0 the quality of not showing emotions or thoughts and therefore being very difficult to understand or get to know:
The play's brevity and inscrutability give it a certain power.
They accused him of deliberate inscrutability.
His response was delivered with characteristic inscrutability.
Robin has an inscrutability to her so that you never quite know what she's thinking.
How then does it cope with characters who are defined by reticence and inscrutability?
Inscrutability and strangeness, and the distance (and tensions) between onstage and offstage masculinities, are two ideas that emerge from our pieces.
Yet the inscrutability of her presentation makes a statement nevertheless about the obstructive strength of social construction.
This combination of inscrutability and strangeness takes on different forms across the century.
Few other operas, if any, have confronted the issue of inscrutability and illegibility with such directness or invention.
