In traditional noir, black American communities featured as an exotic place of inscrutable deviance. |
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Gray eyes inscrutable, he examined the weapon, running a finger over a scuff on the muzzle absently. |
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Skylar stared at him for a minute, his expression carefully guarded and inscrutable. |
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The coach looked on, inscrutable as he always is when watching from the stands. |
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Between them they come up with a tale that is occasionally engaging, often inscrutable, and in the end simplistic. |
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I wonder if she's holding something back, so inscrutable does she seem at times. |
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Hawthorne's text is studiously inscrutable about events antecedent to Hester's being branded adulteress. |
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He understands that the poem is foremost a form of communication, and fails if it becomes inscrutable. |
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Nothing that we can do will alter the inscrutable and withal immutable laws which direct our progress on this globe. |
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The raucous, inscrutable essence of democracy could almost be glimpsed in this maelstrom. |
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My father, at last glimpse, cell phone glued to his ear, was negotiating a settlement for some inscrutable business deal. |
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Their musical and personal relationship is at the same time completely open and completely inscrutable. |
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Newspaper stories see the light of day for all sorts of strange and inscrutable reasons. |
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In another brief appearance, the inscrutable South African was dispatched from the event with six holes to spare. |
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But at night when we're on the sofa he sees the inscrutable stories flickering on the box in the corner. |
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It is not some mysterious, inscrutable relation that beliefs bear to facts, whatever they might be. |
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An inscrutable and incomparably powerful force permeates the Universe and binds it together. |
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There is something inscrutable about the dragon, something that cannot be understood. |
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She had a private meeting with Bertie, who was sympathetic but inscrutable. |
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He didn't know why the priests had ordered it built, they had their own inscrutable reasons, he didn't really care. |
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His shift from inscrutable correctness to open resentment and then to a kind of familiarity is both compelling and hilarious. |
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In the inscrutable case, the overall truth about a state of affairs is not known by anyone. |
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Her inscrutable silence has become a canvas for projected social anxieties. |
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It's like a compelling bad dream whose inscrutable images persist in the traumatised moments after waking. |
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The keyboard is too far away, because of making room for the mousepad and, doubtless, a great deal of inscrutable hardware. |
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Cage is tall and skinny enough, and since Morpheus is simply inscrutable, you could just paint Cage white and let the makeup do the acting. |
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Lyrics are abstract and often inscrutable, but powerful images sometime fight through the verbal and instrumental haze. |
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Simply enjoy the inscrutable logic of the subconscious, or delight in the discovery of what the vision is trying to tell you. |
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The real danger is from the chaotic hatred between mortals that follows the wake of the enemy, not his inscrutable agenda. |
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Like a lunatic's ravings, his writing is inscrutable, absurd, yet shot through with phrases of visionary clarity and unpredictable poetry. |
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Its mutely inscrutable facade of bald concrete shields the house from the effects of the harsh south sun and deflects prying eyes. |
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Their inscrutable, sphinx-like logic can prove hypnotizing, and even the brave of heart and nimble of mind may find him or herself captivated. |
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They'll just figure out how to mass produce the protein, patent it, give it an inscrutable name and sell it for eleventy billion dollars a bottle. |
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The figures of the guitarists are immobile, and so inscrutable are their veiled faces that almost the only stage movement is their hands flickering across the fretboards. |
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He was oddly inscrutable, like he knew what all the questions were. |
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The relationship between artist and subject can be inscrutable. |
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He just smiles his inscrutable smile and carries on clipping. |
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Now it is said that the inscrutable coach will have to live up to the demands placed on him by the billion people living within a fanatical football nation. |
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It's a notoriously devilish problem, but from an information flow point of view all of the bodies are part of one object, albeit a generally inscrutable one. |
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The crowd is an inscrutable one: uptown, downtown, out of town, down in the mouth and mouths that won't quit. |
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The forms f the female body are excruciatingly tormenting because of their inscrutable charm. |
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Camus's inscrutable anti-hero reached me, as a greedily omnivorous teenage reader, via the battleship grey of a Penguin Modern Classics paperback bought in WH Smith. |
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On Tuesday morning, in the face of defeat, a member of Goodluck Jonathan's party issued accusations of bias, but Jega remained inscrutable. |
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It would appear that Lanonandeks too are prone to project their partial glimpse of finite reality onto the inscrutable canvas of eternity. |
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It was not a temporary policy, adopted for some inscrutable purpose, or a sudden whim. |
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It emphasizes just how complex and inscrutable are the motives of the real flesh-and-blood man and woman working today. |
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And yes, the NCAA recently rejiggered its Talumudically inscrutable rules in ways that will benefit the selfsame big five. |
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Thus, we again have exoneration and an opening to the inscrutable abyss of evil. |
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Mary is the icon of the Trinity and of the Church because she reveals to us the profound and inscrutable mystery of God. |
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How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways! |
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Often for the space of weeks and days the child was left alone in the vast house save for the presence of servants and her aged grandfather, an odd inscrutable solitudinarian. |
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The characters are inscrutable, the plotting careless, and, at every opportunity, Bowles subverts the dramatic stakes. |
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Early in the novel, his mother, Rachel, abandons her husband and son, present thereafter only through a series of inscrutable postcards sent from the open road. |
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What you see is already massive and inscrutable, but it is nothing compared with what might be going on beneath the surface. |
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But whereas the first act of her performance is disciplined, down-to-earth and munificent with wit, the second and third acts are inscrutable, new-agey and dull. |
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It very clearly displays the genius of a veteran professor obviously skilled in making the inscrutable scrutable to generations of Air Force Academy cadets. |
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And for many people it was, but you still had to learn html coding, which was inscrutable enough to make one long for the days of typesetting and paste-up. |
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The inscrutable Berbatov is going to be a behemothic threat from set-pieces so we've got to keep him closely enfettered. |
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The human being is, now as before, in front of a repeated dilemma: on one hand are the inscrutable orders of God and on the other are father and mother, wife or husband, children, relatives, teachers, religious authorities. |
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And that the Lord has also acted and acts in the history of the nations of the earth, in the periods of the Old and New Testaments, and in the course of worldly events, according to his inscrutable wisdom. |
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She captured Francis Bacon's anxious restlessness, Orson Welles's intensity, the young David Hockney's emerging dandyism, Björk's antic imagination and Samuel Beckett's inscrutable gaze. |
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An Avatar, or a Christ, comes forth for two reasons: one, the inscrutable and unknown Cause prompts Him so to do, and the other is the demand or the invocation of humanity itself. |
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Perhaps that's why writers are frequently inscrutable, solitary. |
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Our first trip to Japan performing Thick as a Brick to inscrutable, unflinching observers left us longing for the warm and more comprehensible sights and sounds of Europe. |
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Not terribly conflicted by the part she must play, she seems beyond reproach, as effective and inscrutable in battle as she is as a gobernadora. |
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As Alan Watts wrote, it involves trying to speak the unspeakable, scrute the inscrutable and eff the ineffable. |
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His inscrutable theories would years later become the foundation of a whole new science. |
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The midwife, an old, thin, inscrutable Madrassi, came to the hall and sat on her haunches in a corner, smoking, silent, her eyes bright. |
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This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it. |
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The affable if somewhat inscrutable proprietor, potbellied and gray-bearded, in his late fifties, lived elsewhere, and held court in the shop on Saturday nights. |
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Although inscrutable to the uninitiated, a typical Feynman diagram looks simple. |
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In the late 1930s, he achieved great success churning out a series of mediocre if charming crime films, as the inscrutable Japanese detective, Mr Moto. |
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As I sit, worrying silently beneath the inscrutable scrutiny of my dentist, I have a vague understanding that things may have changed since my last visit to the chair. |
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She'd take it from the tabernacle, part the silk wrapper, and show me the inscrutable cross-hatchings, pages smelling of lemonwood. |
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They have come to this muddy corner of County Wicklow to record their new album – spurred on by their obsessive, inscrutable, fibreglass-headed leader. |
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Historical events can sometimes seem totally inscrutable. |
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Thus the 'text memory' is updated and expanded in the immeasurable and perhaps inscrutable, and it finds its limits only in those of the computer memory. |
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Eykelboom with some inscrutable sense of purpose. |
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Jamie Malanowski on the legacy of an inscrutable rock-and-roll legend. |
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Note, however, that the One itself remains effusive and inscrutable, neither cosmetically, divinely, nor anthropomorphically figured. |
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For him, the inscrutable seems to inhabit facticity, even though facticity wants to debunk it. |
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Levant's face is as inscrutable as Buster Keaton's, but its unreadability is all his own: it is a ruined-cherub face, or the face of an alien possessed of unearthly powers. |
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The increasingly complex international architecture of aid was inscrutable and aid was not dispensed realistically, forcing the partner countries to follow constantly changing rules depending on the donor. |
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Unfortunately, experience has shown that Windows occasionally develops a completely inscrutable life of its own that cannot be dealt with effectively using esoteric methods. |
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But you're right, ultimately she remains inscrutable. |
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Storm Thorgerson could be inscrutable, grand and archly funny – all qualities that placed him some distance from the music industry's standard mixture of flimsy bonhomie and superficiality. |
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Shakespeare's Elizabethan English is a tough order for any native English speaker to understand, and I imagine it's totally inscrutable for non-native English speakers. |
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Pilot waves and projections from the implicate order to the explicate order of sense-perceptible phenomena are inscrutable to our everyday consiousness, at least directly. |
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Clad in finely jointed precast concrete panels, the modest, orthogonal structure has a clear affinity with the inscrutable elementality of Plano's Cy Twombly Gallery. |
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He wrote stories and novels, many with a nautical setting, that depict trials of the human spirit in the midst of an impassive, inscrutable universe. |
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She called my vanity license plate inscrutable! 'ICU81MI'? Hilarious! |
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With its fair share of crossbows, hangmen and attack dogs, the story is enriched by the appearance of the scheming Princess, played in inscrutable style by Roxane Duran. |
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