inexpressible

The often monumental sculptures serve as challenging and emotional reminders of the vital role of art to express the inexpressible.

“While we are grateful for the closure that has been provided, nothing will bring Terry back. The void left by her absence over the years is inexpressible.”

China's biggest flotilla of research vessels deployed to the Antarctic will focus on building the station on the rocky, windswept Inexpressible Island near the Ross Sea, a deep Southern Ocean bay named after a 19th century British explorer.

It reveals much about the inner lives of people with non-verbal autism, worlds that often remain devastatingly inexpressible.

Elaine Scarry, in her classic literary-philosophical study of the subject, “The Body in Pain,” zeroes in on the inexpressible nature of physical torment, the way it can “destroy language” and thereby seal a person off from understanding.