ineffable

• It seemed to fill her with fire: the ineffable, all-consuming, triumphant fire she had felt in her mad pursuit of Diogenes Pendergast. —  The Wheel of Darkness by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
• But how ineffable is the condescension of the great! —  Nights Rome, Venice, in the Aesthetic Eighties; London, Paris, in the Fighting Nineties
• We know in our personal experience what our creations are and we instinctively know through it what creation around us means When Keats said in his "Ode to a Grecian Urn Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought As doth eternity he felt the ineffable which is in all forms of perfection, the mystery of the One, which takes us beyond all thought into the immediate touch of the Infinite. —  Creative Unity
• Far more probable is it, in seeking for analogies to his mythology and cosmogony, to resort to the era of that primal reconstruction of the theory of a Deity, when the human philosophy in the oriental world ascribed the godship of the universe to the subtile, ineffable, and indestructible essences of fire and light, as revealed in the sun. —  The Myth of Hiawatha, and Other Oral Legends, Mythologic and Allegoric, of the North American Indians
• A beer to drink reverently and silently, as if in the presence of something transcendental, ineffable--but not too slowly, for the supply is limited! —  Europe After 8:15

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