It ends with distilled, nearly abstract images in which pure paint and cryptic description are held in perfect balance.

The cryptic description on all three forms is: "Credit for federal telephone excise tax paid.

Mr. Levinson, a one-time actor, shrugged and laughed at the cryptic description.

That, too, was the cryptic description that other worlds had given the Survey.

Achilles sees no reason to ask the cripple to elaborate on that cryptic description.

At times a disease is linked to a famous victim partly to avoid cryptic anatomical descriptions.

Police leaked news that five "new" celebrities had been identified by police, who gave only cryptic descriptions.

The diary itself had a very cryptic description of a "thirteenth" and told that the Twelve would be involved in the destruction of the world.

"It is broken into lines of cryptic description followed by the one line repeated over and over again: 'what is it.'"

The player must find out how these chips work themselves, as the only information about each chip is a short, and sometimes cryptic, description.