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词根:inscrutable
adj.inscrutable 神秘的;不可理解的;不能预测的;不可思议的
adv.inscrutably 费解地;高深莫测地
Noun
1. the quality of being impossible to investigate;
"the inscrutability of the future"
1650年代,来自 inscrutable + -ity。
Middle English, from Late Latin inscrutabilis, from Latin in- + scrutari to search — more at scrutiny
The first known use of inscrutable was in the 15th century
inseamnoun
the seam on the inside of the leg of a pair of pantsalso: the length of this seam
inscrutableadjective
not easily understood : mysterious
an inscrutable expression
inscrutableadjective
not easily understood : mysterious
an inscrutable expression
inscrutableadjective
not easily understood : mysterious
an inscrutable expression
1 But it is also because we tend to project on to her very inscrutability attitudes of our own which we no doubt wrongly assume she shares.
2 In this week’s Book Review, the historian David Greenberg reviews Ms. Beattie’s unlikely quasi-biography, quasi-novel and notes that Nixon’s “inscrutability, her otherness, makes her an inviting subject for the novelist to imagine.”
3 Ulbrickson was also the least talkative man on campus, perhaps in the state, legendary for his reticence and the inscrutability of his countenance.
4 The show-runners have made clear that they will refrain from specifying the nature of this God, that he’s the same object of worship for Christians as Jews as Muslims, united in his aloofness and inscrutability.
5 Hands clasped and knees spread wide, the actor — who has become an avatar of inscrutability during his half-century screen and stage career — seems to be trying to shrink himself down to life-size.
6 They are also all transformed into morality plays of sorts—although, unlike in the Massachusetts Bay Colony of Nathaniel Hawthorne, the morals in Trump’s America are inscrutable.
7 That wily politicians might adopt Franklin's distinction between appearance and reality to become inscrutable confidence men did not seem to trouble him.
8 The flaws are artistic: the pretentiousness, sentimentality, inscrutability and unintentional or lazy comedy that can be found in dance and film of any kind.
9 Its finale is enigmatic to the point of inscrutability.
10 When it came to imagining his series’s next pope, Sorrentino was similarly inspired by Malkovich, borrowing the actor’s slow, meditative diction and unnerving inscrutability as he shaped the character.
11 In some ways, the inscrutability of the name “Chicano Batman” is completely appropriate.
12 We inhabit Cromwell's consciousness, but in order to recognise his inscrutability in the eyes of all the novel's other characters.
13 Even in their inscrutability, both sequences speak to a quality of accessibility heretofore largely alien to Denis’s cerebral canon.
14 It's a style at odds with the fashionable inscrutability of postmodernism.
15 The inscrutability of white power is one of Fox Solomon’s recurring themes.
16 an inscrutable work of art
17 In a piece of reportage, say, inscrutability is generally a flaw.
18 To us, the shimmering ridges and switchbacks in the paintings of Mr. Tjapaltjarri or Ms. Napangati suggest landscapes and histories, and our pleasure in them derives in part from their inscrutability.
19 The main characters in these movies are memorable more for their inscrutability than their words.
20 The inscrutability of Ms. Reichlen takes us close to the heart of the Balanchine experience — indeed, of the dance experience.
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