ineffably

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Forth from this maze of mingling tints, indefinite in shade and sunbeams, lean earnest, saintly faces--ineffably pure--adoring, pitying, pleading; raising their eyes in ecstasy to heaven, or turning them in ruth toward earth.

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  1. In an ineffable manner; so as not to be expressed in words; unspeakably. But in this indefinite description there is something ineffably great and noble. Guardian, No. 89.

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  • Chuck & Larry should open up a whole new career path for the ineffably funny, unselfconsciously buck-naked —  GreenCine Daily
  • From that box tucked under the text of a movie review, the conception of arts coverage as a kind of ineffably digestible, data-driven form of service journalism steadily expanded within the pages of —  CJR
  • Forth from this maze of mingling tints, indefinite in shade and sunbeams, lean earnest, saintly faces--ineffably pure--adoring, pitying, pleading; raising their eyes in ecstasy to heaven, or turning them in ruth toward earth. —  New Italian sketches
  • Their devoted women pinched themselves and stripped their homes, to aid the cause so sacred to them; and on the burning sand-hills of Charleston harbor, grandsire and grandson wrought side by side under blistering sun and galling fire alike How bitter, then, for those devoted and mourning cities to see their sacred places made mere marts; their cherished fame jeopardied by refuse stay-at-homes, or transient aliens; while vile speculation--ineffably greedy, when not boldly dishonest--smirched them with lowest vices of the lust for gain! —  Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death
  • It was the vision of his remedy that now excited him: ineffably, grotesquely simple, it had yet come to him only within a day or two. —  Embarrassments
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