How To Use Unnameable In A Sentence

  • Odorants classified as unnameable and nameable were rated as equally intense (t (9) = 0.76, p PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • USA Today congratulated it for ‘powerfully and palpably capturing the isolation, confusion and unnameable fears of childhood’.
  • Claustrophobia replaces openness as you experience the unnameable on a colossal scale. The Facelessness of Mass Destruction
  • Netherland recognizes the tenuous nature of a self, that "fine white thread running, through years and years," and Hans flirts with the possibility that language may not precisely describe the world ( "I was assaulted by the notion, arriving in the form of a terrifying stroke of consciousness, that substance — everything of so called concreteness — was indistinct from its unnameable opposite"). Part 2: Netherland, Lyrical Realism, and the flip flops of Zadie Smith
  • It can be "zany" or not (Beckett is zany in Waiting for Godot, not in How It Is or The Unnameable, but the effect is the same). Comedy in Literature
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  • Although God Himself is absolutely unknowable and unnameable, the Tetragrammaton is His highest emanation in creation.
  • No, it's something more truly human-a hand outstretched to touch an unnameable thing.
  • But if Barbara causes Stephen to blush and long for something yet unnameable, he is also becoming aware of complicated adult relationships as he becomes drawn into the drama of Mrs Hayward's ‘secret missions’.
  • But in the flesh, when my friends and I caught them by mistake on fishing outings, they were alien and weird, unnameable things—snakes, maybe, or what?
  • Food wrappers, drink cans, discarded toys, plastic things and other unnameable objects occupy the full length of a couple of hundred yards of this quiet alternative to the noisy traffic-logged streets.
  • I am rich in the only scale that counts and whilst I may be feeling a tiny bit wistful or dare I say it hurt or jealous or some other unnameable emotion it is fleeting and I know with certainty that I am the luckiest lady in the world…
  • We notice, in a pile of unnameable forms, suggestively titled "Residue," the shoe soles that will return again and again in Guston's later paintings, as well as hints of stubbed-out cigarette butts. An Anxious Modern Eyes the Eternal City
  • Her mother's death had left her with so vast, so unnameable a sense of loss, that in a way she had given herself up to filling it. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
  • To the right brain, spaces and objects, the known and the unknown, the nameable and the unnameable are all the same.
  • The word is all the more frightening for naming the unnameable.
  • Odorants classified as unnameable were rated as significantly more difficult to name than odors classified as nameable. PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • Bonneville has an understanding of Bell's unstructured genius, as he says his own songwriting comes from some unknown, unnameable place - one perhaps inspired by the rhythm of car wheels on the next curve of the highway.
  • This irrational fear of something unnameable was affecting, not only her, but her family as well (proven by Dire).
  • To "deconstruct" philosophy, thus, would be to think-—in the most faithful, interior way—-the structured genealogy of philosophy's concepts, but at the same time to determine—-from a certain exterior that is unqualifiable or unnameable by philosophy—-what this history has been able to dissimulate or forbid, making itself into a history by means of this somewhere motivated repression. Enowning
  • Yet thanks to the misapplication of science to religious faith, we remain literal-minded and spiritually immature, frightened of the silence and solitude in which the Ancient of Days, the Unnameable, might be experienced, though never understood. Karen Armstrong and the case for God
  • Whereupon this foreigner, who was clueless and careless enough to mention the occult, was showered with stories of varying levels of tragedy illustrating the cataclysmic powers of the 'unnameable', whose name still inspired fear. Signandsight.com
  • Listening to US leaders over the past six months, it seems that the unnameable, unknowable enemy in the war on terror is everywhere - and nowhere.
  • Those, therefore, who have excogitated [the theory of] emissions have not discovered anything great, or revealed any abstruse mystery, when they have simply transferred what all understand to the only-begotten Word of God; and while they style Him unspeakable and unnameable, they nevertheless set forth the production and formation of ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus
  • The brutal excesses of L' Innominato remain, as his name suggests, unnameable.
  • They come to know the sameness of reality who recollect and meditate the unnameable name of the transcendent one, God.
  • In the former, Lucinda asks for fulfillment, enlightenment, and the unnameable assuagement sought by all. Joseph Smigelski: Lucinda Williams: She Breaks My Heart
  • fine white thread running, through years and years," and Hans flirts with the possibility that language may not precisely describe the world ( "I was assaulted by the notion, arriving in the form of a terrifying stroke of consciousness, that substance-everything of so called concreteness-was indistinct from its unnameable opposite"). NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS
  • Let the word dissociate from the literal Biblical meanings and instead focus on its mystical intent - a name for the unnameable.
  • My decidedly laissez-faire parents assumed that if I were to engage in the unnameable, I was too smart to get pregnant.
  • Detailed scenarios display fragments of earth and home destroyed by some unnameable horror. Tracey Harnish: Devastation of the American Dream
  • Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.
  • The usual rap on Mr. Romney is that he's robotic, but the real reason he can't gain traction with voters is that they suspect he's concealing some unnameable private doubt. The GOP Deserves to Lose
  • HQ Hotel 2 Tango, they're sparking interest from a certain vanity label of an as yet unnameable ex-indie-rock star.
  • It has a sculpted, sensual quality, a richness of texture missing from most modern cinema: in place of all those clean, digital, precise empty blockbusters here's something dense, deep, full of unnameable spectral presences.
  • What is new about President Bush's order is that it radically erases any legal status of the individual, thus producing a legally unnameable and unclassifiable being.

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