And ordinary language falls far short of explaining that keen sense of oblivion.
God is all things, and is the catch-all word for everywhere that language falls short.
The compromise language falls short of an outright ban but should still be a strong deterrent to the practice.
The language falls well short of what Berlin wanted, and Merkel made clear that differences remain between the the two countries on the issue.
Part of the problem lies with Wilder, whose language falls short of the poetic insight, beauty, power and consistent rhythm necessary to the task.
When the filter of a second language falls away, my connection to these sentences, though more basic, feels purer, at times more intimate, than when I read in English.
In the absence of natural growth, the language fell into the hands of Hollywood and the Borscht Belt -- treated far too often, Mr. Norich says, as just "a bunch of curse words".
The number of students taking A-levels in foreign languages has been in steady decline in England for 10 years, and the number of undergraduates accepted for a degree in a modern language fell to its lowest level in a decade in 2012-13.
"For the longest time, all I would know was that I had gotten sick in Cuba, from Cuban microbios, that the illness had blossomed in the land of my forebears, the country where I had once been loved and whose language fell as music on my ears," Hijuelos wrote.
My leg hurts give me a shot," she wails in the Mastanahua language, falling to the ground in distress.
