| 单词 | unintelligibility |
| 例句 | All the while the veteran vocalist Joan La Barbara read from “Unpacking My Library,” Walter Benjamin’s classic essay about collecting books, her voice distorted and deepened to the point of unintelligibility. Music Review: Zeena Parkins and Ne(x)tworks Ensemble w/ JACK Quartet 2012-09-11T21:56:55Z Here, though, the number was Mr. LeBlanc’s alone, and he gave in to his sludgier impulses, his voice oozing awkwardly around the lyrics, compressing them into unintelligibility. Music Review: Dylan LeBlanc Makes New York Debut at Joe?s Pub 2010-07-23T21:04:00Z There’s text here — at one point luminous plucks punctuate the low buzz of voices speaking, perhaps over radios — but it’s muffled to the point of unintelligibility. Review: A Composer’s Redacted Music and Raucous Noise 2019-04-19T04:00:00Z Kaufmann opted instead for a consistent legato, sometimes at odds with the orchestra and, in extreme cases, slurring phrases into unintelligibility. Review: Opera Stars Take On an Omicron-Battered Vienna 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z Cumbersomely, phrases are italicized to the point of unintelligibility. Shakespeare made breezy: 'Midsummer' and 'Julius Caesar' at Theatricum Botanicum 2021-07-14T04:00:00Z In other words, gravity is a “common unintelligibility,” a phrase coined by physicist Ernst Mach for a mystery that hides in plain sight. Review | Scientists know gravity exists. They just don’t know how it works. 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z It “was founded on an uncommon unintelligibility”: two objects interacting without physical contact. Black-hole chronicles: chasing the gravitational beast 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z But even then, the compensation for one form of unintelligibility is the over-intelligibility of conventional athletic dance, entertaining at first until it becomes numbingly familiar, as is the generally banal, old-fashioned staging. Before ‘Hamilton,’ 100 years of American music theater and how it’s told the story of who we are 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z In other words, were sexist presumptions of women as less intelligent responsible for listeners’ perceptions of their verbal unintelligibility? The Long, Sexist History of 'Shrill' Women 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z At times during the trial, it was unclear how much unintelligibility was caused by mistranslation and how much by the deliberate indirection of witnesses. A Chinatown Bank Accused of Fraud 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z But since the diffraction of a single molecule would be weak to the point of unintelligibility, scientists get the molecules they’re studying to clump together into crystal form. So 2014 Is International Crystallography Year 2014-01-09T09:50:23Z By his own era, gravity had become “common unintelligibility”. Black-hole chronicles: chasing the gravitational beast 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z The Festival loves the Socialist agenda the 75-year-old director brandishes in his hardscrabble stories of working class strivers, as well as his rough-hewn camera style and the density — no, the unintelligibility — of his actors’ accents. Palme d'Or Preview: Handicapping the Five Top Contenders at Cannes 2012-05-27T15:05:44Z The unintelligibility of the vast city made him apprehensive, and the crudity of its big, coarse contrasts wounded him unutterably. The White Peacock 2012-01-14T03:00:21.627Z C, a thoroughly characteristic example;—characteristic alike in its definiteness, its purposelessness, its isolated unintelligibility. Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death 2012-01-05T03:00:42.307Z This is a case in illustration of the meaningless absurdity and unintelligibility of the average libretto. Memoirs of an American Prima Donna 2011-11-17T03:00:32.600Z It is possible that Morality, which hides the eerie unintelligibility of life from us, is an illusion. Morals and the Evolution of Man 2011-11-14T03:00:18.930Z It is not the fancifulness of this theory that one might object to so much as its utter inadequacy to explain the facts, nay, its utter unintelligibility on the principles of those who propound it. Ontology or the Theory of Being 2011-04-01T02:00:38.727Z Besides, the universal conviction is that the sublimity of a doctrine is in exact proportion to its obscurity and its unintelligibility. Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6 Volume 2 The example of these three masters of the vaudeville, while determining his vocation, made him diffident; and for some time he composed nothing but amphigouris—verses whose merit was measured by their unintelligibility. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 6 "Cockaigne" to "Columbus, Christopher" We have only replaced one unintelligibility by another, one description by another, and so simply pushed back the whole problem. Naturalism And Religion This is exasperating—a clear insinuation of unintelligibility. When Ghost Meets Ghost Had Bentham been a mystical philosopher, he would, we may conjecture, have achieved a masterpiece of unintelligibility which all his followers would have extolled as containing the very essence of his teaching. The English Utilitarians, Volume I. So of the unintelligibilities: call them means of intelligibility, and what further do you require? The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy A sign of mysticism which it has been believed may often be taken as an essential sign, is obscurity and unintelligibility of language. Essay on the Creative Imagination "I'd—" His voice husked into unintelligibility, and he had to begin again. Citadel Perhaps they are thrown in to redeem, by their profound unintelligibility, the shallow trifling of the rest of the poem. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844 Its influence is plainly shown by the frequent unintelligibility of the whole proceeding; all its indignation over the crime alleged to be punished is an afterthought; any crime will answer, once its blood is up. The American Credo A Contribution Toward the Interpretation of the National Mind The unintelligibility of the book recommends it to many and accounts for its vogue. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8 We hear much of his subtile psychology—we deem it psychological unintelligibility. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 5, May, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy But it is not so much on account of its consequences as on account of its essential unmeaningness and intellectual unintelligibility that I would invite you to reject this formula 'God is all.' Philosophy and Religion Six Lectures Delivered at Cambridge But the one, Schiller, seems to him to be all truth, clearness, nature and beauty; the other, principally mysticism, obscurity, and unintelligibility. The Letters of Queen Victoria : A Selection from Her Majesty's Correspondence between the Years 1837 and 1861 Volume 1, 1837-1843 Their revolt against the contrapuntal lyric drama was largely, though not wholly, based on deep-seated objection to the unintelligibility of the text. Some Forerunners of Italian Opera He announced the two names with elaborate unintelligibility, but Idina at once introduced her companion as Miss Jewett of St. Louis. The Guests Of Hercules Now I do flatter myself upon so writing, that compositors can have no excuse for blunders, though I am well aware that to be esteemed a Genious, one’s chirography should very nearly approach unintelligibility. The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, January 1844 Volume 23, Number 1 Conrad, more than any of the other men I have mentioned, grounds his work firmly upon this sense of cosmic implacability, this confession of unintelligibility. A Book of Prefaces Nearly all the Chinese in Wanhsien have heard the doctrine described with greater or less unintelligibility, and it is at their own risk if they still refuse to be saved. An Australian in China Being the Narrative of a Quiet Journey Across China to Burma ‘Excuse my unintelligibility, haste, and appearance of presumption, and—Believe me to be, sir, your most humble and grateful servant, ‘P. B. Brontë. Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle Such work always has one thing in common—unintelligibility. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 10 Little Journeys To The Homes Of Great Teachers The mysteriousness of life is one thing, the psychological unintelligibility of a dramatic character is quite another; and the second does not show the first, it shows only the incapacity or folly of the dramatist. Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth There are no occasions when an international language would be naturally used when any variation from standard usage would not be a distinct disadvantage as tending to unintelligibility. International Language Past, Present and Future: With Specimens of Esperanto and Grammar TheElectromagnetic Ether: Ampère's advocacy of mathematical expression—Faraday first shows influence of medium in electricity—Maxwell's proof that light-waves electromagnetic—His unintelligibility—Required confirmation of theory by Hertz. The New Physics and Its Evolution As Sweet used to say, the only security against the decay of language through careless articulation into absolute unintelligibility is the personal inconvenience of having to repeat your words when you are indistinctly heard. Society for Pure English, Tract 02 On English Homophones Often their very earnestness betrays them into what for later ages is unintelligibility. The World's Best Orations, Vol. 1 (of 10) But Fritz's talk frightened her by its very unintelligibility; his mirth seemed terrible; it was like hearing a man laugh in his sleep; and his touch made her shudder. Ilka on the Hill-Top and Other Stories Pray do not pester yourself with these Bookseller unintelligibilities: I suppose their accounts are all reasonably correct, the cheating, such as it is, done according to rule: what signifies it at any rate? The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II. Only a look of stupidest unintelligibility could I return, however, and had to roar with laughter at the very foolishness of my position up on that stone. Across China on Foot Runic inscriptions, their different grades of unintelligibility and consequent value. The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell To all these queries the Genie returned evasive answers; he was Delphic to the verge of unintelligibility. Cobwebs from an Empty Skull Thus Karlkammer at enormous length with frequent intervals of unintelligibility and huge chunks of irrelevant quotation and much play of Cabalistic conceptions. Children of the Ghetto A Study of a Peculiar People I make a hurried and confused presentation, in which I manage to slur over into unintelligibility and utter doubtfulness the names of the two people made known to one another. Nancy At last the headman of the village appeared, and with many kindly expressions of unintelligibility led me to his house. Across China on Foot These were guarded almost to unintelligibility, and yet Keith guessed that they referred to his own secret--the game learned back of the big rock. The Soul of a Child He finds no intellectual satisfaction in placing a gigantic conundrum behind the universe, which only adds its own unintelligibility to the already sufficiently difficult problem of existence. Annie Besant An Autobiography The unfair preference for Greek shown by doctors in the nomenclature of disease is perhaps to be explained by the value of unintelligibility. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, December 12, 1917 So does the charge of unintelligibility attach itself to your poor friend—who can kick nobody. Life and Letters of Robert Browning But there was a something in Phosy's face besides its calmness and unintelligibility. Stephen Archer and Other Tales There is a thing wonderful and admirable in the parables, not readily grasped, but specially indicated by the Lord himself—their unintelligibility to the mere intellect. Unspoken Sermons Series I., II., and II. I likewise came upon a whole nest of the German classics which seemed to have kept their places undisturbed, in virtue of their unintelligibility. The Portent & Other Stories I cannot, with evidence before me, incredible but through the eyes themselves, of the illimitable scope of printers' blundering, believe all the confusion, unintelligibility, neglect of grammar, construction, continuity, sense, attributable to them. The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark A Study with the Text of the Folio of 1623 The Senate has succeeded in muddling it to that degree of unintelligibility that nobody has the slightest notion what it provides. Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 05, April 30, 1870 I omitted, therefore, in the Introduction to the Abbot, any attempt to explain the previous story, or to apologize for unintelligibility. The Abbot Cosmo went to open the door, troubled to see his father annoyed with the unintelligibility of the man. Warlock o' Glenwarlock They are cast in the American language, and liberally enriched with unintelligibility. The Fiend's Delight Already the unintelligibility of Lancashire speech had filled her with dismay. The Fortunate Youth He went on talking and the three languages he used in his jargon got clotted to the point of unintelligibility. Simon the Jester A second reason for the too frequent unintelligibility of the text is its archaic character. A Second Book of Operas "That wad be hard lines, though," insisted the gardener, unwilling to yield the unintelligibility of the ways of providence. Warlock o' Glenwarlock But Greenhow had heard nothing of the Greeks save as a symbol of all unintelligibility, and of the gods not at all. Defenders of Democracy; contributions from representative men and women of letters and other arts from our allies and our own country, edited by the Gift book committee of the Militia of Mercy I put down the letter, and ran my eye through the Will, which appeared, from its utter unintelligibility, to have been drawn on the strictest legal principles. She For this unintelligibility there are two reasons-the chief one musical, the other literary. A Second Book of Operas |
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