Word: crypticness
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...many of its correspondences, dreams, and borderland apprehensions of a bottomless past, this book has the gooseflesh resonance of a well-made poem, full of dim, sentient suggestions of a religious fatality. Its whole treatment is somber, muted, ardent. As a confused, cryptic painting-a portrait of a personal absorption rather than a public communication -it is moving. Yet, within its arbitrary framework, it convincingly clarifies nothing about destiny...
...Misled by Miss Morgan's reticent secretary, who was scanty and cryptic in giving information, TIME is glad to set the record straight...
...Churchill. He lambasted Italians who complain about Italy's having plunged into the war, and foreigners who laugh about it: "Some think now we were too soon, who then thought we were too late." Of the conflict against the Greeks, he spoke with cryptic assurance: "Soon maybe it will be spring, and as the season may dictate, will come our beautiful season...
...good times were coming. A kite of brilliant feathers perched on his bow and dazzled his enemies' eyes out. Then one day in 660 B.C. he acceded to the world-throne-i.e., Japan's; and the cloudless blue weather of that day made him utter four cryptic words which now are taken to mean that Japan should expand to the ends of the earth: "Eight directions...
...also been the White House spokesman. Once he delivered what sounded like a Presidential rebuke to Henry Wallace for urging the Third Term. Once he relayed the President's views on the Monroe Doctrine in terms so confusing that neither State Department papers, editorials or his own cryptic statements later could clear them up. But none of these compared with his act last week...