ineffably

Examples of ineffable

ineffable
Fourth, the experience strikes us as ineffable, that is, though you experience it as possessing various qualities, the exact qualitative character escapes description in words.
The papers from both conferences bear ample witness to the fascinations and frustrations of the concept of style, which is at once ineffable and indispensable.
The ineffable is thus characterised by a sublime yet accessible infinity, while the unsayable posits an infinity beyond reach.
They do not happen every day and have been for me both unpredictable and ineffable.
The idea of ineffable practice is also clearly incompatible with a culture of evidence-based medicine.
Totalitarian evil also proved to be ineffable as a result.
I am caught up in the ineffable, seemingly inexorable event that is out of my hands.
We can only say that in this or that particular cultural context humans expressed their encounter with the ineffable mystery in these terms.
The spectator is confronted with non-absolute ways of thinking, in which the ineffable plays a primary role.
There is a very real sense in which the big totality is ineffable.
Indeed, the concept of the ineffable is precisely the concept of that which is, by definition, outside that realm.
This lowest level defines the ineffable what-it-is-likeness of red, say, for me, different from you.
Yet the symbol does more than stimulate a momentary glimpse of the ineffable; for a believer it can conjure and actualize the other realm.
The infinite is, of course, ineffable.
Consequently, there is a great deal written about such things as physical performance, functional capabilities, and psychological state, but those aspects considered ineffable and non-quantifiable have been omitted.
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