Both Uses of
inscrutable
in
After Dark, by Murakami
- Whenever the TV screen flickers, the light striking her profile wavers, and shadows dance like inscrutable signals.
Chpt 4 *inscrutable = impossible to understand
- She is trying, nevertheless, to gain some understanding, however limited, of the inscrutable circumstances in which she finds herself.†
Chpt 14
Definition:
impossible to understand -- often when finding a person's facial expression or comments mysterious