Namable

The best that an individual can do is to recall "moments, years,/Solid with reality, faces, namable events, kisses, heroic acts,/... as though meaning could be cast aside some day/When it had been outgrown." ❋ Unknown (2009)

Last year, thevisible namable enemy to civilized people was GWB, so we fought him and his criminal policies. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In addition to sweet, salty, sour, and bitter we have umami--a savory taste intensifier that is the un-namable thing in many foods that makes us say "yum" and go back for seconds. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Staring at that mark, so many namable and unnamable thoughts and feelings rushed forward. ❋ Unknown (2008)

For of all the virtues namable among men, consider, and you will find there is not one but may be increased by learning and practice. ❋ Unknown (2007)

For you take utterly away the whole category of namable things, which constitute the substance of language; and leave only words and their accidental objects, while you take away in the meantime the things particularly signfied by them, by which are wrought disciplines, doctrines, preconceptions, intelligences, inclination, and assent, which you hold to be nothing at all. ❋ Unknown (2004)

And we must remember that all we do to connect the Gallery to its public comes back to this: We present experiences that sometimes seem un-namable, indefinable, something that we know when we see it, or feel it, something that we hold on to for ourselves when it is given to us, and that is the experience of the work of art. ❋ Unknown (1999)

Under the waves of fright, religious exaltation, berserker bravery, lust for power, and less namable emotions which each induced, he felt a mounting intellectual anger at such irresponsible wholesale tampering with the pharmacology of the mind for the sake of a momentary "experience"; but he knew that this kind of jolt -- breathing was anything but uncommon in the Shelter state. ❋ Blish, James (1953)

Oxford, were there no other namable place, is beyond us. ❋ Various (N/A)

Four men namable in that capacity are, Sir Lomer Gouin, Sir ❋ Domino (N/A)

There is nothing namable but that some men will undertake to do it for pay. ❋ Unknown (1924)

And at sight of him awoke in the woman's heart all of the old tenderness; handsome and brave and witty she knew him to be, past reason, as indeed the whole world knew him to be distinguished by every namable grace; and the innate weakness of de Gatinais, which she alone suspected, made him now seem doubly dear. ❋ James Branch Cabell (1918)

And at sight of him awoke in the woman's heart all the old tenderness; handsome and brave and witty she knew him to be, as indeed the whole world knew him to be distinguished by every namable grace; and the innate weakness of de ❋ James Branch Cabell (1918)

To possess virtue does not signify to have cultivated a few namable and exclusive traits; it means to be fully and adequately what one is capable of becoming through association with others in all the offices of life. ❋ Unknown (1916)

But all creation was remodelled on a grander scale by the utterances of my teachers; and my problems, though they deepened with the expansion of all namable phenomena, were carried up to the heights of the impersonal, and ceased to torment me. ❋ Unknown (1912)

The namable essence of things or the standard of values must always be an ideal figment; existence must always be an empirical fact. ❋ George Santayana (1907)