I like how this method provides structure while allowing the story to shoot off in unknowable directions. From Wordnik.com. [Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » The story, the plot and the police] Reference
I like the Buddhist view on this – that wasting the present for pondering teh unknowable is a waste of the present. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » VIDEO: Powell Says U.S. Went Into Iraq Without Enough Troops] Reference
Rumsfeld blithly said they were "unknowable" -- and the Congress, a pathetic West Wing of this White House, in effect said "ok.". From Wordnik.com. [Mark Green: The Most Expensive Arrest and Execution Ever--Worth It?] Reference
There is so much about it that is unknowable, that is mysterious. From Wordnik.com. [2008 October : Law is Cool] Reference
Epistemologically, the 'unknowable' is a troublesome concept. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
From a practical perspective, I can't see what the notion of 'unknowable' buys you. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
The word 'unknowable' here, it means, or rhymes with, 'unnamable,' or ` nameless. '. From Wordnik.com. [Forever Free]
During the war, Defense Department officials explained that the postwar situation was "unknowable," so no planning was really possible. From Wordnik.com. [What We Should Do Now] Reference
The answer is "unknowable" in the language of Donald Ramsfield, former US Defense Secretary. From Wordnik.com. [American Chronicle] Reference
'unknowable' sort, of which no account in either perceptual or conceptual terms can be given. From Wordnik.com. [Meaning of Truth] Reference
"unknowable," which seems to have become smaller and smaller as we pretend to get smarter and smarter. From Wordnik.com. [TheTyee.ca] Reference
The scariest risks of going to war are the unknowable ones. From Wordnik.com. [Deja Vu All Over Again] Reference
There are some things about the enemy that are just unknowable. From Wordnik.com. [The Secret War] Reference
Now, apart from some sort of measurement Time would be unknowable. From Wordnik.com. [Essays Towards a Theory of Knowledge] Reference
In ways that are unknowable in the moment, its invisible hand is at work. From Wordnik.com. [How Benny Goodman Won Over America] Reference
When you've only seen 9 years, that extra one is like an unknowable gulf. From Wordnik.com. [Life Experience] Reference
Counting on those unknowable returns to pay for the investment would be gambling. From Wordnik.com. [Joe Minarik: "Good Debt" and "Bad Debt?"] Reference
If I should say I know the unknowable, I am guilty of a contradiction in language. From Wordnik.com. [The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, Volume 1, January, 1880] Reference
Life isn't a project to be completed; it is an unknowable landscape to be explored. From Wordnik.com. [Dr. Judith Rich: Are You Planning Your Life or Living It?] Reference
Still, there was something beyond the water -- something dim, mysterious, unknowable. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole] Reference
The past is anyhow more interesting than the future, which is by definition unknowable. From Wordnik.com. [South Africa's Prize Winner] Reference
Whether we can "bend the cost curve" in five years or 10 years is fundamentally unknowable. From Wordnik.com. [Health Care as a Civil Right] Reference
Do you use the old cry that all outside of matter belongs to the "unknown" and "unknowable?". From Wordnik.com. [The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, Volume 1, January, 1880] Reference
There's a lot about the universe that's unknowable, but there are three absolute certainties. From Wordnik.com. [Nice Guys Finish First] Reference
Madeline, the place that was almost yours, in the land of the unknowable, is given to another. From Wordnik.com. [Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter] Reference
Does it mean the self is fundamentally unknowable, at least through the contents of a bookshelf?. From Wordnik.com. [Book Recommendations: Are They Worse Than Fixing Someone Up On A Date?] Reference
There is only duty, boredom and, in the anarchy of warring clans, an unknowable quotient of risk. From Wordnik.com. [The Home Front: Fears And Farewells] Reference
Our parents are fundamentally unknowable to us — just as we will someday be unknowable to our children. From Wordnik.com. [Secrets, Lies and Love] Reference
There they remain, frightened and waiting for what comes next -- fearing both the known and the unknowable. From Wordnik.com. [War of the Mosques] Reference
"Don thought that was unknowable at best, and improbable the rest of the time," said another of his closest aides. From Wordnik.com. [McNamara, Rumsfeld and the Fog of War] Reference
To what degree Kennedy's loss freed him from the distraction or burden of his presidential aspirations is unknowable. From Wordnik.com. [The Prince of Policymaking] Reference
How much money, if any, this would save is unknowable: the HIPCs alone would create another giant layer of bureaucracy. From Wordnik.com. [The Next Bite: Paying For Health Care] Reference
Despite having coverage, some women pay cash for privacy reasons, though the exact percentage is unknowable for the same reason. From Wordnik.com. [Separate But Equal? Insurance, Abortion, And Politics] Reference
There's never been a video icon who seemed so familiar and accessible on the home screen and so remote and unknowable away from it. From Wordnik.com. [Stranger In The Night] Reference
Today, China has a lopsided ratio of girls to boys that may cause significant, if unknowable, social dislocation in the next century. From Wordnik.com. [Quality Not Quantity] Reference
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