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Definition of unsayable in English: unsayableadjectiveʌnˈseɪəb(ə)lˌənˈsāəb(ə)l Not able to be said, especially because considered too controversial or offensive to mention. a need to express through the arts what is unsayable elsewhere Example sentencesExamples - Multiculturalism has made it almost unsayable.
- At times of national hysteria, certain things that go against the tide of public opinion become almost unsayable.
- 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’.
- The fact that this was perceived by the Telegraph to be unsayable merely makes Steyn's point for him.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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…
- Her angle is slightly but importantly new, and therefore unsayable in any words other than hers.
- 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.’
- 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.
- I used to have a view of writers as being heroic figures, in the sense that they would say unsayable and courageous things.
- Both made extensive photographic records of what they saw, using the camera to try and capture what seems to be unsayable.
- 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.
- Some things are unsayable, but maybe you try to articulate the unspeakable in music.
- They said out loud what at the time was unsayable - that sexual orientation should not matter.
- 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.
- Far fewer doctors now annotate notes with acronyms designed to spell out the unsayable truth about their patients.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Definition of unsayable in US English: unsayableadjectiveˌənˈsāəb(ə)l Not able to be said, especially because considered too controversial or offensive to mention. a need to express through the arts what is unsayable elsewhere Example sentencesExamples - 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.
- At times of national hysteria, certain things that go against the tide of public opinion become almost unsayable.
- 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.
- Far fewer doctors now annotate notes with acronyms designed to spell out the unsayable truth about their patients.
- I used to have a view of writers as being heroic figures, in the sense that they would say unsayable and courageous things.
- Multiculturalism has made it almost unsayable.
- Her angle is slightly but importantly new, and therefore unsayable in any words other than hers.
- 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.
- 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…
- The fact that this was perceived by the Telegraph to be unsayable merely makes Steyn's point for him.
- They said out loud what at the time was unsayable - that sexual orientation should not matter.
- 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.’
- Both made extensive photographic records of what they saw, using the camera to try and capture what seems to be unsayable.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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’.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Some things are unsayable, but maybe you try to articulate the unspeakable in music.
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