inexpression

The real question is whether there is any legitimate reason to hope for anything beyond brokenness, frozenness, tedium, and inexpression.

Philocrites: April 2007 Archives 2007

The real question is whether there is any legitimate reason to hope for anything beyond brokenness, frozenness, tedium, and inexpression.

Philocrites: Despair, resurrection, and religious liberalism. 2007

'Tis a mere carcass of a face; fat, flabby, and expressive chiefly of inexpression.

Rime of the ancient mariner Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803

'Tis a mere carcase of a face: fat, flabby, & expressive chiefly of inexpression.

Letter to John Thelwall 1796

If -- if -- Oh, God! "he stammered in torment of inexpression, and then would gasp and fling himself down on some bank, and bite the twigs that chanced within reach and tremble and wonder at himself.

Two Little Savages Being the adventures of two boys who lived as Indians and what they learned Ernest Thompson Seton 1903