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This would leave out the symbolic life of human beings, for one, and their experience of things like suffering, faith, and the other ineffables of human life.
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He prefers the freedom of masculinity and ineffables.
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New Year's sequence not just because it uses Dec. 31 in a dramatically potent way, but because the mood Cukor and company create and inhabit is so full of different emotions and ineffables.
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New Year's sequence not just because it uses Dec. 31 in a dramatically potent way, but because the mood Cukor and company create and inhabit is so full of different emotions and ineffables.
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New Year's sequence not just because it uses Dec. 31 in a dramatically potent way, but because the mood Cukor and company create and inhabit is so full of different emotions and ineffables.
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New Year's sequence not just because it uses Dec. 31 in a dramatically potent way, but because the mood Cukor and company create and inhabit is so full of different emotions and ineffables.
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Call the Doctor and Dig Me Out display a romantic, consuming devotion to constructing a song so carefully that anyone willing to put time into sorting through its ineffables will be richly rewarded.
Chicago Reader 2010
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Most will agree that euphemism is an acceptable means of avoiding the unmentionables, unutterables, inexplicables, ineffables, inexpressibles, and whatever else they have been called.
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Farmer and Henley in their Dictionary of Slang and Colloquial English (London: 1912) list such words as ineffables, inexpressibles, unthinkables, unutterables, unwhisperables, etc.
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I’m talking in huge absrtactions here, I realise, but what I’m driving at or circling round, I think, is the idea that the way magic realism argues for those great ineffables is precisely to engage with a paradoxical project of mimetically representing them.
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