Re "The Age of Big Data" (news analysis, Sunday Review, Feb. 12) and "The Dubious Science of Online Dating," by Eli J. Finkel and Benjamin R. Karney (Sunday Review, Feb. 12): What a splendid juxtaposition: the relentless march of quantification and the inscrutable human heart!
Now the venue is the human heart, an almost inscrutable mystery, but the particular concern of the Church.
In this highly rhetorical work, Valla if we can assume that Lorenzo represents Valla's own position stresses that in his inscrutable wisdom God hardens the hearts of some, while saving those of others.
The waiter would tap on the door before entering with each course: egg-drop soup, fried rice, chicken chow mein, black tea and, at meal's end, brittle fortune cookies whose sometimes inscrutable pronouncements I always took to heart.
Eliot was not just inscrutable; he performed inscrutability.
Dan masks from Liberia have Valentine-heart faces exquisite and inscrutable enough to make sense on the streets of Goldoni's 18th-century Venice.
She stood in the darkened auditorium, half-illuminated behind the lighting board, in constant motion, seeking atmosphere, while the soprano Anna Netrebko poured out her heart onstage and Valery Gergiev conducted, with his customary inscrutable hand flutters, in the pit.
As I step out into the cold again, macchiato in hand, I reflect on the complex, wondrous and often inscrutable being that is a woman -- her infinite facets, her tremendous heart, her capacity to, as the old TV theme song said, turn the world on with her smile.
In her new songs, love is combative, tempting, cruel, inscrutable, predatory and yet, occasionally, a comfort, with music to match every change of heart and mind.
Olivia Thirlby, as the psychic Anderson, gives the film its modest heart, but there's no human context for Karl Urban's growling and wonderfully inscrutable Dredd, and he never removes his mask: he's Batman without the Bruce Wayne.
