For all that blogging has, at least partly, grown up around saying the unsayable, that is not the point of what follows.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blogposts | guardian.co.uk] Reference

I'll take that "unsayable" in the sense of ugly, unpleasant, or disagreeable, and the phenomenon therefore as a common haplology.    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: STILL UNPACKED.] Reference

He opened his hands to avoid saying the unsayable.    From Wordnik.com.  [State of the Union] Reference

Saying the unsayable makes you looking doubly strong.    From Wordnik.com.  [Michael Wolff: Peace Prize: President Says Piss Off] Reference

She paused and then blurted out the almost unsayable.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Murder Room]

CU and P, ... you are of coutse saying the unsayable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Changing Bus] Reference

Let me say the unsayable in this sophisticated company.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 12, 2006] Reference

She is the unsayable thing we are always trying to say.    From Wordnik.com.  [I, Orpheus] Reference

Amis tells me Steyn is "a great sayer of the unsayable.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Johann Hari: The Two Faces of Amis: An Exclusive Interview With Martin Amis] Reference

It whispers and it bellows the unsayable with mere words.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-03-01] Reference

In the poem the limits of the unsayable are investigated.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-05-01] Reference

He said: That is one of the unsayable truths of our time.    From Wordnik.com.  [UK: Falling birth rate is killing Europe, says chief rabbi Jonathan Sacks] Reference

What is unthinkable to mothers becomes unsayable to victims.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scandal] Reference

You're right to say the unsayable, you're the only one who will.    From Wordnik.com.  [High Society]

From Iser's "The Play of the Text" in Languages of the unsayable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2004-06-01] Reference

COLLINS: We talk to a man who says the unsayable about black athletes.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 26, 2005] Reference

I was entirely embarrassed about it, too - it was like saying the unsayable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Even in a little thing] Reference

Why do we have this desire to say the unsayable, I wonder if it has a balancing function.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-12-09] Reference

How could anyone sit there and say what all right-minded people know is totally unsayable?.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Rentoul today puts Trevor Kavanagh and myself in the...] Reference

MCCANN: Well, it ` s actually unsayable (ph), but in effect, she told them to get stuffed.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 7, 2007] Reference

Paget had lit a touch paper; he had said the unsayable and the genie was out of the bottle.    From Wordnik.com.  [High Society]

At the heart of his mystery lurks an unsayable Other, who eludes all efforts at definition.    From Wordnik.com.  [Carver and authorial intention] Reference

In America, saying something sympathetic about the Palestinians is evidently now deemed unsayable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Comment Central - Times Online - WBLG:] Reference

The founding fathers were wild and crazy dudes who thought the unthinkable and said the unsayable.    From Wordnik.com.  [North Carolina Eyes More Sunday Hunting] Reference

The unthinkable has become the thinkable and the thinkable it goes from the unsayable to the sayable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Martin Garbus: Death in the Afternoon] Reference

Miami stared at her, all her questions, all her protests drying into one unsayable lump in her throat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine]

He was speaking again, the words coming as if he could not bear to say them, as if they were unsayable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Purchased For Revenge]

The things I prefer to talk about are often more than unsayable -- to many people, they're unthinkable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Susan Madrak: The Swan Song of Tony Soprano] Reference

He does, however, say the unsayable and does not give a flying fart what people think, which cannot be bad.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Praise of the Devil] Reference

If political correctness deems that certain things are unsayable, the truth must be supressed in that regard.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alastair Campbell's Diaries Out in June] Reference

One of the things we love as writers is the ability of language to hint at the unsayable, to imply, to allude, and sometimes to misdirect.    From Wordnik.com.  [:Acquired Taste] Reference

"Don't saddle your new business baby with the handicap of being unsayable.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Earth Times Online Newspaper] Reference

Unsaid (and unsayable in politically correct speech) in this debate is the obvious.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nation: Top Stories] Reference

These are my British heroes, and all would have found the royalist pledge unsayable.    From Wordnik.com.  [MikeMarqusee.com] Reference