unintelligibility

Kaufmann opted instead for a consistent legato, sometimes at odds with the orchestra and, in extreme cases, slurring phrases into unintelligibility.

Cumbersomely, phrases are italicized to the point of unintelligibility.

In other words, gravity is a “common unintelligibility,” a phrase coined by physicist Ernst Mach for a mystery that hides in plain sight.

There’s text here — at one point luminous plucks punctuate the low buzz of voices speaking, perhaps over radios — but it’s muffled to the point of unintelligibility.

It “was founded on an uncommon unintelligibility”: two objects interacting without physical contact.