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unhearable

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Adj.1.unhearable - impossible to hearunhearable - impossible to hear; imperceptible by the ear; "an inaudible conversation"
inaudible
imperceptible, unperceivable - impossible or difficult to perceive by the mind or senses; "an imperceptible drop in temperature"; "an imperceptible nod"; "color is unperceivable to the touch"
quiet - free of noise or uproar; or making little if any sound; "a quiet audience at the concert"; "the room was dark and quiet"
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Hidetora shares, it seems, Lear's uncanny gift of hearing the unhearable.
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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.
Ariosto and the "Fier Pastor": Form and History in Orlando Furioso by ASCOLI, ALBERT RUSSELL / Renaissance Quarterly
but sees no one and hears no response because his tracer/animator/Demiurge is invisible to and unhearable by him.
The Illusion of The Beginning: A Theory of Drawing and Animation by CHOLODENKO, ALAN / Afterimage
 
 
 
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