Word: crypticisms
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...lithographs, Matisse accentuates certain elements of form and composition which, in his paintings, are less obvious. In other words, when we look at one of his prints we are better able to discover just what the artist is trying to do; his paintings, though by no means cryptic, require greater exercise of critical powers...
...there was Emily Dickinson, hidden away in a big house at Amherst where few people ever saw her. She used to send her friends cryptic little notes, often only a single line: "Do you look out tonight?"; "Mrs. S. gets bigger and rolls down the lane to church like a reverend marble"; "Not what the stars have done, but what they are to do, is what detains the sky." She seldom addressed the notes herself. Usually the names and addresses were clipped out of a newspaper and pasted on the envelopes...
...cryptic communique issued last night by the Flag Officers stated that, "Plans are maturing. The flotilla will proceed under sealed orders to be given out tomorrow night. No enemy opposition is expected...
...York Times correspondent, Svend Cartensen, wirelessed a cryptic announcement that German troops had invaded Denmark...
...morning last week when the staid London Times turned up at breakfast with these cryptic numerals above a report of the previous day's debate in Parliament, every good Londoner got the allusion. Britain's bungling, War-born Ministry of Information was still being lambasted in the House of Commons. And the Times head was a plea for help from baffled editors whose effort to get news from the front had been balked by official red tape...