Being cool is one of those indefinable qualities that's almost impossible to pin down. |
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In short it is something indefinable, incalculable, not something that can easily be analysed. |
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It certainly is a clue to the indefinable difference we find in British noir. |
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There's a sense of nostalgia, an indefinable ache, that crystallises the artist's repertoire at a certain point in time. |
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In all shapes, sizes and more than anything, in those indefinable vibrant shades, butterflies seem to carry an uncanny beauty about them. |
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The cistern has an indefinable white substance dripping down it and the missing tiles were stacked up on the window sill. |
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But they are utterly indefinable by way of positive definition hence my requirement of negative demarcation. |
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Poetry is the power of defining the indefinable in terms of the unforgettable. |
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What stops this being a mere retread of studio highlights is that indefinable quality one can only refer to as feeling. |
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It is something talismanic, totemic, intangible, all-consuming, corrosive, compulsive, elusive, indefinable. |
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And undoubtedly, their mysterious, indefinable quality is the source of their disconcerting power. |
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She has an indefinable screen presence that makes even her poorest scenes tolerable. |
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Austrians can offer an alternative approach that does not depend on having to define or measure what is conceptually indefinable or unmeasurable. |
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His eyes flashed just a little bit, with some vague, indefinable emotion, perhaps surprise, when he saw she was still lying in bed. |
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So Rose Boys had a modest political aim, as well as satisfying an obscure and perhaps indefinable personal need. |
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The answer depended ultimately on a policy decision informed by history and indefinable concepts of nationality and nationhood. |
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In those hours I laughed so hard my face hurt, I cried, I felt happiness, sadness, empathy, anger and other indefinable emotions. |
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It is that indefinable something that is drawing another Afghan refugee, 70-year-old Taj Bara back to Kabul. |
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He had a deer's qualities, all right, the speed, the sure feet and most of all an indefinable sense of fragility that set him apart in a game otherwise marked by violence. |
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The lexicographers may be forgiven their shortcomings in this case, however, because middle age is well-nigh indefinable. |
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The Basques, an indefinable proportion of its much-mixed 2.1m population, are a distinct people, with a language of their own. |
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What matters is the atmosphere, that indefinable thing that no one can put a finger on, until some alteration kills it. |
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Secondly, I sometimes get an indefinable feeling that these strategic partnerships are largely symbolic. |
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They refer to a sort of indefinable 'rightness' with the sound from a parallel tracking arm. |
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To live the way we're living and to be treated the way we're treated is indefinable. |
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The tendency to move about, either in a seemingly aimless or disoriented fashion, in pursuit of an indefinable or unobtainable goal. |
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Experienced farmers will blend science, agronomics, economics and field histories with that indefinable intuitive sense and then will decide which crop will do best this year. |
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How can I explain to you the sweetest, indefinable and new sensation that I felt in the presence of this Saint, as you call him? |
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He had that indefinable sixth sense that distinguishes gifted warriors from good ones. |
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She was charming, with the indefinable magnetism certain older cultivated European women possess whether or not they were beauties in their youth. |
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He knew what was going on and he never, in my experience, took risk that was indefinable. |
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Viewers might feel excluded from an indefinable club that includes only those who speak a seemingly untranslatable language or recognize obscure and unspoken passwords. |
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The lady's clothes seemed to fill the whole carnage, and out of this little padded box there drifted a perfume of orris, an indefinable scent of feminine elegance. |
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A third draft corrected some of these problems, but I still felt, without quite being able to articulate it, that in some indefinable way the script had lost ground. |
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Perhaps subliminally it is this which gave her performances that indefinable, electric edge which drew audiences magnetically to her and held them spellbound. |
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Ever since the ancient Greek artist Debutades traced a line around the silhouette of her lover's face, artists have been attempting to define the indefinable. |
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It is a challenging attempt to define what is often indefinable. |
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The role of the volunteer is always indefinable. |
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This revelation was entrusted to the Church, which is always aided by the Holy Spirit so that it will bring God's salvation to all men of all times and cultures in a true and indefinable way. |
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Bliss is indefinable and is even unimaginable. |
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For me,Avantime and Vel Satis,with their daring, pioneering vision of auto design, encapsulate an indefinable and infinitely seductive French style. |
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We need a constitution, not a cosa ' that is indefinable. |
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Its craziness, its humour, its quirks and reverses of scale, its spring of imagination and its morality have some indefinable resonance in the general psyche. |
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Knowledge is indeed indefinable in empiricist terms. |
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Rapport is almost indefinable and certainly unquantifiable. |
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If he were a painter, he would enter into a dialogue with his peers so as to evoke a universe sometimes paved with bright colors, sometimes plunged into a shadowy crepuscule, always bathed in an indefinable light. |
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And on the walls, strange paintings, of an exultating colouring, of paradoxical lines, since they showed freshness and an indefinable antiquity. |
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It gives a substitute for sloppy categories like economic crime, business crime, commercial crime, white collar crime, etc., which are poorly defined, if not indefinable, and often confuse acts with actors. |
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What is called the great popular heart was awakened, that indefinable something which may be, according to circumstances, the highest reason or the most brutish unreason. |
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