as in inexpressible
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Recent Examples of unsayable
The tennis-ball POV from Challengers, Isabelle Huppert’s cat with the unknowable and unsayable name, the children dressed as Serge Gainsbourg on French TV.
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Bethy Squires, Vulture, 1 Nov. 2024
And the true heroes, consequently, are those who dare to say the unsayable.
—Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 5 Sep. 2024
This was a composer tasked with saying the unsayable against the unspeakable.
—Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 26 Jan. 2024
American literature took a while to say the unsayable.
—S. C. Cornell, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2023
With remarkable speed, however, the unsayable has become close to conventional wisdom.
—Michael Barnett, Foreign Affairs, 14 Apr. 2023
One senses that there’s an unsayable aspect to it.
—Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 12 Oct. 2020
And thus stand up for the subconscious, for the unsaid and unsayable, for the historically and personally indigestible, for the unprettified, for the autonomy of an imagination that cannot escape history, and—more than anything else—for black freedom of expression itself.
—Zadie Smith, The New York Review of Books, 27 Feb. 2020
The emotional focus and intensity of her distinctive music is constantly overturned by her infectious quicksilver laugh and easy lightness of touch, coupled with her uncanny ability to hear and express the unsayable.
—Hilton Dresden, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Dec. 2022
Bethy Squires, Vulture, 1 Nov. 2024
And the true heroes, consequently, are those who dare to say the unsayable.
—Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 5 Sep. 2024
This was a composer tasked with saying the unsayable against the unspeakable.
—Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 26 Jan. 2024
American literature took a while to say the unsayable.
—S. C. Cornell, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2023
With remarkable speed, however, the unsayable has become close to conventional wisdom.
—Michael Barnett, Foreign Affairs, 14 Apr. 2023
One senses that there’s an unsayable aspect to it.
—Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 12 Oct. 2020
And thus stand up for the subconscious, for the unsaid and unsayable, for the historically and personally indigestible, for the unprettified, for the autonomy of an imagination that cannot escape history, and—more than anything else—for black freedom of expression itself.
—Zadie Smith, The New York Review of Books, 27 Feb. 2020
The emotional focus and intensity of her distinctive music is constantly overturned by her infectious quicksilver laugh and easy lightness of touch, coupled with her uncanny ability to hear and express the unsayable.
—Hilton Dresden, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Dec. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unsayable
- inexpressible
- indefinable
- indescribable
- unknowable
- inexplicable
- incomprehensible
- unaccountable
- unfathomable
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Historians are struggling to recover their inexpressible secrets.Erin Maglaque, The New York Review of Books, 15 Nov. 2024
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Indeed, there is something more cosmic, spiritual and inexpressible about what is missing —a poignant reminder of the profound void left by SOPHIE’s departure from our astral plane.Juan Velasquez, Them, 23 Sep. 2024
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An indefinable musical by a French auteur is headed for millions of streaming subscribers.Joe Reid, Vulture, 8 Nov. 2024
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Abstract images composed of indefinable light and inky darkness recur as well, even in his later multiscreen video installations, which are more narrative-driven.Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 3 Sep. 2019
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Althoff, who’s 27 years old, just has it, that indescribable presence, that gravitational pull.Katie Drummond, WIRED, 2 Oct. 2024
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The devastation our tri-state area has suffered is indescribable.Kait Hanson, Southern Living, 1 Oct. 2024
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Hanks never reaches for effect and remains spiritually and physically calm: His Mr. Rogers is unknowable, unfathomable, but absolutely irresistible.Tim Grierson, Vulture, 2 Nov. 2024
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After a very strong start to her campaign that included packed rallies and innervating stump speeches, Harris mostly regressed back to the ultimately unknowable candidate whom Democratic voters rejected back in 2019.Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2024
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His confidence, never wavering through an uneven six weeks, had given way to confusion after USC fell, 29-28, to Maryland, its most inexplicable defeat to date.Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2024
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In a sketch mocking Céline Dion’s recent, inexplicable promo for Sunday Night Football, the chameleonic chanteuse absolutely nails Dion’s French Canadian accent, inflections, vocal tics, and confidence.Joe Berkowitz, Vulture, 13 Oct. 2024
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Their contributions to my life are incomprehensible.Emma Madden, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2024
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Trump’s speeches at rallies, especially of late, are rambling to the point of being incomprehensible.Richard Behar, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
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The report ranks 197 countries and territories on five indicators: conflict and violence, human rights abuse, unaccountable governance, economic exploitation, and environmental degradation.David Miliband, Foreign Affairs, 2 Mar. 2023
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Politicians have abdicated their responsibility to unelected, unaccountable technology leaders.Marietje Schaake, Foreign Affairs, 26 Sep. 2024
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At wide receiver, first-round draft pick Ricky Pearsall is two games into a rookie season delayed by an unfathomable gunshot wound through his chest.Cam Inman, The Mercury News, 5 Nov. 2024
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In response, scrutiny is rightly intensifying on the issue of business complicity in crimes against humanity, as companies across sectors—from arms exporters to tech giants—continue to turn profits amid unfathomable violence against civilians.Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2024
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“Unsayable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unsayable. Accessed 26 Nov. 2024.
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