There is a particular difficulty in discerning whether this book is good, not because the text qua text is somehow elusive or inscrutable but because one struggles to read it without sweeping for psychological clues.
Without enough activity data, a wiring diagram is fundamentally inscrutable — a problem akin to trying to read the hieroglyphs of ancient Egypt before the Rosetta Stone, with its parallel text in ancient Greek.
In normal circumstances, he blends an inscrutable scowl and hard smile, even harder to read with a towel draped across his face while slouched on the bench.
"It has the reputation of being inscrutable, and people are so curious they want to read it themselves," Chinese writer and critic Murong Xuecun told the Associated Press.
There follows a list of 10 inscrutable instructions spanning 700-odd words; it would take an average person four minutes to read these out loud.
You scroll through your timeline and you get a witticism, then an entreaty to read an essay or column, then a grandstanding denunciation of some phone company's subpar customer service, then an announcement of what a specific person's current jam is, then an accidental insight into some inscrutable private misery.
I love the feeling of gradually coming to understand something that at first seemed inscrutable to me.
Most are entirely private, largely inscrutable to outsiders.
Each line, perhaps inscrutable to the staff, is nonetheless a victory for the former teacher.
Well-being, finally, has no single measure and is not inscrutable to others.
I realize sales strategies are often inscrutable to those of us who are on the outside.
