All 7 Uses
inexplicable
in
The Phantom of the Opera
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- And then, one after the other, there came a series of incidents so curious and so inexplicable that the very shrewdest people began to feel uneasy.†
Chpt 1 *inexplicable = incapable of being explained or accounted for
- This extraordinary and inexplicable incident filled them with a dread which was the more mysterious inasmuch as for some little while, they had fallen within the direct influence of the ghost.†
Chpt 7
- He no longer doubted that she had "nothing to reproach herself with," however peculiar and inexplicable her conduct might seem.†
Chpt 9
- But the singer's attitude became more and more inexplicable.†
Chpt 13
- Only, though these marks of politeness would have created no astonishment if the under-secretary of state had really been in front of M. Richard, they caused an easily comprehensible amazement to the spectators of this very natural but quite inexplicable scene when M. Richard had no body in front of him.†
Chpt 17
- You treat him as a monster, you speak of his crime, he has done you harm and I find in you the same inexplicable pity that drove me to despair when I saw it in Christine!†
Chpt 19
- ...She was represented as the victim of a rivalry between the two brothers; and nobody suspected what had really happened, nobody understood that, as Raoul and Christine had both disappeared, both had withdrawn far from the world to enjoy a happiness which they would not have cared to make public after the inexplicable death of Count Philippe ...They took the train one day from "the northern railway station of the world."†
Chpt Epil.
Definitions:
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(1)
(inexplicable) incapable of being explained or accounted for
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)