inexpressibility

The darkness and the cold air combined to forge a vision muddled to inexpressibility by rage and fear.

Another Body Ryan Amfahr Longhorn 2011

Of course, the SSPX has the advantage of believing what the Church teaches -- which, inexpressibility sad as it is to have to say it, the Roman authorities do not.

Bishop Alfonso de Galarreta chairman of the SSPX commission 2009

John MacFarlans wrote: Of course, the SSPX has the advantage of believing what the Church teaches -- which, inexpressibility sad as it is to have to say it, the Roman authorities do not.

Bishop Alfonso de Galarreta chairman of the SSPX commission 2009

Geach's thesis of the sortal relativity of identity thus neither entails nor is entailed by his thesis of the inexpressibility of identity.

Identity Noonan, Harold 2006

Although a mystery may be insoluble, it is not senseless; and while its inexpressibility makes it inaccessible to communicable knowledge, it can still be spoken of in a suggestive way (Marcel 1964, xxv).

Gabriel (-Honoré) Marcel Treanor, Brian 2004

When the Eleatics proved the impossibility -- _i. e._, the inexpressibility -- of motion, or when Kant and his followers proved the unreal character of all objects of experience and of all natural knowledge, their task was made easy by the native diversity between the concretions in existence which were the object of their thought and the concretions in discourse which were its measure.

The Life of Reason George Santayana 1907

But those who have tasted of its inexpressibility know how far it is beyond the highest powers of mere eye or ear -- nay, even the heart is powerless to attain the end of its yearning.

Glimpses of Bengal Selected from the Letters of Sir Rabindranath Tagore Rabindranath Tagore 1901

A wiser response to the apparent inexpressibility of statements about God may be simply not to express them, and just get on with the gardening.

Books, Inq. — The Epilogue 2009