Example Sentences

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“It is a great play because, by the end, Tom Stoppard touches ineffability, just as his heroine touches genius.”

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 29, 2025

If anything, it explains why we’ve spent a decade trying to frame Kelela’s cool ineffability as some kind of unknowable futurism — and on the D.C.-born singer’s fabulous new album, “Raven,” tah-dah, tomorrow is here.

From Washington Post • Mar. 24, 2023

The result had the ineffability of experimental theater yet the ingratiating gusto of showbiz, full of cross-eyed expressions and flirtations with the audience.

From New York Times • Aug. 23, 2022

In “Be With,” he is at once adamant about the ineffability of grief and committed to getting his inchoate “grief-sounds” somehow into words.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 20, 2018

His ineffability, his eternity, and his sovereignty and independent subsistence, upon whom all other things depend.

From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Binning, Hugh