Does the "his not necessarily scrutable" refer to Podium Dudes?. From Wordnik.com. [Going by the Book: Signs from Above] Reference
A poem describing a bird's singing says that it "sang for nothing scrutable.". From Wordnik.com. [Emily's Ambassador] Reference
She was panting in exhaustion, and her inscrutable face was, for once, scrutable. From Wordnik.com. [Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine]
A completely scrutable scoundrel, he settled his shoulder more comfortably against the doorframe to watch. From Wordnik.com. [Time Scout]
Venkataraman's account makes the link no less scrutable, it merely forces a disjunction of those two aspects of culture. From Wordnik.com. [Colonial Lists/Indian Power: Identity Politics in Nineteenth Century Telugu-Speaking India] Reference
Ray for his ability to make the inscrutable world of artificial intelligence, well,scrutable, yet endlessly fascinating. From Wordnik.com. [I’m Working on That] Reference
Manga doesn't "necessarily make Japan more 'scrutable,' but it definitely takes the lid off many otherwise opaque aspects of its society.". From Wordnik.com. [Reading Japan] Reference
Tonight, when I told Tessa that someone was inscrutable, you yelled "UNSCRUTABLE!!!" and then you looked at me and said "I'm not scrutable.". From Wordnik.com. [on not going gently] Reference
"Traditionally, it's been a place where each neighborhood has a strong character with its own behavioral code that his not necessarily scrutable to or convenient for the sojourner". From Wordnik.com. [Going by the Book: Signs from Above] Reference
Further, there exist people who fully support evolution and yet also think that some non-natural agent is involved somehow, whether through a mechanism scrutable to science or not. From Wordnik.com. [Hey Dr. Egnor: At Least Galen Dissected Animals, Not Straw Men - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
Traditionally, it's been a place where each neighborhood has a strong character with its own behavioral code that is not necessarily scrutable to or convenient for the sojourner, and where he or she might be expected to behave deferentially or at least respectfully while visiting. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2010-02-01] Reference
We of the inscrutable east and, I confess, I didn't realize that we were that far east that we were entitled to the description of the sphinx-like inscrutability but, scrutable or inscrutable, we have today received a message from a very fine emissary of the vigorous and resurgent west. From Wordnik.com. [Essentials for a New Canadian Industrial Policy] Reference
If we were to choose a single governmental function which ought to remain in the public realm -- neutrally rendered and readily scrutable -- it would surely be that upon which all other government functions, and a government's very legitimacy, are predicated: The administration of elections. From Wordnik.com. [Rob Richie: John Gideon, R.I.P. -- and the "Gideon Initiative" for citizenship ownership of our elections] Reference
They don't reduce the world to a series of scrutable emotional transactions. From Wordnik.com. [The Morning News] Reference
The character of Corisande, according to her mother, was not then formed, nor easily scrutable. From Wordnik.com. [Lothair] Reference
"...its own behavioral code that his not necessarily scrutable to or convenient for the sojourner..". From Wordnik.com. [Going by the Book: Signs from Above] Reference
"There is a clear distinction between information and legally scrutable evidence that can stand the test of a court of law," he said. From Wordnik.com. [Top Stories - Google News] Reference
It is, on the other hand, the business, and has been the glory and triumph, of science, to examine and solve problems which are scrutable!. From Wordnik.com. [More Science From an Easy Chair] Reference
And CEO Charles Townsend isn't helping; at a meeting with company publishers last Friday, Townsend was just scrutable enough to sound scary. From Wordnik.com. [Gawker] Reference
The same nervous giggles can be heard when one uses such innocuous words as fructifying, frigorific, feckless, scrutable, and copulative verb. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 1] Reference
We turned again toward the Board, and another course altogether of demonstrations passed over the surface of it, and was made scrutable to our perceptions. From Wordnik.com. [The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, May 1844 Volume 23, Number 5] Reference
Well-written and interesting, Speaking of Chinese is a good introduction to the language and thought of 800 million Chinese and helps make them a bit more scrutable. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VI No 2] Reference
Wrist-top GPS-equipped running computers tell runners not only their current pace, but also provide trajectory, speed, distance traveled, and a host of other scrutable statistics. From Wordnik.com. [GPS World] Reference
This technique of using images for letters slows the page loading time, gives the page an inconsistent lettering and makes the contents less scrutable to search engines, Lilley said. From Wordnik.com. [PCWorld] Reference
The Chinese are keen students of the entirely scrutable history of western civilization and know full well that the Middle East is the traditional graveyard of occidental superpowers. From Wordnik.com. [At-Largely] Reference
Ms. Wineapple notes the resonance with the poet's life: "One sings for nothing scrutable. From Wordnik.com. [Emily's Ambassador] Reference
Or a “very scrutable” Chinese manservant who’s named Tempura because he’s been “battered by life.”. From Wordnik.com. [Mad About Madras; Durang, They Sang] Reference
A Hobson's selection, most unnatural and forced, to choose want of all that makes life sweet and dear; to choose gaunt babes, with pinched and livid lips -- unlovely, not unloved; and these iniquitous decrees are most scrutable, are surely of man's devising and not of God's. From Wordnik.com. [Copper Streak Trail] Reference
If we were to choose a single governmental function which ought to remain in the public realm — neutrally rendered and readily scrutable — it would surely be that upon which all other government functions, and a government’s very legitimacy, are predicated: The administration of elections. From Wordnik.com. [John Gideon, R.I.P. - and the "Gideon Initiative" for citizenship ownership of our elections] Reference
Of the less scrutable majesties. From Wordnik.com. [The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years] Reference
The child's face was still in scrutable. From Wordnik.com. [Through The Eye Of A Needle]
Of the less scrutable majesties. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861] Reference
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