What is "unimaginable"

Usage examples of "unimaginable".

It was hard to follow them very far: the surrounding night crowded in on his ears with its competing antiphony of innumerable frogs and insects and small beasts of unimaginable variety, a background orchestration that you could forget entirely until you wanted to listen for something else and then it seemed to swell up into deafening volume.

Moving along the batture, January felt as if he were the last man living on a silent earth, left behind by some unimaginable catastrophe.

Four seconds of soaring terror, his arms outstretched like Superman, or Christ, and then perhaps a microsecond of unimaginable pain.

Ptolemy built the nearly unimaginable Lighthouse of Paros Island, four hundred feet high, one of the wonders of the ancient world.

And it was all one swirl on a river that swept from the peaceful prehuman landscape where he had been to the unimaginable Danellian future.

Sometimes I have the queerest feeling that she is planning by some unimaginable means, to re-establish that witch-ridden, so-called theocratic community in this present day and age.

Of the enamoured wind among the treen, Whispering unimaginable things, And dying on the streams of dew serene, Which feed the unmown meads with ever-during green.

She knew the unimaginable amounts of energy that had to be transferred from the Core via the Void Which Binds to her or her siblings when they phase-shifted.

Science was moving from a world of macrophysics, where objects could be seen and held and measured, to one of microphysics, where events transpire with unimaginable swiftness on scales far below the limits of imagining.

His suffering was unimaginable, and his total health care costs, all borne by Medicaid, easily exceeded a million dollars.

All of those monkeys were going to die, and they were going to die in a way that was almost unimaginable.

Huge flying creatures of all descriptions swooped and circled as they descended to the fortress, creatures of heaven and creatures of hell in an unimaginable flock: rocs, simurgs, fire-breathing perytons, sundrakes, and pegasi.

In the ancient past when the Anasazi were first building their cliff-side dwelling, north, in slickrock country, or in some unimaginable future when human beings no longer walked the world at all.

Of the enamoured wind among the treen, Whispering unimaginable things, And dying on the streams of dew serene, Which feed the unmown meads with ever-during green.

And if, in the ceremonies of the Mysteries, these material horrors were explained to the Initiates as mere symbols of the unimaginable torture, remorse, and agony that would rend the immaterial soul and rack the immortal spirit, they were feeble and insufficient in the same mode and measure only, as all material images and symbols fall short of that which is beyond the cognizance of our senses: and the grave Hierophant, the imagery, the paintings, the dramatic horrors, the funeral sacrifices, the august mysteries, the solemn silence of the sanctuaries, were none the less impressive, because they were known to be but symbols, that with material shows and images made the imagination to be the teacher of the intellect.