inscrutable

Example Sentences

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He sat and stared at his screen, positioned away from the audience, as inscrutable as someone at a cafe working on a laptop.

From Los Angeles Times

Although Leo is more inscrutable than Francis, Catholics are beginning to get a better sense of the man beneath the cassock.

From The Wall Street Journal

It was Edward Ashton, but with his thick Judge Quinzy glasses on, his expression remained inscrutable.

From Literature

For, much as actors specialize in pretending to be that which they are not, often with the use of clever disguises, noses made of putty and inscrutable accents, this parrot, too, was pretending.

From Literature

The limits of human understanding are probed as a sacrificial figure challenges the inscrutable order of the universe.

From Los Angeles Times