Sentence examples for it cannot be spoken from inspiring English sources
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.
In many countries the word for female genitalia is so derogative or disgusting, it cannot be spoken in public.
There's uneasy semantic overlap between the notion of the silenced, cowed victim, and the fact that true trauma is sometimes so deep it literally cannot be spoken.
It is something that cannot be spoken by national security officials in open session before Congress without putting the American people in danger.
But if a truth cannot be spoken, it must at least be known.
(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").
In much of it, God is identified by what theologians call the tetragrammaton, four letters that cannot be spoken — because the word lacks vowels, no one really knows how it should be pronounced — and must be substituted with generic placeholders.
The report, in the daily Haaretz, set off a stormy debate about whether the paper had crudely violated the privacy of the singer, Ofra Haza, and journalistic ethics or whether it had done a public service by refusing to treat AIDS as an illness whose name cannot be spoken.
Unfortunately, the sport of weightlifting cannot be spoken about without mentioning the drug abuse that has so often tainted it.
