"River Hymns" is full of beautiful, ineffable moments like that.
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Its force, its felicity is in its reach toward the ineffable.
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You feel tragedy amassing, somehow, out of ineffable wisps of feeling.
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Its force, its felicity, is in its reach toward the ineffable.
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Try it after the fried panisse: falafel batons of ineffable daintiness.
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But anyway my affection for Iceage is largely based on the ineffable.
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The truly ineffable Tingle has penned dozens of offerings within this genre.
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Whenever I do it there's this sort of ineffable magic that happens.
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But there is barely a nod at art's most ineffable aspect: quality.
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That it was un-arrogant, and would keep reaching towards the ineffable?
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The change has altered his music in ways both quantifiable and more ineffable.
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In American Gods, there are numerous pregnant silences as characters contemplate the ineffable.
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To him, they are luckless schmoes who fail to possess his ineffable talents.
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He saw, he read, he pondered, and he transformed the ineffable into sound.
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But the similarities largely end on that most ineffable political quality of authenticity.
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The dedication of Aurora's assorted casualties to labor beyond ineffable tragedy is heartening.
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But "best," with all its implications of a certain elite and ineffable — what?
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But his true quest is to untangle the ineffable nature of connection itself.
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His movies are all monuments to the glory of Seagal, to his ineffable competence.
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One of the workmen's shovels struck something huge and ineffable, and there it was.
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The more I've written about Lil Wayne's music, the more its appeal becomes ineffable.
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She understood Japan, and had the talent and skills to capture its ineffable ethos.
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The company monetized this ineffable quality to sell readers whatever advertisers had on offer.
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She will be at once ineffable and indescribable but also the result of special effects.
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The same cannot be said for ex best friends Carole and Bethenny's ineffable, claustrophobic tension.
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Some perceive this as undermining those ineffable elements that make wine different from, say, toothpaste.
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What else should voters pay attention to, aside from the rather ineffable thing called "character"?
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After all, when it comes to music, technique is just window dressing for the ineffable.
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Furthermore, we are willing to pay extortionist prices for that ineffable je ne sais quoi.
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Because ultimately the meaning of a word, like that of a person, is boundless, ineffable.
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She had thought that naming the stone would be an insult to its ineffable gravity.
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"What Woody brings is ineffable — call it charisma, call it charm, likability," the director said.
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A crime was committed against you, even though that crime seems unclear and ineffable somehow.
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"As with most pilots, it goes back to something that's really ineffable from childhood," Smith said.
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But if it is ever to reach an audience, the ineffable must not only be bottled.
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But there's an ineffable quality to the hand-drawn material that a computer simply can't replicate.
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But whatever it is that distinguishes an amazing burger from a very good burger is ineffable.
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They have been a symbol of mystery ever since, of ineffable things just beyond our reach.
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She uses words like "creative force" and "universe," but she still honors the ineffable, whatever it is.
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I was fueled by an ineffable frustration, and I was mocking anyone who loved the porgs unconditionally.
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" Yet almost every time an NFL game is played, fans despair over the ineffable definition of "catch.
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Misogyny is too widespread and bipartisan a problem, too psychological, too ineffable, to warrant an electoral remedy.
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What they seem to have possessed was the ineffable ability to teach their son how to think.
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Yet worn with ineffable confidence and swagger by athletes, even the most excessive designer efforts seem justified.
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"Nothing can erase the ineffable sadness of an American presidency, like this one, in total intellectual collapse".
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But it doesn't spark that ineffable sense of satisfaction and rightness that well-crafted physical objects can.
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I mean, one was burdened with ineffable and unprecedented trauma... Em: There are two things to discuss.
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But it's in the realm of the ineffable that Lloyd Parry's elliptical vignettes come to strongest life.
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The figure sits strongly or, rather, floats in an ineffable radiance, transmitting an emotion of effortless, stoic tenderness.
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It all leaves you enveloped in some kind of ineffable sensation, greater than the sum of its parts.
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Ineffable as magic may seem, it can be taught like any other subject you'd find in a classroom.
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Like I had transgressed some ineffable border that I should not have been able to cross back over.
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Participants in our study responded to the Hallucinogen Rating Scale, which helps translate these ineffable experiences into numbers.
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Their shows felt like an exorcism, as if they were making music for a kind of ineffable power.
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Desire, ravenous and ineffable, shudders through "Burning," the latest from the great South Korean director Lee Chang-dong.
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In doing so, the show illuminates the notoriously opaque writings of Beckett without ever betraying their ineffable heart.
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The overall effect is one of meticulous observation and control put in service of capturing dreamlike, ineffable experiences.
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It's worth noting that Kanopy also offers several titles directed by the ineffable Italian horror maestro Mario Bava.
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Come back tomorrow for more of the drama, spectacle, and the ineffable wisdom of the constitution in action.
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There's also something ineffable about Twitter's influence, especially as it pertains to politics, around movement building and fandoms.
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The qualities of beauty and wholeness in "West Side Story" were perhaps not so ineffable as they seemed.
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Kids are endlessly curious and ask about how life works, the ineffable mystery of it, all the time.
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Like the ineffable suffering experienced by soldiers in battle, his is a message that we are unlikely to comprehend.
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Any differences of genre or tone, however, cannot diminish the fundamental, ineffable McConaughey-ness that courses through both films.
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It's not what you would have expected in categories noted more for an ineffable "cool" factor than feature lists.
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It artificially pads the game with an aimless activity that serves neither the story nor the ineffable "fun" factor.
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There's something ineffable about '90s girl group the Spice Girls, in part because they're all pretty elusive these days.
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How the victories and defeats and teamwork and even tears would strengthen them in some ineffable but consequential way.
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"Another Way to Climb a Tree" contains the ineffable thing that makes the picture book so special a form.
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I know only that something ineffable, something beyond the reach of my own language, happened in the everyday sky.
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This creates the ineffable impression that time stands still while the performers are in motion, and it is glorious.
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"The Leftovers," whose third and final season concludes Sunday, June 4, is less about plot than about the ineffable.
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There's this ineffable sense of stiffness at lower frame rates that, for certain types of games, is a detriment.
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But, I am sure that it all works out for the best — as in the end, the plan is ineffable.
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More to the point, that's a lot of hard, ineffable feelings that are difficult or impossible to put into words.
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Midnight Special's premise is the kind of setup King loves—the ineffable supernatural being hunted down by the greedy mundane.
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Instead, he just holds on it, inviting you to fill it with meaning or simply ponder the ineffable with dread.
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But unlike with aliens or God, there is no ineffable justification to the faith that the angels have in VinBook.
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But every so often we hear — and feel — a sonic thrum that suggests something ineffable emerging from this mechanical process.
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NDEs can be reminiscent of another ineffable state: one caused by taking psychedelic drugs like DMT, ketamine, LSD, and mushrooms.
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In the months ahead, Mr. Coates plans on exploring the idea that America may have forgotten something ineffable about itself.
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She saw those two little girls they had been, Alma and Esperanza, twins, that ineffable bond, the most perfect love.
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Harris is fierce with an ineffable charisma; she's often warm and joyful, but you could imagine her vivisecting Trump onstage.
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Mr. Settis continually invokes Calvino's notion of a city's spirit, that ineffable thing that sets it apart from other places.
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It is no longer "the most real thing"—one concern among many—but simply "the thing," ineffable and all-consuming.
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Things like frustration, irony, and Donald Trump's actual thoughts are too ineffable to be captured through traditional means of linguistic representation.
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Under its shadow, I watched who the crowd parted for, who they blocked, the nearly ineffable thickenings and thinnings among people.
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There&aposs something ineffable about holding an anesthetized wolverine in your arms under one of nature&aposs most exquisite celestial spectacles.
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And that ineffable quality of style makes articles by British or American writers distinct, even in the absence of obvious shibboleths.
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Scientific facts aside, the ineffable J.K. Rowling (or should we write that J.K. rOWLing) had something to say on the matter.
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These ineffable traits, as much as the sheer deliciousness of the food itself, made my four-day inhalation of Philadelphia memorable.
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"Specifically, we chose Primordial Goddess for her embodiment of an ineffable cosmic force and creative energy — the ultimate artist," Chicago said.
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And without that sense of ineffable individuality, the satire — of the Sixties-style search for enlightenment and eternal youth — feels formulaic.
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And unlike the late Steve Jobs — his contemporary and occasional rival — Gates is rarely discussed in terms of some ineffable mystique.
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Whatever floats your boat, but I can't believe it was an early aughts pop-punk band and not the ineffable Leslie Jones.
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She was describing a certain ineffable emotional state to me, a native Icelander's sense of comfort while immersed in her neighborhood sundlaug.
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As a result, the very concrete, yet, ineffable bonds between architecture, culture, and spirituality have become all the more realized and hallowed.
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Perhaps they have traveled to space, struck up a conversation with the salvia gods, or experienced eternity in some ineffable psychedelic landscape.
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"For me, money is ineffable at the same time that it's also very concrete," one down-on-her-luck mother tells Zaloom.
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The production ends with a sly concluding vision of ineffable beauty, in which slender columns of light slice through the pitch blackness.
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It is performed by the ensemble toward the end of "Anything Can Happen in the Theater," and its ineffable melancholy is sublime.
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In addition, the items had to be valued for insurance, a mysterious calculus that weighed monetary worth along with other, ineffable measures.
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Well, it's a radical kind of atheism that asserts that the nature of reality is ineffable—it can't be embodied in words.
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Although more interest in the idioms of figurative folk art, Ryggen would occasionally dabble in abstractionism to express the ineffable qualities of violence.
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Even further beyond our grasp is the capacity to imbue such a machine with humanness—that ineffable presence the Japanese call sonzai-kan.
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Whatever the telltale data turn out to be, the experience of love will continue to be ineffable, and its pursuit strewn with hardships.
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But it also captures something ineffable about the awkwardness of being a teenager — and so, in the end, it's a movie for everyone.
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Only psychedelics remained profoundly interesting—at least the void of a k-hole loops back into infinity, gesturing towards some larger ineffable meaning.
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I love famous younger sisters — the Solanges and Serenas of the world — and no-name ones: We all share a certain ineffable quality.
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Esports remain ineffable and impenetrable to outsiders due to their particularized leagues, odd televised schedules, and, yes, their stigma as "not real" sports.
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A person's reaction to music is ineffable, and it's really, really hard to reach into the ether and make your reactions, uh, effable.
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But what J Dilla (Dilla for short) was truly revered for was integrity and vibration — a Dilla beat floated in almost ineffable ways.
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But Mr. Noseda missed some of the Fifth's unbridled passion, while Mr. Thomas folded in the Fourth's ineffable warmth with a knowing hand.
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" He's more interested in "the ineffable experience of faith," which for him is "too expansive to be defined by any one religious tradition.
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It was near ineffable seeing that world demystified, witnessing firsthand the landscape, which by that time my mother had been roaming for years.
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But it also captures something ineffable about the awkwardness of being an eighth grader — and so, in the end, it's a movie for everybody.
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"I may struggle with profoundly understanding ineffable feelings such as love but I can intelligently discuss the topics of love and death," says BINA48.
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The languid descending coos in "Dream of the Canyon Wren," which Mr. Adams has also arranged for string quartet, were rendered with ineffable melancholy.
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As a child, when I heard jokes and watched sitcoms, I considered comedy to be a wonderful, ineffable mystery — like sex, or the Trinity.
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"Nothing can erase the ineffable sadness of an American presidency, like this one, in total intellectual collapse," he wrote in The Wall Street Journal.
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Mr. Sternberg is under pressure to make Entireworld so appealing that even its basics have ineffable magic that coaxes credits cards out of wallets.
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William James famously wrote that mystical experience — perhaps the closest analogue we have of a psychedelic trip — is "ineffable": beyond the reach of language.
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After this is all over, there will be a massive stock-taking, but if we only look at the numbers, we'll miss something ineffable.
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The babies will connect the mothers to the ineffable — not just upward, but also downward, to an unnamed space below, a well, a hell.
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But is it possible to recreate the supper club's more ineffable warmth and loose-limbed tempo amid the crush and heave of the city?
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In "Caught," a character thinks that war "is sex," but the novel shows that to Green war was life, only more so: calamitous, ineffable.
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And what is left in its place is that ineffable thing he has been trying to define: a distinctly human presence, free of the uncanny.
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The work confronts viewers with its bodily reality, making visible the process of its construction in every mound and smear, but still eliciting something ineffable.
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You may have collectors," he tells her, but adds that she lacks the "essential component, the ineffable inner quality necessary to truly be An Artist.
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As Nancy Goldner writes in her insightful book "More Balanchine Variations," Balanchine felt that Mozart transcended emotion, and thus was too ineffable for dance. Ridiculous!
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Perhaps because of this ineffable connection to our emojis, every time Apple releases a new batch, people go nuts for what was and wasn't included.
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"There are simply no words to explicate the profound and ineffable honor of meeting @realDonaldTrump in the tabernacle of liberty, the Oval Office," he tweeted.
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Don't misunderstand: This game between the New York Gothams and the Cincinnati Greens mattered, but in ineffable ways beyond the columns of wins and losses.
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In "Hand, Index Linger Back," those same two fingers, by crossing demurely, pin that ineffable something down: It's the seductive lie that's also a wish.
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Though the policy is now defended as a way to maintain the ineffable "local character" of neighborhoods, single-family zoning has a history in segregation.
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But what other word is there for the ineffable force that keeps you coming back, coming home, night after night, returning to family and love?
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But what other word is there for the ineffable force that keeps you coming back, coming home, night after night, returning to family and love?
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For many of the migrants, France had loomed over them since their earliest days in kindergarten, an ineffable presence that both repelled and drew them.
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Then, as the three-hour mark approached, he gently discharged listeners with the simple, ineffable beauty of the "Hungarian Melody" in B minor (D. 817).
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The ease with which Andres absorbs these influences simultaneously reveals two ineffable qualities necessary to the mind of a mature artist: perseverance, and regret. ♦
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The routine back-and-forth of a hard-fought match finally approaches the ineffable radiance of one of those moments that tennis fans live for.
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To take on the task of representing our sense of wonder in the face of them is to try to give tangible form to the ineffable.
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"There are simply no words to explicate the profound and ineffable honor of meeting @realDonaldTrump in the tabernacle of liberty, the Oval Office," Lebron tweeted Friday.
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Buoyed by the ineffable mystery of what exactly "That Thing" is, Miseducation is a document of a woman who does not want to be pinned down.
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They'd look out at the changing skyline, telling stories and creating art as a way to hold onto some ineffable San Francisco-ness amid the change.
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That's partly because Armstrong perceives the God of Scripture not as a white-bearded old man on a cloud but as an ineffable, indescribable, unknowable transcendence.
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Elusiveness here is the subject: We see that the two men are discussing the ineffable, courteously addressing empty air as if seeking the sublime in it.
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Journalism's emphasis on what is provably factual — vote totals, stock prices, batting averages — left most reporters and editors leery of the ineffable, inchoate qualities of religion.
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" Our physics expert writes that the three found ways to turn "one of the most ineffable aspects of nature, pure light, into a mighty microscopic force.
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She has spunk and a beautiful voice and some kind of ineffable quality that makes her a star performer, and she and Wiktor fall in love.
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In fact, it was Mr. Jacobs's fiancé, the candle maker Char Defrancesco, who managed to sum up the ineffable allure of ugly in a recent interview.
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Block prints are done by eye, and telltale signs of the human hand, even imperfections, are part of the ineffable humanity and beauty of the craft.
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I could live with one or two of these things being presented as part of the ineffable mystery of Cats, with no resolution sought or needed.
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Lynch can imbue mundane street scenes, obtuse sketches, and even photos of lamps (of which there is a whole series) with an ineffable sense of foreboding.
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Fog of Love is fun, while also boasting that ineffable quality I want from all art: It becomes even more fun when you talk about it afterward.
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Like her A Star Is Born predecessors, Ally has that thing, that ineffable quality that makes her rise above the normals and into the stratosphere of stardom.
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At this point, it's ineffable: A daddy both is and is not a real live person because a daddy is an adjective, noun, and rubric of measurement.
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Gillespie has an almost Spielbergian love of close-ups of his characters gaping at the ineffable — in this case, usually killer waves rather than aliens or dinosaurs.
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For many of those who experienced it, the tragedy of the tsunami was formless, black and ineffable, an immense and overwhelming monster that blocked out the sun.
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Zimmern is someone who is keenly interested in the vast, ineffable, incomprehensible, global web that we call "food culture" in both its mundane and, yes, bizarre expressions.
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"Studying something as private and ineffable as our inner voices was, my elders might have warned me, never going to furnish a successful research career," Fernyhough writes.
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At 19923, she has been conducting her siege on the ineffable for more than four decades, and yet the creative process remains almost totally opaque to her.
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Surely. Yet it was Janet who had infused her daughters with the ineffable standards that carried them both through life, and helped to create Jackie's matchless iconography.
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Like many holdouts, Mr. Winner stays because he is most comfortable at home and believes that his presence might, in some ineffable way, help protect the place.
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Even when he is mugged or breaks up with his girlfriend, the surface of incident is less important than the underlying, ineffable undertones of destiny and character.
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In the face and gestures of that copper-skinned man, her photograph would depict the ineffable qualities of the immigrant present: weariness and hopefulness, uncertainty and pride.
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" The descriptions are incomparable, even as the setting itself remains ineffable: "The physical landscape is baffling in its ability to transcend whatever we would make of it.
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Coco Chanel spent her adolescence in the orphanage of a Cistercian abbey; Chanel No. 5 has always struck me as an ineffable combination of silence and sex.
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Or the pharmaceutical industry's pathologization of various components of the most mysterious and seemingly ineffable parts of the human condition, right down to and including our dreams?
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Perhaps this is because, by nature, they gesture to the ineffable, the unearthly, or perhaps it's because the heyday of their social and cultural importance is long past.
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It's a story about the crushing burden and fragility of genius, the cost of ambition, and the innate drive to describe the ineffable through equations, literature or art.
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These days, when politicians bring up the Middle East, they collapse a decade's worth of occupation, civil war and revolution into a single, ineffable horror: the Islamic State.
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At its core, these sculptures are a visual metaphor for ineffable nature of a creature we consistently use and sometimes revere, but do not take into our homes.
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The YouTube subculture is bonded not by belief but rather by an ineffable sensation — perhaps the first time the internet has revealed the existence of a new feeling.
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Yet drawing a direct line from those basic findings to what people do out in the world is dicey, given the ineffable interplay among circumstance, relationships and personality.
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He has it, that ineffable stuff which the best pro wrestlers have, the mix of charisma, in-ring talent, and swagger which sets him apart from his peers.
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The burgeoning viral subculture of Weird Twitter has yielded some truly incredible jokes and memes, but often there's no deeper layer beyond the deliberate typos and ineffable anti-humor.
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Or even something as ineffable as the quality of my personal interactions with my psychopharmacologists, which some studies have shown can have a significant effect on a patient's response?
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Above all, there is the sound of the drumming by Toshi Tsuchitori, who was part of the original "Mahabharata," which comes to suggest the ineffable rhythm of life itself.
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The Seahawks entered the game as The NFL'S Hottest Team, a palpable-if-ineffable title reflected not just in winning streaks and power rankings but eye tests and momentum.
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They evoke that bittersweet American beauty that keeps so many of the system's most harsh and lucid critics loyal, in some ineffable way, to the land and its people.
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Yet all of these came neatly balanced by components from a very personal vocabulary Mr. Abloh honed at his own label, Off-White: transparency, asymmetry, ineffable skate-rat cool.
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But the power and the glory of "Corpus Christi" reside in the film's leading man, whose ineffable combination of wildness and purity makes for an absolutely electrifying central performance.
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There's nothing really wrong with Smith, unless you buy the notion that there's some ineffable quality that is needed to turn a playoff team into a Super Bowl team.
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What I especially love is that they assumed that we would (could) be open to the ineffable, something that seems rare in a brand-driven, franchise-happy entertainment world.
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"Armstrong perceives the God of Scripture not as a white-bearded old man on a cloud but as an ineffable, indescribable, unknowable transcendence," Nicholas Kristof writes in his review.
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She, more than anyone else, has the ineffable "it"—the kind of thing that doesn't require being the biggest or strongest, but which takes a wrestler up another level.
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Gaining possible inspiration from the iconic chanting of albums like Ineffable Mysteries From Shpongleland, Sanders might even take a few tabs and partake in some foam-soaked group masturbation party.
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Breaking the code for context — nailing down the ineffable question of why one piece of content is acceptable but a slight variation breaks policy — remains the holy grail of moderation.
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It calls to mind the phrases zeitgeist or participation mystique, which suggest that there is a subtle but ineffable life force within us collectively — an irresistible wave we cannot resist.
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The shift from coal to diesel and natural gas was framed not as mere consumer choice between commodities, but as an attack on some ineffable American value. Coal. Guns. Freedom.
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That respect for the ineffable has been translated into the most imaginative and inspired use to date of a popular composer's songbook in this blighted era of the jukebox musical.
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For one, there's her ineffable, magnetic coolness (in person, I found her friendly but inscrutable) and her D.I.Y. tendency to cobble so many things together that nothing really defines her.
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But for Trump, elevating someone internally wouldn't be as exciting as what Powell could offer him: the ineffable bonus of wooing her twice from a lucrative post at Goldman Sachs.
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Life is terrible and yet, as played with ineffable gentleness by Ms. Wiest, whose alto flute of a voice has never seemed so gay and vulnerable, Winnie is no whiner.
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The loose ends, the ragged edges, the awkward cuts: Here they're like the angry low-fi communication of a postpunk song, desperate in its constricted ability to evoke the ineffable.
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Can this abstract (and feasibly ineffable) concept be translated into a physical art structure, let alone be articulated to a global audience with varying understandings of such a broad idea?
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The remoteness and uncrowdedness of the scene, combined with some ineffable calming effect of nature, served to defuse his ticcing, to "normalize" his neurological state, at least for a time.
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I see no ground too sacred for statistics: I have used it to study everything from sex to Shakespeare, and earned angry retorts for these attempts to render the ineffable mathematical.
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So when I say "genius" in a musical context, I mean that ineffable quality, a sui generis understanding of music, a talent that's so preternatural and otherworldly that it feels innate.
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I wanted to design a logo that similarly captured the ineffable beauty of existence, one that offered a similar uplift of the spirit and a window into realms of greater understanding.
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And as such, it was a death that both contained and exposed ineffable griefs and that made speakable the desire for a better society, for equality, for empathy, for common humanity.
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In reading about it, you yearn for a coach who cares less, who uses the game to find something more ineffable and beautiful than the trophies you get when you win.
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However, installed for the first time in Poland and at a museum focused on history of Polish Jews in Warsaw, his works veer more towards elegy, the affective, and the ineffable.
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In 2010, the Supreme Court, in its ineffable wisdom, declared that corporations could spend unlimited amounts of money to influence elections — that their contributions were free speech and thus beyond limitation.
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I mean the happy satiety that comes from being in the hands of a real right-brain/left-brain author who channels her ineffable instincts with a master artisan's practical skills.
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Derek Zoolander (Ben Stiller), who embodied everything that we look for in a male model, managed to lose his career, his wife, the custody of his son, and his ineffable mojo.
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The reality is that the franchise captures something ineffable and, with season 21 in full swing, it's high time we admitted that The Bachelor matters, especially in 2017 — and ask ourselves why.
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People put too much stock in authenticity when it's an ineffable concept at best, Sharma says, pointing out the example of vindaloo, an iconic Goan curry dish heavily influenced by Portuguese colonists.
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People known for ineffable dickery like vlogger Logan Paul, who notably and insensitively included a dead body in a video in Japan's Aokigahara Forest, might choose a seemingly sincere teary-eyed thumbnail.
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If wishing for words that might finally allow people to say what they mean is a long-standing phenomenon, the BLR is still a fascinating index of modern ideas that feel ineffable.
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Add the craftsmanship of creator and showrunner Marti Noxon (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), and you've got a story that deals equally in entertainment and profundity, in unrelenting dread and an ineffable aliveness.
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Or how about the head-spinning stretch of dialogue in which one character, who has been bound to a chair by a homicidal gunslinger, tries to explain to another what "ineffable" means?
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Music is what captures the skyward-reaching, ineffable yearnings of the characters — the triple-timing bisexual lug, the man with the diaper fetish, the housewife who wants to be a pole dancer.
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A pastoral setting full of brightness and saturated colors, DuVernay's Uriel indeed captivates us with the same "ineffable peace and joy" that embraces the characters on the page and on the screen.
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She became involved with harm reduction because she wanted to help spare other families the ineffable pain she has lived with since December 2016, when her son died of an opioid overdose.
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It describes an encounter you had as a teenager with a terrifying, thrilling, ineffable natural phenomenon that resembled a religious experience, or at least an experience of touching something beyond the everyday.
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The state's location in the Lower 48 is unmistakable — that slender peninsula at the bottom of the country, extended like the finger of some mythic Michelangelo figure reaching to touch the ineffable.
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Over a long career, an oppositional sensibility can become a default strategy that subtly or not so subtly distorts the picture, and Malcolm's ineffable calculation sometimes leaves one queasy about her motives.
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Jazz, blues, art and especially dance are woven into a matrix of great joy and ineffable sadness, of derelict lofts and quiet living rooms where people talk, muse and look out windows.
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Then, in that delicious, ineffable way that recipes you cook a lot start to change when you no longer need to look to them to guide you, I started to alter it.
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Art, when viewed in person, has ineffable power, and perhaps the only way to fully experience that connection is to focus on what is still here, even when the losses are great.
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Shortly after that merciless and ineffable 17-point overtime eruption, Curry was named MVP for the second straight season and, for the first time in the league's history, it was by unanimous vote.
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For while the Encyclopedia of Clothing and Fashion defines the tankini as "a two-piece that can provide as much coverage as a one-piece," it has its own ineffable if potent sensibility.
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South Bend residents are more likely to point to Buttigieg's ineffable qualities as mayor, his ability to listen, and the shift in outlook that they believe has taken hold since he entered office.
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There, under the sheltering sky and unforgiving sun, they travel high and low on a journey that takes them into canyons, sand dunes, a lost past, their shared memories and finally the ineffable.
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In a conversation at the Chinese Cultural Center, Lee talked about ancestral sacrifice, how art communicates the ineffable, and how the opening of the bone box was her North Star in creating Requiem.
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So one can only imagine the ineffable sadness he felt over the weekend, when Trump stepped into North Korea to shake the hand of his friend Kim Jong-un, North Korea's totalitarian leader.
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But just as much of it was something ineffable, some essential Beyoncé-ness that took the singer from one member of a trio to a massive global success whose every move spawns headlines.
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It is alive with earthy humor — the book opens with the image of linen and underwear flapping in the breeze; it's washing day for a large family — and the ineffable mystery of love.
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Members of Alaska's small congressional delegation (the ineffable Don Young, who detests environmentalists, is the state's only current member of the House) have always been extraordinarily resourceful in looking out for their constituents.
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In the final section, "Eating", the visitor is introduced to the Korean idea of son-mat (literally, "the taste of one's hands"), an expression which refers to the ineffable brilliance of your grandmother's cooking.
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New Vectorian initiates Minister of Zion Yasmin Ben-David, Minister of Fire Lydia Graves, and Minister of Mathematics Nic Nunogawa will also make certain gestures in the proximity of my unerring and ineffable word.
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Undaunted, in "Why You Like It" Nolan Gasser attempts to explain the ineffable ways music produces sensations in listeners' brains: its power to move people to tears, evoke awe and induce involuntary toe-tapping.
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But somewhere in their middle-school years the ineffable had been replaced by executive management and peer review, late childhood becoming a series of problems to be solved and then questioned afterward in bed.
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"People say that I am always serious and depressing, but it seems to me that the English are never serious — they are flippant, complacent, ineffable, but never serious, which is sometimes maddening," she said.
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He also writes very well, a quality not at all common among those who write about music in general, a famously tricky subject, as its appeal, whether visceral or ethereal, verges on the ineffable.
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Grace was able to capture this ineffable 'worldly innocence' that this character embodies in a way that never felt self-conscious — and that is a tall order, especially for your first big acting job.
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"Nothing can erase the ineffable sadness of an American presidency, like this one, in total intellectual collapse," Bolton wrote in the Wall Street Journal in response to Bush lifting some sanctions on North Korea.
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With its aching harmonies and seamless blend of Latin rhythms, ragtime, Romantic flourish and ineffable nostalgia, this is one of those rare pieces whose emotional impact can withstand familiarity; it gets me every time.
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The history that Mokyr details can be seen as a story of gradually decreased metaphysical illusion, with ineffable spirit being driven, by turns, out of the cosmos, the biological tree, and the human mind.
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For instance: The movie starts with our abused and abandoned cat, Victoria (Francesca Hayward), being dumped on the street by her former owners and then immediately inducted into the ineffable world of Jellicle-ness.
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He accomplished the seemingly impossible task of putting the ineffable attitudes of a budding generation into words and riffs, in the process serving as a genesis point for rock and roll as we know it.
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The intransigence which made him the great artist he was his ineffable and cynical wit, the clarity with which he saw most things, including me, and the fact that he never spared me the view.
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The intransigence which made him the great artist he was — his ineffable and cynical wit, the clarity with which he saw most things, including me, and the fact that he never spared me the view.
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Like the rest of the movie, they have the spontaneity and ineffable fascination of real life; it feels as if Ms. Akerman had turned on the camera seconds before she and her mother began talking.
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Bugdaycay and Catalan talk a lot about the ineffable qualities of their jewelry, and I was at first skeptical, even though they are both so radiant and kind that feeling any doubt seemed churlish, somehow.
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He's weathered more storms than Ferdinand Magellan, having fallen victim to label shake-ups, legal drama, the music industry's lapsing into disarray at the hands of the internet, and the ineffable conscience of Kid Cudi.
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But not everyone can be a Springsteen, an unknown kid who steps out of the blue with immense drive, pain and an ineffable magic that defies logic, and gives us a voice, again and again.
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By this, I mean a yearning toward the ineffable mysteries of human existence that the writers of the most searching fiction, when they stretch themselves as far as they can go, can — just about — touch.
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He is at pains to uncover the ineffable mystery under each area of investigation; and in doing so, he establishes many connecting themes tying the otherwise disparate sections together, giving the collection a cohesive character.
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In the first decade of the century, Alexander Scriabin reached the border of atonality under the influence of Theosophy; he devised an ear-burning, six-note "mystic chord" that voices a hitherto ineffable divine presence.
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Despite Manzoni's misgivings, "The Leopard" manages to strike an ineffable balance between the events of the Risorgimento, the Italian unification movement, and the imagined inner life of the novel's protagonist, who was Lampedusa's great-grandfather.
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While such consistency provides security, however, it can also read as monotony, which is why an assortment of perfectly distilled velvet gowns with deep portrait necklines and an ineffable richness ultimately had the most force.
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A journalist asks about an essay in which Zagajewski claimed settled people prefer painting while displaced people prefer music, "the most metaphorical of the arts" — metaphor being that which moves the literal toward the ineffable.
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The novel's best creation is Mary herself, as complex, interesting and flawed a heroine as you could hope for, equal parts Becky Sharp, Scarlett O'Hara and some ineffable and winning quality peculiar only to herself.
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But as is the case in the rest of the show, only Aziraphale and Crowley get real development as they navigate unsatisfying jobs, the absurdity of God's ineffable plan, and the problems caused by moral absolutism.
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A series where Mickey Mouse, Disney's ineffable icon, is an embattled monarch leading a group of heroes while also being aloof, secretive, and unwise in a way that occasionally leads to other characters suffering serious harm.
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But it seems particularly ineffable when you're still trying to figure out where you stand, somewhere at the intersection between your past and present, puzzling out how your identity fits into the grander scheme of things.
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" In the midst of "I Walked into the Blackness and Built a Fire," he captures the ineffable feeling of watching things just beyond reach: "Little sliver in the cloudy sky / Glowing red like the devil's eye.
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This is the painful part of it—not the glimpse of the team's notional ceiling so much as how good and how fun they could be if there wasn't an ineffable, inexorable something holding them back.
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It holds the ineffable essence that can only truly be apprehended when you encounter a work of art up-close and unmediated, or as up-close and unmediated as the peculiar medium of recorded sound permits.
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I doubt either Michaux or Huxley would approve of my approach of offering up imperfect metaphors accompanied by disclaimers, but at least it allowed me to construct a rough analogue of an experience that remains ineffable.
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The intuitive logic resonating from the sculpture's components convinces you of the rightness of their fusion despite the blatant incongruence of their forms and textures, an ineffable sense of the whole in defiance of the parts.
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You discover that some ineffable quality of the land, its particular characteristics, and the human bond to it has found expression in a unique wine, or cheese or paté — of the kind Au Sauvignon specializes in.
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Standing in a room where furniture was bolted to the ceiling while listening to "Bad Romance" by Lady Gaga at a decibel level that could best be described as "nauseating," I found myself filled with ineffable sadness.
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For now, fusion continues to be shorthand for reflecting something much larger and more ineffable, the shifting realities of generational experience in America—and for every individual experience, there's another understanding of what fusion food can mean.
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There would be deeper issues to consider: The threat of hacking, the narrowing economic control over a vital lane of national commerce, and a growing detachment from America's ineffable, often irrational love affair with the open road.
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"I'm interested in how an object can bring the unfathomably large or ancient into the realm of the intimate and familiar, creating tactile connections with that which is vast, distant, or ineffable," Church tells The Creators Project.
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I'm glad to be back in Australia, where it is understood that even if you spend $17 million on something, it might still turn out daggy — and could be all the better for that ineffable, ridiculous quality.
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And we orbited the Opening Ceremony universe because it seemed like a place that cared so much about seeing people like us make it on our own terms, in our own ways, however ineffable they might be.
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For all the artifice her characters take part in, Hoby is also wonderfully adept at registering a kind of "subatomic shuffle," the ineffable molecular shifts that occur between people, the seemingly minor moments on which so much turns.
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In 153, this band from New Orleans won NPR's Tiny Desk Contest on the strength of "Quick," a maximalist story-song that coalesces around the singing, rapping and ineffable charm of the group's frontwoman: Tarriona Ball, a.k.a. Tank.
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They hope quantifiable data and statistical analysis can help explain matters that some consider ineffable — like why we paint or sing, or why we naturally favor Van Gogh's sunflowers over the landscapes we encounter in budget hotel rooms.
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Yet the artist's three-quarter profile and the visual conflation of prisoners with rural peasantry recalls German Renaissance painting and suspends the work between its sociopolitical context and art historical heritage, expressing an interiority of almost ineffable tension.
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But if a movie's awards chances become the only conversation about it, then its genuine, ineffable pleasures risk transforming into the film geek equivalent of sports stats, dryly predicting that movie's chances of winning the race to an Oscar.
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But as these two actresses, Ms. Markey and Emily Davis, go on to portray a succession of distinct individuals, the will to be one with the other keeps pulling at them, like some ineffable but unavoidable force of gravity.
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Omer Fast (James Cohan); Rachid Koraichi (Aicon); Zoe Leonard (Hauser & Wirth); Hilton Als (The Artist's Institute); Carolee Schneemann (Lelong and P.P.O.W.); Howardena Pindell (Garth Greenan); and an installation by the ineffable Genesis P-Orridge at the Rubin Museum. 28.
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But somehow, as you're watching "Lula del Ray," conceived by Julia Miller and based on an original text by Brendan Hill, the visible presence of its creators tends to enhance, rather than erase, the sense of an ineffable magic.
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Over the course of almost seven decades, Araeen's work has run the full gamut, from nascent engineering drawings to latticed, minimalist structures; from drawing and sculpture to writing and critical theory; and from angry separatist rhetoric to a new, unnamable ineffable.
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Yet after his death, reprints of his early works flew off the shelves—an ending fitting of one of his tales, which often leave the reader uncertain whether to chuckle helplessly at life's cruel absurdity or succumb to its ineffable sadness.
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To all of that you have to factor in the ineffable: that global hipsterism came to the conclusion that Amsterdam — with its orderly northern languor, its human scale, its society built around coffee and beer — was a place of relevance.
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But whereas Trainspotting was about the ineffable, shatterproof irascibility of a particular slice of '90s youth culture, T173 is a nod to an emptier middle age, when the temptation to cast a longing eye back to your younger days becomes irresistible.
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For generations, artists have tried to wrap tangible form around such ruminations on the ineffable; in modern art, exercises in the material in the service of the unknowable have been mainstays of certain abstract-art makers for more than a century.
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And at the same time, on standouts like "Pray" or "Pale," the music and melodies burst out into colossal shimmers that grasp at something more ineffable, more cosmic, beyond the banalities of human experience of just another misspent Saturday night.
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Some of the most exquisite moments of "Synthesis" derive not from the labor or trauma of racial and gender identity but from the ineffable joy of simply being embodied (even if at the next turn she describes it as a nuisance).
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Michael Cooper, Times classical music reporter With its aching harmonies and seamless blend of Latin rhythms, ragtime, Romantic flourish and ineffable nostalgia, this is one of those rare pieces whose emotional impact can withstand familiarity; it gets me every time.
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Same with "Let Love Be Your Energy" or "The Road to Mandalay" or "Rock DJ." Robbie's got that ineffable sense of showbiz about him which means he can dive headfirst into rancid pits of abjection and come up smelling of Davidoff Cool Water.
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What Stone accomplishes in that moment in the restaurant is done with more ineffable magic, a combination of her own airy skill and the love the camera can't help but la-la-lavish on her: She doesn't sing, but she doesn't have to.
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There were a lot of conditions that led to that ineffable moment, like my being a descendant of Chinese immigrants and understanding it tied into this Chinese cultural tradition and understanding of ancestral sacrifice for my own ability to even make art.
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The 19593 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded on Tuesday to Arthur Ashkin of the United States, Gérard Mourou of France and Donna Strickland of Canada for harnessing one of the most ineffable aspects of nature, pure light, into a mighty microscopic force.
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Like Walt Whitman and Billie Holiday, other great American artists who told stories rooted in their emotional history—stories broadened by craft, observation, and the ability to articulate the ineffable—O'Neill wrested his tale from his own heart, with cunning and fortitude.
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Even so, he has to convince you that these searching, burgeoning heroes and villains fit together emotionally, not simply on a Lucasfilm whiteboard, and that they have the requisite lightness and heaviness, the ineffable spirit and grandeur to reinvigorate a pop-cultural juggernaut.
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What I understand now is that while intense sex, raw displays of emotion, and deep, intuitively understood pain of the most personal sort and the almost ineffable soul connections all the above suggests, is nice, it's nothing to base a relationship on.
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" Our own Tomi Obaro wrote a brilliant piece in which she describes Franklin's genius — not in the way the internet breathlessly ascribes genius, but "that ineffable quality, a sui generis understanding of music, a talent that's so preternatural and otherworldly that it feels innate.
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It doesn't really tell a story so much as chronicle a sequence of events, but it captures something ineffable about how going back home to squabble with relatives and eat lots of food can add a nostalgic glow to the chill of late November.
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Keanu continued to offer an air of unique authenticity during his breakout role in 1988's Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure — the movie that gave us an indelible image of Reeves as a blissed-out stoner within whom resides the ineffable wisdom of a philosopher.
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As skinny as a teenager, sporting an afro and almost unnecessarily handsome at 57 years old, Prince looks flatly amazing, exuding ineffable cool and panache while wearing clothes that would make anyone else look like a ninny is just one among his panoply of talents.
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There is also an entity referred to as Mother, who at times seems to be an Earth spirit, or maybe the volcano, or possibly also a sea creature — part giant puffer fish, part whale — who offers a healing presence represented by an ineffable glow.
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I didn't know how to explain to her that these parts were slowly killing me — so ineffable does gender become when looked at on the playing field of the soul — and I cut off contact with her until after each of the surgeries was finished.
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But there is another, in some way more radical concern, expressed in Western philosophy most forcefully by Kierkegaard, and in literature by Dostoyevsky — two religiously inspired thinkers — namely that our experience of life matters in ineffable ways that no objective understanding of the world can capture.
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As a drunken and possibly lunatic millionaire, Santino Fontana gives a performance of ineffable sweetness in "Kurt Vonnegut's God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater," an odd duck of a musical by Howard Ashman and Alan Menken that's being presented as the final entry in City Center Encores!
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Mr. Gvasalia made his name at Vetements, where in taking mainstream labels and infusing them with ineffable cool, he was often mistaken for an ironic collagist or workroom D.J. Champion sweatshirt meets tortured Parisian chic in the hands of a Georgian former club kid-turned-designer.
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Kubrick, who works primarily in Tuscany, uses the same milky Italian marbles and handwork techniques as her mostly male predecessors, but to experience her abstract pieces is less to stare into the face of the divine than to encounter three-dimensional renderings of divinity's ineffable essence.
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And as Masters — probably the only writer in the world who could have or would have done it this way — approaches their author, he simultaneously approaches something ineffable and thronelike: the span of a soul across an arc of time; the radiant, baffling grandeur of other people.
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However, if Nakagawa's Earth Series aimed to capture a sense of the ineffable — to prompt viewers' awareness of the nature of consciousness itself — his newer Mona Lisa paintings, rather than reach for the sublime, more often rummage through the cupboards and drawers of the messy, human mundane.
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Sithisak Sanprasit's large 2013 "Masque de Génie Tutélaire" (Mask of the Tutelary Genius) is a very elegant way to stress the ineffable heat of phantasmagoric hell, but one of the most powerful and topical hell images in the show was painted recently by the Thai artist Thanongsak Pakwan.
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There's a virtuoso male trio of circling floor patterns and arrowy jumps, and a quietly hilarious duet for Mr. Roman and Ms. Johnson, in which he dances with the ineffable, almost pained refinement of an 18th-century courtier while she casually shadows him in a mocking baseball cap.
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There were passages like this, as if hearing the opera with new ears, throughout Mr. Muti's "Aida": pinprick violin arpeggios evoking the flow of the Nile in the opening of the third act; tiny grace notes that add ineffable spirit to the short second-act ballet in Amneris's chambers.
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That would be Tampa Red's Hokum Jug Band's take on the equally ineffable work of genius "It's Tight Like That," which in the course of topping the leader's canonical Georgia Tom collab on the same song encodes into history the elan vital of a woman who laughs a verse in tune.
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His predecessors have either died or disappeared, and Catholicism's influence is threatened by the monks' slackening morals, imminent Dutch invasion and an ineffable malevolence that seems to revolve around one of the monastery's eight African slaves: João Baptista, caught one night in women's clothing trying to burn the compound down.
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Not "good for a Marvel movie," not "a little long but has some good special effects" or even "definitely going to win some Oscars," but good in that way that makes it hard to shut up about — usually the result of a movie exceeding expectations in some, often ineffable, way.
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Taking its title from a word defined in the Royal Spanish Academy's official dictionary of the Spanish language as a fantastic spirit that can cause disorder or tumult, or as a mysterious, ineffable kind of charm or allure, Duende features works in various media by more than a dozen artists.
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He was awarded a Bronze Star for his time abroad, but suffered from PTSD and substance abuse upon returning to the US. While his artworks avoid representing specific wartime experiences, graphite drawings from the artist's early career express raw emotion, translating ineffable feelings of despair into visceral portraits of physical and psychological horror.
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Just as Macklemore wants to be taken seriously as a rap artist and Paul Ryan tried to run for President, I too yearn for some acknowledgment of my efforts, even as I overlook the Speaker's virtual balcony into an abyss of whiteness, bopping along to the ineffable beats chosen by my lesser of two evils.
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" Or this one, from the German cosmonaut Sigmund Jahn: "Before I flew I was already aware how small and vulnerable our planet is; but only when I saw it from space, in all its ineffable beauty and fragility, did I realize that humankind's most urgent task is to cherish and preserve it for future generations.
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All his life, Hoefnagel resorted to image making because he liked to investigate nature as an object and nature as the holder of ineffable power over the whims of humans and their fallible politics, especially in light of the political and religious upheaval then taking place both in the Low Countries and all over Europe.
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And indeed, "Avalanche" is a harrowing and profoundly disturbing account of self-immolation in pursuit of an ideal, for what Leigh has failed to recognize about "creative life" is that it too seeks to concretize the ineffable, and that it arises in people of a single-mindedness and determination so strong it can destroy them.
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Casting an admiring glance at the refined renditions of varsity jackets and droopy training pants created by the Valentino designer Pierpaolo Piccioli, Mr. Wade made a remark that neatly summarized the entire spring 2018 season: "It's one thing for us to think it's cool," he said of the ineffable quality inhering in American sportswear.
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Since then, the At the Table column has covered group outings at grand hotels, holes in the wall, bistros, pizzerias, taquerias, dim sum palaces, barbecue joints, lunch counters, steakhouses, noodle shops, old classics and new finds, all in search of that ineffable combination of food, décor and clientele that gives a restaurant a sense of place.
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For all Roy's protective urges toward Alton, for all the way he cradles him defensively and fights like a papa bear to protect him, it's still unclear whether he thinks of the kid more a beloved child in need of protection, as the savior the ranch makes him out to be, or something even less accessible and more ineffable.
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His photographs play with scale, symmetry, tourism and travel; they betray a love of the land and a wish to care for it; they return us to the schoolroom, restoring the enchantment of knowledge without naïveté; and they somehow cut through the noise of our image-saturated environment to become, as he wrote, "passwords for the ineffable."
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Physically ultra-austere, all white walls with a fiercely edited selection of objects — photographs of clouds taken from airplane windows; a mural collaged from vintage postcards; a scattering of empty fruit skins, each stitched closed with needle and thread — it's an extended essay about travel, time passing, political passion and the ineffable daily beauty of the world.
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By that equation, Luke is the Barney Stinson stand-in, though where even Neil Patrick Harris's ineffable charms were not enough to disguise the fact that Barney was basically a sociopath, Daniel Ings brings a vulnerability and genuine sense of caring to his character that displays the beating, (somewhat) morally conscious heart underneath the open-collared polo shirt.
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What's more, The Handmaid's Tale, which is probably not all that well-watched, if a recent survey is any indication, got the ineffable boost a show gets from an Emmy ceremony where it was at the center of everything — right down to the kickline of dancing Handmaids who accompanied Colbert at the end of his opening song.
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In paintings and related mixed-media sculptures, Iturria developed his art's signature language and distinctive voice — bathroom sinks became swimming pools, sofas became landscapes, and squirts of paint right out of the tube became piles of human bones in images that called attention to their physical qualities while evoking the ineffable: history, personal identity, and the mysterious nature of creativity itself.
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He could be described, not in hierarchical order, as a passionate lover of art, an eager collector, a published poet, a committed supporter of the underprivileged, a defender of social justice, a lover of trees, an ecologist, a fruit farmer, a maker of excellent preserves, and a plain-spoken, unpretentious man of ineffable, self-deprecating charm – among many other things.
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The song points to the guilt of all involved, and so does Hannigan, who sketches the enabling of the incompetently crooked promoter James Cornelius; the ineffable Don King; a doctor named Harry Demopoulos, who reported that "Muhammad's blood vessels were those of a young man"; Ali's colorful cornerman Bundini Brown; John Travolta; and of course Ali's backers in the press.
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A breed of futurists who believe in enhancing or transcending the human condition using tech, they envision a world in which humans pop pills to eliminate refractory time between orgasms, link their brains to new and ineffable external robotic pleasure organs, or send out digital copies of their brains to have virtual sex before downloading those experiences into their bodies for a flood of perfect pleasure concentrate.
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JAMES P. LENFESTEY MINNEAPOLIS ♦ To the Editor: In her review of Adam Zagajewski's "Slight Exaggeration" (July 23), Daisy Fried appears not to understand the nature of the ineffable — intuition, dream, myth, memory and spirituality — the qualities of private experience ("the human soul in flux," as James Wood puts it) that have driven artists, philosophers and ecstatics for millenniums, all of them the proper concerns of a poet.
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From Europe, they have F. W. Murnau's silent 21941 "Nosferatu," the first great vampire movie; Benjamin Christensen's "Haxan," a fascinating 1929 quasi-documentary, both presented in beautifully tinted prints; Carl Dreyer's ineffable 1932 "Vampyr," a film whose influence is still felt today in the atmospheric work of directors like David Lynch; and Georges Franju's "Eyes Without a Face" (1962), a French plastic-surgery thriller that strikes an unforgettable balance of grisliness and lyricism.
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Critic's Notebook You go to a Phish concert — or maybe all 234 of its doughnut-themed, no-song-repeated "Baker's Dozen" concerts at Madison Square Garden — because you want to be inside the improvised and therefore ineffable space of, say, Minute 225 of a half-hour-long jam, like "Lawn Boy" on July 25, during which the thought may have occurred to you that the song had changed profoundly since it started.
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Fittingly, this album's energetic, melodic, electronically orchestrated beats, overlaid with Logic's agile, shifty rapping, mildly please the ear when played in the background, while as for the overarching concept, well, here goes: Logic raps a variety of preachy lectures on the most pressing issues of our time, with topics including mental illness, religious salvation, how tragic race relations are in America (on many sides, even!) and how we should all just get along, and the magical, ineffable, infinitely complex nature of the universe.
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What distinguishes her from Cory BookerCory Anthony BookerCastro qualifies for next Democratic primary debates Eight Democratic presidential hopefuls to appear in CNN climate town hall Biden, Buttigieg bypassing Democratic delegate meeting: report MORE, Kamala HarrisKamala Devi HarrisHarry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Warren offers plan to repeal 1994 crime law authored by Biden Sanders leads Democratic field in Colorado poll MORE, and most of her other potential primary opponents is almost ineffable, but it comes down to this: she is not enveloped in a shining cloak of ambition.
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As a poet, despite his call for what he described as abandonment of "Swinburnian encrustations," at times his writing verges on the verbose narrative stylings of the fin de siècle writers: Had gone to watch the pale blue ivy climb above steel graves of those who perished for the then so unrestricted huge idea— And THERE—the master of the house was seen—ALONE— making notes, with whispers on the side, of all the spoons his far respected guests with gentleness had lifted in their moments of ineffable simplicity, with jasmine hands to keep swift hounds from tracking royal bijoux to those shadows where deep pansies take another purple for their thought.
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It's a meditation that speaks to Irish's ambitions in her work: Here let the reader pause with me for a moment in contemplation of the miraculous, of the ineffable, of the altogether unimaginable complexity of relation involved in the fact that each atom attracts every other atom; involved merely in this fact of the attraction, without reference to the law or mode in which attraction is manifested; involved merely in the fact that atom attracts every other atom at all, in a wilderness of atoms so numerous that those which go to the composition of a cannonball exceed, probably, in mere point of number, all the stars which go to the constitution of the universe.
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