as in impenetrability
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Noun
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What The Dark Wizard does differently is grapple with Potter’s impenetrability without being able to resolve it, and consider how that indecision might change our perceptions of his life and his May 2015 death while BASE jumping in Yosemite.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
7 May 2026 -
Byrne is generous with his time and attention, but there’s also a Warholian air of mystery about him—a gentle impenetrability, a feeling of separateness.—
Amanda Petrusich,
New Yorker,
10 Nov. 2025
Noun
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In the same way that audiences are trying to unpack the central scheme — or interlocking set of schemes — at the center of Paula’s newfound predicament, so was the Emmy-winning Maslany drawn to the inscrutability of her character.—
Natalie Oganesyan,
Deadline,
24 May 2026
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What these critics don’t reckon with enough is that inscrutability is also a feature of the world.—
Luis Parrales,
The Atlantic,
28 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Sega Bodega) have created with their Arabic shoegaze duo is one swathed in chic esotericism and slow-burning eros.—
SPIN Staff,
SPIN,
1 June 2026
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His roots offer some clues to understanding his esotericism.—
Brian Seibert,
New Yorker,
6 Feb. 2026
Noun
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That intrigue and mysteriousness still rest in the canyon walls today.—
Madison Dapcevich,
Outside,
13 Sep. 2025
Noun
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When the transcript is the record, ideas can propagate on merit, and people can no longer hide behind vagueness.—
Lutz Finger,
Forbes.com,
25 May 2026
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On the other hand, the statement is emblematic of the uninteresting vagueness of Spider-Noir‘s world-building.—
Daniel Fienberg,
HollywoodReporter,
22 May 2026
Noun
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Along with a looser framing, shadow and contrast highlight loneliness and emotional ambiguity.—
Daron James,
Los Angeles Times,
3 June 2026
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American society—grotesquely unequal and divided, helpless before its demagogic and oligarchic manipulators—is no longer a stranger to the dark ambiguities of lopsided economic progress.—
Wyatt Williams,
Harpers Magazine,
2 June 2026
Noun
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Crossed spears of sunlight fall into it but only so far, and beneath their yellow illuminations Brith can see depths and more depths of water, darkening to obscurity.—
Maggie O’Farrell,
Literary Hub,
2 June 2026
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In the age of social media, casting directors still have managed to find industry newcomers with relative digital obscurity and turn them into bona fide stars overnight.—
Max Gao,
HollywoodReporter,
30 May 2026
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“Unanswerability.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unanswerability. Accessed 9 Jun. 2026.
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