How To Use Unmentionable In A Sentence
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Al-Kasim's first show, he says, "dissected" the Gulf Cooperation Council (the league of oil-rich monarchies and emirates that are responsible for some of the most closed regimes in the Middle East) "like a corpse," and since then The Opposite Direction has addressed an array of previously unmentionable questions in the Arab world, in terms ranging from the contrarian to the outlandish.
The Faisal Factor
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With some trepidation that I might hear those two unmentionable words… ‘Tim Henman’, I asked Lewis's mother who was his tennis-playing idol.
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It made you wonder if there was something smelly and not disclosed, or perhaps it was meeting the Ghost from Melbourne, or as one shareholder and Mr Clark both described it ‘another unmentionable company.’
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In The Consequences of Love, ‘Every man has an unmentionable secret,’ and none is more elusive than that of the international businessman.
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Gazing upon them, my heart softened and I almost forgave the gums their manifold iniquities, their diabolical thirst, their demoralizing aspect of precocious senility and vice, their peeling bark suggestive of unmentionable skin diseases, and that system of radication which is nothing short of a scandal on this side of the globe ....
Old Calabria
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On this view beauty - to the extent that beauty, along with truth, has not been ejected into the dustbin of unmentionable ideas - really is in the eye of the beholder and nowhere else.
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They do business with China, but they have to treat Cuba as the great unmentionable, the pariah.
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To mention the unmentionable is already impossible.
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As mortgage lenders last week upgraded their forecasts for house price inflation this year, commentators began whispering those two, until this moment, unmentionable words ‘hard landing’.
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Pritchett even appears to be admitting the long-unmentionable truth that restrictionism of immigration induces labor-saving innovations.
Let's Increase Poverty, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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‘The unmentionable odour of death,’ he wrote, ‘offends the September night.’
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One source said: ‘It has been the big unmentionable, but it's back on the agenda.’
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There's a pattern here, but it's hard to see because gender is the great unmentionable in public life, and women are especially invisible as citizens in a time of crisis.
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The weapons of mass destruction lies went entirely unchallenged, while the great unmentionable throughout the entire debate was the imperialist ambitions of the US.
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If Zizek were a little less suspicious of Spinoza, he would realise that the problem, the obscenity, is not passion - which is mandatory, ubiquitous - but that great unmentionable, affection.
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Until recently, however, it has been an unmentionable industry, rarely spoken of by politicians, air-brushed out of tourist literature and never claimed as a hobby by anyone with ambitions to make their way in public life.
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Dirty cheating usually involves a personal financial gain made from a betrayal of trust or from some form of subterfuge; it is widely condemned and spoken of either in anger or in the guarded terms of the unmentionable.
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It's always the great unmentionable, and unless our great absentee landlord is going to put money in his pocket…’ he tails off.
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The youth-fixation of television and, particularly, Hollywood, has made ageing the great cultural unmentionable.
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the dark corners of my mind where unmentionable emotions festered.
ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
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It was all part of the myth of empire, that foreigners had to eat the unmentionable parts of fish, flesh and fowl because they couldn't get - or afford - the good stuff.
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Yale University may promulgate the ‘right to think the unthinkable, discuss the unmentionable, and challenge the unchallengeable,’ but I have no right to expect funding or resources to help confirm my hypothesis.
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unmentionable words
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said Michael with revulsion as if Charley had confessed to infecting Holly with some unmentionable disease.
ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
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Is the tote bag an exterior uterus, the outward sign of the unmentionable burden?
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Today as I wandered down, crunching on broken glass and avoiding unmentionable messes, I saw the corner of a bed in the corner of a window in the corner of an apartment.
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The idea is to provide a real public option -- the dreaded "government-run healthcare" which causes Republicans to micturate in their unmentionables -- but one that only operates on a state level.
Chris Weigant: Friday Talking Points [98] -- Newsiness
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I don't know what else could have been so hurtful that, this many years later, it's still unmentionable.
THE SAVING GRACES
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Elizabeth's multi-talented Godson amused her court with his translations of risqué foreign verses and not surprisingly, bold wit that he was, he was never afraid to mention the unmentionable.
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Now that death had replaced sex as the great unmentionable it had acquired its own pudency; to die when you had not yet become a nuisance and before your friends could reasonably raise the ritual chant of "happy release" was in the worst of taste.
She Closed Her Eyes
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Confirmed believers aside, isn't the price we demand for our conviction a perpetual insulation against the unmentionable fear and unimaginable pain that come with premature loss of our loved ones?
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But just because you contained unmentionables didn't mean you should add to them.
PROSPECT HILL
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Because the good doctor has dared to utter the unmentionable truth: That the United States simply cannot afford to continue its current policy of absolute, unqualified support of the state of Israel.
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Alaina fought not to snap at Sonora for mentioning the unmentionable, instead she asked, ‘What is this, do you know?’
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So how then did the cited unmentionables, including a prized photograph of the buxom lady at age 22, become interred with someone else's bones?
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Plastic bags filled with unmentionable contents; old shoes; broken toys; twisted bits of wire and metal; old mattresses with their innards spilling out; all lie tangled in a sludge of human waste.
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So the other day when I was struck with this unmentionable ailment and spent the evening in bed crying out with pain… I sort of decided that was it.
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Bryan and I have been talking about baby timing for a while now, and my biggest concern - aside from the possibility of ending up with stitches in unmentionable places - was that we be completely settled somewhere first.
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I think we'll find that if we finally dare to mention the unmentionable, finally start pointing out that with rights come responsibilities, sure, some people will pout and whine and wave their little fists about.
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Unfortunately, it's the unmentionable that gets the most mention.
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Liberal" became a nearly unmentionable cussword though Clinton was not liberal at all.
Report: Hillary Has "Only" $20 Million For Primaries
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said Michael with revulsion as if Charley had confessed to infecting Holly with some unmentionable disease.
ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
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One of the great unmentionables in the current election campaign is the reinstatement of conscription.
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And in her agony, in her utter helplessness, mentioned the unmentionable.
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The bedchamber was ideal, with a dresser where Clarinda placed Samantha's unmentionables and a cupboard with hooks for her clothes.
MY FAVORITE BRIDE
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Dying, the indiscussible, the unmentionable, the thing we run away from, the word for access all areas.
Times, Sunday Times
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By doing the unmentionable, the unthinkable, Sethe bears witness to the despair of a black woman slave faced with the threat of having ‘the best part of her… sullied’.
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But she surprises me with her verve, dodging the car at the last second with a little roll that reverses into like a forward summersault, coming down way hard on my unmentionables.
The Pathetic Phallacy
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The matter of discrimination stays out of the picture, the great unmentionable that might spoil the happy day.
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It seems to be the unmentionable subject, and everyone assumes that Cheney will be the vice president, and he probably will be.
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I don't know what else could have been so hurtful that, this many years later, it's still unmentionable.
THE SAVING GRACES
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This was the great unmentionable fact when I was working there.
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Some historians studying the brutal battles for the Mediterranean have ended by asking an almost unmentionable question, which Woodall's plain account does not address: should Malta have been held at all, against such odds?
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For the rest of the year, the beach is a disgrace, covered in plastic bottles, broken glass, old tyres and all sorts of unmentionables.
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He may be lots of unmentionable things, but I don't think a "thicko" is one of them.
The Guardian World News
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the dark corners of my mind where unmentionable emotions festered.
ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
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There are other unmentionable things that may put us on stable financial ground but mentioning such things is verboten.
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This particular kind of death makes people skittish, thinking suicide either a shameful or unmentionable kind of death.
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The wife has been desperately trying to unblock years-worth of accumulated grease, coffee grounds, a false tooth, hair, calcium, limescale and other unmentionables using pumps, wires, acids and caustic soda, all to little effect.
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Come November, U.S. voters, after well over two centuries, still will not elect to the presidency a Black person who is the descendant of "we the people" who were enslaved not long ago in the U.S.A. These descendants are the Black American people, the group of Blacks whom Kenyan historian Ali Mazrui somehow has come to deem "undefinable" or "unmentionable", or who somehow should not be singled out n view of our long historical existence, lest in some way we might be seen as an "elite.
BHM (Black History Month)
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There are bones, there is blood, there are intestines, and all manner of unmentionable parts.
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Beer bottles, soft drink cans, confetti, paper, food and other unmentionables coated the floor in a thick layer of debris.
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There was a flicker of interest in Latham in the opening moments of the not-very-great debate - when he tackled the other unmentionable issues, Iran and the war against terror.
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One unmentionable aspect of the war is the role of this mutlibillion-dollar corporate war machine.
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I had a week at most at my disposal, so for three or four nights I set off stealthily after dark, dressed in an ancient pea jacket and patched unmentionables, with a muffler and billycock hat and cracked boots, Galand in one pocket and flask in t'other, skulking round Conduit Street to see what his movements were.
Watershed
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He had known how to brace himself for that other authority -- there had, at any rate, been consistency and even a kind of chiselled magnificence in that stiff brutality -- now there was degradation, crawling devilry, things unmentionable ....
Fortitude
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When he does mention the unmentionable, as an aside, the effect is callous.
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The second unmentionable is that even if we do get the Rolls, odds are we'll immediately crave another.
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If something could bring a great evil from his own world into this one, an evil which none here including Clothahump could understand, why could not that same maleficent force reverse the channel one day and thrust some similar unmentionable horror on his own unsuspecting world?
A Corridor in the Asylum
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Amongst those whom I brought with me to remove the scales from his eyes was a present county councillor who was a former independent and who is now an unmentionable.