Deep silence fell upon the assemblage, only broken by suppressed titters at the uncouth names and bourgeois qualifications which each of these persons transmitted with imperturbable gravity to the usher who proceeded to hurl name and title unrecognisably mixed and mutilated, at the crowd below. ❋ Unknown (1917)
From declarations of war down to operational priorities, choices were made that could have resulted in an almost unrecognisably different conflict. ❋ Maxine (2007)
Rosé from here – as from everywhere (except California, which sells the most) – are unrecognisably better than a few years ago. ❋ Unknown (2009)
And so to is – an almost unrecognisably overweight – John Heard who makes for a pretty scary and obnoxious racist pig of a sheriff. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Even the Times editors themselves, in an editorial printed yesterday, lament that the U.S. has become unrecognisably lawless and inhumane. ❋ Unknown (2008)
When the poor boy comes back down with the sacred lion's breath upon him he is transformed unrecognisably into a Stepford brother, well and truly purged. ❋ Unknown (2005)
And the late John Ritter in his final live action film role is unrecognisably oily and demonstrates how missed he will be. ❋ Unknown (2004)
If this makes us afraid, the Christian will say, that is because at some level we are afraid of ourselves, of what we really are and might be; afraid of a destiny for human beings more glorious than we could imagine; afraid that we may have to change our lives unrecognisably in order truly to become ourselves. ❋ Unknown (2003)
It was a solemn and stately lumbering of incredibly and bizarrely modified coiffure and unrecognisably tattered clothing, an otherworldly and Stygian celebrazione of lurching bodies, and staringly virgin eyes anomalously inserted into nigger-minstrel faces. ❋ De Bernieres, Louis (2003)
Martin hadn't been that bad the night before, and seemed unrecognisably placid tonight too. ❋ Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- (2001)
In 41 instances, the gender was unknown either because the bodies were burnt beyond recognition or unrecognisably mutilated. ❋ Unknown (1999)
Bill The Hollander made for his enemy, raising perpendicularly ten feet in air the unrecognisably dented summit of the pipe which his colossal fists easily encompassed, the muscles in his treelike arms rolling beneath the chemise like balloons. ❋ Unknown (1928)
Some of them were almost unrecognisably changed by the prison dress, others I was distressed to see looked extremely ill, but, as the news spread amongst them of my presence, they looked my way in turn and gave me a welcoming smile that momentarily changed prison into paradise. ❋ Unknown (1914)
A single glance through the curtains showed the grating untenanted; and boldly poking his head forth, he looked down to see the figure of the gunman, foreshortened unrecognisably, moving down the iron tangle already several flights below, singularly resembling a spider in some extraordinary web. ❋ Louis Joseph Vance (1906)
Indeed the author was reduced to showing us the results of the bad man's change of heart and leaving us to imagine the processes, these being worked out in the interval between two Acts by means of a fortnight's physical collapse, from which he emerges unrecognisably reformed. ❋ Various (1898)
For some time past I had heard the ringing of cattle-bells ahead; and now, as I came out of the skirts of the wood, I saw near upon a dozen cows and perhaps as many more black figures, which I conjectured to be children, although the mist had almost unrecognisably exaggerated their forms. ❋ Unknown (1879)
