sphinx

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sphinx englannista suomeksi

A creature with the head of a person and the body of an animal, commonly a lion.
(RQ:Shelley Alastor)
A person who keeps their thoughts and intentions secret; an enigmatic or impassive person.
(quote-web)
A mandrill ((taxfmt)), formerly classified as a baboon, and called (vern).
A moth.
A sphincter.
{{quote-book|en|year=1982|author=Lawrence Durrell|title=Constance|publisher=Faber & Faber|year_published=2004|series=Avignon Quintet|page=836
To decorate with sphinxes. (attention)

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(ux)… will adopt either a sphinxed or a squatting posture which takes some of the weight off its belly.

(ux)… or a sphinxing posture (abdomen on the floor)

To be inscrutable, often through silence.
(quote-book)
(quote-journal)Janet Gaynor, so they tell, is sphinxing it and has gone into a Retirement, with "Nothing to Say — Please Go Away" written on the doormat.
To behave in a manner characteristic of the Sphinx.
(quote-book)stood for the feminine threat to civilization: “Crowds are somewhat like the sphinx of ancient fable: it is necessary to arrive at a solution of the problems offered by their psychology or to resign ourselves to being devoured by them.” Male fears of an engulfing femininity are here projected onto the metropolitan masses, who did indeed represent a threat to the rational bourgeois order.(..)We may want to relate Le Bon's social psychology of the masses back to modernism's own fears of being sphinxed.
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