The ground beneath the abbey was honeycombed with a series of caves that became the scene of countless orgies and unspeakable rituals. |
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My sisters and I understood very little of the unspeakable reality he sought to describe. |
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His beautifully judged film matches the moments of comedy with glimpses of the unspeakable tragedies that can send a life into tailspin. |
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Famine anywhere is a tragedy, but when it is caused by a country's government it is an unspeakable crime. |
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And this is an unthinkable, unspeakable tragedy that, in my opinion, came out of left field. |
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That is unspeakable and one of the many revolting facts as to why prostitution should be abolished and not legalised. |
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The strength of good literature is that it can explore the unsaid and the unspeakable. |
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Some things are unsayable, but maybe you try to articulate the unspeakable in music. |
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I wondered about what violence had preceded these unspeakable acts and what violence would follow. |
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I am equally sure that those parents feel unspeakable grief once the phone call came that their beloved one would not be returning home. |
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Or were the crimes she committed so unspeakable as to be beyond forgiveness? |
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Did the first world war veterans who suffered unspeakable horrors expect compensation? |
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Admittedly there can be no denying the horror, the unspeakable horror of what had transpired at the Cathedral nearly three years ago. |
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The wounds inflicted on minority women can hardly heal especially when they were subjected to such unspeakable crimes. |
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The character sees no alternative to performing an unspeakable act and, in the end, she's the one who will suffer the most from it. |
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Please drop whatever you're doing and throw your weight behind the campaign to put a stop to these unspeakable abuses. |
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Memorial services happen because for each family with a loss, every loss is unspeakable tragedy. |
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The march has been described as a creative response to the unspeakable brutality that has gripped the country. |
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Watching this unspeakable romcom made me want to tumble off the red plush seats, curl up into a foetal ball and mew like a maltreated kitten. |
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This idea was unspeakable in polite society, but it probably played a part in Dole's defeat. |
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The intemperance of that high dignitary and his priests filled me with an unspeakable horror and disgust. |
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And there was some unspeakable bubble and squeak in a dry, pot-shaped lump that had the flavour of frostbitten turnip. |
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His Via Dolorosa to freedom is covered not only with unspeakable suffering, but with countless mistakes. |
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How unspeakable, then, it struck her, that worldly arrangements should contribute to the forlornness of one's natural state! |
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An increasing number of credible eyewitnesses testified to the unspeakable torment of radiation sickness. |
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With that, the adorable little demon disappeared in a puff of sulfurous smoke leaving behind only a feeling of unspeakable dread. |
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Officials acting on our behalf committed unspeakable cruelty on a man already wrongly imprisoned for 17 years. |
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Not for the first time, the rhetoric of equality and brotherhood was employed in the service of unspeakable evil. |
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For most, imprisonment at home would equate to unspeakable living conditions, physical torture, and false confessions extorted by threats. |
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The idea seems to be that while I have free will, I will nevertheless be punished with eternal and unspeakable suffering if I turn away from God. |
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Most of us are familiar with the Holocaust's unspeakable brutalities and degradations. |
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When he succeeded in waking us up, we had been completely incoherent, raving about caves and pigeons and dark unspeakable evil. |
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And besides, the real reason you want a hard case is because of the unspeakable things that happen to cases in airports. |
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Legal language, however, cannot remain silent in the face of unspeakable injuries. |
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The unspeakable awfulness of September 11 affected stock markets across the world and gutted the international aviation industry. |
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Even now, as I write, so many hours after the unspeakable incident, my mind still reels in shell-shocked horror and uncertainty. |
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Here again, the emblem suggests a chain of catastrophic, unspeakable events triggered by irresistible emotions. |
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Several witnesses swore our newlyweds had a sustained ashrieking argument just before the unspeakable happened. |
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It is an unspeakable act of violence carried out by unspeakably nasty vicious bloodthirsty thugs. |
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This unspeakable piece of codswallop pretty much sums up the worst of New York journalism for me. |
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May I commend you brother, for the unspeakable truths you have revealed to the average unknowing Canadian. |
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The text makes reference to the Shem haM' phoras, the ineffable, unspeakable Name of God. |
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How she felt so unseen and out-of-place, like the silence that fills the void of unspeakable words. |
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Surely one of life's greatest tragedies is that man can always come up with explanations for the unspeakable cruelties people inflict on each other. |
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It has, in effect, been marinaded in blood and tastes unspeakable. |
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This act of solidarity with the lowest of the low in a place of unspeakable violence illustrates the unbounded depth and breadth of God's compassionate presence. |
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This is the kind of unspeakable inhumanity we are all up against. |
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And a vulnerable nation was left undefended against an unspeakable threat. |
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The characters all speak in melodramatic, incomplete sentences as if they knew unspeakable horrors, but this tactic merely delays revelations that turn out to be quite dull. |
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That should have reassured me, and yet the moment I entered the camper an unspeakable sense of dread grabbed hold of me. |
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Far from it being a preventative war, and that's the way they sold it, it inaugurated a century of the most unspeakable violence in human history. |
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While current protests focus on government corruption, the unspeakable succession to the throne overshadows all. |
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The coroner described the crash as one of unspeakable tragedy. |
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If this is so, then writing becomes a problematic activity. If the writer uses words connected to the world, then cannot express an unspeakable experience. |
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The scale of destruction is unthinkable, and the horror is unspeakable. |
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The movie lifts the lid on this seething cauldron of unspoken, unspeakable shame, takes a good long peep within and then drops the lid again with a clang. |
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Tiny figures huddled in sweatshops, toiling in unspeakable conditions. |
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He is widely believed to have fueled the war in support of one of the fighting parties, to which he committed ragtag militias that perpetrated unspeakable atrocities. |
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The fact that the extremists and autocrats have had to resort now to unspeakable violence shows how much they have failed to win the war of ideas. |
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I love to write, but I feel an unspeakable dread when faced with editing. |
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Knowing now some of the unspeakable horrors that other children went through it is difficult to make him out as anything other than firm but fair. |
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The astonishing fact is that these unspeakable events in England were not as hideous as the everyday horrors in Ulster. |
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He heard blood-curdling screams, sounds of unspeakable horrors. |
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Los Angeles freeways have, in fact, been known as breeding grounds for unspeakable rancors that eat away one's reason. |
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Idris, the first High King, had silvery eyes in a face lined with years of bright laughter and unspeakable sorrow. |
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Darnielle's novel straddles the ordinary world and an unspeakable, unnameable darkness. |
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Meanwhile, over in the US, the unspeakable Arnold Schwarzenegger, Governor of California, broke his leg in a fall on a ski run named after him. |
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His name, infamous now, would have an additional horror, and ever be remembered by posterity in unspeakable loathing, in unsoftening wrath. |
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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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And though this be a great foredeal, and an excellent jewel, yet the great and unspeakable glory, that in time to come shall be declared in us, hath not yet appeared. |
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The endless pride and outstretching of man, unspeakable joys and sorrows. |
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But unlike other recent books in its genre, Unspeakable Things is markedly uninterested in converting its readers. |
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Were you defining yourself as a fiction writer then, or did you already envision writing essays like the ones in The Unspeakable? |
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