All 4 Uses of
inscrutable
in
1984, by Orwell
- And then the flash of intelligence was gone, and O'Brien's face was as inscrutable as everybody else's.†
p. 17.7 *inscrutable = impossible to understand
- His face remained completely inscrutable.†
p. 36.8
- It was curious how that beetle-like type proliferated in the Ministries: little dumpy men, growing stout very early in life, with short legs, swift scuttling movements, and fat inscrutable faces with very small eyes.†
p. 60.6
- It was not easy to preserve inscrutability when you did not know what your face looked like.†
p. 280.9
Definition:
impossible to understand -- often when finding a person's facial expression or comments mysterious