as in incredible
beyond the power to describe
some indefinable quality makes that movie star very appealing
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Recent Examples of indefinable
Pitt, at the time, was in his early 30s and gaining notice for being incredibly handsome and in possession of the indefinable charisma that makes a movie star.
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Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 7 Feb. 2024
Patinkin, in an indefinable accent, is his usual Big Presence, but Beane holds her own, and the arrival of Linda Emond as Interpol agent Hilde Eriksen pays constant comic dividends.
—Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 14 Jan. 2024
People hold fierce loyalties to their Arthur Avenue stores of choice, mostly based on nostalgia, and the indefinable value of a personal relationship with one’s foodmonger.
—Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 5 Nov. 2023
Even in a case, like this one, where excess is the point, comedy still depends on an indefinable subtlety.
—Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 25 Aug. 2023
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Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 7 Feb. 2024
Patinkin, in an indefinable accent, is his usual Big Presence, but Beane holds her own, and the arrival of Linda Emond as Interpol agent Hilde Eriksen pays constant comic dividends.
—Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 14 Jan. 2024
People hold fierce loyalties to their Arthur Avenue stores of choice, mostly based on nostalgia, and the indefinable value of a personal relationship with one’s foodmonger.
—Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 5 Nov. 2023
Even in a case, like this one, where excess is the point, comedy still depends on an indefinable subtlety.
—Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 25 Aug. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for indefinable
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The incredible detail of Anderson's stop-motion animation gets more astounding in every scene (The leaves!Gwen Ihnat, EW.com, 23 Nov. 2024
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From clothing and shoe sales that will spruce up everyone’s travel wardrobe to suitcases that make packing a cinch, read on for more incredible finds.Claire Brodsky, Travel + Leisure, 23 Nov. 2024
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Read: The rise of anti-liberalism Annihilation is another conversion novel, this time about a secular Frenchman’s awakening to that same ineffable cosmos.Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 24 Oct. 2024
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In Bradley’s work, cosmetic spoons or spatulas exist primarily for hygiene reasons, but also lend an ineffable sense of… something.Brennan Kilbane, Robb Report, 15 Oct. 2024
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Another recent work, Goblin Girl (2021), shows a green-skinned creature, her face scrunched up in an indescribable expression—a silly grin, perhaps, or maybe something more menacing.Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 21 Nov. 2024
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Althoff, who’s 27 years old, just has it, that indescribable presence, that gravitational pull.Katie Drummond, WIRED, 2 Oct. 2024
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Historians are struggling to recover their inexpressible secrets.Erin Maglaque, The New York Review of Books, 15 Nov. 2024
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Indeed, there is something more cosmic, spiritual and inexpressible about what is missing —a poignant reminder of the profound void left by SOPHIE’s departure from our astral plane.Juan Velasquez, Them, 23 Sep. 2024
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Led by McAvoy as a charismatic man masking unspeakable darkness, a dream holiday warps into an unnerving nightmare.Matt Grobar, Deadline, 22 Nov. 2024
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Taboos are interesting, pushing us to embrace secrets and unspeakable things.Lisa Stardust, People.com, 12 Oct. 2024
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Piranesi is a mystery, a mystery of the mind, a way for Clarke to communicate the incommunicable.Jason Kehe, Wired, 21 Sep. 2020
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And nothing is more isolating, more incommunicable, than the grief of a parent who has been unable to save their child’s life.Washington Post, Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2022
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Two high voices — LACO features soprano Amanda Forsythe and countertenor John Holiday — intertwine with the orchestra turning this hymn to the Virgin Mary’s suffering into unutterable sweetness and treating death as life’s engenderment.Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 30 Mar. 2024
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In between loads of cartoonish ultraviolence and B-movie horror ephemera came some honestly unutterable lyrics, which Bill fought his faith to perform.Jonathan Rowe, SPIN, 28 June 2022
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Set in an alternate history based on the real-life 1986 Chernobyl nuclear reactor meltdown, unexplainable anomalies in the Zone caused by the disaster warp the laws of physics and make life within it harsh and violent.Issy van der Velde, Rolling Stone, 20 Nov. 2024
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Janet Planet appears to hew more closely to realism, but Baker allows in moments that are unexplainable.Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 17 June 2024
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