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inscrutable
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Definition:Difficult or impossible to comprehend, fathom or interpret.text from Wiktionary, licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike
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And, removing his boots, he followed the Queen into the Palace, as she led the way with a baleful expression upon her dark and inscrutable face.
F. Anstey. The Black Poodle and Other Tales (1896)
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And then the flash of intelligence was gone, and O’Brien’s face was as inscrutable as everybody else’s.
George Orwell. 1984 (1949)
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They feel hard, unwinking, like the shells of beetles: black, polished, inscrutable.
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The colonel was still in grave peril. Intuition warned him that he was drawing close to some immense and inscrutable cosmic climax, [...].
Joseph Heller. Catch-22 (1961) p. 210
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this stillness of life did not in the least resemble a peace. It was the stillness of an implacable force brooding over an inscrutable intention. It looked at you with a vengeful aspect. I got used to it afterwards;
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