It is this lack of self-observation, or indeed, of any evident interior life, that makes the Duchess such an enigmatic but also compelling operatic creature.

At times, however, this enigmatic creature also enjoyed walking the streets of Paris dressed like a prostitute.

The Dover Demon: An enigmatic and gangly creature, the Demon can foretell the future.

Exploring this horrific land known locally as Jarka Ruus, she encounters an enigmatic and somewhat annoying creature called Weka Dart.

The immortal being of Wanderer had set Atlan the task of facing the enigmatic creatures from another time-continuum.

From what the embassy says, they're a lovely, mostly sweet-smelling population of... totally enigmatic creatures that PPI claims desire to emerge from solitude, God knows why.

The discovery last summer of a 13-million-year-old fragment of a lower jaw has inspired a more concerted examination of these enigmatic creatures, known collectively as Miocene dryopithecine hominoids.

And so there was this enigmatic creature in a good likeness.

Deep in Tibet, in a high and icy valley, the explorers came upon the first of the enigmatic creatures.

Luke Wylie was an especially enigmatic, androgynous creature, with pigtails coiled like snakes, recalling some walk-on character from an early work of Robert Wilson.