inapprehensible

In the swirl of the Libby affair, one loses sight of the real offense, and it becomes almost inapprehensible what it is that Cheney/Libby/Rove got themselves into.

11/02/2005 2005

The novelty of the avowal rendered what it carried with it inapprehensible by him in its entirety.

The Woodlanders 2006

He seemed to be passing through the universe of ideas like a comet — erratic, inapprehensible, untraceable.

The Woodlanders 2006

It was enough for him to understand that the world had forked along a path that was inapprehensible, alien, and opaque.

Captain Corelli's Mandolin De Bernieres, Louis 2003

The modern commercial nation to which Ferguson belongs, as a British subject, a Highlander by birth but one born too late to claim to be the scion of an independent Scotland, in fact typifies a state in which the press of numbers and the extent of territory have begun to make the bonds of society inapprehensible.

Social Theory at Box Hill: Acts of Union 2000

The sounds of words are the most delicate, fleeting and inapprehensible things in nature. ….

Chapter 7. The Standard American Pronunciation. 1. General Characters Henry Louis 1921

By reason of this last it was inapprehensible to him that there could be an objection to the sexes co-operating indiscriminately in work.

The Unexpurgated Case Against Woman Suffrage Almroth Wright 1904

He seemed to be passing through the universe of ideas like a comet -- erratic, inapprehensible, untraceable.

The Woodlanders Thomas Hardy 1884

The novelty of the avowal rendered what it carried with it inapprehensible by him in its entirety.

The Woodlanders Thomas Hardy 1884

Nevertheless, allowing for all imagined possibilities, -- granting even the likelihood of some inapprehensible relation between all past and all future conditioned-being, -- the tremendous question remains: What signifies the whole of apparitional existence to the Unconditioned?

The Romance of the Milky Way And Other Studies & Stories Lafcadio Hearn 1877