Literary notes about indescribable (AI summary)
The word "indescribable" in literature is employed as a potent tool to capture experiences, emotions, or visual impressions that resist precise articulation. Authors use it to evoke an array of sensations—from the mysterious allure of nature and beauty ([1], [2], [3]) to the raw, aggressive force of nature and violence ([4], [5], [6]). It is equally effective in conveying inner emotional states, whether it be the paralyzing terror felt by characters ([7], [8], [9]) or the sublime joy and satisfaction that defy ordinary expression ([10], [11], [12]). Even moments of abstract thought or fleeting impressions are rendered more vivid with this adjective, as seen in descriptions of sublime genius and an almost otherworldly magnetism ([13], [14], [15]). Thus, "indescribable" serves as a versatile literary device, inviting the reader to experience what lies beyond the scope of language.
- Cape Eternity is bare, rising, as just said, sheer out of the water, rugged and grim (yet with an indescribable beauty) nearly two thousand feet high.
— from Complete Prose Works by Walt Whitman - Overhead, the splendor indescribable; yet something haughty, almost supercilious, in the night.
— from Complete Prose Works by Walt Whitman - All silently—the indescribable night and stars—far off and silently.
— from Complete Prose Works by Walt Whitman - Then the propeller was brought to its maximum speed, and its four blades churned the waves with indescribable violence.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne - The waters shook with the movements of the man–eater, which thrashed about with indescribable fury.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne - They rocked under the shark's movements, which beat them with indescribable fury.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne - The children all ran away at once in indescribable terror.
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky - I had expected a similar reply, but there was something in the tone of these words which filled me with an indescribable feeling of dread.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition by Edgar Allan Poe - It filled me with indescribable terror to think how swiftly that desolating change had come.
— from The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells - ” “I thank you, doctor,” said Villefort with indescribable joy; “I never had a better friend than you.”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas and Auguste Maquet - "An indescribable peace blossomed within me at the master's glance.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda - Monte Cristo opened the letter, and read it with an indescribable feeling of delight.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas and Auguste Maquet - They are all indescribable alike.
— from A Christmas Carol in Prose; Being a Ghost Story of Christmas by Charles Dickens - After all, what is it?—this indescribable something which men will persist in terming “genius?”
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition by Edgar Allan Poe - There is an indescribable magnetism about the poet's life and reminiscences, as well as the poems.
— from Complete Prose Works by Walt Whitman
