unpaintable
IPA: ʌnpˈeɪntʌbʌɫ
adjective
- Not paintable.
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Examples of "unpaintable" in Sentences
- Andy's face was an almost unpaintable mixture of glee and understanding.
- She pressed his arm, while a score of unpaintable, delicate hues stained her cheeks in rapid transition.
- Little painters are always choosing their subjects and explaining that this or that may be pretty or interesting, but they will tell you it is "unpaintable"
- When Reckage asked Rennes whether he found Miss Carillon "unpaintable," the artist was conscious of a swift, piercing emotion, which passed, indeed, but left an ache.
- Lightmark had found it quite useless to protest, well as he knew that the ordinary French milliner can be warranted to succeed in producing a garment almost as unpaintable as a masculine black frock-coat.
- Millet was scorned in his day because he painted country clods in his pictures, stupid, boorish, unpaintable, unfit for the drawing room; and today the class who scorned them would pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to possess them.
- Second, Mr. Tuymans has dealt with some of the most dire episodes of modern history — notably the unspeakable (and unpaintable?) deeds of Nazi Germany, the racist cruelties of European colonialism, and 9/11 and its after-effects — all of which are represented here.
- IT was an hour before sunrise at Tolchaco and Bauer had awakened from a restful sleep and from the place where he lay in the Council Hogan he noted with pure enjoyment the splendid colour of the sky framed in the opening, the exquisite blending from the pearly grey into the unpaintable, soft moving colours that he had looked at with growing awe during many wonderful mornings in July.
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