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PRONUNCIATION OF SAY THE UNSAYABLE

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WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SAY THE UNSAYABLE

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saxophonist
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say
say a few words
say amen to
say Kaddish
say when
say-so
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Sayan Mountains
Saybolt universal seconds
SAYE
sayer
Sayers
sayid
saying
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sayonara
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WORDS THAT END LIKE SAY THE UNSAYABLE

able
account payable
buyable
copyable
decayable
deployable
destroyable
displayable
dryable
dyable
employable
enjoyable
flyable
payable
playable
repayable
unemployable
unenjoyable
unpayable
unplayable
unsayable

Synonyms and antonyms of say the unsayable in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «say the unsayable» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SAY THE UNSAYABLE

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The translations of say the unsayable from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «say the unsayable» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

说不可言说
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

decir lo indecible
570 millions of speakers

English

say the unsayable
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

unsayable कहना
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

يقول unsayable
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

сказать неизъяснимому
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

dizer o indizível
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অনাবশ্যক বলুন
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

dire l´indicible
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Katakanlah itu
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

sagen, das Unsagbare
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

言葉で言い表せないと言う
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

unsayable 말
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Nyuwun pangapunten
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

nói unsayable
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

நம்பமுடியாத சொல்லுங்கள்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अनिश्चित म्हणू
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Dinlenemediğini söyle
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

dire l´indicibile
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

powiedziećniewypowiadalne
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

сказати незбагненної
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

spuneunsayable
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

πει το ανείπωτο
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

sê die unsayable
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

säga den unsayable
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

si tabubelagt
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of say the unsayable

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SAY THE UNSAYABLE»

The term «say the unsayable» is normally little used and occupies the 145.255 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SAY THE UNSAYABLE» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about say the unsayable

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SAY THE UNSAYABLE»

Discover the use of say the unsayable in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to say the unsayable and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury
I concede at the outset that I cannot say the Unsayable about Faulknerian maternity, that my argument bears most directly on the brilliantly disturbed novels between Flags in the Dust and Light in August, and that the text I shall examine at  ...
Harold Bloom, 2008
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The Messianic Disruption of Trinitarian Theology
The “unsayable” is the language that properly belongs to the absolute, although in an indirect sense, an absolute that is transcendent in its immanence. How can one recover the “unsayable”? How can one say the “unsayable”? This is where ...
Kornel Zathureczky, 2009
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Humanitarian Identity and the Political Sublime: ...
The "unsayable" is the language that properly belongs to the absolute, although in an indirect sense, an absolute that is transcendent in its immanence. How can one recover the "unsayable"? How can one say the "unsayable"? This is where ...
Ashmita Khasnabish, 2009
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Levinas between Ethics and Politics: For the Beauty that ...
There, it is erotic nudity which is claimed to "say the unsayable, but the unsayable is not separated from this saying."16 OBBE attempts to trace its way back to the origin of the saying of the unsayable. In so doing, it traces a difference between ...
B.G. Bergo, 1999
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Language and History in Theodor W. Adorno's Notes to Literature
... with the concept, to say the unsayable with language” (PT 1: 88). Looking back on his career, Adorno conceded that if there The Art of Transition 23.
Ulrich Plass, 2007
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Losing the Race: Self-Sabotage in Black America
With Losing the Race, a bold new voice rises among black intellectuals.
John McWhorter, 2001
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Adorno: The Recovery of Experience
It is the persistent self-awareness about language's inability to say the unsayable that is the pedagogical goal of the Tractatus.18 This reading appears to be confirmed by Wittgenstein's formulation of the problem in the lecture on ethics.
Roger Foster, 2012
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Navigations: Collected Irish Essays, 1976-2006
The three books are attempts to say the unsayable, think the unthinkable, and imagine the unimaginable. In the case of The God Who May Be (2001), it is the question of God; in the case of On Stories (2002), it is the question of the unnarrated ...
Richard Kearney, 2006
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Elie Wiesel's Secretive Texts
It does not say the unsayable, it says that it cannot say it. "After Auschwitz," we must, with Elie Wiesel in mind, add another verse to the story of the forgetting of the meditation by the fire in the forest (Celebration [hassidique], 173). I cannot light ...
Colin Davis, 1994
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Writing in Dante's Cult of Truth: From Borges to Boccaccio
The great poet is never merely a craftsman; Dante is never called a "miglior fabbro" here, significantly; he must say the unsayable — not, of course, in the poetry of those who believe that the words themselves will create a meaning, but in the ...
Maria Rosa Menocal, 1991

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SAY THE UNSAYABLE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term say the unsayable is used in the context of the following news items.
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How poetry can help us say the unsayable
I wrote that line years ago, and have copied it from notebook to notebook, waiting for the rest of the poem to arrive. But lately I've begun wondering if maybe it's ... «The Seattle Times, May 15»
2
We must say the unsayable about Rotherham
In her report on the shocking Rotherham child abuse scandal, Louise Casey, head of the government's troubled families programme, threw the book at the ... «The Times, Feb 15»
3
Why have 'mikveh suicides' become a motif in fiction?
It is a place where one can “say the unsayable”. The appearance of six stories about young Orthodox women committing “suicide by mikveh” has led me to ... «Haaretz, Nov 14»
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Stella McCartney's right: women can use their 'weakness' as a form …
... McCartney has come under fire for daring to say the unsayable: “Strength on ... she said quietly that “for some reason, people will listen to what I have to say, ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Sep 14»
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Bulimia Comes Out of the Closet
In the winter break of my final year of university, I told my friends I planned to write an essay that would “say the unsayable.” I titled the piece “Fragments of a ... «New York Magazine, Jun 14»
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South Park rape survivor finds her voice in music: 'To say the
“Music allows you to say the unsayable and express the unexpressable and maybe in a way that is more relatable, more palatable to people,” said Hopper in an ... «Q13 FOX, Apr 14»
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Counselling allows you to say the unsayable
Counselling allows you to say the unsayable ... you resolve your own problems,” says Theresa Monaghan, a Counsellor with Carecall, the student counselling ... «Impartial Reporter, Oct 13»
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The President has momentously said the unsayable about our …
For we now have the hope that there is at least one leader in Europe who may be willing, when the moment arises, to say the unsayable, to tell the emperors and ... «Irish Times, Apr 13»
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Margaret Thatcher Dies
"Everyone is either reckless or inept," she once said. "Someone must force the point and say the unsayable." Related Gallery Margaret Thatcher: Life in Pictures. «Vogue.com, Apr 13»
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'You're all dead anyway...'
It is important to have people around who can say the unsayable. Like Lear's Fool, they seem to have a licence to mock and make honest, commonsensical ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Nov 12»

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