We humans have an immense appetite for complicated things, neuroscience, astrophysics and molecular biology of course, but also barely decipherable books, abstract works of art and avant-garde pieces of theatre without plot or character, all of which perhaps evoke the primordial puzzles of the universe and our own always ineffable existence within it. But our veneration for complexity can reach a most painful, time-consuming and futile zenith in one area in particular – relationships. It's here that we find otherwise discerning and hard-headed people exhibiting extreme patience, often lasting over a succession of tormented years, for what we can call complicated situations. The complexities may arise from some of the following dynamics. A beloved partner who wants to commit and surely will one day but not quite yet on account of this or that factor or not entirely because of certain psychological fears or not conclusively or at least not without certain important caveats. They may need space, freedom or what they call a chance to explore though quite what was still not wholly clear, though we have asked them on many occasions. Then a partner with whom there are a lot of misunderstandings, around whom words often lose their standard meanings, around whom we may have to spend hours untangling what was truly meant and around whom gestures or deeds that we previously thought uncontentious suddenly become the occasion for major surprising aggravations. Or a partner who in principle is there for us and in theory loves us very very much but in actuality – like last week and the week before that – is constantly remarkably busy, unable to respond to our texts, out with their compelling friends or concentrated on their always extremely demanding job. Or a partner with whom we sit up late at night on many occasions with a pad and paper to hand attempting to determine where the issues are coming from, what is at play and how things might be handled before, baffled and upset, we finally have to retreat to bed a little after 1am feeling fragile and tearful.

Philosophers call these ineffable raw feelings qualia.

Perhaps the best view to have on any one currency at any one point in time is ignorance, or at least deference to the gods of money who inhabit markets too deep and ineffable to fathom.

A spiritual experience is neither ineffable nor absurd.

the metaphor, it just... it opens us to the possibility of imagining the ineffable.

This book in all its forms has always brought forth its translator's internalized feelings about the vicissitudes of life, as well as inspired the hope to at last fully piece together this ineffable and true affection that took place on Taiwan Island and under the dictates of history and fate.

There was in the intonation of that "Oh, no" uttered after that "Oh, yes" an ineffable something which wounded Fleur-de-lie.

and from beneath her long, drooping black eyelashes there escaped a sort of ineffable light, which gave to her profile that ideal serenity which Raphaël found at the mystic point of intersection of virginity, maternity, and

We deeply sympathize with such frustrations, not being by nature particularly attracted to the ineffable or the mysterious.