Word: enigma
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Going into the game, the Eagles were somewhat of an enigma to the Crimson...
...that Schami fits only into the queerball towel-head tradition. He weds Middle Eastern enigma with good old-fashioned European story-cycles. He self-consciously spurns the narrative conventions of the modern novel and reverts to the tradition of Homer, Apuleius, Bocaccio and Chaucer. We're talking tale within a tale within a tale...
...understand what the fuss was all about," longtime Older Dominion Coach Eldon "Enigma" Jasper said to me this morning. "A kid can shoot the rock and plow the field in the same afternoon, I've always said...
Kerrigan's misfortune was especially poignant. As a skater, she has always been an enigma. Blessed with a solid, assured technique -- high, ample leaps, a long, elegant line and instinctive musicality -- she is an erratic competitor. On good days she has won national titles and, in 1992, an Olympic bronze medal. On bad days she has lost her nerve and scaled down her program by simplifying or eliminating the tough jumps. Says TV commentator and former - Olympic gold medalist Dick Button: "She is unusually strong as a skater, more so than most women, but in other ways she is very...
Instead, the novel's bad "guy"--and perhaps the characters' liberator--is a wonderfully sinister, manipulative creature named Zenia. Zenia, however, resists sexist categorizations in her own way: while seemingly a femme fatal, she cannot be simply, reductively seductive. Instead she remains the evil enigma. Nor is she ultimately fatal to any one of her "brides," although she is to her bridegrooms. Terrible as it may be, Zenia makes the necessary, awful decisions that none of her female victims would have made for themselves, and always for her own profit...