un-understandableness

Example Sentences

• "The following passage of the opium-eater’s own, evidently intended to be very fine, possesses as much of what Jeremy Bentham calls un-understandableness, as any I have for some time met, even from the Kantean school."
• "Where he erst arrived with weary brain, in search of dissipation, and found nothing but a new exertion and thus a painful over[-]strain; where he therefore had to complain of too great length, of too much seriousness, or finally of complete un[-]understandableness:[…]"
• "But we have not yet reached the height from which we may appreciate his originality and “un-understandableness.”"
• "His address on Robert Browning was a delight, dwelling especially on the spiritual side of this man’s gift to the world, though sometimes speaking of the un-understandableness of some of his poems."
• "She could have told him that life was like that, too, but only a light fluttery sigh answered him as she moved on, leaving him shaking his head at an age-old question, the un-understandableness of women."
• "We may be mistaken, for we make no pretension to mysticism save perhaps as one who stands in an astonished awe of the un-understandableness of what and whence and why and whither of ourselves and the universes of worlds, with all their beauty;"