Word: crypticness
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...Lion Feuchtwanger has for years been discussing one of the touchiest of age-old issues-the Jewish problem. The nub of this problem is the never-ending tug-of-war in the Semitic mind between nationalism (atavistic) and internationalism (idealistic)-a nub made spiny with the misunderstandings that this cryptic conflict causes in whatever alien community it takes place. Author Feuchtwanger has embodied this struggle in the character of First-Century Jewish Historian Flavius Josephus (The Jewish War), historical hero of the fictional trilogy of which Josephus and the Emperor is volume three...
...dream the Angel Moroni appeared to young Joseph Smith and told him where to find the gold plates on which was written, in cryptic characters, the Book of Mormon. The boy went and found the plates, and translated them. Thus, in the year 1830, in Fayette, N.Y., he founded the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, long hated and reviled by Gentiles because it hallowed the custom of taking several wives...
...memorable comment on the Cardinal's own death came from an even higher dignitary and was even more cryptic. "When the news of [Richelieu's] passing was brought to Urban VIII, the old Pope sat for a moment in pensive silence. 'Well,' he said at last, 'if there is a God, Cardinal Richelieu will have much to answer for. If not, he has done very well...
...poor-me-one, a tropical American relative of the whippoorwill, nests on the fractured stump of a growing tree, where its coloration and its cryptic posture make it look like a broken branch...
...individual oarsmen less difficult, and the other is the addition or laminated washboards instead of solid ones. The new shell is marked on the stern "P 85," which means it is the eighty-fifth shell in order of acquisition, and that it was built by Pocock. Below these cryptic figures is a "41," standing of course for the year in which it was first used...