Word: enigma
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Blanchett at the end of the film, martyred tothe state as the Virgin Queen, is not a grandpoignant enigma, but merely the astute resolutionto give the people of England the ruler theydesire...
Since that date, more than 100 giant squid, all dead, have been found on various coastlines and in the nets of deep sea fishers. While scientists have learned much about the animal, it still remains somewhat of an enigma...
...were found to function normally. Experts say a "massive" exposure to certain industrial products, like the solvent dichloromethane, could produce elevated CO levels, as could heavy cigarette smoking. Paul did not smoke cigarettes and only occasionally puffed on a cigar. Judge Stephan has ordered a special investigation into this enigma...
Offstage, Robbins was a self-made enigma who gave interviews rarely and only on his own terms, meaning no personal questions. Though his homosexuality was an open secret, he never discussed it in public, going so far in 1951 as to become engaged to the ballerina Nora Kaye. (They never married. Interestingly, he cast her as the novice man killer in The Cage.) It took a subpoena to get him to talk about his private life: he testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1953 about his involvement with a communist group of the '40s, naming eight other...
Although the immediate effects of Zimmerman's loss translated into three straight Crimson defeats, there was a grain of positive energy that surfaced in his place. The enigma of the first half of the season soon became clearer as Harvard recognized its over-reliance on the All-American's abilities...