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• n  an inscrutable person who keeps his thoughts and intentions secret
• n  (Greek mythology) a riddling winged monster with a woman's head and breast on a lion's body; daughter of Typhon
• n  one of a number of large stone statues with the body of a lion and the head of a man that were built by the ancient Egyptians

• To one of his press conferences had come a group of correspondents, vaguely hopeful that the State Department's sphinx might say something and permit quotation.
• Or the French President, who tends to express himself on the matter with all the clarity of a sphinx? The diversity of voices characteristic of a true democracy is difficult to .

• Sphinx

News & Articles

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• Annual Sphinx Competition kicks off 17th season
  DETROIT (AP) - Registration has begun for a national music competition open to young black and Latino string players. The Detroit-based Sphinx Competition announced Monday that it has kicked off its 17th season. The application deadline is Nov. 12.
  June 11, 2013 - WLNS Lansing
• Man Sues Surgeon Following Botched Rhinoplasty, Wakes Without Nose
  Tulsa, OK – On a vain whim, following a 2006 divorce, Vishal Thakkar, a New York transplant to Tulsa underwent what he thought was a routine rhinoplasty with a notably skilled, local plastic surgeon. Today after nearly 22 surgeries, like the Great Sphinx of Giza, Thakkar no longer has a nose and labors to breathe [...] Man Sues Surgeon Following Botched Rhinoplasty, Wakes Without Nose is a post ...
  June 7, 2013 - The Inquisitr

Quotes

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• Simon Callow in Playbill.com
  Callow said in a statement, "Shakespeare's Sonnets are the sphinx of English literature. Every poem in the collection seems to speak of some intensely lived experience, but there is no logical emotional or intellectual coherence to them. John...
• Marc Quinn in guardian.co.uk
  We're pleased to announce GreenBank, whose parent company, Green Bankshares, Inc., is the third largest bank holding company headquartered in Tennessee, as one of the latest organizations to choose SPHiNX to help meet and surpass stringent... Glenn http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNErmrlxQnvsKxMArOnLMjD1-fuoRg MarketWatch (press release) http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.marketwatch.com/story/greenbank-deploys-crossroads-systems-sphinx-virtual-tape-appliance-for-powerful-data-protection-2010-05-05%3Freflink%3DMW_news_stmp&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNH4EsN_o_9ewE0DUu25BuVycQEhgA May 5, 2010 93109 123724 sphinx She [Moss] is a contemporary version of the sphinx. A mystery," Quinn says. "There must be something about her that has clicked with the collective unconscious to make her so ubiquitous, so spirit-of-the-age."