Sphinx-like

They were Chinese, with expressionless, Sphinx-like faces, and they walked in peculiar shambling fashion, dragging their feet as if the clumsy brogans were too heavy for their lean shanks.

THE SEA FARMER 2010

It could not have been pleasant to sit Sphinx-like in the chamber as the president chastised the court and Democrats jumped from their seats in a raucous ovation.

Will Chief Justice Roberts attend the State of the Union? Eva Rodriguez 2011

Uh-huh … yeah, he smiles, pausing to formulate his Sphinx-like reply.

Cillian Murphy, the owner of the most in-demand eyes in Hollywood 2011

If I may step from behind my usual Sphinx-like inscrutability to allow: Yes, I own a minivan, too.

For Your Big-Box Shopping, Drive a Big Box Dan Neil 2011

Yet China, which has been heavily invested in Pakistan for decades and has emerged, next to the U.S., as Islamabad's greatest strategic benefactor, remains Sphinx-like, at least in public.

Beijing's Islamic Complex Charles Horner And Eric Brown 2010

Today, Big Duck is a national landmark and it maintains its Sphinx-like position on the landscape, as cheery as its Egyptian counterpart is enigmatic.

One Big Table Molly O’Neill 2010

Soon, the brothers are pursued not only by the dealer and his gang, but also by a Sufferer, one of the Sphinx-like aliens that follow troubled people around for some unknown purpose.

MOVIE REVIEW: Light and the Sufferer 2008

When she is interested in an outfit, she scribbles on the program, as Anna sits beside her, Sphinx-like.

Gioia Diliberto: Federer Is Betterer 2009

Ironically, he has to continue to trumpet his inevitability because its the only way to address his credibility problem as a Sphinx-like, inexperienced newcomer.

UNCoRRELATED 2008

When asked how it felt to find his body language analyzed in the next day's paper, he said, "I try to remain as Sphinx-like as possible."

A Blast From The Bench 2008