How To Use unsay In A Sentence
- And is there anything that should be unsayable? Times, Sunday Times
- As he spoke; the poor expectant husband and father saw at a glance that his brilliant hopes were to be dashed to the ground and that his visitor was now there for the purpose of unsaying what on his former visit he had said. Barchester Towers
- And so, backed up by statistics, he says the unsayable. Times, Sunday Times
- The elegy, as real poems do, brings us to a place where words give way to the music of silence, where we approach the unsayable and bow before it.
- You say what once seemed unsayable, you let the proverbial fly, the leader - seemingly benign - disassociates himself, meanwhile the seeds of doubt are sown, and the headkickers party on…
- Larkin used once in a letter to his mother - over books and music, and those moments of ungainsayable and perhaps unsayable emotion he risks more and more frequently in his later poems, after the self-deflating asperities of the earlier work that made his name. Top stories from Times Online
- Her response to being allowed freely to say the unsayable is remarkable. Times, Sunday Times
- I realised that I could get away with unsaying those words.
- As we have seen above, while there do occur forms of expression that are contradictory, the contradiction is often removed by the device of “unsaying” or canceling out, which propels the discourse into a non-discursive realm. Mysticism
- After all, I didn't have a time machine, and I couldn't unsay what I had said, though what I had said was one of those things that clearly required erasing.