as in inexpressible
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Recent Examples of unsayable
The tennis-ball POV from Challengers, Isabelle Huppert’s cat with the unknowable and unsayable name, the children dressed as Serge Gainsbourg on French TV.
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Bethy Squires, Vulture, 1 Nov. 2024
And the true heroes, consequently, are those who dare to say the unsayable.
—Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 5 Sep. 2024
This was a composer tasked with saying the unsayable against the unspeakable.
—Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 26 Jan. 2024
American literature took a while to say the unsayable.
—S. C. Cornell, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2023
With remarkable speed, however, the unsayable has become close to conventional wisdom.
—Michael Barnett, Foreign Affairs, 14 Apr. 2023
One senses that there’s an unsayable aspect to it.
—Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 12 Oct. 2020
And thus stand up for the subconscious, for the unsaid and unsayable, for the historically and personally indigestible, for the unprettified, for the autonomy of an imagination that cannot escape history, and—more than anything else—for black freedom of expression itself.
—Zadie Smith, The New York Review of Books, 27 Feb. 2020
The emotional focus and intensity of her distinctive music is constantly overturned by her infectious quicksilver laugh and easy lightness of touch, coupled with her uncanny ability to hear and express the unsayable.
—Hilton Dresden, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Dec. 2022
Bethy Squires, Vulture, 1 Nov. 2024
And the true heroes, consequently, are those who dare to say the unsayable.
—Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 5 Sep. 2024
This was a composer tasked with saying the unsayable against the unspeakable.
—Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 26 Jan. 2024
American literature took a while to say the unsayable.
—S. C. Cornell, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2023
With remarkable speed, however, the unsayable has become close to conventional wisdom.
—Michael Barnett, Foreign Affairs, 14 Apr. 2023
One senses that there’s an unsayable aspect to it.
—Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 12 Oct. 2020
And thus stand up for the subconscious, for the unsaid and unsayable, for the historically and personally indigestible, for the unprettified, for the autonomy of an imagination that cannot escape history, and—more than anything else—for black freedom of expression itself.
—Zadie Smith, The New York Review of Books, 27 Feb. 2020
The emotional focus and intensity of her distinctive music is constantly overturned by her infectious quicksilver laugh and easy lightness of touch, coupled with her uncanny ability to hear and express the unsayable.
—Hilton Dresden, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Dec. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unsayable
- inexpressible
- indefinable
- indescribable
- unknowable
- inexplicable
- incomprehensible
- unaccountable
- unfathomable
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Historians are struggling to recover their inexpressible secrets.Erin Maglaque, The New York Review of Books, 15 Nov. 2024
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Indeed, there is something more cosmic, spiritual and inexpressible about what is missing —a poignant reminder of the profound void left by SOPHIE’s departure from our astral plane.Juan Velasquez, Them, 23 Sep. 2024
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An indefinable musical by a French auteur is headed for millions of streaming subscribers.Joe Reid, Vulture, 8 Nov. 2024
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Abstract images composed of indefinable light and inky darkness recur as well, even in his later multiscreen video installations, which are more narrative-driven.Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 3 Sep. 2019
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My husband Jon and I, after having suffered more than 300 days of every parent’s nightmare of utter and indescribable torment, continued advocating and pushing for the release of the remaining hostages in Gaza.Rachel Goldberg-Polin, TIME, 16 Jan. 2025
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Her release brought indescribable relief, but each day before her name appeared on the list revealed the agonizing uncertainty families must endure.Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 16 Jan. 2025
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James Mangold already has some practice making movies about unknowable legends: his 2005 portrait of Johnny Cash, Walk the Line, understood Cash as a figure beyond anything so pedestrian as comprehension.Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 25 Dec. 2024
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That is the unknown island, the unknowable isle: the place of true love.Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 13 Dec. 2024
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That London shows are often panned in New York is, beyond that, inexplicable.Jesse Green, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2025
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Why on earth Wolves weren’t wise to this most basic of Forest ploys, launching a counter via Gibbs-White, is pretty inexplicable.Tim Spiers, The Athletic, 6 Jan. 2025
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Because Lynch’s whole deal was about engagement — connection through friction, comprehension through acknowledging the incomprehensible world all around us, empathy by way of bridging the gap between disparate concepts.Ben Travers, IndieWire, 16 Jan. 2025
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The people who tend Altadena’s venerable deodar cedars have suffered incomprehensible community losses this week, but Santa Rosa Avenue, a.k.a.Jeanette Marantos, Los Angeles Times, 15 Jan. 2025
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Her appointment would send an unmistakable message: The days of the intelligence community operating as an unaccountable black box are over.Rand Paul, National Review, 18 Dec. 2024
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The next administrator should look to make a sprawling, unaccountable agency more focused.Rohit Arora, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
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The Jets’ record is 4-12, their season reaching a level of futility that seemed unfathomable when the year began.Zack Rosenblatt, The Athletic, 29 Dec. 2024
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Simply peeling apart the sides of a coffee filter was long considered a feat of unfathomable difficulty.James Somers, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2024
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“Unsayable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unsayable. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.
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