How To Use Inscrutable In A Sentence

She could not become the shrill edgy hurried harridan the war had tried to make her while his square, leisurely, beflowered, inscrutable figure passed daily up and down between those pale considerable buildings. Maid in Waiting
He accepted the situation, happy in the gentle and protecting affection the girl showed him, fitfully enough, for she had, as she called it, her bad days when she used to visit her mother and remain long hours in the riverside hut, coming out as inscrutable as ever, but with a contemptuous look and a short word ready to answer any of his speeches. Almayer's Folly
Origin: The phrase, popularized by the unwatchable movie 21, apparently derives from the rich lexicon of craps, which is full of amusingly inscrutable patter. Deadspin
He understands that the poem is foremost a form of communication, and fails if it becomes inscrutable.
Jamie gazed down at her, his expression inscrutable. The Devil Wears Plaid

Their inscrutable, sphinx-like logic can prove hypnotizing, and even the brave of heart and nimble of mind may find him or herself captivated.
A frown of irritation creased his brown and weather-beaten face, obscured by a scraggly black beard that tended to make him rather inscrutable, and probably enhanced his reputation amongst the villagers.
Capturing this quality - inscrutable and Sphinx-like - lies at the heart of Judi Dench's performance as the late British novelist Iris Murdoch.
The relationship between artist and subject can be inscrutable.
He was oddly inscrutable, like he knew what all the questions were.
“My path is clear to me,” he said, his expression inscrutable. Kresley Cole Immortals After Dark: The Clan MacRieve
Hawthorne's text is studiously inscrutable about events antecedent to Hester's being branded adulteress.
What their ultimate strategic goal is, I can't say, but I gnow that with all things gnomish what starts out as inscrutable behavior usually becomes clear in time. The weigh of the ranger
There was a peculiar gleam in his eyes, and a half-amused, half-mocking expression lurked on his inscrutable features. The Cryptogram A Story of Northwest Canada
He didn't know why the priests had ordered it built, they had their own inscrutable reasons, he didn't really care.
How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways!
Atop Athena's helmet, between winged griffins, crouched an inscrutable sphinx.
She tried to imagine how Giovanni would look now, but all she could see was Marco across the table, his handsome face impassive, his expression inscrutable. That’s Amore
And when a game like The Sims comes along -- one which had significant design, development, and management contribution from women Will is the first to say this didn't spring from his forehead fully formed, despited EA's PR to the contrary -- despite the fact that it breaks all sales records it is often considered to be a fluke, inscrutable from the narrow, classically young-white-single-male developer POV. Burn baby burn
There is something inscrutable about the dragon, something that cannot be understood.
Their musical and personal relationship is at the same time completely open and completely inscrutable.
Uncle Sardit would have understood, though, and I still would have preferred being the eccentric craftmaster to the inscrutable wizard. The Death of Chaos
It's like a compelling bad dream whose inscrutable images persist in the traumatised moments after waking.
In another brief appearance, the inscrutable South African was dispatched from the event with six holes to spare.
A black vulture rose up out of the depths on widespread pinions and floated past them almost within arm's length, turning its gruesome naked head of pink lappeted skin to stare at them with inscrutable black eyes before sailing away. The Seventh Scroll
In the inscrutable case, the overall truth about a state of affairs is not known by anyone.
It's like a compelling bad dream whose inscrutable images persist in the traumatised moments after waking.
The figures of the guitarists are immobile, and so inscrutable are their veiled faces that almost the only stage movement is their hands flickering across the fretboards.
The fried bean curd put one in mind of oriental griddle cakes and needed the hot sauces to extract their inscrutable flavour.
I just got home from having a manicure-pedicure done at our local "Nail Gazaasm," which I had kind of been avoiding because the inscrutable name creeped me out. Presto Tivo.
Like a lunatic's ravings, his writing is inscrutable, absurd, yet shot through with phrases of visionary clarity and unpredictable poetry.
Equally treacherous is the view that the young have always been inscrutable to adults and have always complained about being misunderstood. The Apocalypse of Adolescence
His style owed little to the prevailing influence of classical art; if anything, his slant-eyed, inscrutable figures have closer affinities with Piero della Francesca's style.
He began to think that perhaps the word "inscrutable" had been coined expressly for her. Home Is the Hunter
Gates has long cultivated an inscrutable mystique about his intentions, calling to mind lessons learned during his previous career as a Kremlinologist at the CIA and National Security Council. Gates retiring? Don't bet on it.
Then we must answer our own question, the Designer is inscrutable and anyway might be an alien from the pluton Pluto. Wherein I argue emotionally about the definition of "planet" - The Panda's Thumb
Immaculate and often monochrome, his paintings teem with an all but inscrutable iconography of personal history. Nicole Garton: Ingenue Interview: Ugo Nonis
Her inscrutable silence has become a canvas for projected social anxieties.
In the decades since, the record's off-key vocals and hapless rhythms have made it both a musical punch line and, remarkably, a contrarian rallying point for inscrutable art. Sour Notes On Stage
He gazed down at her with interest, his expression noncommittal, his mouth set in a thin, inscrutable line. Dirge
He understands that the poem is foremost a form of communication, and fails if it becomes inscrutable.
The jagged geometry of supersmooth Europa; the idiosyncratic surfaces of the other orbs floating serenely in space; the pristine interstellar vacuum; the inscrutable emptiness of intergalactic space, that immense, echoing, absolutely featureless void enveloping the spinning galaxies: it all serves as a perfect philosophical mirror image, reflecting back the quandary of the species, the limitations of human knowledge. A Space in Time
The real danger is from the chaotic hatred between mortals that follows the wake of the enemy, not his inscrutable agenda.
Creature, less instructive; for it excited me in this my Solitude, to admire the inscrutable Providence of the Powers Divine, who distribute their Benefits diversly; to some the Gifts of Nature, to others those of Exilius
Her face was inscrutable, but her fingers clenched and unclenched beneath the frilled gingham of her pinafore. THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
Both movies share a bewitching visual style - lots of washed-out blues and greys, and the inscrutable narrative stylings of the best European art house fare.
An inscrutable and incomparably powerful force permeates the Universe and binds it together.
Wu argues that the shift from overachieving striver to inscrutable slant-eyed foreigner - from one stereotypical extreme to the other - is still far too easily made.
The _khitmutgar_ watched the start with grave, inscrutable eyes and finally turned back into the bungalow with the aloofness of a dweller in another sphere. The Keeper of the Door
Publicly he remained inscrutable, judging it constitutionally improper to intervene in an Italian political question. Paul VI - The First Modern Pope
She had a private meeting with Bertie, who was sympathetic but inscrutable.
Simply enjoy the inscrutable logic of the subconscious, or delight in the discovery of what the vision is trying to tell you.
They will gladly accept the conclusion that the marvellous qualities and activities of living things and that inscrutable wonder, the mind of man, are outcomes of the orderly process of Nature no less than are the miracles which we call a buttercup, a rock crystal, a glacier, the noon-day sun! More Science From an Easy Chair
But whereas the first act of her performance is disciplined, down-to-earth and munificent with wit, the second and third acts are inscrutable, new-agey and dull.
Matthias looked on, inscrutable behind his chieftain 's mustache. COASTLINERS
He stood silent and inscrutable.
Early in the novel, his mother, Rachel, abandons her husband and son, present thereafter only through a series of inscrutable postcards sent from the open road.
The Italian remains stylish and inscrutable. Times, Sunday Times
They share much fierce and vigorous dance, but also a good deal of inscrutable business that doesn't shed clear light on characters or narrative. Times, Sunday Times
But at night when we're on the sofa he sees the inscrutable stories flickering on the box in the corner.
A system so boondoggled in the confounding complexity that it is near inscrutable? The Politics of Politics
Its mutely inscrutable facade of bald concrete shields the house from the effects of the harsh south sun and deflects prying eyes.
He is a convivial man, but inscrutable. Times, Sunday Times
It is not some mysterious, inscrutable relation that beliefs bear to facts, whatever they might be.
Anyone who titles a novel Castle must reckon with the ghost of Franz Kafka, and Lennon's is a universe fraught with inscrutable, unatonable guilt. Critical Mass
His core political values seem equally inscrutable. The Times Literary Supplement
He tasks me; he heaps me; I see in him outrageous strength, with an inscrutable malice sinewing it. The flavor of words and phrases ...
The women are inscrutable and totally stacked, built like no snowwoman I've ever imagined. The Snowman on the Moon
Camera crews are inscrutable as interviewees and interviewers hold forth. Times, Sunday Times
the inscrutable workings of Providence
Between them they come up with a tale that is occasionally engaging, often inscrutable, and in the end simplistic.
He always left behind him an inscrutable prescription.
The keyboard is too far away, because of making room for the mousepad and, doubtless, a great deal of inscrutable hardware.
Sheep as Welsh as Brother Cadfael gazed towards the southwest, where the long ridge of Berwyn rose in the distance; long, haughty, inscrutable faces, and sharp ears, and knowing yellow eyes that could outstare a saint. Monk's Hood
These three removes put a gulf impassable between her utmost skill and the impassioned irresolution of that inscrutable Northern nature which is in nothing so masculine as its feminine reluctances and hesitations, or so little French as in those obscure emotions which the English poetry expressed with more than Gallic clearness, but which the French words always failed to convey. Literature and Life (Complete)
Intensely guarded about details of her private life, she has a tendency to be equally unforthcoming about her career - sitting there, icy and inscrutable, her perfect, heart-shaped face closed to the world.
His inscrutable face cannot disguise the sense of expectation. Times, Sunday Times
He just smiles his inscrutable smile and carries on clipping.
As they expanded, they began, for inscrutable Frankish reasons, to devoice word-final obstruents this is the blue isogloss, thereby establishing Frankish as its own distinct, highly conservative dialect. The PIE and Pre-PIE pronominal system from the perspective of a wave model
In one simple assertion, the “problem of evil” has its answer: all-powerful, inscrutable God creates everything, good and bad, justice and injustice alike. In the Valley of the Shadow
For (Job 28: 1-28) the ways of divine wisdom in afflicting the godly are inscrutable: all that is sure to man is, the fear of the Lord is wisdom (Job 28: 28). by the hand -- rather, concerning the hand of God, namely, what God does in governing men. with the Almighty -- the counsel or principle which regulates God's dealings. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
She was watching me, her expression inscrutable, somehow aloof and intimate all at once. The Legacy
The pairing seems irresistible: an inscrutable but undeniably beautiful meditation on Englishness inspired by the man who coined the term "Britannia" and written by a musician who made it cool. Dr Dee, Palace Theatre, Manchester | First night review
It's a notoriously devilish problem, but from an information flow point of view all of the bodies are part of one object, albeit a generally inscrutable one.
The whale remains inscrutable, a wall shoved up against him. Red Hunting in the Promised Land: Anticommunism and the Making of America
They share much fierce and vigorous dance, but also a good deal of inscrutable business that doesn't shed clear light on characters or narrative. Times, Sunday Times
Cage is tall and skinny enough, and since Morpheus is simply inscrutable, you could just paint Cage white and let the makeup do the acting.
I was confused about whether their approach was intended to be ironic, or satirical, or both, or neither ... it was infused with what I thought were obvious clichés, like ladies looking sexy, inscrutable and dour playing drums in militaristic fashion aside the frontman, who sang throaty german lyrics to pretty hard core industrial rock, accompanied by projected images of male gymnasts and words like Totalitariansme and crosses and things. Sleepless in Slovenia.
An ideal is not even given as a cogitable object, and therefore cannot be inscrutable; on the contrary, it must, as a mere idea, be based on the constitution of reason itself, and on this account must be capable of explanation and solution. The Critique of Pure Reason
Nothing that we can do will alter the inscrutable and withal immutable laws which direct our progress on this globe.
An inscrutable providence, of which our witness is the mouthpiece, has elected to set apart this rock in order that the devil and the English, who, he says, are a pair, may continue their work of protestantising and filling the world with malefice. Devil-Worship in France or The Question of Lucifer
Matthias looked on, inscrutable behind his chieftain 's mustache. COASTLINERS
The raucous, inscrutable essence of democracy could almost be glimpsed in this maelstrom.
He gazed down at her with interest, his expression noncommittal, his mouth set in a thin, inscrutable line. Dirge
In the March 2005 Atlantic, Paul Starobin profiled Putin, and managed to get behind that exterior to shed light on the interior life of one of today's most inscrutable and powerful leaders. Russia's Would-Be Masters
A microcosm, one could say, for this well-managed but often inscrutable society. Times, Sunday Times
She puts her arms gingerly and tenderly round an inscrutable black trunk.
He gazed down at her, black lashes partially obscuring obsidian eyes, their expression inscrutable. My Devilish Scotsman
Hawthorne's text is studiously inscrutable about events antecedent to Hester's being branded adulteress.
His stark blue eyes were locked on her, his expression inscrutable. The Year of Living Scandalously
She turned to find him still standing in the exact same spot, his expression inscrutable. The Devil Wears Plaid
Neat grey hair frames the mild, inscrutable face of the investment banker he has been most of his life. Times, Sunday Times
She sat next to him at the bar, her expression inscrutable, looking crisp and as cool as her coloring would allow in pale trousers and a cinnamon cotton shirt. All Shall Be Well
My father, at last glimpse, cell phone glued to his ear, was negotiating a settlement for some inscrutable business deal.
It very clearly displays the genius of a veteran professor obviously skilled in making the inscrutable scrutable to generations of Air Force Academy cadets.
He handled the questions with the inscrutable face of a diplomat.
And for many people it was, but you still had to learn html coding, which was inscrutable enough to make one long for the days of typesetting and paste-up.
Their ways can seem inscrutable and frustrating at times as well, as when a group of men insist on letting a wounded man be tended to by a bonesetter, worsening the wounded man's condition. Robot reviews: The Photographer | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment
Newspaper stories see the light of day for all sorts of strange and inscrutable reasons.
Lyrics are abstract and often inscrutable, but powerful images sometime fight through the verbal and instrumental haze.
She was half – moved to cry, “Stop, William; explain!” and would have returned to the subject at luncheon if William had not shown himself inscrutable and chill, lifting fragments of salad on the point of his fork, with the gesture of a man pronging seaweed, detecting gravel, suspecting germs. The Voyage Out
Now it is said that the inscrutable coach will have to live up to the demands placed on him by the billion people living within a fanatical football nation.
In the days before the Nazi occupation, when Vienna was a leading intellectual and cultural centre in Europe, she was an imposing figure, inscrutable as she peered at her students through her lorgnette.
Then, as I looked back at the dark, inscrutable carob tree, I did feel a faint touch of fear.
Gray eyes inscrutable, he examined the weapon, running a finger over a scuff on the muzzle absently.
Matthias looked on, inscrutable behind his chieftain 's mustache. COASTLINERS
He is a convivial man, but inscrutable. Times, Sunday Times
Them he branded, as hypocritical materialists, and the country for pride in her sweetmeat plethora of them: -- mixed with an ancient Hebrew fear of offence to an inscrutable Lord, eccentrically appeasable through the dreary iteration of the litany of sinfulness. One of Our Conquerors — Volume 3
Charlotte in childbed; it has turned to a royal daughter whose death meets no divine design, only "inscrutable decrees. Scepticism and Its Costs: Hemans's Reading of Byron
I loved the psychedelic cardboard viewscreens, the tippy chairs and furniture, the stick-on UI for same that was as inscrutable and ridiculous as the authentic show computers. Boing Boing
Characters stand in for their creator as they guess at shapes, piece together glimpses, and infer meanings from inscrutable faces. The Times Literary Supplement
His shift from inscrutable correctness to open resentment and then to a kind of familiarity is both compelling and hilarious.
Skylar stared at him for a minute, his expression carefully guarded and inscrutable.
In traditional noir, black American communities featured as an exotic place of inscrutable deviance.
It is strange sketch of the man; he seems rather inscrutable, save for a hint of suspicion.
When it comes to the priciest products, a skeptic can explain diminishing returns in performance, lament inscrutable audiophile jargon or point to products that are, by his judgment, "good enough. The Best Luxury Audio Gear
Based on the play by Maurice Maeterlinck, it is the story of an inscrutable love triangle pieced together, and simultaneously dissolved, in a multitude of sidelong glances and half-hazarded yearnings. An Otherworldly Opera
Yet there he sat, strewing himself with snuff to keep himself awake, blinking with dim eyes at her, wondering for ever at her inscrutable nature, conversing improvingly upon his cases in the courts, or upon his growing fortune that he computed nightly like a miser. Doom Castle
Where Buttermere pleases the eye and gives a sense of pastoral wellbeing, and Windermere offers itself up like a playground, the water here remains inscrutable, and keeps putting the question back to you, like a mirror. Where I find inspiration …
I wonder if she's holding something back, so inscrutable does she seem at times.
But how else were you to approach the massive problem of ferreting out some meaning from an inscrutable universe?
Daisy , on this occasion , continued to present herself as an inscrutable combination of audacity and innocence.
But how else were you to approach the massive problem of ferreting out some meaning from an inscrutable universe?
A tiny percentage carried labels, and those contained only the name of the contributor if known and the date of the donation; the rest were innominate reminders of the vast constituents making up the monstrumological universe, the seemingly inexhaustible panoply of creatures designed by an inscrutable God to do us harm. The Curse of the Wendigo
But from an inscrutable something in her appearance, Billy judged she was not unentertained by his sufferings. The Palace of Darkened Windows
Inscrutable and hermetic on the outside, with its rugged, cork-clad walls, the Spanish pavilion conceals a luminous public plaza at its heart.

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