inscrutable
Example Sentences
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Although Leo is more inscrutable than Francis, Catholics are beginning to get a better sense of the man beneath the cassock.
The limits of human understanding are probed as a sacrificial figure challenges the inscrutable order of the universe.
From Los Angeles Times
Despite chronicling decades of István’s life, “Flesh,” through narrative omissions, leaves readers with an inscrutable protagonist they nonetheless remain deeply invested in.
From Los Angeles Times
That play of masks—at once disclosing and disguising—animated Roth’s fictional alter egos, incarnations both intimate and inscrutable.
Punitive tariffs are imposed on longtime allies, seemingly for whimsical or inscrutable reasons.
From Salon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
