Indefinable

Steam locomotives in particular add something indefinable to the mix.

Season three of this wonderfully oddball comedy will be its last – perhaps for the best before its indefinable magic dissipates, and an extra incentive to relish these perfectly formed half-hours.

The family dynamic has shifted in so many little and indefinable ways that there exists a sense of division that we can’t quite identify or place.

From this small sample—98 men—Jellinek drew sweeping conclusions about the “phases of alcoholism,” which included an unavoidable succession of binges that led to blackouts, “indefinable fears,” and hitting bottom.

In all, the photographer visited 12 countries in pursuit of the indefinable Jew.

But owners Mary Wright and McLain Hedges know their booze, whether exotic spirits to give a cocktail an indefinable edge or boutique wines that set the bar’s roster apart from the competition.

Atack, p. 377 Christopher Evans described the personal qualities that Hubbard brought to Dianetics and Scientology: He undoubtedly has charisma, a magnetic lure of an indefinable kind which makes him the centre of attraction in any kind of gathering.

Good as indefinable Moore contended that goodness cannot be analysed in terms of any other property.

It is enough for us to know that "pleased" does mean "having the sensation of pleasure", and though pleasure is absolutely indefinable, though pleasure is pleasure and nothing else whatever, yet we feel no difficulty in saying that we are pleased.

Since they are anything but trivial and obvious, value must be indefinable.

The effect on fellow artists was, as Théodore de Banville stated, "immense, prodigious, unexpected, mingled with admiration and with some indefinable anxious fear".

There is a certain, indefinable, masochistic finesse that must go into true Kludge building.