How To Use Incurable In A Sentence

‘I find most skeptics to be incurable optimists,’ Hyde continues.
Here, hundreds of millions of men, women and children are suffering from an incurable disease, chronic arsonicosis, and millions more are at risk.
Being the incurable stickybeak that I am, I went back thru the archives ’til I found the thread you mentioned. Cheeseburger Gothic » Newly renovated Ladies Lounge.
Showing little progress and imposing a burden on educators and their resources, the incurables were gradually abandoned in favor of those who showed more promise.
John's ex-wife is also hospitalized, with incurable cancer.

You're a hopeless/incurable romantic.
The incurable condition is caused by inflammation blocking intestines. The Sun
There were some suggested improvements, including building up the growing love between the plumber and the undine, mentioning earlier that undines are incurable romantics, and changing the plumber's ex (who shows up several times) into several separate exes to demonstrate the plumber's previous personal history. 6/18/08: Taos Toolbox, days 10-11: Some have broken under the strain of it
Neurologists are often accused of being interested in only rare incurable diseases.
It is the profound, incurable, and inextirpable bigotry of the English people, to which they will not hesitate to sacrifice the national honour, the public happiness, their own liberties, and their own consciences ... .... Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846
Suddenly the writer remembers the nameless malady of the poor — that mysterious disease which the rich share but cannot alleviate, which is too subtle for doctors, too incurable for Parliaments, too unpicturesque for philanthropy, too common even for sympathy. The Greatest Thing in the World And Other Addresses
But Hashemi believed that ultimately this would not solve the problem, which he described as incurable, between the Taliban government and the United States. Israelated - English Israel blogs
He responds with the optimism and fervour of the incurable romantic.
Incurable diseases are being treated and cured by unauthorised self-styled doctors who have learned from their ancestors.
Within its walls, researchers from Columbia, Harvard Medical School, the Salk Institute and others are studying embryonic cells in an effort to overcome an incurable fatal disease called amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease. Stem-Cell Researchers
She has been diagnosed with blepharospasm, an incurable condition affecting a handful of people. The Sun
MS is an incurable disease that attacks the central nervous system causing severe disability.
He has an incurable and widespread nepotism.
The disease is incurable in about half of patients at presentation.
Most of the problems associated with chronic or incurable illness, being social issues, require interventions by communities.
Himself an indefatigable collector of books, the possessor of a library as valuable as it was interesting, a library containing volumes obtained only at the cost of great personal sacrifice, he was in the most active sympathy with the disease called bibliomania, and knew, as few comparatively poor men have known, the half-pathetic, half-humorous side of that incurable mental infirmity. The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac
: The term medical marijuana took on dramatic new meaning in February, 2000 when researchers in Madrid announced they had destroyed incurable brain tumors in rats by injecting them with THC, the active ingredient in cannabis. RVABlogs
an incurable addiction to smoking
Around 400,000 Britons suffer from the incurable disease. The Sun
These foolish, forgotten things have turned this robot into an incurable romantic. Times, Sunday Times
An incurable optimist, I have every faith that technology will rid itself of its maladies and go on to create a better world.
Parkinson's disease is a debilitating and incurable disease of the nervous system.
Walter explains to Astrid (and the viewers) that Project Elephant was a military experiment that looked for a way to camoflauge soldiers from the naked eye, but what the scientists didn't account for was that the experiments led to an incurable genetic disorder (aka the deformities). From Inside the Box
This is one of the things that has given nervous diseases such a bad name for unmanageableness and incurableness, and that for years made us regard their study as so nearly hopeless, so far as any helpful results were concerned. Preventable Diseases
Many of those who support human embryonic stem-cell research do so for the best of motives, to try and find cures for incurable diseases.
The condition, which is currently incurable, ultimately leads to premature death.
An incurable optimist, I have every faith that technology will rid itself of its maladies and go on to create a better world.
She was already seriously ill after being told she has incurable lung disease. The Sun
The nine-year-old has xeroderma pigmentosum, an incurable and rare genetic disorder that creates cancerous growths on her face and makes exposure to sunlight very dangerous. The Sun
Suzanne experienced such a setback when she was diagnosed with benign essential blepharospasm, a rare, incurable neurological disorder. Muffins and Mayhem
Too young in her life she saw her own age group dying of incurable diseases, like cystic fibrosis. Times, Sunday Times
I am an incurable optimist. Times, Sunday Times
the king's incurable indecisiveness caused turmoil in his court
an incurable seer of movies
Poor old William is an incurable romantic.
This was quite confusing for his friends, who excused him by saying he was an incurable romantic. Times, Sunday Times
He was, incongruously, an incurable gossip, careful to label rumour for what it was, but fascinated by it…
Therefore I will not doubt to note as a deficience, that they inquire not the perfect cures of many diseases, or extremities of diseases; but pronouncing them incurable do enact a law of neglect, and exempt ignorance from discredit. The Advancement of Learning
Juvenal wrote that an incurable itch for scribbling cacoethes scribendi takes possession of many, and grows inveterate in their insane breast. Tracking Route 128….D.C. Churbuck Reports
Symptoms of the disease include tremors, slow movement and stiff muscles - and it is currently incurable. The Sun
For Alzheimer's sufferers, the medical care is personal care, since it is an incurable degenerative disease.
From the early twentieth century many psychiatrists began to establish private practices in the belief that asylums had become repositories for the incurable.
an incurable disease
Devotees hold that any incurable disease will be cured and any desire will be fulfilled by pilgrimaging to this temple.
By delaying conventional treatment, a curable condition could progress to an incurable stage.
In other words, the distress that we feel when noting that many priests and many bishops interpret (our) Catholic faith and (our) divine liturgy, which is the final expression of that faith, as not being in “continuity” with its millenary tradition (something which Your Holiness has explained more than once), but in open and incurable “discontinuity”. WE BEG YOU, HOLY FATHER, DO NOT LEAVE US ALONE!
Must go to invite doctor, Otherwise these casualties were incurable.
There are incurable diseases in medicine, incorrigible vices in the ministry, insoluble cases in law.
This predictability of the dying phase is not always as clear in other chronic incurable diseases.
He is raising money through sponsorship for a charity which supports people suffering from nystagmus, an incurable eye condition.
an incurable optimist
They have here also the amphisbaena, or two-headed snake, of a grey colour, mixed with blackish stripes, whose bite is reckoned to be incurable. A Voyage to New Holland
His GP told him his disease was progressive and incurable. Times, Sunday Times
With incurable optimism went a sense of power and vast reserves of energy encompassing the continent.
Parkinson's disease is a debilitating and incurable disease of the nervous system.
I could have been President, or the doctor who finds the cure for some incurable disease or anything else I ever set my mind to.
Normally considered incurable in allopathy, it took Dr. Kabra 14 years of dedicated hard work to lay claim to having finally found a cure for leucoderma.
On the other hand, aphids can infect raspberries with incurable virus diseases, and blackcurrant reversion is spread by big-bud mites.
The lues venerea can only be said to be incurable when the disease is got to that deplorable point by neglect, that the emaciated and hectic state of the patient's constitution forbids the use of mercury.
Fooled into thinking John was suffering from an incurable brain tumour, the friend, known as Mark, agreed to the killing as a mercy mission.
But age doth not rectify, but incurvate [96] our natures, turning bad dispositions into worser habits, and (like diseases,) brings on incurable vices; for every day as we grow weaker in age, we grow stronger in sin, and the number of our days doth but make our sins innumerable. Religio Medici
Even in cases of incurable cancer, palliative or experimental therapy may improve quality and extent of life.
We shall no longer have to plan and toil to spread imperturbable conceit and incurable ignorance among men.
In this week's program we hear the personal stories of three people who have been struck down with the incurable illness Motor Neurone Disease.
They are searching for a cure for the incurable, which is why the family you're about to meet is about to go to China really responding only to the promises on a Web site. CNN Transcript Jun 3, 2009
Ain't that some incurable disease like hydrophobia?
They came of gentry stock, and their father exhibited one of the occasional weaknesses of that origin - an incurable optimism in money matters which left him penniless.
Devotees hold that any incurable disease will be cured and any desire will be fulfilled by pilgrimaging to this temple.
An emergency motion filed with the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago says Ryan's wife went into septic shock, a complication of her treatment for what the motion describes as incurable cancer of the lungs, back, pelvis, ribs and liver. Ex-Governor George Ryan's Wife In Intensive Care
But age doth not rectify, but incurvate our natures, turning bad dispositions into worser habits, and (like diseases) brings on incurable vices; for every day, as we grow weaker in age, we grow stronger in sin, and the number of our days doth but make our sins innumerable. Religio Medici
Fatal and incurable neurodegenerative disease caused by a dominant mutation that invariably causes disease. Times, Sunday Times
Neither his incurable curiosity nor his exotic imagination knew any bounds.
Allfou and the rest of incurables and the last of immurables, the quaggy waag for stumbling. Finnegans Wake
The nine-year-old has xeroderma pigmentosum, an incurable and rare genetic disorder that creates cancerous growths on her face and makes exposure to sunlight very dangerous. The Sun
To Tom Wolfe, a dandy with an incurable bout of logorrhoea, words are like chips in Las Vegas.
KATHERINE ARIEL BURGESS, "KATE-: Kate is a native Auroran, banished from her homeworld because of an incurable disease. Suspicion
It is an incurable congenital condition, due in its total form to absence of the enzyme tyrosinase, which is required for melanin to be synthesized in specialized cells - the melanocytes.
But although symptoms can lie dormant for 70 years, on average incurable mesothelioma takes between 10 and 30 years to develop.
Sciaticaes lime-kills ith 'palme, incurable bone-ach, and the riveled fee sim-ple of the tetter, take and take againe such preposterous discoveries. The Historie of Troylus and Cresseida (1609 Edition)
He ministered in mercy to the suffering, ministered healing to the incurable, ministered deliverance to those in bondage, ministered forgiveness to the fallen!
Why should people who have got incurable diseases or who are in pain every hour, every minute, every second of the day go on needlessly suffering?
Spinal muscular atrophy makes muscles waste away and is incurable.
I've mentioned before his incurable optimism and general good will and positive attitudes.
But Françoise suffered from one of those peculiar, permanent, incurable defects, which we call maladies; she was never able either to read or to announce the time correctly. The Captive
He established one of the first licensed fetal-tissue banks in the country, collecting pancreases for research that may lead to cures for incurable diseases.
At the medical-pharmaceutical-political blog Black Triangle this entry, Incurable tyrants, mentions an interesting historical diagnosis: that Adolf Hitler suffered from the long-term effects of encephalitis lethargica (aka 'sleepy sickness' or von Economo's encephalitis), whose delayed sequel was a severe syndrome of parkinsonism, memorably featured in the Oliver Sacks book and film Awakenings. Archive 2004-07-01
Euthanasia is defined as the painless killing of a patient suffering from an incurable, painful disease.
Cutting out the diseased places and treating aseptically may be useful in light cases, but badly infected trees are incurable, in the present state of our knowledge. Manual of Gardening (Second Edition)
Infinitely understated but eminently sophisticated, this album is a treat made for incurable romantics to love unreservedly.
She has a rare, incurable disease.
The deficiency of the catamenia in these cases may be looked upon as incurable.
Vulnerable to the attack,who are incurable.
Parkinson's disease is a debilitating and incurable disease of the nervous system.
Patients with rare or incurable diseases often want doctors to be able to try untested drugs or treatment on them. The Sun
We have been in the present house for 35 years, and as an inveterate and incurable hoarder I have been faced with the need to sort things out, and decide quickly what must be kept, and what can sensibly be thrown out at last.
What about those tales where the whole ship falls sick with some incurable disease?
Or perhaps he is shot with a Winchester rifle, this being the usual mode of despatching a friend who has asked another to put him out of the world on account, perhaps, of some trifling but troublesome ailment such as earache or neuralgia, which the sufferer imagines to be incurable. [ From Paris to New York by Land
Gnawed within and scorched without, with the infixed, unrelenting fangs of some incurable idea; such an one, could he be found, would seem the very man to dart his iron and lift his lance against the most appalling of all brutes. Moby Dick; or the Whale
We are dealing with women that we would classify as incurable patients. CNN Transcript Apr 4, 2009
When he realised his disease was incurable he retired to pursue his interests and spend time with his young family.
But their puissance cannot conceal their incurable inferiority.
The emergency motion filed with the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago says Ryan's wife went into septic shock, a complication of her treatment for what the motion describes as incurable cancer of the lungs, back, pelvis, ribs and liver. George Ryan Asks To Visit Gravely Ill Wife, Lura Lynn
Anyhow, love is an incurable malady, like those diathetic states in which rheumatism affords the sufferer a brief respite only to be replaced by epileptiform headaches. The Captive
According to one theory, the incurable disease might be linked to pesticides used on football pitches. Times, Sunday Times
All three babies were born with an incurable heart condition.
He is a great talker, a charming and incurable optimist, and everything is grist to his mill.
Pulmonary arterial hypertension is a rare, incurable disease of poor prognosis.
There are no such things as incurable, there are only things for which man has not found a cure. Bernard Baruch, American economist.
Ultimately, he is surprisingly reminiscent of the incurable sentimentalist, forever seeking comfort and reassurance for his damaged inner child.
Charles was diagnosed with chronic mucocutaneous candidiasis, an incurable condition which means he cannot fight off the infection which causes thrush.
AN uncle of the three young brothers battling an incurable brain disease pleaded guilty yesterday to stealing 2,000 from their trust fund. The Sun
But the claim that a product can cure an incurable disease should sound alarms.
A rocky relationship is unlikely to be saved by the crushing blow of chronic incurable illness.
The 66-year-old had an incurable brain condition called cerebellar ataxia. BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition
Folly is an incurable disease.
Palamon's appeal to his kinsman for a last word, "if his heart, _his worthy, manly heart_" (an exact and typical example of Fletcher's tragically prosaic and prosaically tragic dash of incurable commonplace), A Study of Shakespeare
Longing to be in the Heimat causes the incurable disease of Heimweh. Archive 2008-05-01
Neither his incurable curiosity nor his exotic imagination knew any bounds.
Almost immediately, they stumble into a raw spectrox nest that quickly infects them with spectrox toxemia - an almost incurable, fatal disease.
The hospital - which has more than 2,000 fundraisers - was first opened as a cancer pavilion and home for incurables in 1892, but was renamed The Christie Hospital in 1901 in recognition of the pioneering work of both Mr and Mrs Christie.
There are two kinds of dropsy, the one anasarca, which, when formed, is incurable; the other is accompanied with emphysema On Regimen In Acute Diseases
Of course this isn't remotely like being told you have an incurable disease and have only months to live. Times, Sunday Times
Same with HIV, where, as with any other fatal, incurable infection, it should have been treated as what's called a notifiable disease, carriers isolated immediately to protect the rest of the population. Deltoid
Patients with rare or incurable diseases often want doctors to be able to try untested drugs or treatment on them. The Sun
At the age of 58, he has the incurable asbestos-related cancer mesothelioma and could have only months left to live.
To this end, those too ill and considered incurable were not admitted. The Times Literary Supplement
Or maybe I'm just an incurable romantic. Times, Sunday Times
She was herself ill, with incurable anaemia. Times, Sunday Times
Symptoms of the disease include tremors, slow movement and stiff muscles - and it is currently incurable. The Sun
Triage will take one look at me and stick me with the rest of the incurables.
A deaf person, more often than not, delays seeking medical help, partly due to the wrong notion that his condition is incurable.
I could wish, indeed, that the word scold might be changed for some more gentle term, of equal signification; because I am convinced, that the very name is as offensive to female ears, as the effects of that incurable distemper are to the ears of the men; which, to be sure, is inexpressible. The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. - Volume 07 Historical and Political Tracts-Irish
What about those tales where the whole ship falls sick with some incurable disease?
Call me an incurable optimist, but it does happen.
Neither Joyce's finally intended "indubitable" nor his earliest "incurable" are mentioned in the synopsis. The Scandal of 'Ulysses'
The track record for winning anything was pretty poor, but I'm an incurable optimist.
Apart from the bankers, there was Charlotte de Rothschild (1819-1884) who founded the Home for Aged Incurables and the Jews' Emigration Society; Nathaniel de Rothschild (1812-1870), who bought the land near Bordeaux that became the Château Mouton Rothschild vineyards; and Arthur de Rothschild (1851-1903), a philatelist. Great dynasties of the world: The Rothschilds
To Tom Wolfe, a dandy with an incurable bout of logorrhoea, words are like chips in Las Vegas.
The neurological condition is incurable and occurs when the protective sheath surrounding the nerve fibres in the brain and spinal cord is damaged.
Our beautiful, kind and elegant mum suffered from myasthenia gravis, an incurable muscle wasting disease. Times, Sunday Times
All three babies were born with an incurable heart condition.
To find out how his intervention affected individuals, he substituted a correlative design for a study of 22 patients with various kinds of supposedly incurable cancer.
He is suffering from an incurable skin disease.
She was a plump middle aged woman with a cherubic face and an incurable knack for gossip.
Recall that 6 POUNDS of uranium fuel clogging a resin line in the standby demineralizer caused the accident, that lousy core had done an incurable job on the plant well before water got sucked into the stupidly designed instrumentation air supply (tripping both main and emergency feedwater supplies). 1000 Architects and Engineers
He is suffering from an incurable skin disease.
Hughes is well cast as the sympathetic, Candide-like Simon, an incurable optimist who talks about hopelessness without quite grasping the concept himself.
Although an incurable enthusiast, Crampsey nevertheless cannot be optimistic about the future of football in Scotland.
She has a rare, incurable disease.
Why spend a lot of money hunting down the cause of an incurable malady when it isn't going to make any difference in the outcome?
Yet it appears by a subsequent letter, that the grievances of which the General complained so bitterly, were not cured even by the presence of the Chevalier; that those who had made a pretext of his absence to complain and despond, desponded still, and that, in fact, the malady was so deep-seated as to be incurable. Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume I.
The details of their lives reach his ears in the discordant strains of barking seals, tubercular incurables, lowing cattle, bawling mourners, and want-to-be pundits.
Patients with HIV often progress to full-blown Aids, which is still incurable and is no respecter of age or sexual orientation.
Then he spoils his image as an incurable romantic with a blokish aside.
Thus most educated and uneducated groups sought and held sufficient biomedical knowledge to understand that diabetes was incurable and to commit to biomedical management.
“What an incurable cheeseparer you are, Marcus Crassus!” said Caesar, laughing. Fortune's Favorites
He is suffering from an incurable skin disease.
Such local dilatation at this point of the veins is incurable, but there are also hard tumors like scirrhus and malignant tumors, and those of great size. Old-Time Makers of Medicine The Story of The Students And Teachers of the Sciences Related to Medicine During the Middle Ages
For an incurable optimist like me, the Wallabies showed enough to keep me hopeful that they really can retain the World Cup as long as all the cards fall the right way.
During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, consumption was considered incurable by most people, patients and physicians alike.
For these reasons, she is an incurable hysteric.
About 600 people throughout the world suffer from the incurable FOP.
At some point in time, every so-called incurable disease has been cured. The Secret® to Teen Power
At last I discovered a cure for phthisis, which is also known as Phthoe, a disease for many centuries deemed incurable, and I healed many who are alive to this day as easily as I have cured the Jerome Cardan A Biographical Study
Almost immediately, they stumble into a raw spectrox nest that quickly infects them with spectrox toxemia - an almost incurable, fatal disease.
According to one theory, the incurable disease might be linked to pesticides used on football pitches. Times, Sunday Times
Before the untenable becomes the incurable. The Sun
His GP told him his disease was progressive and incurable. Times, Sunday Times
We assume that mental ability or disability is a part of an individual's make-up, and therefore that what is congenital is also largely incurable.
Must go to invite doctor, Otherwise these casualties were incurable.
Sigmund Freud echoed such views, while suffering from incurable cancer of the palate.
He was the one everyone always called the incurable optimist. Project Everlasting
Amongst the rest, this and madness after a set time comes to many, which he calls a miraculous thing in nature, and sticks for ever to them as an incurable habit. Anatomy of Melancholy
A man may have bitterly repented and thoroughly reformed the sin of drunkenness, and by this genuine 'metanoia' and faith in Christ crucified have obtained forgiveness of the guilt, and yet continue to suffer a heavy punishment in a schirrous liver or incurable dyspepsy. The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Bertie is fed horror stories about how white men are kai-kai'd on Guadalcanar; he is given to understand that the cook on board his ship is stewing human flesh on the galley fire; he learns of the value of white men's heads; and at Reminge Plantation on Guadalcanar is fooled into believing he had been poisoned by native substances, incurable except by drinking large amounts of gin. “Some day, all the fools will be dead....”
That will change once people living with the incurable disease - for which there is still no vaccine - gain access to increasingly affordable, life prolonging antiretroviral drugs, it said.
A saint who dwells in a paroxysm of abnegation is a dangerous neighbor; he might communicate to you, by contagion, an incurable poverty, an anchylosis of the joints, which are useful in advancement, and in short, more renunciation than you desire; and this infectious virtue is avoided. Les Miserables
Or what if he gets a toothache or needs an appendectomy or is bringing some incurable tropical disease over here with him?
Her partner was an incurable optimist and also a firm believer in hope, and Drea knew that if it weren't for her sake, Kiremay would have kept going until the ends of the world.
Vulnerable to the attack,who are incurable.
There are signs of improvement, but only an incurable optimist would conclude that the game is in rude health.

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