sphinx
Speech parts
1. sphinx - Noun
2. sphinx - Verb
3. Sphinx - Proper noun
Meaning
In Egyptian art, an image of granite or porphyry, having a human head, or the head of a ram or of a hawk, upon the wingless body of a lion.
On Greek art and mythology, a she-monster, usually represented as having the winged body of a lion, and the face and breast of a young woman.
Hence: A person of enigmatical character and purposes, especially in politics and diplomacy.
Any one of numerous species of large moths of the family Sphingidae; -- called also hawk moth.
The Guinea, or sphinx, baboon (Cynocephalus sphinx).
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Pity for him who one day looks upon his inward sphinx and questions it. He is lost.
It is of first-class importance that our answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx should be in step with how we conduct our civilisation, and this should in turn be in step with the actual workings of living systems.
The problem of Eternity, of which the face of the Sphinx speaks, takes us into the realm of the impossible. Even the problem of Time is simple in comparison with the problem of Eternity.
what sphinx of cement and aluminium bashed open their skulls and ate up their brains and imagination.
There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.
He unravels the enigmas of the Sphinx.