The case has nonetheless thrown some light on the mysterious working of France's intelligence agencies.

The answer, the simple farmer would have concluded, had more to do with the tortuous, mysterious workings of the noble mind than with plain sense.

Not because it's the right thing to do, but because I might learn more about the mysterious workings of the feeble human mind.

Mining was returned to something more like the first tale, but with its own mysterious workings.

What's more, in the mysterious workings of psychoacoustics, they might even detract from the listening experience.

His way was to act-to quickly consult his own interior, utterly mysterious workings, and then act.

They were all eager to examine Enigma's mysterious workings.

Everything in his films is determined - sometimes overdetermined - but their constant theme is the mysterious workings of chance.

Long before that, the burgeoning young artist must be taken in hand by someone who understands the phenomenon of celebrity and its mysterious workings.

The cool, analytical categories of science, the work suggests, are no match for the mysterious workings of sexual desire.