(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.
Unutterable
Definition:
(a.) Not utterable; incapable of being spoken or voiced; inexpressible; ineffable; unspeakable; as, unutterable anguish.
Example Sentences:
(1) Here, too, Capote displayed uncanny journalistic skills, capturing even the most languid and enigmatic of subjects – Brando in his pomp – and eliciting the kinds of confidences that left the actor reflecting ruefully on his "unutterable foolishness".
(2) The organisations that find and train men like Atta have since been responsible for unutterable crimes in many countries and societies, from England to Iraq, in their attempt to create a system where the cold and loveless zombie would be the norm, and culture would be dead.
(3) For a mother to bury her child in any circumstances is truly agonising but to bury your child when you know she died in such an appalling way is unutterably awful.
(4) Now he's returning to the stage with another flawed, difficult character: Brooklyn longshoreman Eddie Carbone, the tragic hero of Arthur Miller's A View from the Bridge , whose pride and unutterable obsession with his niece lead him towards the betrayal of his family and his community.
(5) "For a mother to bury her child in any circumstances is truly agonising, but to bury your child when you know she died in such an appalling way is unutterably awful."
(6) Frances Crook of the Howard League for Penal Reform echoed those concerns, saying: “These latest figures on safety in custody are unutterably terrible.
(7) In comments published the day after the upper house of the Italian parliament approved the historic expulsion of the three-times prime minister, who was convicted in August of tax fraud, Francesca Pascale said the move was "a coup d'état" that had caused her "unutterable bitterness".
(8) You'd think it would be tricky having to wake up and face the dawning realisation that every word in your vernacular to describe ethnic minorities is now unutterably wrong.
(9) I ask her if she agrees with the critic who called Brand New Ancients “beautiful but unutterably bleak” and she looks taken aback.
(10) But their pitch was repeatedly passed over, for the perfectly understandable reason that TV commissioners felt that watching people make cakes would be unutterably dull.
(11) It's comedy as bravery - an attempt to make laughter from unutterable grief.
(12) It is unutterably sad that women have lived and died nursing an unfulfilled vocation to serve as priests.
(13) Let's not add another episode of " unutterable shame " to Australia's archive of atrocity.
(14) Like whistling in the dark, we all sing together sometimes when we’re afraid, soldiers marching in unison to It’s a Long Way to Tipperary, and we choose songs to make light of things that are unutterably gloomy.
(15) Britain had its own soap operas, of course, but they were either as down-to-earth as we could make them ( Coronation Street set the trend, beginning in 1960 as a portrait of a working-class street in an age of transition and still staying fairly true to its gritty roots in the late 1970s when Dallas turned up), or they were unutterable rubbish done on the cheap by a pool of typing monkeys, like Crossroads , the saga of a Birmingham motel.