(1) Some things are unsayable , but maybe you try to articulate the unspeakable in music.(2) Costello at one point commends Kafka for taking things ‘to the end, to the bitter, unsayable end whether or not there are traces left on the page’.(3) Once it was digested that a military conclusion seemed as far off as ever, the hitherto unsayable notion of a political resolution was out of the bag.(4) At times of national hysteria, certain things that go against the tide of public opinion become almost unsayable .(5) I used to have a view of writers as being heroic figures, in the sense that they would say unsayable and courageous things.(6) You say what once seemed unsayable , you let the proverbial fly, the leader - seemingly benign - disassociates himself, meanwhile the seeds of doubt are sown, and the headkickers party on…(7) He added: ‘I suppose it is a testimony to my doctor that he gave us the news, white faced, nervous, with eyes downcast… as if it was something both unsayable and already said.’(8) Multiculturalism has made it almost unsayable .(9) Far fewer doctors now annotate notes with acronyms designed to spell out the unsayable truth about their patients.(10) The fact that this was perceived by the Telegraph to be unsayable merely makes Steyn's point for him.(11) Nevertheless, the meaning performed in our ‘joint action’ is immersed in the unsayable workings of cultural history in a manner that changes our relations to the past, present, and future.(12) I had thought the kind of comments that Spinner was making re the death of David Hookes were unsayable , and it was so refreshing to find a dissident viewpoint outside the mainstream media.(13) But Wittgenstein in fact believed that the most important thing, what he referred to as ‘the mystical,’ is merely unsayable , not that it doesn't exist at all.(14) Her angle is slightly but importantly new, and therefore unsayable in any words other than hers.(15) Both made extensive photographic records of what they saw, using the camera to try and capture what seems to be unsayable .(16) In a culture bent on out-shouting a God who chooses silence, we need to make room in our communities for entering into that silence with God, so that the unsayable truth can be heard.
