, has tentatively linked the mysterious microbe to an equally enigmatic illness: chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS). A Clue To Chronic Fatigue
He is an enigmatic figure who has suffered from bad dreams all of his life. Times, Sunday Times
It is universally acknowledged that Elgar originally wrote 17 variations on his Enigma theme.
The C-value enigma is real, and there is a lot of research going on right now investigating it. A Dubious "Opportunity" for IDers
The paper is entitled Gollumjapyx smeagol gen. n., sp. n., an enigmatic hypogean japygid (Diplura: Japygidae) from the eastern Iberian Peninsula, the authors A. Sendra, V. Ortuno, A. Moreno, S. Montagud and S. Teruel describe the species, originally found 25 years ago but now supported by more data, as: Archive 2007-01-01
Enigma was going well by this stage, but intelligence realised there must be another system when a stray teleprinter message was picked up by a listening post in Kent.
The term 'film noir' gets thoroughly redefined in Bela Tarr's The Man From London, a mystery story cloaked in such stygian darkness that some viewers may succumb to eye strain before its enigmas are unfolded," writes Jonathan Romney at Screen Daily. GreenCine Daily: Cannes. The Man From London.
The Service Industries For the economic historian, as for the economist, services constitute the most enigmatic sector of the economy.
When Mr. Shortz, who sold his first puzzle at 14 and received a degree in enigmatology (read: games) from the University of Indiana, took over the Times crossword, he broadened the subjects and added popular culture, which is why the Simpsons keep showing up as clues. Upright Citizens Brigade �� Crossword King ('Wearz Bermuda ------') on TV Clues; CBS's I Want My Daddy
On the surface I maintained the enigmatic half-smile of the Mona Lisa.
We're calling the film Incubus because we looked the word up in the dictionary and thought it sounded enigmatic.
Beside it, another tense wooden spar holds an inscribed scarf and an enigmatic black tube resembling a rifle barrel.
Enigma ends on a high you couldn't possibly predict, yet which seems inevitable in retrospect. Times, Sunday Times
In the first two rooms of the gallery, Samson Mudzunga presents a minimal show that somehow suits his enigmatic nature.
Of the men in this fellowship, both Mortensen and Bean accomplish their characters, with Mortensen delivering a broody and enigmatic warrior Strider and Bean creating a conflicted Boromir.
Round PD, Hansson B, Pearson DJ, Kennerley PR & Bensch S (2007) Lost and found: the enigmatic large-billed reed warbler Acrocephalus orinus rediscovered after 139 years. Archive 2007-03-01
an enigmatic smile
Rather than offering didactic explanations for each aesthetic decision, artists may rediscover the value in enigmatic, emotionally-rooted work whose meaning is intuitively derived and not so easily explained. Sharon L. Butler: Abstract Expressionist New York: Line and Legacy
The mechanics of the game itself are a riddle wrapped in an enigma inside a mystery. Times, Sunday Times
With its drystone hedges, bedraggled cottages, enigmatic stone menhirs, and rainswept green fields, Jejudo has something of a Celtic feel.
As with Enigma, flaws in the encryption allowed them to decode messages. Times, Sunday Times
Both brothers are lookers, and Cameron is particularly drawn to Jesse's enigmatic reserve and ‘thoughtlessly perfect body.’
In most of our minds, he is a withdrawn, lonely figure, brave but enigmatic - scarcely to be compared with his rival, who was combative, a drinker and something of a wencher.
He's nothing if not honest, blunt, irascible, generous, laconic, witty and enigmatic.
But then his intellectual brilliance is matched by his enigmatic personality - you can't be sure what he's really up to.
Art lovers the world over have spent years musing over Mona Lisa's enigmatic smile.
It was the press who probably felt most keenly his enigmatic, contradictory nature. Sir Alf: A Major Reappraisal of the Life and Times of England's Greatest Football Manager
So much for the enigma wrapped in the riddle. Times, Sunday Times
His stories were enigmatic fables set in the past, and could be understood as veiled political criticism.
A Gazette article earlier this year highlighted an enigma that has long puzzled me.
Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma. Joseph Joubert
The mechanisms used by Enigma for encryption appear intricate and complicated, and a basic Enigma machine had over 10 possible keys which is more than some modern algorithms.
What is left is the puzzle and the enigma that we need to figure out.
A gem from the superb new box set covering the enigmatic Walker brother's less oblique years. Times, Sunday Times
At the same time in England, mathematician Alan Turing, a seminal figure in the foundations of modern computer science and the mastermind who helped break the German Enigma cryptograph machine during the Second World War, wrote about the evidence for psi: ENTANGLED MINDS
Not much - they are still a mystery inside a riddle wrapped in an enigma. Times, Sunday Times
It is the company that causes consternation to drivers in the capital with its often enigmatic traffic light controls. Times, Sunday Times
Arbuthnot on his arrival will find his wife in enigmatic tears. The Enchanted April
A gem from the superb new box set covering the enigmatic Walker brother's less oblique years. Times, Sunday Times
What was the use of trying to understand this vastly complicated and enigmatical world, especially when one was married to a nagging woman? THE FEATHERS OF THE SUN
I think she, too, projects something enigmatic and elusive. Times, Sunday Times
It was made of plastic and raised a rare smile from the enigmatic supremo. The Sun
Well, if it did, this was largely down to the enigmatic figure at its centre. Times, Sunday Times
Noting some short term enigmatic inflation and deflationary cycles we will be experiencing for some time. SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page
The final version of this enigmatic character is in one sense an embodiment of Christian gentleness, but it is a gentleness deeply flawed by lack of self-knowledge, confused desire and passivity – an ironic picture which reflects what some would indeed see as Christlikeness, yet incorporates an oblique recognition of something like a Nietzschean critique of Christianity as dealing in unrealities and depending on the resentment of the weak. Clark Lectures, Trinity College, Cambridge Grace, Necessity and Imagination: Catholic Philosophy and the Twentieth Century Artist Lecture 4: God and the Artist
Still, he is impressive as the surly, enigmatic intellectual who offers Jane a glimmer of hope for a better life.
Chimaeras, also called ratfish, rabbitfish, and ghostsharks, are perhaps the oldest and most enigmatic groups of fishes alive today. WN.com - Articles related to Australia mining firm strikes gold in RP
It's an enigmatic pastiche of emotions, accusals, and imagery.
In the first, an enigmatic wanderer, appareled in a coat of many colors, enters a splendid city: Cassocks and Codpieces
Marlow favored us with what must seem like an enigmatic smile, but I knew better.
Kinard, a Casey Affleck lookalike, provides an unsettling mixture of dewy-eyed sincerity and barely concealed insanity – he both attracts with his charm but repels with his odd demands, creating a wonderfully enigmatic personality. Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat
Nathan Lee in the Voice: See Los Muertos with virgin eyes; this cool-headed enigma is best approached cold, ignorant of everything but the title. GreenCine Daily: Shorts, 4/4.
The stars on the harp's face, enigmatic, answerless, met his gaze. Harpist in the Wind
Now the power of modern computing has finally cracked a 64-year-old wartime enigma. Times, Sunday Times
His reply was highly enigmatic.
An online stalker is sending enigmatic e-mails that appear to be death threats. Times, Sunday Times
Unfortunately the script gods have decreed that our enigmatic hero has to have someone to bonk.
Meanwhile, two video projectors displayed enigmatic images on opposite walls.
Joan of Arc is a heroine in history as well as an enigma in the collective unconscious and, dimension of myth.
Decked out in psychedelic dusters or classic Carnaby Street fashions, she was statuesque and enigmatic, a combination of cool and casual that balanced out well with the mournful classics she crooned.
Situated at Bletchley Park during the Second World War, he designed a machine – the bombe - that could decipher Nazi enigma messages much faster than any other machine before it. An apology for Alan Turing
Many of his novels resemble the telling of a dream conveyed with all its inconsistencies, its aimlessness; enigmatic narratives, balanced somewhere between the unspeakable and that which must be told.
Marlow favored us with what must seem like an enigmatic smile, but I knew better.
Puzzle master Will Shortz earned a degree in enigmatology the study of puzzles from Indiana University in 1974. Can
These ships were almost certainly captured to obtain the Enigma encrypted codes and machines carried on board. Times, Sunday Times
He could come across as a rather enigmatic figure. Times, Sunday Times
Fans of the first film will agree that the sheer ambiguousness and enigmatic status of the film's villain was the main ingredient that catapulted the original into cult status.
The greatest single British contribution to the defeat of the Third Reich, and possibly the greatest British achievement of the past century, is known to us as Bletchley, the unprepossessing country house halfway between Oxford and Cambridge, where an eccentric team of mathematicians, musicians, and classicists broke what the Germans had with good reason believed to be the unbreakable codes of their Enigma machines, and in the process pretty well invented modern computing: the huge creaking and whirring "bombes" of Bletchley, running over endless patterns and permutations, were the forebears of your laptop. Box
Tenor Michael König acquits himself well as Katerina's mercurial lover Serguéi, and Ludovít Ludha, in the role of Katerina's abusive stepfather Boris, summons that notorious Shostakovian enigma as authoritarian kulak and bumbling sexual predator. A Rollicking and Riveting 'Lady Macbeth'
Dengue is an enigmatic virus, difficult to diagnose and impossible to quarantine.
The singular and mystic forms of initiation, the system of enigmatical phrases, the use of the signs and symbols of recognition, may probably be ascribed to the period when the whole system was united to the worship of the Deities of Vengeance, and when the sentence was promulgated by the Doomsmen, assembled, like the Asi of old, before the altars of Thor or Woden. Anne of Geierstein
The enigma of the landlocked Baikal and Caspian seals addressed through phylogeny of phocine mitochondrial sequences. The most inconvenient seal
Only in 1941 did Enigma decrypts pay dividends.
The Lord Defender was predictable, and much easier to read than the enigmatic commander of Defender Intelligence. TREASON KEEP
This brief and enigmatic story has a remarkable effect on Bandini, hypnotizing and captivating him.
Jules et Jim is an epic of inconsequence, the historical sweep of the first world war and the rise of nazism reduced to interruptions to the enigmatic potentialities of private life. Truffaut: growing backwards into childhood
As a teenager I avidly devoured stories of hairy bipeds glimpsed through snowstorms, strange cries echoing across glaciers, or enigmatic footprints in the snow. Getting to Know a Real 'Abominable Snowman'
The mystery enmeshes local cop John Rafferty, who had left the pressures of big city police work for a quieter life in Salem and now finds himself falling for the enigmatic Towner as he mourns Eva and delves into the history of the eccentric Whitney clan. Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » A conversation with Brunonia Barry, part 2
These totals incorporate both terrestrial and aquatic angiosperms, together with gymnosperms, including the enigmatic gnetophyte Welwitschia mirabilis.
But behind her enigmatic and dignified facade resides a largely unknown woman. Times, Sunday Times
Our speaker today, Dr. Norman Z. Alcock, is a Canadian engineer and physicist who, following a brilliant academic career and a similarly successful business career, has set aside his personal business interests in an effort to solve this enigma of man's seeming determination to destroy himself. Can the Scientist Win the Peace?
The birds are high in the canopy, giving occasional piercing and enigmatic whistles, or lightning-swift flashes of unanalysable colour. Times, Sunday Times
Enigma ends on a high you couldn't possibly predict, yet which seems inevitable in retrospect. Times, Sunday Times
Tacked on to the scaffolding of the unproduced play, Cap’n Simon Wheeler, The Amateur Detective, this enigmatic, dream-ridden fantasy involves a young man who travels three days on horseback from Kentucky to a small Missouri town with the intention of shooting to death a cousin, who is described as sappy, sentimental, giddy, and thoughtless, to settle a family feud. Mark Twain
Enigmatic and difficult on a first pass, Hiroshima Mon Amour is a film that rewards multiple viewings.
Steven Soderbergh's monumental two-movie portrait of Che Guevara has arrived: opaque and enigmatic enough, probably, to count as a "diptych". Film | guardian.co.uk
For Christians this enigma is best summed up in a well-known phrase -- "Whose service is perfect freedom. Matthews, The Rt. Rev. Victoria
In one painting enigmatically titled Hoovering, there appears to be a black silhouette of a rabbit.
This menhir is surrounded by a network of enigmatic cairns and chambered warrior tombs.
The computers were called "bombes", and were basically devices to spin Enigma rotors as fast as possible, trying out different keys while working on "cribs". Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
Relentless in seeking its excitation and satisfaction, libido finds itself frustrated by restraints imposed by society, an obstacle whose origin turns out to be enigmatic for Freud.
Many researchers into the UFO enigma tend to overlook a very important fact.
Such an enigma is man -- born to perish -- when he wars, as I do, against the established laws of his nature. The Mortal Immortal
‘Watch and learn,’ his friend replies enigmatically, before changing the clockwise finger-spin to widdershins.
The Brazilian remains an enigma and could well be sold this summer. Times, Sunday Times
Alejandro Ferretis plays a middle-aged painter who has retired to a secluded and primitive village to commit suicide (this hara-kiri is perhaps a key to the enigmatic title).
ULTRA Code name for messages and signals decoded from the German Enigma machine Operatives, Spies, and Saboteurs
Life without walls, '[and] will move away from the enigmatic teaser commercials that featured Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld in offbeat conversations about shopping, shoes, suburbia and the potential of computing to improve life. Goodbye, Jerry: Microsoft moves away from Seinfeld-Gates ads
To his credit, the former centre‑back, described somewhat fancifully as a Derby and West Ham "legend" at Derby maybe, but I think you have to play for a team longer than a couple of seasons to have legendary status bestowed upon you, smiled enigmatically, and swatted it away like he used to troublesome attackers. It's worth staying up, if only to avoid a night in with Manish | Martin Kelner
This is only one of the paradoxes surrounding this enigmatic musician. The Times Literary Supplement
Harlow's Robert Halfon called Labour's approach "more Ethelred the Unready than Nixon in China" ? one of the day's more enigmatic remarks. Sketch: What if the bankers were on benefits?
There then follows a long and tedious account of how they broke the enigma code.
Meanwhile evolutionary processes remained enigmatic. EXTINCTION: Evolution and the End of Man
His position in the superstrata of rock is assured, even though the enigmatic personality has made it difficult to pinpoint his aims and his role.
How did we arrive at this sad state of affairs, which I call the enduring enigma of the American public? The Agonist - thoughtful, global, timely
Indeed, the essential enigma of Taoism and Zen is the source of their wisdom and profundity - a freedom that is never enclosed by a system of understanding.
The same relativity appears as an enigma in Così é Nobel Prize in Literature 1934 - Presentation Speech
How much easier life would be if an enigmatic small gent arrived unannounced to solve dark household mysteries through a process of quietly perceptive questioning. Times, Sunday Times
An overland journey would keep her off the pirate-infested sea, but the south of Italy was a gloomy enigma, the haunt of unregenerate pagans and lawless outcasts from the coastal towns.
The Real Madrid boss is one of the genuine enigmas of modern football.
Though painful to look at, you feel that she has captured the truth about Andy, not an enigmatic superstar, but a miserable, raddled wreck. Alice Neel Retrospective Exposes Life's Truths
In the second allegory, he figures the artist as pilgrim, jongleur or monk; as an ageing questor meditating on his paint-brush, or as a scholar discoursing on the enigmas of reality.
There's a prim prioress, a pardoner in shabby green velvet, an enigmatic woman in fur-trimmed crimson.
He designed the first computer and helped to decipher the Enigma code. Times, Sunday Times
A better film would have been the battle between the rogue FBI agent and convict vs. the enigmatic Brother Payne.
It is like the enigma of the chicken bones: so many chicken bones there must be in a city whose digestion can be said to be maintained by the continual passage of the meat, the grease and cartilage of this roasted, boiled, stewed, grilled, griddled fowl. The Unexamined Saturday « Unknowing
The terrestrial ecology of Pennsylvanian tropical wetlands is understood in detail, but coeval dryland ecosystems remain highly enigmatic.
The dark girl was an enigma that Nicola knew nothing about, and therefore she intrigued her.
So declares the enigmatic Driver in this masterfully convoluted neo-noir, which ranges from the dive bars and flyblown motels of Los Angeles to seedy strip malls dotting the Arizona desert. Drive, Once a Neil Marshall and Hugh Jackman Movie, Becomes a Nicolas Winding Refn and Ryan Gosling Movie | /Film
And with each biographical effort to understand him, that enigma has become more, not less, obscure.
In the course of our investigations into Ordovician lingulate brachiopod faunas from such limestone residues, we have recovered occasional specimens of small ‘hat-like’ phosphatic plates of enigmatic affinities.
These came from decrypted German messages sent on the Enigma enciphering machine, and by 1944, the Allies were reading some of the messages in 'real time’.
(Eurekalert.) Scientists had recognized just two species of these enigmatic mammals, the Sunda colugo and the Philippine colugo. Archive 2008-11-01
A gem from the superb new box set covering the enigmatic Walker brother's less oblique years. Times, Sunday Times
He designed the first computer and helped to decipher the Enigma code. Times, Sunday Times
Pater's descriptions opened the eyes of the English decadents to the painter's enigmatic beauty, and he became a cult figure.
The origin is a mystery wrapped in an enigma. Times, Sunday Times
There is always a plenitude of star gazing enthusiasts around the world who direct their telescopes toward glistening worlds of hope that hang in the dimmest chasms of an enigmatic universe. SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles - Part 1237
This exhibition of masculinity is considered progressive thus bringing clarity to the enigma. Think Progress » Scott Brown Denies Asserting That Obama Was Born Out Of Wedlock, Refuses To Apologize
Like this person was an enigma, a thousand puzzles beneath a vulnerable skin.
Still, he is impressive as the surly, enigmatic intellectual who offers Jane a glimmer of hope for a better life.
Phylogenetic relationships of the enigmatic hoatzin (Opisthocomus hoazin) resolved using mitochondrial and nuclear gene sequences. Goodbye, my giant predatory, cursorial, flightless hoatzin
In the first half of the novel, Kilroy creates the enigma, which she proceeds to unravel in the second half.
Both bands offered enigmatic singles and an epochal debut followed by an almost trad sophomore classic and a schizo follow-up.
So much for the enigma wrapped in the riddle. Times, Sunday Times
The music of an enigmatic pop singer is the only salvation for some lonely teens in this intermittently extraordinary film.
But as she arranges another rendezvous with her enigmatic stranger, things spiral further out of control. The Sun
Death has been the riddle, the enigma, put to us that no one could answer. Christianity Today
The script is slack and messy, in a way which does not suggest enigma or mystery - just the need for a couple more drafts.
In any case, moving modern enigmas in the intro of an old "prescientific" healing art might be difficult, but necessary. Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
It was the press who probably felt most keenly his enigmatic, contradictory nature. Sir Alf: A Major Reappraisal of the Life and Times of England's Greatest Football Manager
Characteristically mixing scholarly inquiries with fun, he considers the great ratite enigmas: why don't they fly or sing, or have proper feathers? Times, Sunday Times
No. Will the enigmatic young female violinist turn out to be significant?
It's a staccato language of enigmatic hand gestures, flailing arms, touching oneself, herky-jerky starts and stops, plunging into space, crashing, spinning, jumping back up.
In fact, this juxtaposition, this enigma, is the theme of this show. Friday at the Factory on Fifth
Cam is kind of an enigma -- I'm not sure I know him well yet, and I need to make him a fully fleshed out, interesting character. Archive 2009-06-01
In patients without a known allergic diathesis or infectious process, BCG without eosinophilia seems more enigmatic.
The dicyemid mesozoans, once hypothesized to be non-bilaterian metazoans, have since been shown to possess central class Hox genes indicating that these enigmatic parasites are secondarily simplified bilaterians.
It was the press who probably felt most keenly his enigmatic, contradictory nature. Sir Alf: A Major Reappraisal of the Life and Times of England's Greatest Football Manager
Enigmatic, coded, complicated, the film is a distinctive commentary on art, race, gender and nationalities.
I wanted the title chapters to be funny, enigmatic, and for the reader to have to read into them. Mexico City, a Cultural Guide
The enigma surrounding the situation had filled the air with expectancy.
New to town, and acting as a deputy, the enigmatic Robert Hawkins arrived with a tin canister in a giant white moving truck. Amrie’s Take on TV: A Guide to JERICHO | the TV addict
The enigma of the stones draws druids to perform their weird rituals.
Annie excluded herself carefully from this part of the programme, with a kind of unapproachable haughtiness which had three strains of stubbornness and one strain of fiery youthful anger in its composition, while it was a complete enigma to May. A Houseful of Girls
The audience, like the other characters, can sometimes unriddle these enigmatic utterances, sometimes not.
Iran remains an enigma for the outside world.
The enigmatic graniferous tracheary inclusions which characterize so many terrestrial parasite haustoria are generally absent in aerial mistletoes.
I didn't grasp the meaning of that enigmatic comment until much later
The process has not been made clearer by the mystique surrounding the enigmatic man at the centre of the revolt. Times, Sunday Times
As their names suggest, they make murky music, so quiet and enigmatic they risk going unnoticed in the corner.
Scientists had recognized just two species of these enigmatic mammals, the Sunda colugo and the Philippine colugo. EurekAlert! - Breaking News
Numerous books and television documentaries have chronicled the remarkable work of the team who deciphered the Nazi's Enigma machine.
His diaries record recurrent struggles to understand the enigma of his own personality, his spiritual emptiness and addictiveness.
His gaze is by turns encouraging, enigmatic, unendurable.
The Brazilian remains an enigma and could well be sold this summer. Times, Sunday Times
In this way ‘Repulsed’ addresses the enigma of creative inspiration and articulates its own unique prose language in the process.
Although the end is enigmatic like a short story, the film's strength is in its dialogues full of irony.
Gone are the huge, enigmatic sets and the hard-to-like orchestrations (the jazzed-up Monteverdi which accompanied Vsprs was particularly uphill work), replaced by a bare stage and a recorded soundtrack. Out of Context: For Pina
But then his intellectual brilliance is matched by his enigmatic personality - you can't be sure what he's really up to.
He adjusted his impeccable tweed jacket and thought languidly for a moment about the enigmatic but passionate kiss Sophie had planted on his lips before leaving an hour earlier. Insight Scoop | The Ignatius Press Blog:

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