unanswerable
Example Sentences
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I really love how you use this piece of repetition — which is, of course, another poet's craft element: "A friend says every book begins with an unanswerable question."
From Salon
Whether the Andromeda was a decoy or part of a broader mission, he said, remained unanswerable.
From New York Times
Their heartsick pastors sought to bring comfort to those seeking answers to unanswerable questions after a heavily armed assailant turned a regular day into a horror story for the private, Christian grade school in Nashville.
From Seattle Times
Equal parts international intrigue, concert film and VH1-style “Behind the Music” cautionary tale, the documentary raises some interesting if ultimately unanswerable questions as it compellingly inhabits its very specific place in time.
From Los Angeles Times
In grappling with the impossibility of depicting the divine in physical form, the artist is responding to an unanswerable question posed in an eponymous 1971 essay by art historian Patrik Reutersward.
From Washington Post
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