unintelligibility

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But even then, the compensation for one form of unintelligibility is the over-intelligibility of conventional athletic dance, entertaining at first until it becomes numbingly familiar, as is the generally banal, old-fashioned staging.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 29, 2018

After showing footage of Giuliani’s interview with Stephanopoulos, Kimmel joked about the unintelligibility of Giuliani’s words.

From The Guardian • May 8, 2018

At times during the trial, it was unclear how much unintelligibility was caused by mistranslation and how much by the deliberate indirection of witnesses.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 12, 2015

All the while the veteran vocalist Joan La Barbara read from “Unpacking My Library,” Walter Benjamin’s classic essay about collecting books, her voice distorted and deepened to the point of unintelligibility.

From New York Times • Sep. 11, 2012

Aulus Gellius gives many examples of the obscurity, or rather unintelligibility, of his grammatical writings103.

From History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II by Dunlop, John