| Slowly the Ohio receded from him, somber, implacable, sphinxlike. |
| Keller might be sphinxlike in newsroom meetings, but he was quick to unleash invective in e-mail responses to critics. |
| The granite rests in unalterable calm, sphinxlike, on the edge of the watery desert. |
| Hoffman doesn't look anything like the real Howe, but he has a classic aging manager's body, with a large, rounded gut, and, like a lot of managers, he's sphinxlike and impervious and surly. |
| It is tempting to describe her as sphinxlike, but then the Sphinx did occasionally speak in public. |
| Katherine for once took up the gauntlet, while one of her sphinxlike smiles hovered about her mouth. |
