Tsutakawa's tactic of making the piece abstract, effectively adding a layer of silent
indecipherability, avoided the political conflict.
Furthermore, this state of
indecipherability not only facilitates the rejection of the national identity imposed by the U.S.
It was, indeed, notorious for its legendary
indecipherability. Scholars, who were delighted to receive prompt replies from him to their requests for information, found that his letters of reply usually took two days to decipher, and at both newspaper and printing houses they kept special compositors for him.
Alfredson's latest film is as subdued as it is oblique, and yet despite the eternally grey skies of its settings--London, Istanbul, Budapest-and the oppressiveness of its silences, it features performances that dazzle and seem to fit the secrecy and the
indecipherability of the world of 1970s British intelligence like a glove.
Another factor that has worked against the wider acceptance of German wines in this market is the
indecipherability of their wine labels.
Bacevich maintains that the truths Niebuhr spoke are uncomfortable for us to hear: "Four such truths are especially underlined in The Irony of American History: the persistent sin of American exceptionalism; the
indecipherability of history; the false allure of simple solutions; and, finally, the imperative of appreciating the limits of power." (10) As Niebuhr himself wrote: "Our dreams of bringing the whole of human history under the control of the human will are ironically refuted by the fact that no group of idealists can easily move the pattern of history toward the desired goal of peace and justice.
Their relatively new invention--'targeted allocations'--accidently demonstrates what [the partner's interest in the partnership] means, despite the
indecipherability of the regulatory articulation".
At times, parole authorities appeared to take pride in the
indecipherability of their work.
(7) Indeed, while Debra Shostak calls part one of Mulholland Drive a "Nancy Drew fantasy" (12), and while David Roche notes that films like Lynch's Lost Highway and Mulholland Drive "are mysteries, not because of their genre, but as films, and are held together by the spectator-detective's desire to make sense of them" (43; original emphasis), a number of diegetic critics argue that the film's
indecipherability is exactly the point: "We are [...] not meant to decode the film.
It is crucial to the theory, in fact, that indexes display "a certain
indecipherability"' (1998 : x).
Sherman's production captures the play's motif of
indecipherability with fair success.
29]) and wonders at Adeline's
indecipherability ("mystery of mysteries" [1.1]).
To describe the attractive yet uncanny Alberte, Brassard uses for example nine adjectives--most of which are repeated at least once--that lend the young woman an air of
indecipherability: "enigmatique," "etrange," "singulier," "incomparable" "incroyable," "inexplicable" incomprehensible," "impenetrable" and "impassible." (7) If Alberte is inscrutable, as these adjectives suggest, she is also indescribable.
