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Discover LudwigThe phrase "unfathomable gaze" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used to describe a look or stare that is deep, mysterious, or difficult to understand. Example: "She met his unfathomable gaze, feeling both intrigued and unsettled by the emotions hidden within."
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The most porous boundary of all lies between life and art – as in Manet's revolutionary snapshot of a painting, La Gare Saint-Lazare, showing nothing but railings and smoke beyond the "unfathomable" gaze of his models; or the Faubourg Saint-Germain, mythologised first by Balzac and then Proust, for whom its Hôtel des Guermantes was so close "I could hear its carpets being beaten".
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But her gaze registers unfathomable loss.
Who is the boy in the suit and tie and fedora who looks up from the magazine in a neighborhood store and fixes us with a gaze of unfathomable seriousness?
Not just the portraits of ancestors from seven generations gazing with unfathomable expressions at the newly arrived foreign born in their lineage.
If you asked people to name one image they associated with the violent Iranian protests in 2009, many would probably pick the horrifying video of Neda Agha-Soltan, the young woman shot to death on a street in Tehran: blood everywhere and, more than that, her unfathomable eyes meeting the camera's gaze.
Morvern does behave like an alien, the kind of alien to whose strange point of view we have access, who sees everything with a forensic gaze: not cold exactly, but coloured with an unfathomable emotion that lies somewhere between amused receptiveness, detachment and a fierce determination to survive at all costs.
Thomas Carlyle's description of music as "unfathomable speech, which leads us to the edge of the Infinite, and lets us for moments gaze into that" is even more applicable to those of us who make music than those who merely listen to it.
Or beyond merely "sufficient," the present moment, were we to gaze upon it with eyes unclouded by longing, would be seen to be permeated by unfathomable mystery and unspeakable beauty.
At such moments, one imagines that one stands on some spot of a small planet, gazing in amazement at the cold yet profoundly moving beauty of the eternal, the unfathomable: life and death flow into one, and there is neither evolution nor destiny; only being".
Unfathomable, right?
This seems unfathomable.
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