| For one moment he looked up and met her eyes, and she allowed hers to show that sphinxlike smile before she lowered the lids. |
| Keller might be sphinxlike in newsroom meetings, but he was quick to unleash invective in e-mail responses to critics. |
| They all looked eagerly at the criminologist on his return, but his face was sphinxlike. |
| Slowly the Ohio receded from him, somber, implacable, sphinxlike. |
| Her husband sat unbendingly silent, in a sphinxlike attitude that gave no outward indication of his mental uneasiness. |
| Ask Fossett to explain his motivation and he is characteristically sphinxlike. |
