sphinxlike
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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Within hours of arriving in Venice, he begins to suspect that the city itself, with its disorienting streets and shady denizens, is somehow in cahoots with his sphinxlike wife to betray him.
Cryptics, by comparison, age gracefully: their sphinxlike wordplay has a long shelf life.
From The New Yorker
This sphinxlike silence is, in turn, conducive to a second, more intangible function: to serve as a conduit for mass emotion, a projection screen for national yearning or catharsis.
From New York Times
A memoir, Piepenbring writes in his introduction, might have enhanced the singer’s sphinxlike persona.
From Washington Post
Behind his sphinxlike features, I could sense, there was an air of skepticism.
From The New Yorker
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