mysteriousness

The mysteriousness is the point, what makes it koan-like.

Not over yet ...

I may be able to very soon, and clear up all this mysteriousness, that is worrying me so.

Frank Roscoe's Secret Or, the Darewell Chums in the Woods

This sort of mysteriousness, which is always so becoming in a hero, threw a fresh grace in Catherine's imagination around his person and manners, and increased her anxiety to know more of him.

Northanger Abbey

And our own growth into love has got to be a growth into that kind of mysteriousness, that kind of causeless upsurge of compassion towards the stranger.

An address given by the Archbishop

And this isn't a 'mysteriousness' objection; it's just good sense.

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It gives you an odd mysteriousness which is very attractive. '

The Magician

This sort of mysteriousness, which is always so becoming in a hero, threw a fresh grace in Catherine’s imagination around his person and manners, and increased her anxiety to know more of him.

Northanger Abbey

The pictures are innovative, modern; yet they recall the silvery gleam of Diego Velázquez's armor, the golden-tinged, blue-gray sheen of Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin's fruit, the rugged, oily earth-tones of Rembrandt's shadows, and the mysteriousness of Johannes Vermeer.

A Modern Movement Unto Himself

The mysteriousness of it all (by keeping him both in the shadows AND not talking about him overtly) keeps the fragile illusion safe.

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And in the situation she found an uplifting awfulness, such as comes when the veil is thrust aside and one gazes on the mysteriousness of Deity.

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