His stories were enigmatic fables set in the past, and could be understood as veiled political criticism. |
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Clearly this satirical tale of the beautiful people who orbit an enigmatic film producer has its avant-garde checklist down pat. |
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Siboglinids, echiurids, myzostomids, and sipunculans, are four taxa with enigmatic evolutionary origins. |
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Unfortunately the script gods have decreed that our enigmatic hero has to have someone to bonk. |
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Naturalistic and unforced, each character is played with sufficient poise, often understated and enigmatic by nature. |
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The breeding range of the Hudsonian Godwit is perhaps best described as enigmatic. |
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Morris is an enigmatic moviemaker, an unknown quantity in the filmmaker personality department. |
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Ray Caesar creates fantastical, grimly hopeful, and gravely whimsical images of wizened children who radiate an enigmatic serenity. |
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Although the end is enigmatic like a short story, the film's strength is in its dialogues full of irony. |
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The audience, like the other characters, can sometimes unriddle these enigmatic utterances, sometimes not. |
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Oxford's men's team were missing their enigmatic libero, Denis Zuev, but Benjamin Collier confidently took his place. |
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The effect is vaguely clinical, dispassionate, like academic anatomical studies, but also enigmatic and voyeuristic. |
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This menhir is surrounded by a network of enigmatic cairns and chambered warrior tombs. |
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So zero marks for slow, ditto for marketing effectiveness and maybe full marks for enigmatic and intriguing. |
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Beside it, another tense wooden spar holds an inscribed scarf and an enigmatic black tube resembling a rifle barrel. |
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This brief and enigmatic story has a remarkable effect on Bandini, hypnotizing and captivating him. |
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With its drystone hedges, bedraggled cottages, enigmatic stone menhirs, and rainswept green fields, Jejudo has something of a Celtic feel. |
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On 8 December, Christie's London offer Still life with cardoon and francolin by the enigmatic Spanish master Juan Sanchez Cotan. |
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The green orbs glimmered gently in the pale moonlight, giving off an enigmatic appearance. |
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His mind had been in a whirl since his brief meeting at the Devon house with Marie Devon and the enigmatic Lisa. |
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The film is full of philosophical characters from the enigmatic Mark to the chameleonic survivalist Timothy. |
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There's a prim prioress, a pardoner in shabby green velvet, an enigmatic woman in fur-trimmed crimson. |
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It is a promising start but the key to success in publishing is infuriatingly elusive and enigmatic. |
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Horses, I suggested to him, always seemed far more enigmatic than dogs or even cats. |
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As their names suggest, they make murky music, so quiet and enigmatic they risk going unnoticed in the corner. |
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Mom and dad are setting the table for supper, a weird enigmatic smile on their face. |
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An enigmatic character in some respects, Costello played his politics close to his chest. |
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Scientists, in whatever society, are a quirky lot, motivated by enigmatic incentives comprehensible only to their own kind. |
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The play, after all, is the very antithesis of the romantic drama its enigmatic title might suggest. |
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In a labored effort, he stood up and paid a closer inspection to this enigmatic item. |
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He's nothing if not honest, blunt, irascible, generous, laconic, witty and enigmatic. |
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Examples are the Edinburgh Young Violinist, the enigmatic Dulwich Lady at a Clavichord and The Young Mother at the Hague. |
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It's too bad the crowd was so yappy, they missed a subtly twisted, enigmatic show. |
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But what elevates the novel beyond the genre is the ambiguous, enigmatic voice of Mary herself. |
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Others are more enigmatic and ambiguous in both their origins and meanings. |
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From the enigmatic Chancellor it was interpreted as the closest thing to a job application. |
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Both boys possess violent streaks, but in the end it may be the enigmatic Stewart who is the scariest of them all. |
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This news came to us from a York source who must remain anonymous to make them sound more enigmatic and exciting. |
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Researchers hope that its experimental data will solve some of the mysteries surrounding this enigmatic body. |
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This is the story of the enigmatic Catherine Weekes and the mysteries surrounding her. |
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Tall and handsome, with heavy-lidded, soulful eyes, he was volatile and enigmatic. |
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I'd only vaguely heard of the show, had never listened to it, but his enigmatic message drove me to find out more. |
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Accompanying them on the road are a cavalcade of young, willing, and available groupies, including the radiant, enigmatic Penny Lane. |
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Other translators of his work have phoned me, thanking me for unpacking some of his more enigmatic sentences. |
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A better film would have been the battle between the rogue FBI agent and convict vs. the enigmatic Brother Payne. |
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My fellow archaeologist is an expert on this enigmatic Bronze Age rock art. |
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The second, Jin, is a laconic and enigmatic ronin, a disgraced and masterless samurai who travels the land for reasons unknown. |
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Art lovers the world over have spent years musing over Mona Lisa's enigmatic smile. |
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A woman, her face displaying an enigmatic or even arrogantly impenetrable beauty, appears out of the gray Parisian night. |
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Nomaga had become something of an enigmatic legend in the School, as he had ascended ranks faster than the vast majority could lay claim to. |
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The enigmatic Duke then disguises himself as a priest in order to observe the events. |
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In patients without a known allergic diathesis or infectious process, BCG without eosinophilia seems more enigmatic. |
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We also observe very fine rims of apparent new zircon of enigmatic origin at lower grade in the aureole. |
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Yes, this is the enigmatic legacy of the 1960s, that tar baby of American cultural politics. |
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They remain enigmatic puzzles meant to be meditated on, in the same way that we consider a Magritte. |
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We're calling the film Incubus because we looked the word up in the dictionary and thought it sounded enigmatic. |
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He falls in love with an enigmatic woman who may be a Native American demigoddess. |
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Meanwhile, two video projectors displayed enigmatic images on opposite walls. |
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He was the most enigmatic and the most provocative painter of the early Soviet period. |
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For Joe, the enigmatic bargeman played by Ewan McGregor in Young Adam, employment is a necessary evil, a burden on the back of his freedom. |
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The nature of the magnetic basement underlying the east side of the profile is enigmatic. |
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Pater's descriptions opened the eyes of the English decadents to the painter's enigmatic beauty, and he became a cult figure. |
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Unreliable texts, enigmatic melanges of authenticity and rampant imagination arrive on Nanson's lap and draw him further in. |
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These people pop up mysteriously and deliver enigmatic messages before vanishing again. |
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Articulate and thoughtful, his often enigmatic lyrics go way beyond most of pop and rock's froth to explore deeper issues. |
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In keeping with its enigmatic image, the origins of the ritual use of the plant are also uncertain. |
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Mostly, though, this stuff is short, enigmatic, insubstantial and exciting. |
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Both bands offered enigmatic singles and an epochal debut followed by an almost trad sophomore classic and a schizo follow-up. |
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The music of an enigmatic pop singer is the only salvation for some lonely teens in this intermittently extraordinary film. |
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In the first two rooms of the gallery, Samson Mudzunga presents a minimal show that somehow suits his enigmatic nature. |
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Most of the Sutras in short enigmatic aphorisms were written as treatises to the earlier schools of philosophical thoughts. |
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Marlow favored us with what must seem like an enigmatic smile, but I knew better. |
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He is now, though not wholly perspicuous, less enigmatic than he was at the beginning. |
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It's a case of the more you attempt to avoid a public or shun publicity, the more it makes you enigmatic. |
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The terrestrial ecology of Pennsylvanian tropical wetlands is understood in detail, but coeval dryland ecosystems remain highly enigmatic. |
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Two veteran code-breakers have received a worldwide response to their request for solutions to an enigmatic message on a monument. |
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His enigmatic assemblages glimmer with glitter, buttons, beads, marbles and plastic toys, bearing what appear to be images of mythic emperors and omniscient eyes. |
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And, as the enigmatic front man to an avant garde indie rock group, he is droll, perceptive, and splendidly weird. |
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With crisp, articulate draftsmanship and a penchant for queasily keyed-up colors, Sharrer presents slyly enigmatic events that are punctuated by surreal details. |
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It's an enigmatic pastiche of emotions, accusals, and imagery. |
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The Norfolk coast, renowned for its wealth of wintering wildfowl and waders, continues to attract parties of ever-elusive and enigmatic shorelarks. |
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Could it be that this enigmatic prince has decided to go for broke and risk avoiding the best bloodline in order to find a new and possibly richer source of equine wealth? |
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By this I mean that with her work, the emphasis is on utility rather than pure aesthetic appeal, even though a certain residual enigmatic quality remains. |
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As split second shots of her shoot across the screen, we see an enigmatic, dark-haired figure whisked to and fro before our eyes, like a lost ghost in the machine. |
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Bolotov has been the most enigmatic of eastern Ukrainian leaders on this score. |
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Betty Draper burst onto the small screen with an undeniable presence befitting the wife of the enigmatic Don Draper. |
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But even after his alleged identification, there are still more questions than answers about the enigmatic creator of Bitcoin. |
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But the most fascinating and enigmatic artist and writer of forty-one False Starts may be Malcolm herself. |
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The book's sad and enigmatic title appears under an arresting cover photograph of a Yolngu warrior, Witiyana Arika, playing the traditional clapsticks. |
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These totals incorporate both terrestrial and aquatic angiosperms, together with gymnosperms, including the enigmatic gnetophyte Welwitschia mirabilis. |
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The truncated torso, which is displayed on the wall, mixes naturalism and surrealism to create a rare and enigmatic work. |
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The enigmatic Eunotosaurus africanus is characterized by a semi-rigid, turtle-like rib cage, one which presumably necessitated a tortoise-like fashion of walking. |
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He is still bemused by the enigmatic arrival and departure of his illness. |
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The masked wrestler is now in his fifties, and probably incapable of pulling off a Boston crab, but his site keeps alive the memory of British wrestling's most enigmatic star. |
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This supernatural drama, based on the Jason Mott novel The Returned, is eerie and enigmatic, as well as heartfelt and wondrous. |
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There are the capricious gusts of sea wind that sweep in unsuspectingly, the cunning bunkers, the enigmatic kicks and bounces, the blatantly tormenting results. |
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On the surface I maintained the enigmatic half-smile of the Mona Lisa. |
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This recording is deeply, willfully obtuse, enigmatic and difficult. |
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These days, my skepticism about the current state of photography is mostly relegated to cameras which, despite being so captivatingly small, remain annoyingly enigmatic. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Rather, it is a kind of mythical or ur-nature, one associated with a primordial existence, chthonic gods and the enigmatic and destructive figure of the sphinx. |
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She answers an enigmatic classified ad and travels to New York City not to make her fortune, for fortunes are rare in the sixth year of the Great Depression, but to survive. |
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He was one of two monks to defend Zen at the imperially sponsored Shch Debate in 1325, responding to opponents with enigmatic Zen words and actions. |
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The controversy concerned the nature of black holes, those enigmatic objects created when a massive star runs out of fuel and implodes under its own immense weight. |
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For seven days York turns into a veritable theme park with axe-wielding bearded chaps on every corner, trying to look enigmatic because that's what they think Vikings did. |
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On the contrary, the singer values his cryptic, enigmatic inscrutability. |
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It is a tall cuboid volume wrapped in slate which actually sits in the pool, its dark, enigmatic mass giving the disarming impression of floating on water. |
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This area will be reserved for shorter, more gnomic utterances, hopefully enigmatic and curt enough to conceal the arrant imbecility that will have spawned them. |
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As a whole, these patterns of early modern thought help demystify subject positions that have frequently been perceived as either enigmatic or idiosyncratic. |
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The enigmatic graniferous tracheary inclusions which characterize so many terrestrial parasite haustoria are generally absent in aerial mistletoes. |
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We walk down the wooded dunes, and there, finally, is the gunmetal Baltic, Kaliningrad's point, symbolically shrouded in an undulating, enigmatic fog. |
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No. Will the enigmatic young female violinist turn out to be significant? |
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Anyway down drops some, er, 'poetic' or at least artily enigmatic lines of text. |
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Our case report highlights the paramount importance of medical history in the care of patients with enigmatic illnesses. |
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Following orders from Starfleet, the Enterprise is en route to Pai, throneworld of the insular and enigmatic Dragon Empire. |
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Mary Mann, another sophomore, sits on the roof of a red dog house, giving her most enigmatic Snoopy look. |
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Given the enigmatic nature of Sartor Resartus, it is not surprising that it first achieved little success. |
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There is hope this collection of Masonic miscellanea might one day be put on display, shedding some light onto the enigmatic world of the Masons. |
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Sometimes it refers, whether with appreciation, nostalgia or critical analysis, to idyllic or enigmatic aspects of the English countryside. |
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Her painted portraits became less realistic and more a set of enigmatic icons that made her look much younger than she was. |
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To complicate matters further, Mary finds herself drawn to the enigmatic Jem Merlyn. |
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And just 35 minutes later there was a double for the stable, although not for me, when the enigmatic Vodkatini won the Grand Annual. |
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Female flower and cupule structure in Balanopaceae, an enigmatic rosid family. |
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An enigmatic figure, he often claimed to have no identity outside the roles that he played. |
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A number of enigmatic carved stone balls have been found at the site and some are on display in the museum. |
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Teeth of enigmatic neoselachian sharks and an ornithischian dinosaur from the uppermost Triassic of Lons-le-Saunier. |
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A chillingly enigmatic performance from Forbes Masson, who reminds us never to undervalue the odd bod in the corner. |
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Harold Pinter earned a reputation for being notoriously pugnacious, enigmatic, taciturn, terse, prickly, explosive and forbidding. |
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In the Enchanted Forest, Carlyle plays the Grimms' creation Rumplestiltskin and in Storybrooke, Maine, he plays the enigmatic Mr Gold. |
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The current outbreak of pandemic influenza 2009 demonstrates again how enigmatic, unpredictable and challenging the virus is. |
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They also described a new genus Bassettella, which is characterized by enigmatic surface pits and lamellose frills. |
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The origin of the Sargasso fauna and flora remained enigmatic for centuries. |
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Spacey has been essential in each of his films since, with his deep, enigmatic intensity disguised as underacting. |
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Systematic affinities of two enigmatic New Zealand passerines of high conservation priority, the hihi or stitchbird Notiomystis cincta and the kokako Callaeas cinerea. |
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Asquith died in 1928 and the enigmatic figure of Lloyd George returned to the leadership and began a drive to produce coherent policies on many key issues of the day. |
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Assembly and maturation mechanisms of respiratory complexes remain enigmatic because of their membrane location, multisubunit composition and cofactor insertion. |
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In other words, the picture has become chromatically rich and enigmatic. |
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In addition to the water cycle and churning atmosphere, LOOP features Earth's enigmatic yet powerful oceanic circulation system, the so-called thermohaline conveyor belt. |
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His contemporary Giorgione left a small number of enigmatic works, including The Tempest, the subject of which has remained a matter of speculation. |
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According to scholars, these encode enigmatic references to learning, religion, mortality, and illusion in the tradition of the Northern Renaissance. |
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Mirids again, and along the way we also found enigmatic taxa, such as the shieldbug Boocoris bufiJormis Gross, which ran around like a spider on the grimmest of plants. |
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The enigmatic little rare moth called Weaver's Wave can be seen again basking on the quartz-rich rocks, and the starry saxifrage and bog asphodel flower in the mossy runnels. |
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There was one looking proud in a mauve suit, and another in a yellow shirt, his hip popped out in a jaunty contrapposto, his lips stretched wide in an enigmatic smile. |
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Attention to nutrition may eliminate the enigmatic, though rare, acute yellow atrophy in pregnancy as well as the hepatic complications of preeclampsia. |
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At 50 years old, Sylvie Guillem is supple, applaudable and enigmatic. |
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Another enigmatic attraction at Acapulco are the La Quebrada Cliff Divers. |
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Most seamounts are built by one of two volcanic processes, although some, such as the Christmas Island Seamount Province near Australia, are more enigmatic. |
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Stand-out track is the enigmatic The French Letter which, although reminiscent of something from da Floyd's Wish You Were Here, still sounds stunning. |
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The diegetic sounds are crucial as well, with the third major character an enigmatic audio engineer who goes about producing the nastiest foley since Berberian Sound Studio. |
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I intended to find out from him where he had encountered the enigmatic Osirian figure, the Beautyful One, if indeed that was the inspiration for his slogan. |
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But though intriguing at first, his knowingly enigmatic narration, stylish antichoreography and overripe cinematography wear thin in the long run. |
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