Parental alienation lacks a single definition and its existence, etiology, characteristics and in particular the description of the term as a syndrome has been subject to still-unresolved debate.

Soifer speaks of " the enigma " of Vishnu's Narasimha avatara and comments that " how the myth arrived at its rudimentary form recorded in the Mahabharata, and where the figure of the man-lion came from remain unsolved mysteries.

Plato's attitude toward poetry has always been something of an enigma, because he is so completely sensitive to its charm.

G. David Thompson is one of those names known to the stewards of transatlantic jetliners and to doormen in Europe's best hotels, but he is somewhat of an enigma to most people in his own home town of Pittsburgh.

A psychedelic masterpiece with neither lengthy jams nor studio wizardry ... ' Forever Changes ' is an enigma wrapped in a web of contradictions ..."

Marshall, who knew both Patton and Bradley, stated that " The Bradley name gets heavy billing on a picture of comrade that, while not caricature, is the likeness of a victorious, glory-seeking buffoon ... Patton in the flesh was an enigma.

The extensive variation in nuclear genome size among eukaryotic species is known as the C-value enigma or C-value paradox.

Allen plays Zelig, a curiously nondescript enigma who is discovered for his remarkable ability to transform himself to resemble anyone he's near.

A puzzle is a problem or enigma that tests the ingenuity of the solver.

The enigma is not the identity of the persons portrayed, as those are known, but rather a hidden theme that is, in Elgar's words, " not played ".

Determining which of Elgar's friends is represented in each variation is, surprisingly, not the " enigma " mentioned in the title.

McLendon was noted for his strange sense of humor and this is true with the enigma of the name " Radio Atlanta ", which he chose for a station broadcasting to the UK.

Marshall, who knew both Patton and Bradley, stated that " The Bradley name gets heavy billing on a picture of comrade that, while not caricature, is the likeness of a victorious, glory-seeking buffoon ... Patton in the flesh was an enigma.

Demetrius is a legend as well as an enigma.

No less remarkable than his representation of perverse depravity in El Burlador de Sevilla is his dramatic treatment of a philosophical enigma in El Condenado por desconfiado, but El Burlador de Sevilla and El Condenado por desconfiado are thought by scholars as Fernando Cantalapiedra or Alfredo Rodriguez to have been written by Andrés de Claramonte.

It appears in all four Hyperion Cantos books and is an enigma in the initial two ; its purpose is not revealed until the second book, but even then left somewhat nebulous.

A contribution to the enigma of Netochka Nezvanova and her various alter egos is the mystery around the persons behind them.

The Giovanni Family is an enigma, standing outside Kindred politics, and is the only clan to have truly done so since its inception, The Giovanni have a reputation that causes most fellow Kindred to avoid them at all costs.

Clave is the key that unlocks the enigma ; it de-codes the rhythmic puzzle.

This is the central enigma of the fourteenth century: the fragmentation and dissolution of the estate system, and the disappearance of the civil administration coincided with the proliferation of private lands, but the external framework of the estate system ( shōen ) and the public lands system ( kokugaryo ), though devoid of content, still remained.

The presence of tiny troodontids in an oviraptorid nest is an enigma.

The Altai Mountains have been identified as being the point of origin of a cultural enigma termed the Seima-Turbino Phenomenon which arose during the Bronze Age around the start of the 2nd millennium BC and led to a rapid and massive migration of peoples from the region into distant parts of Europe and Asia.

Elgar suggested that in case the variations were to be a ballet the ' enigma ' would have to be represented by ' a veiled dancer '.

From the earliest days this enigma has drawn comment, and the widest possible range of opinions of Diabelli's theme have been expressed.

Although there have been more than 6500 publications about eels, much of its life history remains an enigma.

Dunstaple was probably the most influential English composer of all time, yet he remains an enigma: his complete works were not published until the quincentenary of his death in 1953, but even since then works have been added and subtracted from his oeuvre ; we know very little of his life and nothing of his undoubted learning ; we can only make an educated guess at most of the chronology of the small amount of music that has come down to us ; and we understand little of his style – why he wrote as he did, what artistic or technical principles guided his composing, how his music was performed, or why it was so influential.

It remains unclear whether or not the enigma is a genuinely solvable puzzle, as certain details regarding the actual nature of the challenge have never been revealed.

: Despite her role as the titular character, she is a bit of an enigma within the series, as her origins have yet to be explained.

For reasons of conceptual clarification, the various puzzles that remain with regard to genome size variation instead have been suggested to more accurately comprise a complex but clearly defined puzzle known as the C-value enigma.

An organism's complexity is not directly proportional to its genome size ; some single cell organisms have much more DNA than humans ( see Junk DNA and C-value enigma ).

For reasons of conceptual clarification, the various puzzles that remain with regard to genome size variation instead have been suggested by one author to more accurately comprise a puzzle or an enigma ( the C-value enigma ).

At the center of the C-value enigma is the observation that genome size does not correlate with organismal complexity ; for example, some single-celled protists have genomes much larger than that of humans.

As the epithet aenigma (" the enigma ") implies, its relationships have long been elusive.

Though Woloschuk was the group's primary songwriter, he has sometimes been regarded by fans as something of an enigma and a recluse.

Prior to 1854, he had been an enigma for historians and archeologists who knew nothing of Belshazzar outside the book of Daniel.

Politically, Brown has been an enigma, but more recent scholarship considers Brown as having, for instance, few or no associations with a Federalist political agenda and instead divorcing himself from the ideology of America as an exemplary nation, and desiring " political justice " on both sides of the Atlantic.

Reed had been a big believer in Bradley, but Calipari and Nash weren't nearly as excited about the 7-foot-6 enigma.

" I ’ ve been following Kubrick researchers like Rob Ager and Jay Weidner for the last few years and I really wanted to dramatize a story based around Kubrick as an inspirational enigma.

The Final Cut has been an international underground electronic music enigma since emerging from the late 80's Detroit underground.

Stoker also indulges the air of mystery further than Le Fanu by allowing the characters to solve the enigma of the vampire along with the reader.

The first extended description of Skull and Bones, published in 1871 by Lyman Bagg in his book Four Years at Yale, noted that " the mystery now attending its existence forms the one great enigma which college gossip never tires of discussing.

" Despite intense media interest and an attempt to solve the enigma by Poe, the crime remains one of the most puzzling unsolved murders of New York City.

When Italian painting developed a taste for enigma, considerably later, it most often showed in secular compositions influenced by Renaissance Neo-Platonism.

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The first machine was built by the Poles and was a hand operated multiple enigma machine.

The mood created by Ugly Casanova's songs reflects the enigma that is its creator, Edgar Graham.

From his belief in teleology he is not deterred by the enigma of pain.

Once referred to as " Australia's dapper, dark-skinned, dreamy-eyed boxing enigma ", Sands was trained by Tom Maguire.

She is a dignified and intelligent woman, seen as a big sister by Iris Irine and as an enigma by Chaos.

However, this enigma brought about by their close association with the Gas is being solved gradually with the introduction of Adangme as a school subject in the Dangme areas.

According to Belting, in these passages Bosch's " imagination triumphs ... the ambivalence of visual syntax exceeds even the enigma of content, opening up that new dimension of freedom by which painting becomes art.

The spacious mardana or courtyard behind the Diwan-i-Aam is surrounded by several interesting structures, though the function and purpose of some of them remain an enigma.

She was fascinated with the subject and " its sense of permantently suspended enigma " and calls it a " haunted picture ", inhabited by the actual presence of the artist ( Morris, Jan, Pleasures of a Tangled Life, Arrow, 1990, p. 170 ).

" Damon Wise of Empire magazine gave it five stars, calling it " A dazzling and exquisitely original riddle as told by an enigma " and Jim Emerson ( editor of RogerEbert. com ) gave it 4 stars and praised it: " When people say Inland Empire is Lynch's Sunset Boulevard, Lynch's Persona or Lynch's 8½, they're quite right, but it also explicitly invokes connections to Stanley Kubrick's The Shining, Jean-Luc Godard's Pierrot le Fou, Buñuel and Dali's Un Chien Andalou, Maya Deren's LA-experimental Meshes of the Afternoon ( a Lynch favorite ) and others ".

Size nonwithstanding, the Javan or Bartels's Wood-owl seems an especially promising candidate to resolve the ahool enigma: it has a conspicuous flat " face " with large dark eyes exaggerated by black rings of feathers and a beak that protrudes but little, and it appears greyish-brown when seen from below.

Writing about Rogers as a sequel to " The Murders in the Rue Morgue ", Poe tried to solve the aforementioned enigma by creating a murder mystery.