inexpressible

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Olga, another mourner who taught the younger daughter to draw, said both sisters were talented and outgoing, and described their death as an "inexpressible pain".

From Barron's • May 19, 2026

“Happy Place” is funny at points, but it is also the closest that Henry has come to writing an old-school melodrama, a heart-rending plot that struggles to express the inexpressible.

From Washington Post • Apr. 23, 2023

Let’s hope it works, because the alternatives are literally inexpressible.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 6, 2023

There’s an unpretentious beauty that resonates in each frame of director Jane Campion’s “The Power of the Dog,” a dark, thoughtful tale that explores inexpressible emotions and their consequences with a pensive pace.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 27, 2022

Harry felt an inexpressible sense of gratitude to Dumbledore for asking the others not to question him.

From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling