She fixed her companion with a sphinxlike gaze and grinned.
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Behind his sphinxlike features, I could sense, there was an air of skepticism.
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His resting face is sphinxlike, but when he speaks with actors, he is teasing and open.
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The Senate majority leader has kept a sphinxlike pose during all manner of President Donald Trump controversies.
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A stylish, compact blond woman, the Stager had the sphinxlike air of a clairvoyant or a customs officer.
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RIO DE JANEIRO — The relics were arranged in a sphinxlike configuration, as in some type of ancient burial ground.
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Its previous editor, Robert Gottlieb, who replaced the uber-literary William Shawn, had failed to interpret Newhouse's Sphinxlike wishes.
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Gadon's Grace is sphinxlike on the subject of her memories, but clear-eyed and artless when she is talking about guilt.
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Kirke, however, who made such an impact, in " Mistress America " (2015), requires no disguise; she is sphinxlike enough as it is.
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Among her closest confidants was Sol LeWitt, the scholarly, sphinxlike Conceptualist visionary who was the subject of an excellent documentary by Chris Teerink a few years ago.
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The New York Times Magazine's Charles Homans was the latest reporter to puzzle over the sphinxlike riddle of McConnell's deeper motivations, in a lengthy profile published in January.
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Barr recalled that as he spoke to Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general was "sphinxlike in his reaction," which prompted Barr to follow up with the 19-page memo.
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Where Audubon's parrots gyrate and foreshorten themselves—one can almost hear them chattering as they press their beaks toward the picture plane—Lear's are sphinxlike in their mysterious stillness.
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Ms. Theron, by contrast, holds you partly because she doesn't seem eager to let you in, keeping you curious as she keeps you at bay with reserve and sphinxlike smiles.
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And for her part, with the exception of a few columns for Vanity Fair and "Celebrate," her much-criticized book debut, Ms. Middleton has maintained a virtually Sphinxlike silence in public.
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Colleagues described him as an almost sphinxlike good listener, working in the Washington bureau newsroom standing up at a specially built desk that he had gotten used to after undergoing back surgery.
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The man whose job it is to hold this disparate coalition together — and to pick off as many of the 22004 Democrats as he can — is Mitch McConnell, the sphinxlike Senate majority leader.
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"Colleagues described him as an almost sphinxlike good listener, working in the Washington bureau newsroom standing up at a specially built desk that he had gotten used to after undergoing back surgery," it added.
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Barr also gave more details about how he delivered the memo, explaining that he first "verbally" gave his opinion to Rosenstein, recalling the deputy attorney general's "sphinxlike" reaction and his follow-up in a written memo.
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In a revealing moment, Franklin and Andre argue, poolside, about an artist who goes unnamed but is clearly Kara Walker , and her work, "A Subtlety," a monumental sculpture of a sphinxlike woman with exaggeratedly Negroid features, coated in white sugar.
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LONDON — Over the last few years, as Britain has divided into warring tribes over its exit from the European Union, Queen Elizabeth II has retained a sphinxlike neutrality, imperturbably getting on with the business of conveying knighthoods and hosting garden parties.
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THE PROVOCATEURThe artist Kara Walker creates subversive works on power, oppression, racial identity, sexuality and violence through charcoal drawing, collage, painting and a renowned, sphinxlike sugar sculpture, "A Subtlety, or the Marvelous Sugar Baby," at the crumbling Domino sugar factory in 2014.
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Rei Kawakubo, the all-but-revered sphinxlike designer of Comme des Garçons, and Anna Wintour, the editor of Vogue and a trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (and the namesake of its Costume Center), between them exert a pull strong enough to wrench small planets out of their orbits.
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Political cartoon published in the Cairo Punch, showing Sir Eldon Gorst, reclining and holding strings attached to puppets representing Egyptian ministers This rejection, together with the murder of Boutros Ghali, caused Gorst to abandon his lenient policy in favor of a harsher one, using the Exceptional Laws and various penal measures to stifle the Nationalists. He had almost restored British control when he became stricken with cancer and went back to England to die. An unprepossessing and egotistical man, disliked by the older British colonial administrators in Egypt and distrusted by the Egyptians as sphinxlike, Gorst was never accorded the respect that his intelligence and strong will warranted, although he received the Grand Cordons of the Osmanieh and Mejidiye Orders and was a Knight Commander of Sts. Michael and George.
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