0 not showing emotions or thoughts and therefore very difficult to understand or get to know: --
an inscrutable face/expression/smile
1 very difficult to understand or get to know: --
I doubt there is - or more to the point in these historical articles, was - anything more inscrutable or strange about the male than the female voice except in particular instances.
Nearly every foreigner that dealt with him found him inscrutable if sometimes charming in his own way.
Yet those narrative elements can be arranged in such a way as to be inscrutable, enigmatic or even nonsensical.
The production, which included sculpture, video projections, dancers and quite a lot of sand, was striking but like the libretto, ultimately inscrutable.
In this 'mix' configuration, foreign and indigenous sounds sometimes present themselves as inscrutable sound bites - snippets detached from their original musical and cultural contexts.
In the face of historical scrutiny the castrato will always remain somehow inscrutable, a figure enshrouded in mystery.
Perhaps so inscrutable, we are powerless to decode it.
Why is it necessary, and how it is possible, to validate belief in supernatural agent concepts that are logically and factually inscrutable?
