Sentences with phrase «describe indescribable»

«It's important to understand that trauma is a word we use to describe indescribable things, but it doesn't have to be that way,» she explains.

Ereignies, a word to describe the indescribable.

But I do believe, perhaps naively, that our theologies and philosophies developed as attempts to describe the indescribable and mysterious.

C. F. Evans comments, «He comes as near as he can to describing the indescribable, the divine act of Resurrection itself.»

Not exact matches

And the other example is the startlingly brilliant and heartbreaking passage in which Tolstoy describes the thoughts and internal apprehensions of Anna's child Seryozha in the long days since his mother went away — a scene that is more or less indescribable and that one must read to appreciate.

But one clue is the recognition that the prophet attempts to describe what he himself knows to be indescribable.

(It could be argued that Shakespeare also linked synesthesia, in a broader form, to meaning: Bottom, in A Midsummer Night's Dream, describes his dream as being indescribable because «The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen... what my dream was.»)

The words that we use to describe tapping that fricative synergy (archetype, the sublime, the ineffable) are also the words that we use, to borrow a phrase from Frank Zappa, to dance about architecture — to describe what's indescribable about the collective experience, the existential electricity that ranks music above painting above poetry above literature (and film the twentieth century stepchild that falls somehow north and south of each).

I'd pointed to the things people love to call indescribable, and said, «Describe that.

As described, the views were indescribable.

«This color so indescribable isn't just or even a color, it's a conclusion, a condition and a combined existence of matted meaning and mushed matter,» Mutu describes.