indefinable
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That is what cinema is all about, an indefinable presence, faces full of expression, voices that cannot be easily replicated, eyes that channel energy that can move and frighten and surprise us.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 7, 2025
It expresses a general anxiety the prompt of which is indefinable, a nagging sense that has no singularly compelling explanation.
From Salon • Dec. 27, 2024
And that work, which exists in some indefinable terrain between off-the-rack categories like “traditional” and “modern,” is truly magnetic.
From New York Times • Oct. 16, 2022
The crushing of the belief that the Seattle ballclub, by dint of some indefinable flaw in their DNA, would always wilt and wither in crunchtime.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 1, 2022
Nothing material, not a hair-pin on a dressing-table, not an empty bottle of aspirin tablets, not a handkerchief beneath a pillow, but something indefinable, a moment of our lives, a thought, a mood.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
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