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"Ineffable" in a Sentence (13 examples)
Even at a distance I could smell her sweet perfume, feel her tender warm touch, bathe in the ineffable light of those beautiful luring green eyes.
"What ineffable twaddle!" I cried, slapping the magazine down on the table; "I never read such rubbish in my life."
In the April air there hang an ineffable perfume which whispered the secret name of spring.
The religious may like the article "Glossolalia and Linguistic Alterity: The Ontology of Ineffable Speech."
Something ineffable about you fascinates me, woman.
That ineffable condescension of a God made man, shedding his blood for the redemption of all men, was the most powerful motive that induced the Church to take such a zealous interest in the manumission of slaves.
Its taste is ineffable.
To love is to give your heart to another being. It is to yearn to embrace the whole world. To fade away into the ineffable dimension of the deepest and truest feeling.
Devotion bids aspire to nobler things, to boundless love, and joys ineffable: and such her expectation from kind Heav'n.
Stroeve was trying to express a feeling which he had never known before, and he did not know how to put it into common terms. He was like the mystic seeking to describe the ineffable.
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They, and many others, are one with the trains that ran them, part of that ineffable atmosphere of Scotland's railways.
God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of his own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players, to being involved in an obscure and complex version of poker in a pitch dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time.
As Alan Watts (1961) wrote, it involves trying to speak the unspeakable, scrute the inscrutable and eff the ineffable.
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