David Bowie

Searching for music is like searching for God. They're very similar. There's an effort to reclaim the unmentionable, the unsayable, the unseeable, the unspeakable, all those things, comes into being a composer and to writing music and to searching for notes and pieces of musical information that don't exist.

English Musician

There's an effort to reclaim the unmentionable, the unsayable, the unspeakable, all those things come into being a composer, into writing music, into searching for notes and pieces of musical information that don't exist.

Bjornstjerne Bjornson

The greater the burden a man takes upon his shoulders, the stronger he must be to carry it. No words are unmentionable, no action or horror beyond powers of description, if one is equal to them.

Norwegian Writer

Christopher Hitchens

The secular argument, or the liberal argument, is to as much as possible remove taboos so things do not become unmentionable; to let some air into the discussion.

American Author

Frank Rich

Nationalization, unmentionable only yesterday, has entered common usage not least because an even scarier word - depression - is next on America's list to avoid.

American Journalist

Johnny Vegas

We had a week off in the middle of shooting, but as soon as everyone stopped, we all went down with six different types of flu and other unmentionable diseases.

British Comedian

Use 'unmentionable' to refer to topics usually avoided in polite conversation.

Sensitive Subjects

What's considered 'unmentionable' can differ across cultures; be mindful of this.

Cultural Awareness

Be aware 'unmentionable' may indicate a topic is not just taboo, but painful to discuss.

Emotional Impact

'Unmentionable' as clothing often points to a period when referring directly to underwear was indecent.

Historical Euphemism

When used for clothing, it's generally in a casual or humorous context, not formal.

Colloquial Use

It can imply modesty or an old-fashioned way of avoiding direct talk about private garments.

Modesty Implications

 appreciate the true beauty of the grass genre is a cameraman therefore he has an eye for these things and that was pretty much all that you missed oh and that grass can hide all sorts of things leopards included and myself and most likely the tick that's probably as we speak making its way towards somewhere unmentionable upon me because now I've