adjective
definition
Impossible to explain; not easily accounted for.
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Examples of inexplicable in a Sentence
Inexplicable anger at the politician surged through her.
Maybe he sought her out for some inexplicable reason.
We have also the inner sense of consciousness which is inexplicable by body alone.
Inexplicable relief overshadowed the usual annoyance at that idea.
More vexing than the inexplicable medical miracle was the creature that did it.
At any rate this hypothesis suggests an explanation of many hitherto inexplicable facts.
And now an astounding and still inexplicable thing happened.
Inexplicable scenes tore through her mind too fast for her to focus on any one of them.
This would be inexplicable if Eph.
Yet the next move in the struggle was a hollow reconciliation between the combatantsa most inexplicable act on both sides.
Such an expectation of persecution is inexplicable from Nero's time.
It may further be added that materialism can be shown to be an inadequate philosophy in its attempts to account even for the physical universe, for this is inexplicable without the assumption of mind distinct from, and directive of, matter.
This apparently inexplicable flight is part of a pattern.
This is one of many phenomena which have always remained inexplicable.
There were also delays, hesitations and cavils at home, which were more inexplicable.
To the savage, death from natural causes is inexplicable.
A curious lightness--a perfectly inexplicable buoyancy seemed to possess him.
And, too, the starling is suffering some inexplicable diminution in populace over the whole extent of our nation.
The decision appears inexplicable to many senior rail managers who hold no brief for First.
Baxter, Sanctuary and Sacrifice (2895)' it existed in the post-exilic age was really the work of Moses, it is inexplicable that all trace of it was so completely lost that the degradation of the non-Zadokites in Ezekiel was a new feature and a punishment, whereas in the Mosaic law the ordinary Levites, on the traditional view, was already forbidden priestly rights under penalty of death.
By it the theoretical and practical reason shall be shown to coincide; for while the categories of cognition and the whole system of pure thought can be expounded from one principle, the ground of this principle is scientifically, or to cognition, inexplicable, and is made conceivable only in the practical philosophy.
In romantic matters, it's the fifth house of romance and the seventh house of marriage that plays a large role in why two people may feel an inexplicable pull towards one another, even if everything else in the chart seems "off".
While this theory has been repeated and revised by scientists and psychologists throughout the years, the fact remains that witnesses report very strange and inexplicable phenomenon surrounding the use of the Ouija board.
This phenomenon is reported quite often in the form of disembodied voices, slamming doors, phantom footfalls, knocks or raps and other inexplicable sounds.
On August 13, 1941 in reading 1152-11, Cayce gave a reading for a woman concerning her work as a writer and her inexplicable feeling to move from New York City.
U.S. small business owners are increasing turning to alternative phone service systems that avoid what some say are creative, expensive and ofttimes inexplicable billings.
But in what remains an inexplicable move, the voices were all redubbed using American actors.
Ranging from the cute to the inexplicable, instant message smileys are ever-evolving.
There is simply the fact of conscious experience, ultimate and inexplicable.
It is obvious that without the principle of difference error is inexplicable.
The same tendency explains why he sometimes appeared abrupt in manner, otherwise inexplicable in one of his character.
Nevertheless, inexplicable footsteps are still heard in the locality.
What lay behind Darwin's seemingly inexplicable reluctance to publish his views on this subject?
I can hardly imagine anything more strange, more utterly inexplicable, than the situation in which I find myself.
A few dissenting voices of scholarship began to point to totally inexplicable evidence.
The Association of British Drivers finds this situation inexplicable.
Given that the film is rated R, these cuts seem inexplicable.
Ideas remain equally inexplicable, whether there are material things mysteriously giving rise to them or not.
It's odd to think of, but perhaps I thus became as inexplicable to the old man as he had been to me.
To say that OOL is inexplicable given naturalism seems well-established.
It also produces emotional perversity and sudden inexplicable changes in moods.
A recurring theme in her work is the romance of the inexplicable.
The doctrine of Evolution, instead of increasing the difficulty of conceiving the possibility of miracle, decreases it; for it presents to us the universe as an uncompleted process, and one in which there is no absolute continuity on the phenomenal side; for life and mind are inexplicable by their physical antecedents, and there is not only room for, but need of, the divine initiative, a creative as well as conservative co-operation of God with nature.
The Fourth Gospel, inexplicable without St Paul and the fall of Jerusalem, is fully understandable with them.
But indeed the whole of this intermediate period is full of dark subterranean plots and counterplots, still inexplicable, as, for instance, the hideous Fersen murder (June 20, 1 810) (see Fersen, Hans Axel Von) evidently intended to terrorize the Gustavians, whose loyalty to the ancient dynasty was notorious.
It's that kind of illusion that Blaine pulls off that are so inexplicable, they have to be magic, right?
Yet for some inexplicable reason the film set in a galaxy far, far away still captivates children.
Betsey Johnson handbags define the inexplicable insanity of postmodernism in the most charming of ways.
Such love of virtue Mill holds to be in a sense natural, though not an ultimate and inexplicable fact of human nature; it is to be explained by the " Law of Association " of feelings and ideas, through which objects originally desired as a means to some further end come to be directly pleasant or desirable.
The step from Rienzi to Der fliegende Hollander is without parallel in the history of music, and would be inexplicable if Rienzi contained nothing good and if Der fliegende Hollander did not contain many reminiscences of the decline of Italian opera; but it is noticeable that in this case the lapses into vulgar music have a distinct dramatic value.