0 an ancient imaginary creature with a lion's body and a person's head --
1 an ancient, imaginary creature with a lion’s body and a human head --
The great libraries and the ingenious systems that support them are the sphinxes of early twentieth century information systems—magnificent, monolithic and obsolete.
Rather, as a sign of "unanswered problems," the sphinx brings socialism into the polite drawing room.
The only other words like this in reasonably regular use are sphinx and sphincter.
The only others like this in reasonably regular use are sphinx and sphincter.
The contingency of meaning created by intermediality thus reflects back upon his earlier treatments of the sphinx.
Composers have to be aware of this: a sphinx guards the entrance of every human domain, of every specific discipline.
The sphinx is the crux of this formulation, forcing the artist to examine the place of individual observation in artistic creation.
The further translation of the sphinx motif across media creates a network of reciprocal meaning that unites these images.