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Recent Examples of incommunicable Piranesi is a mystery, a mystery of the mind, a way for Clarke to communicate the incommunicable. Jason Kehe, Wired, 21 Sep. 2020 And nothing is more isolating, more incommunicable, than the grief of a parent who has been unable to save their child’s life. Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2022 In a way, Tiffany’s rendering of fandom as specific and incommunicable risks undermining her premise, which has to do with the massed power of people online. Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 28 June 2022 Abstract artists, including Alberto Burri, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Jack Whitten and Mark Bradford, all found unique ways to use such materials to conjure the weight of incommunicable things. Washington Post, 5 Mar. 2021 After more than a decade away, the author is back with Piranesi, a way to communicate the incommunicable. Jason Kehe, Wired, 21 Sep. 2020 But the works test, in the depths of the incommunicable, the degree of anyone’s courage to envisage the bad in life, the worse, and the almost inconceivably abysmal. Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2020 In one panel, Mary, at the foot of the cross, makes a recognizable gesture — suggesting grief or astonishment so great, so fundamentally incommunicable, that one covers one’s mouth — similar to that made by Matisse’s central bather. Washington Post, 26 Feb. 2020 What surprised me was the poetic potential of scurvy, with its awfulness and that terrible sense of isolation, when the possibility of ecstatic delights was inconceivable and incommunicable. National Geographic, 15 Jan. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for incommunicable
Adjective
  • Home for the Holidays (1995) Holly Hunter’s ineffable charm makes this Thanksgiving-centric movie a perfect rewatch for any time of year, not just on the third Thursday in November.
    Emma Specter, Vogue, 6 Apr. 2025
  • And in later scenes, as Jesse finally confronts Spencer's death, her ineffable pain is etched across Menzel's achingly expressive face.
    Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 14 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Munn: These are people who have incredible wealth and are crumbling in front of your eyes.
    Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 10 Apr. 2025
  • There’s also pressure to read an incredible amount (in my opinion, videos that feature ultra-short books to help viewers boost their end-of-year tally miss the point; reading is not a competition!)—and to spend quite a lot of money.
    Leila Herrmann, Vogue, 9 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Historians are struggling to recover their inexpressible secrets.
    Erin Maglaque, The New York Review of Books, 15 Nov. 2024
  • Historians are struggling to recover their inexpressible secrets.
    Erin Maglaque, The New York Review of Books, 15 Nov. 2024
Adjective
  • This sends Charlie down a rabbit hole of indescribable grief.
    Pete Hammond, Deadline, 8 Apr. 2025
  • Loch Ness, the infamous freshwater lake in the Scottish Highlands, has long been thought to be the home of an indescribable creature.
    Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 2 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • The last 17 months have seen unspeakable destruction and death wrought upon a people who, during the previous 20 years, lived under blockade by the Israeli military and the brutal regime of Hamas.
    Ron Estes, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Mar. 2025
  • Those moments when intuitions remain unspoken and unspeakable are only part of life.
    Yiyun Li, The New Yorker, 23 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Her work often explores indefinable experiences and emotions, intimacy, connection, and the body’s relationship to nature.
    Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 19 Mar. 2025
  • An indefinable musical by a French auteur is headed for millions of streaming subscribers.
    Joe Reid, Vulture, 8 Nov. 2024
Adjective
  • Two high voices — LACO features soprano Amanda Forsythe and countertenor John Holiday — intertwine with the orchestra turning this hymn to the Virgin Mary’s suffering into unutterable sweetness and treating death as life’s engenderment.
    Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 30 Mar. 2024
  • In between loads of cartoonish ultraviolence and B-movie horror ephemera came some honestly unutterable lyrics, which Bill fought his faith to perform.
    Jonathan Rowe, SPIN, 28 June 2022
Adjective
  • The story follows the three Maxwell siblings who grew up as the only Black family in a gated Dallas neighborhood, also tormented by strange and unexplainable demonic happenings in their house.
    Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 21 Mar. 2025
  • Back in 2021, the Housewives Institute came up with the 100 most unhinged, unexplainable, and unforgettable moments in the 15 years that the franchise had been on the air up to that point.
    Brian Moylan, Vulture, 19 July 2024

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“Incommunicable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/incommunicable. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.

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