Defining the undefinable is their dirty job, and they have my sympathy. From Wordnik.com. [Definitions and manifestos] Reference
They're one of those "undefinable" bands - they call themselves when they have to "Folkgrass" - some kind of cross between folk music and bluegrass. From Wordnik.com. [My Fun Filled Friday Night] Reference
'undefinable': Not so, we reply; we meet with no passages where the word. From Wordnik.com. [The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48] Reference
He had a sudden and undefinable suspicion of that law clerk. From Wordnik.com. [Joe Strong on the Trapeze or The Daring Feats of a Young Circus Performer] Reference
It was all of that, and it was something undefinable as well. From Wordnik.com. [The 13 Culprits]
As much as I love words, it's that thing that is undefinable. From Wordnik.com. [naima101 Diary Entry] Reference
MARUSKA: There's an undefinable quality that some people have. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 6, 2003] Reference
The strange, undefinable attraction of the infinite is upon us. From Wordnik.com. [Morality as a Religion An exposition of some first principles] Reference
He felt the conviction -- deep, undefinable -- that there was indeed. From Wordnik.com. [A Love Story] Reference
And the reason I say that is because this is an undefinable process. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 30, 2001] Reference
The impact jolted her to awareness and awakened an undefinable fear. From Wordnik.com. [The Clan of the Cave Bear]
Not very good, overall, but very American in some undefinable sense. From Wordnik.com. [The Terror]
'Again the undefinable spell that seemed to attach to the fascinating. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 5, May, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
I think you will be aware of a certain undefinable shallowness and crudity. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 46, August, 1861] Reference
Gender, at least in many cases, turns out to be scientifically undefinable thing. From Wordnik.com. [Nicholas Brown: New Yorker 2009 Roundup] Reference
Karara possessed an extra, undefinable sense which gave her contact with the dolphins. From Wordnik.com. [Key Out of Time] Reference
He looked up to find his companion's eyes fixed on him with an undefinable expression. From Wordnik.com. [The Jungle Girl] Reference
He has that undefinable quality that makes people believe in him and see him as a leader. From Wordnik.com. [Video: Obama's South Carolina Victory Speech] Reference
Their disputations being usually built on an undefinable chimera, are solved by a paradox. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency] Reference
A feeling of dread, an undefinable something that froze the marrow and made the blood run cold. From Wordnik.com. [Stories of the Border Marches] Reference
"It" is an undefinable variable, it cannot be explained by anyone but those under its influence. From Wordnik.com. [[ Understand The Dream Is Over ] on 01.21.07 @ 2:21 am] Reference
Rheba looked from one to the other, feeling an undefinable anger prickle along her akhenet lines. From Wordnik.com. [Dancer's Luck]
To her astonishment she let him and the next thing she knew some undefinable pressure overwhelmed her. From Wordnik.com. [Mistress of Justice]
BELLINI: People lounging in the sun in Tomkins Square Park found it a different, undefinable kind of holiday. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 15, 2003] Reference
The bodily health and strength appeared to be fully restored at the end of a few weeks, but there was an undefinable change. From Wordnik.com. [The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author] Reference
But some people call it charisma -- that undefinable thing that says that this person is a politician but that one is a leader. From Wordnik.com. [Hillary Mailer In Wisconsin Hits Obama On "Present" Votes] Reference
A lovely, fascinating and bewitching girl, whom the fates and the fairies had endowed with that undefinable gift we call "charm.". From Wordnik.com. [Bandit Love] Reference
Leslie had no idea how long he had been asleep, when he started up in bed with an undefinable impression that something was wrong. From Wordnik.com. [Leslie Ross: or, Fond of a Lark] Reference
If the latter, he acted with great weakness in yielding at length to insufficient evidence, on the score of an undefinable impulse. From Wordnik.com. [On Calvinism] Reference
So I was sitting behind my desk, and I heard a voice, an undefinable voice inside my head that said, stand up and grab the weapon arm. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 19, 2004] Reference
Is it purely brain cells and liquids that make up the 'I' in the human being or is it something undefinable or even spiritual perhaps?. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
Something cloudlike, vapory and undefinable, which seemed too ethereal for earth, gradually appeared at the extreme end of the terrace. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851] Reference
If we had to guess, we'd say this show will be just as controversial as the others -- full of clashing fabrics and undefinable silhouettes. From Wordnik.com. [Rodarte Spring 2011: Clash Of The Patterns (PHOTOS, POLL)] Reference
There is a freshness in the air that rouses glad thoughts within the breast, vague thoughts, sweet, as undefinable, and that yet mean life. From Wordnik.com. [April's Lady A Novel] Reference
On they came, and again we drew deadly beads on the unsuspecting horsemen, but there was an undefinable something that told me not to fire. From Wordnik.com. [Reminiscences of a Pioneer] Reference
And what they came up with was this intricate and almost undefinable collection of scarves and shirts that turn into shruggings and jackets. From Wordnik.com. ['Sex And The City' Cast Abu Dhabi As The City? Really?] Reference
As was true of Ronald Reagan, the Teflon quality of many multinationals includes an almost undefinable combination of charisma and circumstance. From Wordnik.com. [The Teflon Shield] Reference
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