(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.
Innumerable
Definition:
(a.) Not capable of being counted, enumerated, or numbered, for multitude; countless; numberless; unnumbered, hence, indefinitely numerous; of great number.
Example Sentences:
(1) The cause has been innumerable "VIP movements", as journeys undertaken by those considered important enough for all other traffic to be held up, sometimes for hours, are described in South Asian bureaucratic speak.
(2) The striking nature of skin angiomas in some patients is illustrated by a mother-daughter pair with innumerable lesions of early onset.
(3) Most examples measure less than or equal to 0.5 cm and are composed of a partially encapsulated mass of bland Schwann cells and innumerable tiny axons arranged in interlacing fascicles.
(4) The results of the meanwhile innumerous studies were found to be at variance and often controversial.
(5) There are innumerable pitfalls in the intense learning process of residency training that may result in a deficient resident.
(6) Today a visitor to Google Book Search can read on screen or download the full text of Oliver Twist, The Wealth of Nations or innumerable other out-of-copyright titles.
(7) At this time, innumerable oligodendrocytes were observed producing BP simultaneously in the major white fiber tracts.
(8) One hour after blood reinfusion, the mucosal blood flow in the corpus was increased markedly, and innumerable hemorrhagic erosions appeared in this region.
(9) There are innumerable examples around the world where content that is declared illegal under the laws of one country, would be deemed legal in others: Thailand criminalises some speech that is critical of its King, Turkey criminalises some speech that is critical of Ataturk, and Russia outlaws some speech that is deemed to be ‘gay propaganda’.
(10) The resected right lower lobe of the lung contained innumerable lesions varying in size from microscopic to 3.7 cm in diameter, all of which were diagnosed as "sclerosing hemangioma."
(11) The surface of the articular cartilage of 12 months and 20 months old cats was populated by innumerable pits.
(12) Patterns of involvement were classified as (a) innumerable small polyps carpeting large areas, (b) scattered varying-size polyps, and (c) sparse involvement with few small polyps.
(13) On gross examination, the uterus was typically symmetrically enlarged due to almost complete replacement of the myometrium by innumerable, poorly defined, confluent nodules.
(14) There are innumerable practical applications of these combined modalities to the clinical management of patients with pacemakers.
(15) Women make innumerable trivial decisions throughout pregnancy, hundreds of which may affect their unborn.
(16) It contains innumerable small cysts, giving it a honeycombed appearance.
(17) Multiple mucosal and submucosal carcinoids were seen in combination with innumerable hyperplastic and dysplastic growths of argyrophil endocrine cells disseminated in the entire acidopeptic mucosa.
(18) A unilateral rosacea-like chronic dermatitis of the right side of the face was shown to harbor innumerable Demodex folliculorum and D. brevis.
(19) Unperturbed by these and innumerable other illustrations of our fabled “yearning for democracy”, respectable commentary continued to laud President George W Bush for his dedication to “democracy promotion”, or sometimes criticized him for his naivete in thinking that an outside power could impose its democratic yearnings on others.
(20) In psycho-pathology, this paradigm puts in evidence the innumerable interrelations which intervene at all the levels to create disturbances in the functions, inducing troubles of communications with the consciousness resulting in diminution or non-function of the latter, type psychosis, or in its activation, type neurosis.