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And there is plenty of beauty in the play’s abstractions; at its heart “Epiphany” is a love letter to the indefinable and unnameable.
From New York Times ● Jun. 23, 2022
“At first it had sated a deep hunger for something she was convinced was unnameable, but in the end, it did have a name,” Veselka writes.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 25, 2020
I didn’t have to play that wife role or that role in the unnameable movie that I won’t name.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2020
Linguists Nicole Kruspe, at Lund University in Sweden, and Asifa Majid, at the Netherlands' Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, say that, for millennia, Western scholars dismissed scents as unknowable, or at least unnameable.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 18, 2018
Out of it came a stench, not the sickly odour of decay in the meads of Morgul, but a foul reek, as if filth unnameable were piled and hoarded in the dark within.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
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