How To Use Unsay In A Sentence
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And is there anything that should be unsayable?
Times, Sunday Times
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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
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And so, backed up by statistics, he says the unsayable.
Times, Sunday Times
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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.
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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…
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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
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Her response to being allowed freely to say the unsayable is remarkable.
Times, Sunday Times
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I realised that I could get away with unsaying those words.
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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
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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.
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Comedy is supposed to push boundaries, take risks, say the unsayable.
The Sun
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Some things are unsayable, but maybe you try to articulate the unspeakable in music.
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Naaman as one that had soon repented of his generosity, that was fickle, and did not know his own mind, that would say and unsay, swear and unswear, that would not do an honourable thing but he must presently undo it again. his story of the two sons of the prophets was as silly as it was false; if he would have begged a token for two young scholars, surely less than a talent of silver might serve them.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume II (Joshua to Esther)
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At times of national hysteria, certain things that go against the tide of public opinion become almost unsayable.
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Two of Hamilton’s proofs strike a modern ear as unsayably blunt.
Alexander Hamilton, American
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If the mystic text is an experiment in saying the unsayable, then the mystical image - something far more widespread than once thought - emerges as a fascinating attempt to see the unseeable.
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I was even rather touched by memory of his insistence last night on another glass of that water which just might give him typhoid; rather touched by memory of his unsaying that he "never" touched alcohol -- he who, in point of fact, had to be always gambling on something or other.
James Pethel
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Ballmer now, however, seems to be going some way to unsaying this.
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Sometimes I can say the unsayable.
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Remember, what is unsayable can still happen.
Times, Sunday Times
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But the bibliolatrist cannot say _that_; because, if he does, then he is formally unsaying the very principle which is meant by bibliolatry.
Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1
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Then all the dead opened their cold palms and released the snow; slow, slant, silent, a huge unsaying, it fell, torn language; settled, the world to be locked, local; unseen, fervent earthbound bees around a queen.
'Snow' by Carol Ann Duffy
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I kept thinking, oh my God, I am way out of my depth, but, I just couldn't unsay it.
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Nevertheless, the meaning performed in our ‘joint action’ is immersed in the unsayable workings of cultural history in a manner that changes our relations to the past, present, and future.
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I hope that none of us, even after the end of the metaphysics of the subject, would want to entirely unsay that old Mozartian thought, or fail to appreciate the art that made it possible.
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Central to Ensler's work is the idea that the tension between the sayable and the unsayable is created by the powers that be, a.k.a. patriarchy, hell-bent on suppressing what Ensler dubs the "girl cell.
Jill Di Donato: It's My Fault; Or Is It?: A New Play Explores Rape As More Than a Four Letter Word
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Having first, therefore, laid violent hands on the horses, for whose escape from the stable no place but the window was left open, he next applied himself to his sister; softened and soothed her, by unsaying all he had said, and by assertions directly contrary to those which had incensed her.
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
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Bastile, and I heavily walked up-stairs unsaying every word I had said in going down them.
The Illustrated London Reading Book
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I used to have a view of writers as being heroic figures, in the sense that they would say unsayable and courageous things.
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Both made extensive photographic records of what they saw, using the camera to try and capture what seems to be unsayable.
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Costello at one point commends Kafka for taking things ‘to the end, to the bitter, unsayable end whether or not there are traces left on the page’.
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But Wittgenstein in fact believed that the most important thing, what he referred to as ‘the mystical,’ is merely unsayable, not that it doesn't exist at all.
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Her eyes sidled up to Herr Bormann, who was perusing his fork, with such intent that she wished she could unsay her words.
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Calliaud, and by arguments and reasons by him delivered, he was persuaded to unsay his swearing, and to declare that he believed that the affidavit which he made at Patna, and while the transaction was recent or nearly recent, must be a mistake: that he _believed_ (what is amazing indeed for any belief) that not Mr. Hastings, but he himself, interpreted.
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 09 (of 12)
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However, no sooner had the parliament spoken than there were attempts to unsay its words.
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Second, we must revoke it - that is, unsay or cancel it.
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The fact that this was perceived by the Telegraph to be unsayable merely makes Steyn's point for him.
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The fact that he is a rubbish candidate who has demonstrated over and over again his flakiness, inconsistency, flip-floppery, lack of principle and general untrustworthiness was unsayable.
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You must turn up the volume, find a new blasphemy to utter, discover the certain something still unsayable that you, and you alone, dare to say.
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Once it was digested that a military conclusion seemed as far off as ever, the hitherto unsayable notion of a political resolution was out of the bag.
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cordially" talk to Datu Unsay Mayor Andal Ampatuan Jr., "into submitting himself to investigation.
Davao Today
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Far fewer doctors now annotate notes with acronyms designed to spell out the unsayable truth about their patients.
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I had thought the kind of comments that Spinner was making re the death of David Hookes were unsayable, and it was so refreshing to find a dissident viewpoint outside the mainstream media.
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Despite much mature retrospection, I can't unsay those mean comments to Mom, undo what 18 years of smoking did to my lungs, nor unwrite the cringe-inducing history of my high school social life.
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These simple scientific facts are now unsayable.
Times, Sunday Times
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The marital warfare enacted by Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor's characters, however, depended for its full effect on some things being generally considered quite unsayable.
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Her angle is slightly but importantly new, and therefore unsayable in any words other than hers.
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Because once everything's been said about a subject what is left for new writers but the pleasure of unsaying it all?
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He said the unsayable and the unthinkable but with a twinkle.
Times, Sunday Times
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Gov Zaldy clasping my hand said: “Ipaubaya ni amah si Datu Unsay sayo” and turned over Datu Unsay to me.
Philippines: Martial Law Declared in Maguindano Province
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Multiculturalism has made it almost unsayable.
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Amy wished that she could unsay what she had just said, but couldn't help feel what she had said was right.
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And yet, in this instance, having become thoroughly convinced that he had been treating a deserving man with injustice, he had the moral courage to reverse his conduct, to unsay what he had before said, and to incur the risk of being called fickle or changeable by doing what he now believed to be the right thing.
Amos Huntingdon
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He added: ‘I suppose it is a testimony to my doctor that he gave us the news, white faced, nervous, with eyes downcast… as if it was something both unsayable and already said.’
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They said out loud what at the time was unsayable - that sexual orientation should not matter.
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Despite much mature retrospection, I can't unsay those mean comments to Mom, undo what 18 years of smoking did to my lungs, nor unwrite the cringe-inducing history of my high school social life.
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By 60, you've learnt to think the unthinkable and, even better, to say the unsayable.
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The moral interest of the fable, which is so powerfully sustained by the sufferings and endurance of Prometheus, would be annihilated if we could conceive of him as unsaying his high language and quailing before his successful and perfidious adversary.
The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley
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It's a wonderful comic mask that allows him to say the unsayable.
Times, Sunday Times
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This is theatre that delights in saying the unsayable: a provocative, painful pleasure.
Times, Sunday Times
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Mechanical as the notes were, yet so true in tune to nature were they chanted, that in one moment they overthrew all my systematic reasonings upon the Bastille; and I heavily walkd up-stairs, unsaying every word I had said in going down them.
41. The Passport. The Hotel at Paris
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In a culture bent on out-shouting a God who chooses silence, we need to make room in our communities for entering into that silence with God, so that the unsayable truth can be heard.
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‘In a book, once you say things, you can't unsay them,’ Witeck warns.
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I think a better example to be used for saying things and then unsaying them, and specifically to Joe Q, would be his Rawhide Kid being Gay comments, where he said Gay heroes had to be in Max books, and then tried to un-say it almost a year later... but instead of admitting he was taking back what he said, just denied that he'd ever said it.
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