Sentences with phrase «word ineffable»

In this magical story about loneliness, ghosts, adventure, letting go, and true friendship, Liesl explains that she likes the word ineffable because it means «a feeling so big or vast that it could not be expressed in words.»

Nathaniel calls our attention to Bishop Trautman's difficulties with the word ineffable as reported in the Erie Times - News.

Not exact matches

What it is NOT is the inerrant, ineffable «Word of God».

I think it will enlighten you as to how various theologies, including the package known as the Bible, developed, and the futility and danger of trying to capture the boundless, ineffable and eternal with words.

This could happen only if the guilty person were by nature endowed with extraordinary stupidity, and presumably by shouting in antistrophic and antiphonal song every time someone persuaded him that now was the beginning of a new era and a new epoch, had howled his head so empty of its original quantum satis of common sense as to have attained a state of ineffable bliss in what might be called the howling madness of the higher lunacy, recognizable by such symptoms as convulsive shouting; a constant reiteration of the words «era,» «epoch,» «era and epoch,» «epoch and era,» «the System»; an irrational exaltation of the spirits as if each day were not merely a quadrennial leap - year day, but one of those extraordinary days that come only once in a thousand years; the concept all the while like an acrobatic clown in the current circus season, every moment performing these everlasting dog - tricks of flopping over and over, until it flops over the man himself.

As the highest expression of the word, it reaches the edge and very limit of the inexpressible, the ineffable, and the unspeakable, as does the divine tetragrammaton.

When Bishop Trautman of Erie complained about unfamiliar words being used, bloggers jokingly vied with eachother to include the words «ineffable», «wrought» and «gibbet» into ordinary posts.

And when I started a public radio program on religion, ethics and meaning seven years ago, I was also quite aware that I was inviting people to put words around something as intimate as anything we try to talk about, and as ultimately ineffable.

Properly understood the word itself agrees with this mystery, because it is itself the last word before the silent worship of the ineffable mystery, which does not, of course, mean that the end of all speech is to be followed by that death which turns man into an inventive animal or a damned sinner.

Oxymorons help us, in the words of St. Augustine, to «see ineffably that which is ineffable,» and in the words of Deutero - Isaiah, to find what we do not seek (Isa.

It was not primarily in his words or acts as such, but in himself, that the ineffable love of God made itself known as a living, potent and present reality.

The ineffable experience of the Word holds a certain precedence over its doctrinal statement.

The revelation of the word of God would make no sense apart from an ineffable dimension of reality which in revelation becomes articulate.

We're all trying to describe the ineffable, (okay, maybe not atheists), so words can be little more than jargon in that task.

In all this he was not metaphysically analyzing the divine nature but was indicating the manifoldness of the divine approach to man, and was endeavoring, in the spirit of his own words, to express the ineffable — «O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God!

Some believe that the Bible contains the inerrant, ineffable, unquestionable Word.

If Christians truly believe the ineffable» mystery of God» took on human flesh, became the definitive translation» living Word» of this mystery so beyond us, yet present to us in the living Word and» translation» of Jesus Christ, then our knowing or not knowing is never an endless seeking, but a finding not exhausted of its meaning during our time of earthly existence.

Marvin and Moreau made up kind of a mutual admiration society; the actress said of the ineffable Marvin, «He says more in less words, sometimes in no words at all, than any other American actor I've ever met.»

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).

The alien tongue is literal, but it's also the ineffable vagaries of human emotions and aspirations that draws from a three word phrase: «I miss you» (a deep, bitter draught of personal melancholy and longing).

In overwriting their subjects, Morgan and Lee express how unfit are our words when confronted by the ineffable, by the human.»

Incorporating poetry and words, the work plays the conceptual realm off against the physical in a complex dialogue that attempts to marry the ineffable with the concrete.

Ineffable: an adjective meaning «Too great or extreme to be expressed or described in words.»