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
Certain common ideas become inexpressible; other, previously undreamt-of ones spring to life, finding miraculous new articulation.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
