unhearable

Few of the thin-walled houses in this Kadazan village are physically isolated, yet if the relationship between a husband and wife is classified as private and intrusion in the private marital sphere classed as invalid, such acts are socially isolated and thus unseeable, unspeakable, unhearable.

In the words of a Navajo veteran of the Vietnam War, "Non-Indians claimed Indians could see through trees and hear the unhearable." For this reason Indians in Vietnam were often assigned the unenviable task of "point" duty on patrols and large-scale troop movements.

That said, I think there's always several avant-gardes operating simultaneously and fruitfully--intersecting the culture in different ways--some for example in speaking new and necessary speakings--which are almost unhearable to most people--others by formally provoking devices which the culture is only beginning to recognize as structuring our consciousness--and still oth ers by lurking out in the places which don't get the glare of the media or even much attention from the mainstream at all.

In other words, for Ariosto and his contemporaries it was a choice between an occulted, and perhaps therefore unhearable irony, and "the silence of the lambs," to take our poet's pastoral motif one, unpleasant, step further.

positions the problem by exploring two contexts in which many modern Western believers find themselves: the secular world in which the imagery of saints and of communion over time and across death is unhearable, and the Christian feminist perspective which values nonhierarchial relationships and liberating action.

Yet sympathy may also be a distortion and may render the tale unhearable: overidentification causes the story to be constructed according to the paradigm of similar Holocaust tales.

Nationalism Without Walls: The Unhearable Lightness of Being Canadian.

He dreamt sometimes of being back there, not riding but floating, the tractor din replaced by that dancing unhearable sound, which was like a breath of air supporting his limbs, caressing his head, and stroking his ears, with a whispering warmth that was like laughter.