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Example sentences for "untranslatable"

Lexicographically close words:
untracked; untractable; untrained; untrammeled; untrammelled; untranslated; untrapped; untraveled; untravelled; untraversed
  1. And at the last, impatient of so much heavy insularity, he added to his arcana the Oriental canticles of Masoch, the infamous Lesbia’s archipelagian lyrics, the voluptuous and untranslatable masterpieces of Maeterlinck and Le Gallienne.

  2. And many another untranslatable audacity that could only be conveyed by the vitriolic pen of a Zola or a Willy.

  3. It is the burning and untranslatable commentary of the Psalmist's cry: "Behold how sweet and pleasant it is to be brethren and to dwell together.

  4. The gospel has found an untranslatable word to characterize the prayers of Jesus, it compares the conflict which preceded the voluntary immolation of Christ to the death-struggle: Factus in agonia.

  5. It was nothing less than a double Man-Bird lashed together breast to breast by a natural ligament, and labeled with the untranslatable words, "Siamese Twins.

  6. The translation was slightly marred by one or two untranslatable words, but these did not impair the general clearness of the meaning.

  7. Am I not told truly by musical composers, when I ask them to explain in words what they say in their music, that such explanation is impossible, that music has a language of its own untranslatable by words?

  8. But what recesses of mind, of heart, of soul, this untranslatable language penetrates and brightens up!

  9. The almost untranslatable airs of India assume in China something like an artless melody.

  10. Hindoo music is almost untranslatable to Western ears, but Sir W.

  11. The famous phrase "amoureux transi" is simply untranslatable by any single word in English for the adjective, or rather participle.

  12. Engouement itself is a nearly untranslatable word.

  13. Because of the crudeness of the vernacular tongues, the Latin classics were even more untranslatable in the tenth or eleventh century than now.

  14. They are bound up in a phraseology untranslatable into modern language, because the discussion no longer corresponds to modern ways of thought.

  15. Posh is an almost untranslatable idiom, implying, as the reader will see later, contempt.

  16. Poosh or Posh I have already confessed to be untranslatable literally.

  17. Let the untranslatable functionary rise up and bray responding echoes in fit, sufficient answer.

  18. From that speechless, untranslatable functionary valuable information may be extracted wholly novel to thy groveling consciousness; amongst much else surely this, that gratefulness is mate to saintliness.

  19. This is an untranslatable play on the name 'Polus,' which means 'a colt.

  20. His spirit was the spirit of Omakitsu; his pays natal was near to the peach-blossom-fountain of the untranslatable poem.

  21. The work is untranslatable into English, but should be used before 30 by young men who have been during their undergraduate days too deeply inebriated with the Vita Nuova.

  22. Note the untranslatable word play in guisos and desaguisado.

  23. Note the untranslatable play on criado, an example of a sort of punning in which the Spanish language abounds.

  24. It is rare to find in literature so crude and intense an expression of fiery hatred as these untranslatable vóceri present.

  25. Some untranslatable words describe Garcilaso, hermosamente varonil, the superb manhood of beauty.

  26. The following couplet on the amethyst turns upon an untranslatable play of words (ii.

  27. This is strongly expressed in an untranslatable speech of Mnesilochus (Ar.

  28. It is to the repeated roll of distant thunder that they sing their untranslatable entrance hymn.

  29. I am tired of doing silent homage to this noble mode of proceedings, and intend next time to help the publisher out of all his perplexities [Untranslatable pun on "Verleger" and "Verlegenheiten.

  30. When will your Cretan volume, crowned [Untranslatable pun on the words "cretois" and "crete.

  31. But it is not the same thing,--sympathetic and simpatica; indeed it is an untranslatable word.

  32. With the willing and ingenious assistance of Ah Lam, this roba, to borrow the untranslatable Italian phrase, was disposed about the large room.

  33. He wrote the epitaph in the old severe untranslatable style of Simonides: "These men won eight victories over the Syracusans when the hand of God lay even between both.

  34. Footnote 15: There is here an untranslatable play on mánasa and manasi-já = a feminine god of love.

  35. Footnote 40: A very short word for a very long process, and untranslatable by any English equivalent.

  36. British “Laune” is cited as such an untranslatable “Idiotism” and the lack of German humorists is noted, and Swift is noted particularly as an English example.

  37. The English title is given and the word “sentimental” is declared a new one in England and untranslatable in German.

  38. Here again there is an untranslatable jest.

  39. There is an untranslatable pun here, capitalis bearing the double meaning 'capital' and 'pertaining to the head'.

  40. The pun is (a) bad and (b) untranslatable into reasonably good English.

  41. An untranslatable pun on the words "beseheiden" and "Bescheidenheit.

  42. Steckt doch in Raff ein ganz anderer musikalischer Kern and Kerl: untranslatable play on words.


  43. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "untranslatable" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.