Inexplicable Sentence Examples

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  • Inexplicable anger at the politician surged through her.

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  • Maybe he sought her out for some inexplicable reason.

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  • We have also the inner sense of consciousness which is inexplicable by body alone.

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  • Inexplicable relief overshadowed the usual annoyance at that idea.

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  • More vexing than the inexplicable medical miracle was the creature that did it.

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  • At any rate this hypothesis suggests an explanation of many hitherto inexplicable facts.

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  • And now an astounding and still inexplicable thing happened.

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  • Inexplicable scenes tore through her mind too fast for her to focus on any one of them.

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  • This would be inexplicable if Eph.

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  • Yet the next move in the struggle was a hollow reconciliation between the combatantsa most inexplicable act on both sides.

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  • Such an expectation of persecution is inexplicable from Nero's time.

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  • 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.

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  • This apparently inexplicable flight is part of a pattern.

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  • This is one of many phenomena which have always remained inexplicable.

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  • There were also delays, hesitations and cavils at home, which were more inexplicable.

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  • To the savage, death from natural causes is inexplicable.

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  • A curious lightness--a perfectly inexplicable buoyancy seemed to possess him.

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  • And, too, the starling is suffering some inexplicable diminution in populace over the whole extent of our nation.

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  • The decision appears inexplicable to many senior rail managers who hold no brief for First.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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".

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  • 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.

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  • This phenomenon is reported quite often in the form of disembodied voices, slamming doors, phantom footfalls, knocks or raps and other inexplicable sounds.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • But in what remains an inexplicable move, the voices were all redubbed using American actors.

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  • Ranging from the cute to the inexplicable, instant message smileys are ever-evolving.

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  • There is simply the fact of conscious experience, ultimate and inexplicable.

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  • It is obvious that without the principle of difference error is inexplicable.

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  • The same tendency explains why he sometimes appeared abrupt in manner, otherwise inexplicable in one of his character.

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  • Nevertheless, inexplicable footsteps are still heard in the locality.

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  • What lay behind Darwin's seemingly inexplicable reluctance to publish his views on this subject?

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  • I can hardly imagine anything more strange, more utterly inexplicable, than the situation in which I find myself.

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  • A few dissenting voices of scholarship began to point to totally inexplicable evidence.

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  • The Association of British Drivers finds this situation inexplicable.

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  • Given that the film is rated R, these cuts seem inexplicable.

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  • Ideas remain equally inexplicable, whether there are material things mysteriously giving rise to them or not.

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  • It's odd to think of, but perhaps I thus became as inexplicable to the old man as he had been to me.

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  • To say that OOL is inexplicable given naturalism seems well-established.

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  • It also produces emotional perversity and sudden inexplicable changes in moods.

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  • A recurring theme in her work is the romance of the inexplicable.

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  • 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.

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  • The Fourth Gospel, inexplicable without St Paul and the fall of Jerusalem, is fully understandable with them.

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  • 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.

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  • It's that kind of illusion that Blaine pulls off that are so inexplicable, they have to be magic, right?

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  • Yet for some inexplicable reason the film set in a galaxy far, far away still captivates children.

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  • Betsey Johnson handbags define the inexplicable insanity of postmodernism in the most charming of ways.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • These results were unexpected, and, in fact, inexplicable by existing theories; and an examination of the telescope showed that the observed anomalies were not due to instrumental errors.

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  • It is not to be materialistic but ideal realism, because the physical and the psychical are inseparable parallels inexplicable by one another.

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  • Experiment showed, however, that instead of only potash appearing at the negative electrode, hydrogen is also liberated; this is inexplicable by Berzelius's theory, but readily explained by the " hydrogen-acid " theory.

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  • Amongst the legitimate reasons for suspecting the correctness of a text are patent contradictions in a passage or its immediate neighbourhood, proved and inexplicable deviations from the standards for forms, constructions and usages (mere rarity or singularity is not enough), weak and purposeless repetitions of a word (if there is no reason for attributing these to the writer), violations of the laws of metre and rhythm as observed by the author, obvious breaks in the thought (incoherence) or disorderly sequence in the same (double or multiple incoherence).

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  • He therefore concluded that all we know from the data of psychological idealism is impressions or sensations, ideas, and associations of ideas, making us believe without proof in substances and causes, together with " a certain unknown, inexplicable something as the cause of our preceptions."

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  • The physical cause which rendered this effort so painful probably accounts for the infrequency of his appearances in parliament, as well as for much that is otherwise inexplicable in his subsequent conduct.

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  • And the need which most philosophers have felt for some philosophical foundation for morality arises, not from any desire to subordinate moral insight to speculative theory, but because the moral facts themselves are inexplicable except in the light of first principles which metaphysics alone can criticize.

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  • Progress is illusory; there is no satisfactory goal to which moral development inevitably tends; religion in which some take refuge when distressed by the inexplicable contradictions of moral conduct itself " contains and rests upon an element of make believe " (p. 489).

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  • So great is this variation as to be inexplicable except on the view that the nature and proportions of the active principles vary greatly in different specimens.

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  • Certainly no miracles occur, but there is enough of the wonderful and the inexplicable " (Das Wesen des Christentums, p. 18).

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  • Structures previously inexplicable were now explained as survivals from a past age, no longer useful though once of value.

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  • It is important for us to know what were his ideas upon government, upon parliaments, prerogative, and so forth, since a knowledge of this will clear up much that would seem inexplicable in his life.

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  • The spontaneous play of this sympathy he treats as an original and inexplicable fact of human nature, but he considers that its action is powerfully sustained by the pleasure that each man finds in the accord of his feelings with another's.

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  • Gabriel was still reeling from the sudden, inexplicable changes in his mate and the admittance by Deidre that she had made a deal with Darkyn.

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  • There are in reality two species of substances, or entirely distinct things, those which are impenetrably resisting, and those which are conscious substances; and it is impossible to reduce bodies and souls to one another, because resistance is incompatible with the attributes of spirit, and consciousness inexplicable by the attributes of body.

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  • The entire revolution which much of his policy underwent in order to effect this object bears too close a resemblance to the sudden and inexplicable changes of front habitual to placemen of the Tadpole 'stamp to be altogether pleasant to contemplate in a politician of pure aims and lofty ambition.

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  • Napoleon himself is no longer of any account; all his actions are evidently pitiful and mean, but again an inexplicable chance occurs.

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  • In my account of Helen last year, I mentioned several instances where she seemed to have called into use an inexplicable mental faculty; but it now seems to me, after carefully considering the matter, that this power may be explained by her perfect familiarity with the muscular variations of those with whom she comes into contact, caused by their emotions.

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  • Against the date assigned to the opening verses of this chapter modern scholars can make no objection, but, if this be the date of the entire work, then many passages in it are hopelessly inexplicable; for the latter just as certainly demand a date subsequent to A.D.

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  • Such an end is accomplished either by means of pure thought or by a oneness of pure feeling, giving as results the theological or philosophical construction of the concept God, or a mystical ecstasy which is itself at once immediate, inexplicable and indescribable.

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