How To Use Utterable In A Sentence
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Then the pleasant little surprises of all kinds that we imagined; and the pleasant looks that greet us when we condescend to accept them; the patience that can translate our most unwarrantable "crossness", because there has been some trifling difficulty in obtaining the half of a star or the corner of a moon which it had pleased us to require, into "such a good sign of being really better"; and then our appetite (which the gods know is at that season singularly keen), how is it not tempted with unutterable dainties and friande morsels, all sorts of amateur cookery in our behalf, where Love himself has not disdained to turn the spit, and look into the stewpan! and all served up so gracefully on the small tray, covered with its delicate white damask cloth, arraying with more than mortal charms the moulds of crystal jelly and pure-looking blanc mange!
Zoe: The History of Two Lives
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But they are picked up by the scanning mechanism of our subconscious, which enables them to join a host of otherwise unutterable feelings that lie buried deep in our psyche.
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The roars, belike, would have gradually subsided in dreadful rumblings of more than utterable or conquerable mirth.
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In this poem, the line that introduces the variation, ‘But O for the touch of a vanish'd hand,’ is also the line that tells us for the first time what the unutterable grief is about.
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Every now and then, for instance, Hanna would start up and commence a series of little flirtations with the blackbird, which she called her sweetheart, and again resume her chat and seat as before; or she would attempt to catch a butterfly as it fluttered about her, or sometimes give it pursuit over half the green, whilst Kathleen sat with laughing and delighted eyes, and a smile of unutterable sweetness on her lips, watching the success of this innocent frolic.
The Emigrants Of Ahadarra The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two
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In his attempt to register the extent of his "unutterable" bliss at buying his freedom, Equiano offers a list of comparable moments of joy:
The State of Things: Olaudah Equiano and the Volatile Politics of Heterocosmic Desire
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Her voice had seemed to come from some unutterable distance.
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Then, summoning the wild courage of despair, a throng of the revellers at once threw themselves into the black apartment, and, seizing the mummer, whose tall figure stood erect and motionless within the shadow of the ebony clock, gasped in unutterable horror at finding the grave-cerements and corpse-like mask which they handled with so violent a rudeness, untenanted by any tangible form.
Nevermore
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From what looked like very bad news came the unutterable relief of very good news.
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How often, gliding by in barrenness, has it cast a shade of unutterable dejection on the dial of a sunless day.
Stuart of Dunleath: A Story of Modern Times
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The third name is the name unutterable which means the All. Talks with Brother V. strengthen, refresh, and support me in the path of virtue.
War and Peace
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SBG: the word "unutterable" also occurs in heel's phenomenology of spirit, page 66: "what is called the unutterable is nothing else than the untrue, the irrational, what is merely meant [but is not actually expressed].
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After an afternoon of unutterable boredom I was finally allowed to leave.
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The pale twilight fell, and enfolded us with unutterable tenderness, just revealing the glimmering snows of Lebanon, and leaving the glass of the sea just distinguishable from the air.
Weatherwatch
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It became clear fairly quickly that the trees wouldn't be things of un-utterable joy, though.
Archive 2007-07-01
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Lilli Mokganyetsi's story conveyed profound meanings that went beyond the immediate, beyond the apparent, beyond the chronological, beyond the coherent or the utterable.
'I Saw a Nightmare …' Doing Violence to Memory: The Soweto Uprising, June 16, 1976
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Slowly, ponderously, and to no obvious purpose, bewigged lawyers gnaw away at obscure details, while judges occasionally interrupt them with observations of unutterable banality.
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What is so deeply revolting about her lucubrations is their unutterable and invincible bourgeois complacency.
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i am not wrong-able from the werewolf and the ... pseudo jobs english glasnost the unutterable refrain duplex in the shrine found a photo booth in ... absolute devolute devolute
The Unutterable
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But it has left behind it a token; a clear, bright impress; a smile of undissembled love and purity; an expression beaming with the last unutterable peace; the graces which were so winning upon earth, but which shall attain their perfection in heaven.
The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, February 1844 Volume 23, Number 2
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In his vocabulary was no word for “crocodile”; yet in his thought, as potent as any utterable word, was an image of dreadful import — an image of a log awash that was not a log and that was alive, that could swim upon the surface, under the surface, and haul out across the dry land, that was huge-toothed, mighty-mawed, and certain death to a swimming dog.
CHAPTER XX
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He, who has worked for international magazines such as Time and Newsweek, and British newspaper the Sunday Times, has captured those moments in which unutterable misery meets human courage, strength, and compassion.
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Garage Sale Booty: I found some real highs and lows among the used books this weekend: Lows FIRST -- The Elvis Sightings inutterable nonsense by Peter Eicher; The Tarot Murders -- A Novel of Suspense by Mignon Warner; TV 80 (actually published in 1979) superficial rubbish about then-current television stars by Lisa Freeman; Higher than low -- Movie Comedy Teams (1974) by Leonard Matlin; Saturday Night Live (1977) scripts and photos from their best period, edited by Annie Beatts & John Head;
Archive 2005-07-03
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Often when I have felt a weariness or distaste at home, have I rushed out into her crowded Strand, and fed my humour, till tears have wetted my cheek for inutterable sympathies with the multitudinous moving picture, which she never fails to present at all hours, like the shifting scenes of a skilful Pantomime.
The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb
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Elohim, etc., and still less Yahweh, the ineffable name, i.e. a name unutterable to any human tongue; instead of these, they used metaphors or expressions having reference to the Divine attributes.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
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As we speak, literally thousands of copies of films of almost unutterable worthlessness are being preserved in this manner.
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After an afternoon of unutterable boredom I was finally allowed to leave.
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A problem: said illumination tends to reveal kinks, unpleasant truths, and unutterable feelings.
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The result was literally overwhelming, for in a moment he was almost buried in snow, to the unutterable delight of his sister, who stood screaming with laughter as the unfortunate boy struggled to disentomb himself.
Silver Lake
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The visible, rather than being subsidiary to the spoken word, repeatedly encompassed both the utterable and the unutterable.
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unutterable contempt
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But gradually the warning sound is lost to the alarmed ear, and the pulses of the commoved air waft it on to mingle with the thousand other long-quenched voices which people the distant realms of space, and form together that unutterable harmony which, by consent of the poets, is named the music of the spheres.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847
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Slowly, ponderously, and to no obvious purpose, bewigged lawyers gnaw away at obscure details, while judges occasionally interrupt them with observations of unutterable banality.
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At worst, he would construe it as an act of such unutterable naivety that it could only be interpreted as being malign in intent.
BLACK EAGLES
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He was often frightened that he was losing his memory, though the doctors had found no evidence of this, and even his failure to recall things he might plausibly have forgotten thirty years ago filled him with unutterable terror.
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The iterative time of the future is a becoming-space where the ‘in-between’ becomes utterable, and can return and be reiterated in the interstices of the present.
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Oh, what unutterable corruption sticks, like birdlime, to all our motives, all our thoughts, all our words, all our actions!
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But, sir, " she said, "I have not yet decided whether or not to grant you your peep, that moment of inutterable bliss for which you will, willingly, surrender the wondrous veil to me in its entirety.
Cinnamon Roll
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Unspeakable" in the dictionary means the same as "unutterable" -- but the former is always used to mean something base or vile, while the latter usually means some rapturous or divine thought or emotion.
About.com Grammar & Composition
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The result was that the horse, to La Certe's unutterable surprise, made a sudden demivolt into the air -- without the usual persuasion -- almost unseated its rider, and fled over the prairie like a thing possessed!
The Buffalo Runners A Tale of the Red River Plains
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Unutterable. insinuate v. To imply. inextensible adj.
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Gone, – past – buried in unutterable scorn, – are the days in which I appealed, either to him, or from him.
A Letter to the Queen on Lord Chancellor Cransworth's Marriage and Divorce Bill
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The words of this fighting savage, Mavovo, even those of them of which I had heard only the translation, garbled and beslavered by the mean comments of the unutterable Sammy, stirred my imagination.
Allan and the Holy Flower
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unutterable consonant clusters
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Then, to my inutterable relief, she stirred, and opened her eyes -- and smiled.
A new interview with me
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More recently, their books captured the unutterable sadness of the place.
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At worst, he would construe it as an act of such unutterable naivety that it could only be interpreted as being malign in intent.
BLACK EAGLES
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I can barely remember reading such unutterable bilge as his effort today.
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And to some men you will be inutterable desirable.
Rogue Of Gor
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Once I could shed tears — now my brain burns to madness, and the soothing stillicide of unutterable grief no longer washes my haggard cheeks.
Agnes De-Courci: a Domestic Tale
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“De Hamal is an unutterable puppy, besides being a very white-livered hero.”
Villette
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Slowly, ponderously, and to no obvious purpose, bewigged lawyers gnaw away at obscure details, while judges occasionally interrupt them with observations of unutterable banality.
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Let's compare that emote to "Dudeguy hides his broken, bleeding heart, his stoic visage masking the inutterable misery of his soul.
WoW.com
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Among all the French words my daughter has taught me, rosace may be the least useful in speech (not like the ever-groovy, ever-utterable chiche* that she taught me a while back) but I can say that I am now seeing rosace patterns everywhere.
Rosace - French Word-A-Day
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In such a project the spiritual element of understanding, i.e., the grasp of the relations between the points on this mental map and the external world was relegated to the margin as simply "unutterable".
HERMENEUTICS OF CULTURES IN A GLOBAL AGE
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It is hard to convey quite how profoundly last Tuesday's attack will change the character of New York, but there is a sense of unutterable loss, which the city is still struggling to make sense of.
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And just then began the ugliest man to gurgle and snort, as if something unutterable in him tried to find expression; when, however, he had actually found words, behold! it was a pious, strange litany in praise of the adored and censed ass.
Thus spake Zarathustra; A book for all and none
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Within 60 seconds of that score, however, Scotland conceded a try of unutterable amateurishness.
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We are in the least rescued from inutterable laughability.
BlueOregon
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Everything I have suffered seems almost necessary, because I am overcome with an unutterable serenity.
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To him however that feels the same disgust and loathing, the same unutterable shuddering, as I feel, start up within him and shoot through his whole frame at the sight of them, these miscreate deformities, such as toads, beetles, or that most nauseous of all Nature's abortions, the bat, are not indifferent or insignificant: their very existence is a state of direct enmity and warfare against his.
The Old Man of the Mountain, The Lovecharm and Pietro of Abano Tales from the German of Tieck
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This is about television and the audience, both of which, on the evidence of these programmes, have descended over the past 40 years into a condition of unutterable stupidity.
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My hair was matted and wild -- my limbs soiled with salt ooze; while at sea, I had thrown off those of my garments that encumbered me, and the rain drenched the thin summer-clothing I had retained -- my feet were bare, and the stunted reeds and broken shells made them bleed -- the while, I hurried to and fro, now looking earnestly on some distant rock which, islanded in the sands, bore for a moment a deceptive appearance -- now with flashing eyes reproaching the murderous ocean for its unutterable cruelty.
III.9
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When is anyone in authority going to utter the unutterable, which is that our financial collapse ultimately goes back to the fact that every dollar in circulation derives from a loan made by a bank to a producer, consumer, or the government, and that all these loans have attached to them a rental charge known as interest which is paid to the bankers 'monopoly?
Obama Economic Program Increases America's Bondage to Wall Street Billionaires
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Looking through the casement was the visage of the mariner, no longer stern, but moved with unutterable emotion, and tears, yes, tears trickling down his weather-beaten cheeks.
Edward Barnett; a Neglected Child of South Carolina, Who Rose to Be a Peer of Great Britain,—and the Stormy Life of His Grandfather, Captain Williams or, The Earle's Victims: with an Account of the Terrible End of the Proud Earl De Montford, the Lamen
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He writes, ‘It is an unutterable sadness which punctuates the reality that I am called upon to portray, and yet the dominant superstition of my profession demands that I raise a laugh.’
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They have with them an unutterable glory of conscious power, the magnificence of a perfect, God-given nature, such a haughty spirit of rivalless dominion as might have swelled the soul of a Jewish queen, monarch of Israel, ruler of God's chosen people in the day of their unbroken pride, when she felt that none greater than herself dwelt upon the globe.
The Continental Monthly, Vol III, Issue VI, June, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
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The stand-out performance is that of her as Julienne, trying to articulate unutterable emotions in a faltering stammer that is simultaneously funny and sad.
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At length, in a moment of great irritation, excited on the one hand by his intense interest in the poor suffering girl, and anger at the peevish, helpless Don Picador, Don Ricardo, to our unutterable surprise, rapped out, in gude broad Scotch, as he brushed away Senor Cangrejo from the bedside with a violence that spun him out of the door -- "God -- the auld doited deevil is as fusionless as a docken.
Tom Cringle's Log
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The second is a flowing, serpentine face coiled around the unutterable disgrace of national decomposition and dissolution.
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Can governments really expect that we will sit and watch images of unutterable misery and do nothing about it?
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One tone, one chord, a single movement, three, four notes in melodic succession, are in their musical apperception the substratum of such unutterable and intense musical emotion that it becomes practically impossible in these sound-areas to make music freely and completely in the manner of Bach, Beethoven, Debussy, or Palestrina.
Banishing silence
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In his conception, representation comprised two essential elements, the visible and the utterable.
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But the French use it, and that means that it is utterable now—tout de suite—illico!
Words in a French Life
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But soon four hours 'deprivation of the drug gave rise to a physical and mental prostration that no pen can adequately depict, no language convey: a horror unspeakable, a woe unutterable takes possession of the entire being; a clammy perspiration bedews the surface, the eye is stony and hard, the noise pointed, as in the hippocratic face preceding dissolution, the hands uncertain, the mind restless, the heart as ashes, the "bones marrowless.
The Opium Habit
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Instead of preferring to dwell on the unutterable ecstasy, contentment, and bliss of the experience, he is far more anxious to emphasise the fact that "all that pleased earst now seemes to paine.
Mysticism in English Literature
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Then, summoning the wild courage of despair, a throng of the revellers at once threw themselves into the black apartment, and, seizing the mummer, whose tall figure stood erect and motionless within the shadow of the ebony clock, gasped in unutterable horror at finding the grave-cerements and corpse-like mask which they handled with so violent a rudeness, untenanted by any tangible form.
Nevermore
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He felt such an unutterable fool.
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By consciously subverting the genre of figurative painting, he evokes a miscellaneous sense of emptiness, horror, desire and unutterable inner fire with Eastern religious connotations.
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He could picture but one way of destroying this terrible loneliness, the attainment of a spiritual -- a divine -- state of love, a condition to which he would give no name utterable by human lips, lest it be profaned, but for which his whole being yearned.
Short Stories of the Tragedy and Comedy of Life
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The Berlin Jewish Museum obviously speaks to us from a specific historical experience but it opens up issues that are very important in the contemporary world - how to deal with an almost unutterable history and how to represent loss.
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There is nothing she can say, for the cause of her anxiety is not utterable.
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And once again, the thought that Howard was joining the ‘Coalition’ for less than freedom-loving reasons was unutterable.
