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sphinx-like - definition and meaning
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Sculptures on display include Sarah Bernhardt 's sphinx-like bronze self-portrait and Clara Pfeffer 's sculpture of Loïe Fuller performing her famous "serpentine" dance.
A Nouveau Niche on Display Kimberly Chou 2011
Giselle Allen and Benjamin Hulett were precisely sphinx-like as Quint and Jessel.
The Turn of the Screw; Ariadne auf Naxos; Les pêcheurs de perles; Mitsuko Uchida Fiona Maddocks 2010
Milestones are never a good time to achieve critical detachment, and the effusions of praise from colleagues that cram this coffee-table tribute—a vanity compendium of action and production photos, studded with faultless encomia from self-proclaimed friends—do little to illuminate the sphinx-like façade that is Mr. Levine's public persona.
The Met's Rock of Ages Norman Lebrecht 2011
Snettishane was inwardly pleased, though his sphinx-like visage never relaxed.
THE MARRIAGE TO LIT-LIT 2010
The English were amazed at the giant, flat-headed statues with their inscrutable sphinx-like faces and cylindrical ten-ton topknots of red stone balancing on their brows.
Richard Bangs: Skullduggery on Easter Island (Part I of II) Richard Bangs 2011
He turned on his moccasined heel and walked out, imperturbable, sphinx-like , neither giving nor receiving greetings nor looking to right or left.
Chapter III 2010
Lucrezia is transformed into a sphinx-like objet de luxe.
Bronzino's Medici portraits – review James Hall 2010
The grim switchboard flashed its metallic face in cryptic, sphinx-like immobility.
DARKWATER W.E.B. DU BOIS 2004
Photos show the elegant, muscular young man striking sphinx-like poses dressed in harem pant and jewels, his elongated face angular as a Picasso.
Debra Levine: American Master Choreographer Jack Cole Feted at Jacob's Pillow 2010
I'd read the slew of comic one-liners he unleashed on reporters the previous day, as well as the many depictions of him as some sort of cold, humorless, sphinx-like mystery man.
Vinnie Rotondaro: The Mikhail Prokhorov Media Experience, In Brooklyn 2010
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