He'd been telling her in a cryptic way that he might need her help.

And not only Mollena-all the others he had met in the past few days spoke in the same cryptic way.

Kamm decided to push him to give formal approval immediately, though he had to speak in the cryptic way the bureaucracy demands.

I presume that the copy will be marked in some cryptic way?

Later on, the film addresses terrorism in ways too cryptic and fanciful to have much impact.

Water was the best disguise of one's tracks, the old man had announced in his cryptic way.

She did, however, smile in the cryptic way that Karel had smiled only a few moments earlier.

Some proud members even began to display their membership in cryptic ways.

Daniel is met by the angel Gabriel who partially interprets the visions in cryptic ways.