enigma
Example Sentences
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When Todd Haynes made his 1995 masterpiece “Safe”—which cast Julianne Moore as a Los Angeles housewife under siege by myriad illnesses—environmental disease was an enigma.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026
Clarke's team are becoming a bit of an enigma, a curiosity that's hard to read.
From BBC • Mar. 28, 2026
It’s Seyfried who elevates “The Housemaid” from guilty pleasure status, making it an exhilarating enigma at one moment and genuinely affecting the next.
From Salon • Jan. 31, 2026
But she said the film, which goes on global release on Friday and will later be shown exclusively on Amazon Prime, would give people a look behind the enigma.
From Barron's • Jan. 29, 2026
I waited now his return; eager to disburthen my mind, and to seek of him the solution of the enigma that perplexed me.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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