Citations:un-unravelable

English citations of un-unravelable

Adjective: "(rare) that cannot be unravelled; by extension, difficult to understand"

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• 1995, Martin Samuel Cohen, Travels on the Private Zodiac: Reflections on Jewish Life, Ritual and Spirituality, Moonstone Press (1995), →ISBN, page 63:

  But the common future of the Jewish people is guaranteed by the gracefully interlaced orbits of an endless succession of private constellations whizzing by in impossibly un-unravelable chains of pitch and yaw, […]

• 2000, Martin Samuel Cohen, book review, Conservative Judaism, Volume 53, Number 1, Fall 2000, page 92:

  Indeed, most moderns who know Luria's work only from secondary sources would be completely flummoxed to encounter the texts themselves with their endlessly arcane numerology, almost indescribably peculiar eroticism and byzantine, almost un-unravelable mythology.

• 2009, Bill Prady and Lee Aronsohn, "The Loobenfeld Decay", episode 1-10 of The Big Bang Theory, 00:08:25-00:08:35:

  Sheldon Cooper: Well, first of all, your lie was laughably transparent, where mine is exquisitely convoluted. While you were sleeping, I was weaving an un-unravelable web.
  

• 2012 October 1, Nadegda [username], “NOMINATION: The Revd, The Peeler, NoSpamAtAll, Michael Ejercito, brian lamb, and An tSin Gorm collectively for a Laki Volcano Award.”, in alt.usenet.kooks‎^[1] (Usenet):

  NOMINATION: The Revd, The Peeler, NoSpamAtAll, Michael Ejercito, brian lamb, and An tSin Gorm collectively for a Laki Volcano Award for paving over soc.culture.israel and AUK with some sort of un-unravelable N-way kookfeud.

• 2013, Elizabeth Adler, Please Don't Tell, pages 301-302:

  Two hours later, she waved JC off and set out for the Italian market where she bought Parma ham, sliced so wafer-thin it needed little sheets of wax paper between each slice, so they would not stick together in one un-unravelable lump, and meant they could be arranged by her, slice by exquisite rosy-pink slice across her square white china plates, with a generous spoonful of fig compote.