indefinable

Example Sentences

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That is what cinema is all about, an indefinable presence, faces full of expression, voices that cannot be easily replicated, eyes that channel energy that can move and frighten and surprise us.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 7, 2025

He had that indefinable, invisible glow that changes the atmosphere and draws people in, like a sub-lethal dose of radiation.

From Salon • Sep. 14, 2025

And that work, which exists in some indefinable terrain between off-the-rack categories like “traditional” and “modern,” is truly magnetic.

From New York Times • Oct. 16, 2022

The crushing of the belief that the Seattle ballclub, by dint of some indefinable flaw in their DNA, would always wilt and wither in crunchtime.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 1, 2022

There was an odor of trouble, an indefinable wrong.

From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara