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unamenable

a. Not amenable

Usage examples of "unamenable".

What I am going to suggest here is that it would be quite feasible to invent a vocabulary, perhaps amounting to several thousands of words, which would deal with parts of our experience now practically unamenable to language.

As a moral agent, Matilda was reckless, headstrong, violent, and unamenable to reason.

Scientific thinking is powerless in the domain of Life, for its happenings are uncontrollable, irreversible, never-recurring, unique, cannot be classified, are unamenable to rational treatment, and possessed of no external, mechanical necessity.

Life is irrational, unamenable to inorganic logic and systematization.

It cannot be made the object of logical operations, for being living, it is irrational, unamenable to logic.

Within sight of the river a mystery, or anything uninvestigated, or aught unamenable to the spirit of the age, would have seemed an anachronism.

Screams constitute the most primitive form of language, utterance at a level common to all living creatures, language that is unamenable to grammar, syntax, or control.

As unamenable to reason as she was impervious to argument, those who would remonstrate with her invariably found themselves worsted by the simple and easy process of turning their weapons of attack into barriers of defence.

Mignon was deliberately being unlovely and unamenable and from the shock in Mr.

When I get close, it reverses the nature of my victims, and they become unamenable.