Word: crypticisms
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Apart from his usual tirade against Cal's "institutional tyranny," Savio did not really explain what was bothering him or what he expects to do now. His cryptic excuse for quitting was: "Lest I feel deserving of the charge of 'Bonapartism,' which even I sometimes have made against myself, I'd like to wish you good luck and goodbye." In a rambling letter to the campus Daily Californian, Savio indicated that he had not lost his selfesteem. "I should do a great disservice to our community if I were to make myself indispensable," he wrote...
...young detective didn't hear the last remark, for he was already out the door. He knew he was right now. Tht pouch of tobacco was important. Now he had to find the strange little foreigner with the only clue he had: a cryptic phrase--"the Bronze Rhinoceros...
...Illustrate the feelings of Africn today, Williams related this cryptic comment by an African leader. "Yes, we're non-aligned, but that doesn't mean we're uncommitted...
...polished--a verbal statue commemorating in abstract from the general contours of Mr. Epps" thought. In abstract form, unfortunately, his thought looks much like anyone else's thought. He has reached for the sublime and come up with the ordinary. And, saddest of all, the essay often approaches the cryptic, and inevitably becomes a puzzle to the reader. Instead of moving him, it leaves him either confused or complacently proud that he has figured...
...comparison, Marcel Duchamp seemed like a naughty boy who ties enigmatic, impudent, possibly lewd messages to balloons, then lets them fly off into the blue yonder. But now, 42 years after he abandoned art, his messages have come down to earth. Far from being gibberish, the scribblings now seem cryptic formulas for the future...