inexpressible

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“Happy Place” is funny at points, but it is also the closest that Henry has come to writing an old-school melodrama, a heart-rending plot that struggles to express the inexpressible.

From Washington Post • Apr. 23, 2023

Let’s hope it works, because the alternatives are literally inexpressible.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 6, 2023

Like those pilots, in Vietnam I connected and cried with people I'd never met, people who live on the other side of the world and who endured inexpressible suffering.

From Salon • Nov. 5, 2022

There’s an unpretentious beauty that resonates in each frame of director Jane Campion’s “The Power of the Dog,” a dark, thoughtful tale that explores inexpressible emotions and their consequences with a pensive pace.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 27, 2022

Numberless and inexpressible frustrations combined to make his rage elemental and awe-inspiring.

From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding