Odorants classified as unnameable were rated as significantly more difficult to name than odors classified as nameable. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference
Odorants classified as unnameable and nameable were rated as equally intense (t (9) = 0.76, p. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference
And when terror and shrinking and dreary unnameable pain. From Wordnik.com. [Diane of the Green Van] Reference
Seamless, unnameable, it returns to the realm of nothing. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-10-01] Reference
The heart of a marigold was tinted with colors unnameable. From Wordnik.com. [Wildfire] Reference
The fear was dissolved in some greater unnameable emotion. From Wordnik.com. [Beauty's Punishment]
I am the unnameable, the untouchable, the One and the Many. From Wordnik.com. [secret-blue Diary Entry] Reference
Some unnameable aspect of the place set Conan's nerves on edge. From Wordnik.com. [Conan The Hunter]
The reason for Juliette's absence was a grim, unnameable secret. From Wordnik.com. ["I've Loved You So Long" film review] Reference
Within the sea of light I glimpsed shapes cyclopean, unnameable. From Wordnik.com. [The Metal Monster] Reference
The man cursed, devoting himself and Paul to unnameable penalties. From Wordnik.com. [Despair's Last Journey] Reference
His eyes are like coals of red fire that look into depths unnameable. From Wordnik.com. [The Conan Chronicles]
Him to Bythus, and assigning this as a name to Him who is the unnameable Father. From Wordnik.com. [ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus] Reference
It would shield him from any unnameable horrors trying to approach from that direction. From Wordnik.com. [Quozl]
Across its face weaved unnameable carvings — but I had no time for more than a glance. From Wordnik.com. [The Moon Pool] Reference
Overhead birds sang in melodious voices which stirred unnameable feelings in his breast. From Wordnik.com. [An East Wind Coming]
Normal entries will resuming when I stop leaking unnameable bodily fluids from various orifices. From Wordnik.com. [Ugh.] Reference
Lovecraft and the dread horrors that dwell within the minds of the unnameable shambling horrors?. From Wordnik.com. [Waid Wednesdays #10: The Job of the Comic Book Editor] Reference
If she wanted to mend fences, how could he let some vague, unnameable fear stand between them now?. From Wordnik.com. [Enchantment]
Or they were adrift in the currents of the Atlantic, getting swept to some unnameable destination. From Wordnik.com. [Pastwatch, the Redemtion of Christopher Columbus]
It was irrational — perhaps even mad — but he frightened her as much as the unnameable creatures. From Wordnik.com. [Curse of the Shadowmage]
In the former, Lucinda asks for fulfillment, enlightenment, and the unnameable assuagement sought by all. From Wordnik.com. [Joseph Smigelski: Lucinda Williams: She Breaks My Heart] Reference
Go to Ireland, where you can have all five seasons in the span of an hour, plus a fifth, unnameable season!. From Wordnik.com. [Maybe Sometimes Make It Easy Take Your Time] Reference
And what Maud had was something unnameable and probably unnatural, unless you wanted to call it "depression.". From Wordnik.com. [The End of the Pier]
That's why I got so many offers of help over the weekend -- even from a certain unnameable Internet search giant. From Wordnik.com. [A Note on Winning Friends] Reference
He ate a few bites of unnameable meat, then pushed the bits of potato and coagulated gravy around with his spoon. From Wordnik.com. [The Soulforge]
There is in us an unnameable spiritual quality which, from lack of a more specific name, we call mental telepathy. From Wordnik.com. [The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills] Reference
These days, we no longer look to sacrifice our first born on the altar of unnameable greed, but instead our wallets. From Wordnik.com. [Jayne Lyn Stahl: Pimping Out Your Wallet] Reference
They are there to warn us about the unnameable corrosive chaos just over the horizon; their purpose is to turn us back. From Wordnik.com. [Rambles at starchamber.com » Blog Archive » Monsters] Reference
He starts watching any cartridge that for some unnameable reason stands out to him from the disarray pinned to the wall. From Wordnik.com. [Memory Wall] Reference
An intangible and unnameable charge electrified the space between them, and at first, neither one of them said anything. From Wordnik.com. [Nevermore] Reference
She could treat the little nameless object as indeed unnameable — she could make their abstention enormously definite. From Wordnik.com. [The Ambassadors] Reference
All you know of your place in the monochromatic everything is webbed feet, jewel fingers and a certain unnameable longing. From Wordnik.com. [Mermaid] Reference
Hunger they could endure, but they were driven to dreadful and unnameable expedients to quench the thirst that consumed them. From Wordnik.com. [With Our Army in Palestine] Reference
Wonderingly, I stared at the unnameable world, and, by degrees, I saw that the woman of the desert was squatting in front of me. From Wordnik.com. [Asimov's Science Fiction]
Susannah looked back with the wide, fright-ened eyes of a little girl who has heard something unnameable moving slyly beneath the bed. From Wordnik.com. [The Waste Lands]
"A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.". From Wordnik.com. [Quotations for National Poetry Month] Reference
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