Sentence examples for cannot be spoken of from inspiring English sources

'Essentially, I'm really trying to find a way to talk about the things that cannot be spoken of,' he says.

Any concrete thing one selects to exemplify the notion of substance turns out in practice to answer a certain description; this means in effect that it cannot be spoken of apart from its attributes.

For Leibowitz, the realization that dawns with the rise of this commitment reveals that God cannot be spoken of as an entity who can be located in history or nature and that gives commandments over to a people in any conventional sense.

And yet, one of my rules of thumb in this work is that when policy does a lot of something and that something cannot be spoken of, we're courting dysfunction and distortion.

So when we say that it is a belief that has a particular narrow content, we cannot be speaking of a general type of belief, at least not if the type is determined by the broad content of the belief.

As she told a writers' festival, "there are stories I know about people from my homeland that cannot be spoken about outside of closed doors...Our people die young, too frequently, and many die badly". Carpentaria" has caused a stir in Australia, though most reviewers have dwelt on its bawdy humour rather than on the harrowing revelations of the aboriginals' circumstances.

Unfortunately, the sport of weightlifting cannot be spoken about without mentioning the drug abuse that has so often tainted it.

(Of the fluttery Alma in Williams's "Summer and Smoke": "This speech cannot be spoken, it has to be danced".And of Maggie, the Marilyn Monroe-inspired character in Miller's "After the Fall": "She only exists, or thinks she only exists, to fill other people's needs, when in fact she is the neediest person in the world").

Many words cannot be written, many things cannot be spoken".

And we cannot identify p with q, either, for we are speaking of two adjacent States, so their territories cannot have any parts in common.

As most of these data are low-level evidence (like our own study), the last word concerning IPD cannot yet be spoken.