untranslatable
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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I think there’s a kind of quiet beauty in leaving some things untranslatable, and just sitting beside someone with very different value systems and understanding, “This is what gives you joy.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2023
Some scholars have deemed the book’s complexity virtually untranslatable — but this week, New Directions published a new translation of “Macunaíma” by Katrina Dodson that aims to transport Andrade’s idiosyncratic prose into English.
From New York Times ● Apr. 7, 2023
Writing in English, Spanish and Nahuatl, Vértiz honors and relishes the feeling of being untranslatable.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 17, 2019
Tsundoku is such a relatable but untranslatable concept that it regularly re-enters our Western consciousness through online articles.
From Slate ● Sep. 10, 2018
No doubt this was all a matter of shifgrethor—prestige, face, place, the pride-relationship, the untranslatable and all-important principle of social authority in Karhide and all civilizations of Gethen.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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