(a.) Recently, or just, begun; beginning; partially but not fully in existence or operation; existing in its elements; incomplete.
(v. t.) To begin.
Example Sentences:
(1) Contemporary biological psychiatry is in a seemingly inchoate state.
(2) The film-maker maunders about inchoately in the documentary, showing a "different" slice of life, and at one stage trots out the extraordinary defence that if he hadn't done it, someone else would have.
(3) Such analysis is done in well-documented and apparently logical form by the utilities and in a rather more inchoate but not necessarily less accurate form by the public.
(4) The detectable AChE activity at this age is apparently found in inchoate layers 1-2 and 4-5.
(5) The painful reality for the party is that its leader cobbled together an inchoate platform that masked fierce ideological differences in the ranks and hoped to steer it through an electoral window opened up by Lib Dem collapse and Ukip insurgency.
(6) Images inchoate and nonsensical, my arms and legs seemingly elongated and embalmed in grease, the sense of utter isolation while being gnawed by rats.
(7) The information and study was at an inchoate stage; therefore, further comparison and interpretation are needed to assess the findings.
(8) Attachment is fascinating as an idea; when it hardens into science, which is inchoate but treated as fact, its consequences can be devastating.
(9) But though, in interviews with the Guardian, young activists focused their anger on Jamaat-e-Islami, which they called "the terrorist group", a series of more inchoate discontents underpinned the movement too.
(10) The other challenge to Cameron, Miliband and Clegg and anyone who hopes to step into their shoes, is that the quarrel between the two firebrands reflects inchoate though powerful undercurrents.
(11) He incorporates within his writing both his stunning and at times crippling intellectual powers and his dark inchoate mournful passion and remorse.
(12) He started with a call for military action, then veered into a prayer for diplomacy before trailing off into an inchoate “stay tuned” denouement.
(13) More recent criticism has emphasised Holden's inchoate desire for something purer and truer than the cruelty and "phoniness" of the unredeemed world.
(14) Given the spontaneous, geographically diverse and inchoate nature of these disturbances, there was never a credible single cause.
(15) Obese entitlement and inchoate bluster; but white as they are white.
(16) Public sentiment whipsawed between unimaginable grief and inchoate rage, and the NRA provided a concrete proposal whose very outlandishness contained a glimmer of hope: no one has ever before seriously proposed weaponizing public schools.
(17) Many of us brood on the abyss – the sense that, in some large, inchoate way, we are nearing the end of life as we know it.
(18) In Uganda there is an inchoate revolution struggling to be born.
(19) Yes, there was some resistance to Putin’s increasing control, but the opposition – inchoate, confused and conflicted – was easily undermined.
(20) Political struggle for a better world has given way to inchoate identity-driven rage.
Ineffable
Definition:
(a.) Incapable of being expresses in words; unspeakable; unutterable; indescribable; as, the ineffable joys of heaven.
Example Sentences:
(1) There was that, and there was the ineffable presence of David Attenborough.
(2) The moral worldview of the devoted actor is dominated by what Edmund Burke referred to as “the sublime”: a need for the “delightful terror” of a sense of power, destiny, a giving over to the ineffable and unknown.
(3) Maybe, SCOTUSblog was itself playing at a little performance art, a commentary on the search for specificity and certainty in a series of cases that deal primarily with the ineffable realm of human emotions.
(4) In his volume of autobiographical essays, A Small Boy and Others , Henry James remembers the Broadway of his youth, where he first saw paintings: “Ineffable, unsurpassable, those hours of initiation which the Broadway of the 1850s had been.
(5) Although she was born in Bamako, her parents were from Wassoulou, the fertile south of Mali, and much of her music is based on the idioms of that area, particularly the ancient, bluesy music of the hunters, who you can meet in their jackets covered with mirrors, hooves and the tails of animals, radiating ineffable cool.
(6) Where is the entertainer who, quite unbidden, will lead us out of the woods toward a better tomorrow - all the while bravely refusing to compromise their ineffable cool by removing their sunglasses?
(7) There's almost nothing to Let the Music Use You – a bassline, an unchanging rhythm track based around an insistent synthetic cowbell noise, a two-note keyboard part, a synthesiser that shifts from a melancholy wash of sound into a delirious, joyful ascending chord sequence and a vocal by a forgotten singer called Ricky Dillard who sounds, for the most part, as if he's making it up on the hoof – and yet it captures that weird, ineffable dancefloor transcendence perfectly.
(8) But as the philosopher Gillian Rose once argued, sometimes we retreat into the language of ineffability because we are trying "to mystify something we dare not understand, because we fear that it may be all too understandable."
(9) The occasion was relieved for May and Hammond only by Jeremy Corbyn’s ineffable ability to turn victory at the dispatch box into fumbling defeat.
(10) A great fashion moment in film is when someone wears something that is supposed to look good, gives onlookers ineffable joy and, finally, so utterly suits the character.
(11) A broad range of delegates were ineffably moved by Hu's speech, which contained heartrending lines such as "the scientific outlook on development is the theoretical guidance the party must adhere to for a long time".
(12) This will be Jones’s last election as Welsh Labour leader, and his party may yet discover how much they will miss the ineffable qualities of a lucky general.
(13) Here, several aspects of the analytic process which allow for the understanding of ineffable experiences in the analysand's history and the analytic situation are investigated: specifically, primal repression, metaphor, and the role of speech in free association.
(14) If food is spiritual, then modern "celebrity chefs" have become our priests or gurus, druidic conduits to the ineffable.
(15) It's a bit Carry On, a bit Ealing, quintessentially English, ineffably funny.
(16) The complaint that the iPad doesn't do something sufficiently specific, or sufficiently path-breaking, ignores the lesson of the iPod's success: if its feel, its looks, and its whole ineffable personality manages to seize enough imaginations, it will triumph.
(17) Nothing would be left to chance; everything would now be perfectly, ineffably, Chaplin.
(18) There is, as everyone who meets him seems to note, something ineffably sad about his eyes, even when he laughs, which he does in a gruff, mirthless shout.
(19) And support came from the ineffable Jacob ("vox populi, vox dei") Rees-Mogg, who unwound himself from the bench and took off his phantom top hat to point out that it was vitally important for such decisions to be taken quickly because business moves quickly.
(20) As he performed his first handstand his legs seemed to stretch to the heavens and with ineffable style and grace he completed one of the most consummate pommel displays the Olympic stage has seen.