How To Use Expressible In A Sentence
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To his inexpressible relief, the fledgling came back into sight, still flying in a broad circle, rather than striking off to the east.
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Information of your being lost, beame an inexpressible Affliction.
Exilius
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Sounds do have certain mathematically expressible accidents, but the science of proportions does not establish the substance or nature of sounds.
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The fear, the sorrow, the cries and lamentations of the poor inhabitants are unexpressible; every one begging pardon, and embracing each other, crying, Forgive me, friend, brother, sister!
Our Day In the Light of Prophecy
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Any ale drapers and mutton mongers at the back should sit up straight and stop fiddling with their inexpressibles.
Times, Sunday Times
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He felt a sudden inexpressible loneliness.
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It seemed to speak of an intense pressure, a little circle of unending pain, unreachable and inexpressible, utterly private.
THE DEVIL'S OWN WORK
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His interpretation of WL nicely illustrates how, on his view, physiological experiments can yield mathematically expressible results, not about the physical, somatic processes involved in sensation, but about the relationships among these sensations as apperceived, i.e., as psychological elements and objects of consciousness.
Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt
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The news filled him with inexpressible delight/joy/horror/pain.
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an expressible emotion
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the inexpressible, unpaintable `tick' in the unconscious
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It was at such an hour, and in such a state of tranquillity I sat, when, to my unexpressible amazement,
The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899
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These latter habiliments, impregnated with the wet of the day, but the dirt of a life, and lined with what another foot traveller in these parts call "rammish clowns," evolved rank vapours and compound odours inexpressible, in steaming clouds.
The Cloister and the Hearth
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To which he replied in choked accents which yet could not conceal the inexpressible elation of his heart:
The Filigree Ball
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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. Aldous Huxley
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It was inexpressible, naturally, but they all knew it: they were intimidated.
THE SCAR
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It was a condition not to be expressed by such terms as a gratified church might have been able to concede -- by some elevation to a higher sphere of influence or other worldly favour; it was a figure baldly commercial, expressible, that is, in pounds, shillings and pence.
South Wind
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Your enemy will on the instant feel a certain inexpressible and cutting anguish of the heart, together with an agued chilliness and failure throughout the body.
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When I look upon these people who are being trained with this attitude, and work up a good sweat with them, I feel a sort of inexpressible sorrow along with a great responsibility.
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It was inexpressible, naturally, but they all knew it: they were intimidated.
THE SCAR
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The fallen leader's statues often go down with him, like the scapegoat cast out at the year's end, a focus for normally inexpressible feelings of violence.
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The feeling of regain treasure is inexpressible.
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Help us to give our hearts to you so that you can fill us with your inexpressible joy.
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Do but behold, in the mean time, what an unexpressible Pleasure your dearly Beloved hath in the tricking up of her sweet Baby in the most neatest dresses.
The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple
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In these contexts it's not so much a word struggling to express the inexpressible as a word used to sound good and to avoid real thinking.
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Absolute truth is only expressible via metaphor and stylistic sophistication (profound simplicity).
C.S. Lewis on Evolutionism (the Myth)
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She had laughed, so close to tears, so close to letting the hollow gaping wound surface and sweep her away in a wave of inexpressible rage.
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How inexpressible the fullness of my heart when I knew that thou wert still my friend amidst it all - I could only exclaim Heaven bless thy pure heart, thy generous soul.
Letter from Mary Houston to Young John Allen,September 14, 1855
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inexpressible anguish
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Some instinct buried deep, something primal that goes far beyond the boundaries of learning and expressible knowledge, seems to make us respond to such works.
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I found, to my inexpressible satisfaction, the shopkeeper was my countryman.
The Adventures of Roderick Random
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The news filled him with inexpressible delight/joy/horror/pain.
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Inexpressible were the anguish and confusion of the defendant, when she found herself thus entrapped, and reflected, that she was on the point of being detected of felony; for she at once concluded, that the snare was laid for her, and knew that the officer of justice would certainly find the unlucky watch in one of the drawers of her scrutoire.
The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom
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Reality: The deep fallacy is the idea that any concept occurring in the human mind and expressible in language is a real measurable entity.
Dan Agin: Black and White in America IV: IQ Myths and Realities
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He testified faithfully to God's glory and knew the inexpressible joy that ensues from such testimony, but how was his testimony received?
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The news filled him with inexpressible delight/joy/horror/pain.
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Heat (convected), a mode of motion developed by such combustion, was constantly and increasingly conveyed from the source of calorification to the liquid contained in the vessel, being radiated through the uneven unpolished dark surface of the metal iron, in part reflected, in part absorbed, in part transmitted, gradually raising the temperature of the water from normal to boiling point, a rise in temperature expressible as the result of an expenditure of 72 thermal units needed to raise 1 pound of water from 50 degrees to 212 degrees Fahrenheit.
Ulysses
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Heat (convected), a mode of motion developed by such combustion, was constantly and increasingly conveyed from the source of calorification to the liquid contained in the vessel, being radiated through the uneven unpolished dark surface of the metal iron, in part reflected, in part absorbed, in part transmitted, gradually raising the temperature of the water from normal to boiling point, a rise in temperature expressible as the result of an expenditure of 72 thermal units needed to raise 1 pound of water from 50 degrees to 212 degrees
Ulysses
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He was standing stiffly at his gate, staring into the cemetery, his eyes deep pools of inexpressible sorrow.
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And, O the power of church-music! that harmony added to this hymn has raised the affections of my heart, and quickened my graces of zeal and gratitude; and I observe that I always return from paying this public duty of prayer and praise to God, with an unexpressible tranquillity of mind, and a willingness to leave the world.
The Life of Dr. Donne. Paras. 50-99
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The news filled him with inexpressible delight/joy/horror/pain.
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Hitherto, although many, both ministers, gentlemen and others, had endured unexpressible hardships and severities, yet few or none suffered to the death, save that noble peer, the Marquis of _Argyle_, who was condemned by the parliament 1661, and beheaded _May_ 27th; and the
Act, Declaration, & Testimony for the Whole of our Covenanted Reformation, as Attained to, and Established in Britain and Ireland; Particularly Betwixt the Years 1638 and 1649, Inclusive
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I could wish, indeed, that the word scold might be changed for some more gentle term, of equal signification; because I am convinced, that the very name is as offensive to female ears, as the effects of that incurable distemper are to the ears of the men; which, to be sure, is inexpressible.
The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. - Volume 07 Historical and Political Tracts-Irish
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It would only be used to contain an inexpressible evil, or uncontrollable force.
SABRIEL
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Galileo's conception of natural necessity, which he explains by occasional remarks in his Dialogues, com - bines the Platonic conviction that the structure of the universe is expressible in mathematical language, with the Baconian conviction that the truth of any scientific law or theory must be established by experiment and observation.
NECESSITY
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The _cui bono_ of these doctrines may not, it is true, be expressible by arithmetical computations: the subject also is perplexed with obscurities, and probably with manifold delusions; and too often its interpreters with us have been like 'tenebrific stars,' that 'did ray out darkness' on a matter itself sufficiently dark.
The Life of Friedrich Schiller Comprehending an Examination of His Works
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Beethoven delighted Rousseau's Romantic admirers with his demonstration of the moral force expressible in music.
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The news filled him with inexpressible delight/joy/horror/pain.
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He has so much, grandeur, his appearance is imposing and in general His Divine countenance overflows with heavenly grace and an inexpressible ultramundane beauty.
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The creative thinker must think in the terms of the logic, the thought patterns, the expressible concepts of his culture.
David Loy - Rethinking Karma
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Mr. Finch is the most sedate young man I have ever seen; -- but his sedateness is temper'd with a _sweetness_ inexpressible; -- a certain mildness in the features; -- _a mildness_ which, in the countenance of that great commander I saw at Brandon Lodge, appears like _mercy_ sent out from the heart to discover the dwelling of _true courage_.
Barford Abbey
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It is not uncommon for small amounts of milk or serous fluid to remain expressible for years after pregnancy or breast-feeding.
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Maybe in your distinctions there's a clue, aside from questions of style, in how spectacle can become an analogue for less expressible inner conflicts, and that when it is not (as in the phantom Star Wars, of which, like you, I remember almost nothing) it becomes, as you say, simply CGI backdrops and therefore has no resonance.
More Aesthetics
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'Have you never observed through my inexpressibles a large prominency circa genitalia?' he inquired with exquisite delicacy of a colleague.
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His face seemed simply to be expanding with inexpressible rage, but then he began to change.
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This sort of information is easily expressible as a topic map.
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What is inexpressible in words may seem even further removed from any kind of visualization.
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The death that is in the curse is put into his hand to manage it, to the dread and terror of sinners; and by it he bath always kept many, and to this day doth keep innumerable souls in unexpressible bondage, putting them upon barbarous inhumanities to make atonement for their sins, and forcing some to inflict revenge and destruction upon themselves, thinking to prevent, but really hastening, that which they fear.
The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed
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The daily grind of nastiness and spite, of uncaring and uninterest, the dull fog of low-grade terror is close to inexpressible.
National Invisible Chronic Illness Awareness Week: The four big lies.
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It was a "microblogging" service that allowed one to broadcast one's thoughts to the world, on one condition: that they should be expressible in not more than 140 characters.
Twitter's five-year evolution from ridicule to dissidents' tool
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When sound and music are rendered, something previously inexpressible can be revealed, and the concert hall can become a site to engage our desires and fantasy lives.
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He attributes the decline of literary style in great part to the poetry of World War I, which tried to describe inexpressible horrors as bluntly and simply as possible.
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Accordingly, where ISJs introverted, sensory, judging types maintain and enjoy their hobbies all their lives, INJs tend to lose interest when the fluid nature of unrealized meaning takes expressible shape and has meaning for others.
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It filled his soul again with inexpressible joy and pleasure, as if everything else seemed dark by comparison with that infinite brilliance and radiant light-for it was night.
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The epilogue catches perfectly the endless withdrawing melancholy of summer evenings in the high north, when pleasure goes on so long it turns into an inexpressible sadness.
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For those who have not been submitted, as we have for four years, to the intolerable and abhorred German yoke, it is difficult to realize how great were the relief, the joy, the well-being, in a word the unexpressible happiness we all felt when the first Allied troops made their way through our village, and this great event has been for us like the dawn of a resurrection.
Tar-Heel War Record (In the Great World War)
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He was of stature moderately tall; of a straight and equallyproportioned body, to which all his words and actions gave an unexpressible addition of comeliness.
The Life of Dr. Donne. Paras. 100-143
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On the day of the wedding, I remember dressing in that pink dress with inexpressible joy, for it was the moment I had been waiting for since the seamstress had first measured me for my clothing.
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And this impression is greatly helped by the fantastical finery of his dress: sky-blue satin cravat, yards of gold chain, white French gloves, light drab great-coat lined with velvet of the same colour, invisible inexpressibles, skin-coloured and fitting like a glove, etc., etc.
New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle
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Beethoven delighted Rousseau's Romantic admirers with his demonstration of the moral force expressible in music.
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Refinement of the language and surprising imagery are ways to evoke the inexpressible.
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It may be that in harping in highest exultation how they had won to, and touched, the Path Ambrosial – the Amataŋ Padaŋ40 – Nibbana, they implied some state inconceivable to thought, inexpressible by language, while the one and the other are limited to concepts and terms of life; and yet a state which, while not in time or space, positively constitutes the sequel of the glorious and blissful days of this life's residuum.
Psalms of the Sisters
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The darkness of their own mind and inexpressible vanity, -- wherein I place the principal effect of our apostasy from God, -- do disenable, hinder, and divert them from such apprehensions.
Pneumatologia
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The inexpressible grief of the family of the murdered boy will never cease.
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It would only be used to contain an inexpressible evil, or uncontrollable force.
SABRIEL
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O what an unexpressible love hath she for you now! and with what imbraces and kisses she entertains you, because you have furnish'd her shop so well!
The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple
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Suddenly it stood still to an inexpressible feeling that thrilled it through, and passed at once to my head and extremities.
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He was standing stiffly at his gate, staring into the cemetery, his eyes deep pools of inexpressible sorrow.
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For those who have not been submitted, as we have, for four years to the intolerable and abhorred German yoke, it is difficult to realize how great were the relief, the joy, the well-being, or, in a word, the unexpressible happiness we all felt when the first allied troops made their way through our village.
Official History of the 120th Infantry
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It seemed to speak of an intense pressure, a little circle of unending pain, unreachable and inexpressible, utterly private.
THE DEVIL'S OWN WORK
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It is this potential for music to express contradictory, sometimes inexpressible emotions that drives Ward to write songs.
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Wittgenstein admired Freud for developing a way of speaking that rendered expressible - and held the potential to clarify - problems, conflicts, desires, and emotional states.
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If the number is not prime, then it must be expressible as a product of smaller whole numbers, and we may continue factoring until it is written as a product of primes.
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Scotch, the sorriest of jargons, compared with which even Roth Welsch is dignified and expressive, has yet one word to express what would be inexpressible by any word or combination of words in any language, or in any other jargon in the world; and very properly; for as the nonsense is properly Scotch, so should the word be Scotch which expresses it -- that word is "fushionless," pronounced
The Romany Rye
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I shrieked, my voice quaking with inexpressible wrath.
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“physiognomics” a deep truth; but this truth is not expressible in definite words and lines.
Christian Ethics. Volume II.���Pure Ethics.
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There must be a determinate and expressible structural isomorphism, even though one could not say that the blueprint realizes the form of the house.
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Her new born female child inherited a terrible, inexpressible fear, that someone, somewhere, was buried alive.
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Moving up is harder in a different way because the lesser language often hides abstractions that are directly expressible in the higher (a complicated nest of for next lops. ifs and assignments may (in the end) decompose cleanly into sequence ops in haskell but it is sometimes difficult to see and/or extract those).
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Their ride brings them inexpressible glee and joy.
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Her untamed sexuality, her unknowable desires, her inexpressible emotions, frighten and drive him further away.