Both Uses of
inscrutable
in
Ulysses by James Joyce
- His inscrutable face which was really a work of art, a perfect study in itself, beggaring description, conveyed the impression that he didn't understand one jot of what was going on.†
Chpt 16 *
- …of her aspect: her indeterminate response to inaffirmative interrogation: her potency over effluent and refluent waters: her power to enamour, to mortify, to invest with beauty, to render insane, to incite to and aid delinquency: the tranquil inscrutability of her visage: the terribility of her isolated dominant implacable resplendent propinquity: her omens of tempest and of calm: the stimulation of her light, her motion and her presence: the admonition of her craters, her arid seas,…†
Chpt 17
Definition:
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(inscrutable) impossible to understand -- often when finding a person's facial expression or comments mysterious