All 4 Uses of
inscrutable
in
Heart of Darkness
- In the immutability of their surroundings the foreign shores, the foreign faces, the changing immensity of life, glide past, veiled not by a sense of mystery but by a slightly disdainful ignorance; for there is nothing mysterious to a seaman unless it be the sea itself, which is the mistress of his existence and as inscrutable as Destiny.†
Chpt 1
- It came at the end of his speeches like a seal applied on the words to make the meaning of the commonest phrase appear absolutely inscrutable.†
Chpt 1 *
- It was the stillness of an implacable force brooding over an inscrutable intention.†
Chpt 2
- She stood looking at us without a stir and like the wilderness itself, with an air of brooding over an inscrutable purpose.†
Chpt 3
Definition:
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(inscrutable) impossible to understand -- often when finding a person's facial expression or comments mysterious