ineffably
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Is this the definition of true luxury — things just being ineffably, subtly yet marvelously better than usual?
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 14, 2023
For Van Gogh, green wheat captured a sense of both transience and calm: “Young wheat can have something ineffably pure and gentle about it,” he wrote.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 17, 2022
His unchanging expression is ineffably poignant — at once adamant and forlorn, male and female.
From New York Times ● Feb. 4, 2021
Enacting its vengeances in gruesome yet ineffably elegant ways, the monster, too, is slowly but satisfyingly revealed to have its own poignant motivations.
From Slate ● Aug. 12, 2019
Under the inmates’ surface bluster, their cruelty and selfishness, was almost always something ineffably sad.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
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