Example Sentences

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“Embracing some unknowableness is part of it,” Green said.

From Slate • May 12, 2023

Not only does the paucity of fact open up spaces in which the novelist can operate with greater freedom, but Morgan has turned our lack of knowledge into a quality of unknowableness in his protagonist.

From The Guardian • Nov. 13, 2012

Thus "Democracy" takes place mostly amid carefully manipulated shadows, the appropriate element for a work that considers the ultimate unknowableness of the private souls within public figures.

From New York Times • Jun. 27, 2012

It demonstrates the unknowableness of someone else's marriage and its strangeness even to the individuals in it.

From The Guardian • Apr. 2, 2010

Nothing can be nearer non-existence than eternal unknowableness and unchangeableness.

From The Note-Books of Samuel Butler by Butler, Samuel