(a.) Not capable of expression or utterance in language; ineffable; unspeakable; indescribable; unutterable; as, inexpressible grief or pleasure.
Example Sentences:
(1) At Chapel-le-Frith in 1786, for instance, Wesley recorded a kind of punk festival riot: "The terror and confusion was inexpressible.
(2) So, on Saturday, when my friend Amelia Bonow posted this plainspoken, unapologetic announcement on her Facebook page , it felt simultaneously so obvious, so simple and so revolutionary: “Like a year ago I had an abortion at the Planned Parenthood on Madison Ave, and I remember this experience with a near inexpressible level of gratitude ...
(3) Two Rec-like mutants of Neurospora (uvs-3, and nuh-4) are deficient mainly inexpressed levels of D3, the endo-exonuclease.
(4) We see and hear the incomprehension in his very language, which is dull and inexpressive, as if he doesn't really inhabit the words he uses; like everything else around him, language appears to not quite belong to him and there isn't much he can make of it.
(5) This is of special importance for practical medicine since it follows that scientifically inexpressible elements must play a part in coming to a rational clinical decision.
(6) It is likely that verbal inexpressivity interferes with the emergence of psychopathology.
(7) They emphasize the inexpressive character of symptoms and thus the relatively long time which elapses before causal anti-tumourous treatment is started in child patients.
(8) He believes that if he could learn to paint, he might arrive at "compassion" (what he actually means is empathy), and that compassion will lead him onwards towards some inexpressible kind of enlightenment.
(9) He will always look wooden, inexpressive, next to the mobility of a Blair or a Milburn.
(10) The reason soon became clear: he was fortunate, and inexpressibly grateful, just to be alive.
(11) Other terms that could be used coincide only partially: finite and infinite; capable of being worked through and not capable of being worked through; expressible and inexpressible; finished and unfinished; possible and impossible.
(12) Although the pathophysiology of malabsorption, in these cases, is still not clear, the therapeutic response to pancreatin, in the present case, suggested pancreatic insufficiency, reinforced by the normal d-xylose test and the small intestinal biopsy with inexpressive result.
(13) Wagner's treatise On Conducting formulates a theory of interpretation that just happens to give a philosophical underpinning for Wagner's own performance practice and rails against what he sees as the prosaic and inexpressive conducting of Mendelssohn.
(14) In another era, Haneke's inexpressibly painful movies might have been dismissed as mere ordeal-miserablism; the noughties saw him crowned as the Cassandra of the cinema, a ferocious moral conscience.
(15) On the other hand, during the activity of the 'milk gland' (under action of exogenous prolactin and in natural incubation), only the lateral lobes showed a remarkable increase in the amount of lipid, whereas both median regions showed only an inexpressive increase of lipid within their epithelium.
(16) An unusual case of illness of a 49 year old woman who suffered from inexpressive skin rash for three years is described.
(17) A thematic analysis of 30 narrative accounts of bereavement revealed nine themes that included five core themes in bereavement--being stopped, hurting, missing, holding, and seeking; three meta-themes about bereavement--change, expectations, and inexpressibility; and a contextual theme--personal history.
(18) Undeterred, our "hero" goes on an epic journey to the shops to buy his cold, inexpressive partner a gift.
(19) Statistical analysis showed significant improvement in dexetimide-patients with regard to gross motor tremor, facial inexpressiveness, parkinsonian gait (after two weeks) + dyskinesia (after six months).
Unexpressible
Definition:
(a.) Inexpressible.
Example Sentences:
(1) These rearrangements created a composite exon resulting in the expression of the ordinarily unexpressed delta gene sequence and conferred the hybrid proteins with new antigenic specificities.
(2) The recently identified NB-1 mRNA is transcribed from a single intronless gene, previously thought to be an unexpressed calmodulin pseudogene.
(3) The findings suggest that EB virus is harboured in peripheral lymphocytes of IM patients as a non-productive unexpressed infection which is activated to produce virus in vitro, the particles released then infecting neighbouring cells to give transformed lines.
(4) My younger brother (who may also, like my youngest son, have had unexpressed feelings himself) withdrew into his room as he hit puberty, my mother returned to full-time work and my father was out more.
(5) Such cultures carry HCMV genetic information in a latent, unexpressed, state.
(6) The presence of unexpressed, restorable DH may provide a biologic basis for the so called "transfer factor" phenomenon.
(7) SEVERAL PRACTICAL POINTS IN PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT ARE DISCUSSED: not to tie staff to the institution, not to meddle with their outside affairs or to become too socially intimate, to be sensitive to unexpressed reactions of the staff, to avoid secrets.
(8) This approach allowed analysis of the gene transcription product rather than potentially unexpressed DNA.
(9) In particular, adult alpha A- and alpha D-globin genes were found in matrix DNA, while the transcribed but translationally unexpressed embryonic pi gene was underrepresented.
(10) There's a sense of generations passing in a haze of crisp formalities, with decades of unexpressed emotions left to accumulate, like dust on a snoozing duchess.
(11) Pyrimidine dimers are cleared preferentially from the transcribed strand of the DHFR gene and are removed poorly from the non-transcribed complementary strand and unexpressed adjacent regions.
(12) Studies with the delayed splotch gene tested the hypothesis that offspring with a hereditary defect of neural-tube closure have other, unexpressed CNS defects, which may be elicited by teratological impulses.
(13) Genes which are unexpressed in somatic cells can be activated by injecting Xenopus laevis somatic nuclei into oocytes of Pleurodeles waltlii (Urodela).
(14) The level of the constitutively expressed myelomonocytic antigen, reactive with anti-Leu-M1, was not affected by IFN-gamma induction and three normally nonexpressed monocytic antigens, defined by monoclonal antibodies, remained unexpressed.
(15) The extensive demethylation was not always associated with changes in the level of RNA expression of the genes examined but was strongly correlated with an altered chromatin structure of the unexpressed alpha 1-globin gene and the muscle determination gene MyoD1.
(16) The mating-type information residing at the HML and HMR loci in Saccharomyces cerevisiae is kept unexpressed by the action of at least four MAR (or SIR) loci.
(17) Stress, fatigue, hormonal imbalances or lack of exercise can be the culprits, but there are more insidious reasons such as depression, poor body image, or having deep, unexpressed resentment towards a partner.
(18) Infertility and sexual dysfunction are real concerns for survivors that usually go unexpressed.
(19) The family physician can manage difficult family reactions and assist the family in making a decision by understanding that there are common reactions to loss and bereavement on the part of family members such as anger, denial, and feelings of helplessness; assessing whether problems arise from chronic family conflicts (marital, parent-child, or previous unresolved mourning) or are situation related (unexpressed feelings, how to tell others, need to feel they have done everything, overwhelming other stresses); and incorporating several specific techniques into their practices such as family conferences, accepting anger, involving anxious members in treatment planning, referral to self-help family groups, reframing the decision in terms of the patient's wishes, and negotiating mutually acceptable solutions when patient or family members disagree.
(20) The unexpressed paternally derived allele may, however, be transmitted to the next generation in the usual Mendelian manner and there be expressed.