as in incredible
beyond the power to describe
overcome by an inexpressible awe at the sight of the thunderous waterfall
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There was a graceful finality about her performance, a melancholy blend of joy and loss that seemed to capture the inexpressible, exquisite heartbreak of grief and nostalgia.
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Ew Staff, EW.com, 8 Dec. 2022
As Joe, Walker has a nearly campy intensity that captures the inexpressible fear of war’s consequences at the root of the role—and that the script itself, by Robert Nathan and Joseph Schrank, catches.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 10 June 2022
Now, finally, the cell itself dissolves away into an abstract chemical machine—and that into some intangible, inexpressible flow of energy.
—Loren C. Eiseley, Harper’s Magazine , 27 Apr. 2022
And your desire to continue to excavate and express the inexpressible doesn’t leave you.
—New York Times, 21 Apr. 2022
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Ew Staff, EW.com, 8 Dec. 2022
As Joe, Walker has a nearly campy intensity that captures the inexpressible fear of war’s consequences at the root of the role—and that the script itself, by Robert Nathan and Joseph Schrank, catches.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 10 June 2022
Now, finally, the cell itself dissolves away into an abstract chemical machine—and that into some intangible, inexpressible flow of energy.
—Loren C. Eiseley, Harper’s Magazine , 27 Apr. 2022
And your desire to continue to excavate and express the inexpressible doesn’t leave you.
—New York Times, 21 Apr. 2022
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