sphinx-like

Sculptures on display include Sarah Bernhardt 's sphinx-like bronze self-portrait and Clara Pfeffer 's sculpture of Loïe Fuller performing her famous "serpentine" dance.

A Nouveau Niche on Display Kimberly Chou 2011

Giselle Allen and Benjamin Hulett were precisely sphinx-like as Quint and Jessel.

The Turn of the Screw; Ariadne auf Naxos; Les pêcheurs de perles; Mitsuko Uchida Fiona Maddocks 2010

Milestones are never a good time to achieve critical detachment, and the effusions of praise from colleagues that cram this coffee-table tribute—a vanity compendium of action and production photos, studded with faultless encomia from self-proclaimed friends—do little to illuminate the sphinx-like façade that is Mr. Levine's public persona.

The Met's Rock of Ages Norman Lebrecht 2011

Snettishane was inwardly pleased, though his sphinx-like visage never relaxed.

THE MARRIAGE TO LIT-LIT 2010

The English were amazed at the giant, flat-headed statues with their inscrutable sphinx-like faces and cylindrical ten-ton topknots of red stone balancing on their brows.

Richard Bangs: Skullduggery on Easter Island (Part I of II) Richard Bangs 2011

He turned on his moccasined heel and walked out, imperturbable, sphinx-like, neither giving nor receiving greetings nor looking to right or left.

Chapter III 2010

Lucrezia is transformed into a sphinx-like objet de luxe.

Bronzino's Medici portraits – review James Hall 2010

The grim switchboard flashed its metallic face in cryptic, sphinx-like immobility.

DARKWATER W.E.B. DU BOIS 2004

Photos show the elegant, muscular young man striking sphinx-like poses dressed in harem pant and jewels, his elongated face angular as a Picasso.

Debra Levine: American Master Choreographer Jack Cole Feted at Jacob's Pillow 2010

I'd read the slew of comic one-liners he unleashed on reporters the previous day, as well as the many depictions of him as some sort of cold, humorless, sphinx-like mystery man.

Vinnie Rotondaro: The Mikhail Prokhorov Media Experience, In Brooklyn 2010