An indefinable feeling of terror. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
indefinable yearnings. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
= “Who cares if the person is right for the job, as long as the person is opposite of what a certain indefinable group of people want.”. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Limbaugh: Euphoria Over Alito, A “European” “Married Male”] Reference
He thought of the unknown as the indefinable beyond to an immediate world that might be quite clearly and exactly known. From Wordnik.com. [An Englishman Looks at the World] Reference
“There is something in your manner, in your clothes — something indefinable which is well known to. From Wordnik.com. [Scenes from a Courtesan's Life] Reference
A something indefinable which bids the tear-drop start. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Hanging Fork and Other Poems] Reference
Found nothing that answered to my indefinable expectations. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
There was an indefinable hardness in Ruth's manner the next morning. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science] Reference
And he's been unable to understand the indefinable warning he'd felt. From Wordnik.com. [Alarm Clock] Reference
An indefinable expression, which might have been a smile, flitted across. From Wordnik.com. [The Motor Pirate] Reference
Some indefinable thing about the action made her conscious that there was. From Wordnik.com. [The Wind Before the Dawn] Reference
It's something else, something indefinable that comes over me now and again. From Wordnik.com. [Uncanny Tales] Reference
That sixth sense pets have with our moods and emotions is indefinable but there. From Wordnik.com. [How To Handle Aging Parents' Pets] Reference
An indefinable oppression seized me and clung to me for the rest of the evening. From Wordnik.com. [Uncanny Tales] Reference
"Thank you," said Girard, an indefinable stiffening change instantly coming over him. From Wordnik.com. [McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908] Reference
But mostly, it was indefinable, a state of mind without ambivalence or inner contradiction. From Wordnik.com. [Seishin] Reference
A few minutes later, with a spaceman's indefinable alertness, he felt a change in the ship. From Wordnik.com. [This World Must Die!] Reference
There was something indefinable but pregnant, and in tense silence ears were strained intently. From Wordnik.com. [Norman Ten Hundred A Record of the 1st (Service) Bn. Royal Guernsey Light Infantry] Reference
There was a dull, indefinable aching in his head and a dry, dissatisfied sensation in his mouth. From Wordnik.com. [Security] Reference
However indefinable its meaning, it proves that Walsh possessesa truly original theatrical voice. From Wordnik.com. [Penelope] Reference
(Soundbite of laughter) MARTIN: It's that indefinable ingredient that makes the stew, or what's going on?. From Wordnik.com. [Meshell Ndegeocello Puts Life In Rhythm] Reference
She was the essence of something, vulnerability, maybe, and some indefinable or unutterable other thing. From Wordnik.com. [Oh, where have you gone, Norma Jeane, Norma Jeane?] Reference
There is something indefinable in the British air these days: a sense of tension, fear, unease and foreboding. From Wordnik.com. [Rory Fitzgerald: The Pope's UK Visit: "Aggressive Secularists" Are Making Britain an Intolerant, Bigoted Nation (Again)] Reference
But for all this, he was the pride of his circle, with a pleasing presence and an indefinable charm of manner. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Even the best work has an indefinable "digitalness" to it that FX artists haven't yet, and may never, overcome. From Wordnik.com. [The Problem With Fx] Reference
But therein lies part of our dilemma and immaturity about the N-word -- context is a slippery indefinable slope. From Wordnik.com. [Byron Williams: The N-Word and our Collective Immaturity] Reference
But the impression was so fleeting as to be indefinable, and soon I was busy getting everyone settled in the car. From Wordnik.com. [Uncanny Tales] Reference
They shared a lot of interests, but they also shared some essential quality that Robert found completely indefinable. From Wordnik.com. [Arlene] Reference
Accompanying this was an indefinable sensation about the heart as though the blood all rushed thence down to the feet. From Wordnik.com. [The Electric Bath] Reference
There was in the smile, the look, and the accent of Madame de Tecle something indefinable, which froze the blood of Camors. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Her consciousness of being a bearer of important tidings communicated itself in some indefinable fashion to the other women. From Wordnik.com. [Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale] Reference
As he pronounced those enigmatical words, she saw that he had in his eyes and in his smile something different and indefinable. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
At the coming of night he wended his way homeward, weary, heart-sick, and overwhelmed with an indefinable sensation of sadness. From Wordnik.com. [Folk-lore and Legends: German] Reference
Thus I accustomed myself to a calm and regular life; there was an indefinable charm about this orderly conduct that did me good. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
He possessed a certain indefinable power of discipline over the native mind, which made for orderly, thorough, and effective service. From Wordnik.com. [Stories Worth Rereading] Reference
Within five minutes of leaving the road for the downs there enveloped you that indefinable sense that a fighting area has been entered. From Wordnik.com. [Norman Ten Hundred A Record of the 1st (Service) Bn. Royal Guernsey Light Infantry] Reference
It filled him with sinister forebodings and made him look forward to the night with an indefinable dread, not unmingled with absolute fear. From Wordnik.com. [Monte-Cristo's Daughter] Reference
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