incommunicableness

Then it was that I made the remark I quoted in a former chapter, apropos of New England "incommunicableness":

Marion Harland's autobiography : the story of a long life, 1910

Paris — He shrugged his shoulders and lifted his eyebrows at the incommunicableness of the sun.

THE PEARLS OF PARLAY 2010

Behmen is healthily and beautifully wise, notwithstanding the mystical narrowness and incommunicableness.

Representative Men 2006

For its incommunicableness is its only recommendation.

The Growth of Thought As Affecting the Progress of Society William Withington

Paris He shrugged his shoulders and lifted his eyebrows at the incommunicableness of the sun.

The Pearls of Parlay 1912

Before long, we recognized that certain contradictory phases of conduct and language, hard to comprehend and hard to endure, had their keynote in what one of the best of my new friends once aptly defined to me as "an agony of incommunicableness," inherent in the New-Englander's composition.

Marion Harland's autobiography : the story of a long life, 1910

There was a poignancy in their very placidity, in the folded hands and the incommunicableness of them, that was very searching.

A Boswell of Baghdad With Diversions 1903

This incommunicableness of the transport is the keynote of all mysticism.

The Varieties of Religious Experience 1902

This incommunicableness of the transport is the keynote of all mysticism.

Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature William James 1876

We may have occasion further to insist upon this great principle of the incommunicableness and singleness of all the highest powers; but we assert it here especially, in opposition to the idea, already so fatal to art, that either the aim of the antique may take place together with the purposes, or its traditions become elevatory of the power, of Christian art; or that the glories of Giotto and the

On the Old Road Vol. 1 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature John Ruskin 1859