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• s  of an obscure nature
  the inscrutable workings of Providence

• Despite her reputation for being icy and inscrutable, despite the severe perfection of her hairstyle and wardrobe, Wintour has taken it upon herself to act as something of a .
• Jacob Zuma and Thabo Mbeki were once friends and allies, but they fell out around 2002, allegedly because Mbeki, South Africa's inscrutable President, suspected that Zuma was .
• Despite her reputation for being icy and inscrutable, despite the severe perfection of her hairstyle and wardrobe, Wintour has taken it upon herself to act as something of a .

• cryptic
• cryptical
• deep
• mysterious
• mystifying

News & Articles

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• After years waiting, Academy of Vocal Arts adding space
  Some big careers have grown up behind two inscrutable facades on Spruce Street, and now those buildings have grown to three.
  June 12, 2013 - The Philadelphia Inquirer
• How the Haswell Chip Makes the New MacBook Air Last 12 Hours
  New chips should excite you. Instead, the news reports you read whenever some new microprocessor is released are the dullest things in the world. They are obtuse and inscrutable, a mish-mash of numbers and acronyms for technologies you can’t really wrap your head around.
  June 11, 2013 - Wired News

Quotes

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• Richard Lugar in Reuters
  Lugar said Hill had "demonstrated extraordinary diplomatic and managerial skills in dealing with an isolated and inscrutable North Korean regime that presents the United States with one of its most difficult diplomatic challenges."
• Elena Kagan in Slate Magazine
  ...while some of her supporters suggest that she may prove far more liberal than anyone expected, another Kagan fan told Nina Totenberg this past weekend that "Elena is the single most competitive and most inscrutable person I have ever...