Example Sentences

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“For the most part, playwrights represent recordable theatre history while actors, forlornly in the wings to the end, stand for unrecordable history.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 31, 2024

The symphony is all but unrecordable, and it challenged even the Bowl’s monstrous sound system.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 5, 2022

The unrecordable “whisper opera” points to a quieter vision of contemporary life, Mr. Lang said: “It’s about a kind of catalog of all of these conversations which are murmuring around us all the time.”

From New York Times • Aug. 2, 2013

“When Pierre Boulez conducted the premiere,” Mr. Crumb said, “he told me, ‘George, this work is unrecordable.’

From New York Times • Oct. 9, 2011

To understand the legitimate aspect such a theft bore, it is necessary to have also understood the unrecordable codes that govern the genus pratique, into which the genus gamin, when at maturity, develops.

From Under Two Flags by Ouida