It is this Burkean notion of rhetoric, which is necessitated by unintelligibility but activated by intelligibility, which animates the spaces of everyday life. |
The few lunchtime conversations are dulled into unintelligibility by distance and the general air of lethargy. |
All that is required is to derive a certain starting-point from the hodge-podge of uncertainties and unintelligibility. |
But the arbitrariness, the unintelligibility, the absolute mysteriousness of totalitarianism are essential to Berman's larger argument. |
A similar situation, but with a greater degree of mutual unintelligibility, has been termed a language cluster. |
There are few posts that plummet down to the infantile depths of the scale and few that stretch upwards towards unintelligibility. |