Sentence examples for incommunicable from inspiring English sources

Still, the human intellect can apply to God positive, analogous terms or names such as The Good, Unity, Trinity, Beauty, Love, Being, Life, Wisdom, or Intelligence, assuming that these are limited forms of communicating the incommunicable.

Andrea Williams, director of the Christian Legal Centre, said: "The notion that the Bible's teaching, of particular focus in this case on sex and marriage, is 'necessarily subjective being incommunicable by any kind of proof or evidence', is highly contentious to say the least.

A frequent metaphor for the working of the Dao is the incommunicable ability to be skillful at a craft.

By the end of the novel, I felt that I had got as close as literature could possibly take me to the inhabiting of another person, and, in particular, the inhabiting of a mind in the grip of "war and war" — a mind not without visions of beauty but also one that is utterly lost in its own boiling, incommunicable fictions, its own grotesquely fertile pain ("Heaven is sad").

You might get hurt!" He finds that artists, critics, and writers he encounters "scarcely differ from the ones I know in New York" yet seem "weighed down by an incommunicable mental fatigue".

The paintings make no sense except while we play along, responding to passages in what the art historian Meyer Schapiro called "a random flow of private and incommunicable associations".

The language of disillusion used by the poets of the Western Front, along with their struggles to represent the incommunicable horror of modern war — their shattered innocence, their rejection of what Wilfred Owen called "the old lie," that it is "sweet and proper to die for one's country" — became, in Fussell's view, the hallmarks of a changed consciousness that would define modernity.

As the soldier-poet Richard Aldington explained, echoing Holmes, "it was a question of trying to communicate the incommunicable".

Cassavetes is as much an innovator in the realm of performance as in that of images, which pull in a soul-baring intimacy as they strike a note of incommunicable absurdity.

When he got out of bed late the next morning and had his coffee — iced so as not to disrupt the clotting — he realized: I do remember the drive, the view, stroking Liza's hair, the incommunicable beauty destined to disappear.

"They are in my own head... [and] cannot easily go into words, for they come from that sixth sense, the result of fifty years' experience whose promptings are incommunicable".