How To Use Unanswerable In A Sentence
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He began to write rambling letters about black holes and plagued his mother with unanswerable questions.
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We present them the example of France as an unanswerable proof that one great nation can maintain bimetallism, and that by maintaining it she escaped the worst evils that have affected the monometallic countries, and assured for herself an extraordinary progress and prosperity.
If Not Silver, What?
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The knockout blows came from finding'the unanswerable question '.
Times, Sunday Times
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There were baffling, unanswerable teasers such as: why is a left foot either ‘trusty’ or ‘educated’ but a right foot is neither?
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Rather, it presents a collection of ideas and findings by people who have been grappling with big, unanswerable questions all their lives.
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It is rational, but scientifically unanswerable and hence uninteresting.
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Now, I understand not hereby those doctrinal reproofs when, in the dispensation of that word of grace and truth which is "profitable for correction and reproof," 2 Tim.iii. 16, they speak, and exhort, and "rebuke" the sins of men "with all authority," Tit.ii. 15; but the occasional application of the word unto individual persons, upon their unanswerableness in any thing unto the truth wherein they have been instructed.
The Sermons of John Owen
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The earlier versions are famously protracted and meditative, pondering unanswerable questions concerning life, death and desire.
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The case for better public transport is unanswerable .
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With his current superb form, he presents an unanswerable case for selection in the team.
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But I recommend this to you, — that if this be a truth, and we are convinced it is our duty to labour to affect our hearts with a sense of the unanswerableness of our souls, and the frame of our minds unto the will of God and the holiness of Christ, who is coming to visit his churches, — “What manner of persons ought we to be?”
Several Practical Cases of Conscience Resolved
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Nevertheless, it is a common error, which we shall meet again, to leap from the premise that the question of God's existence is in principle unanswerable to the conclusion that his existence and his non-existence are equiprobable.
The God Delusion
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The third question is unanswerable because the small print has not yet been published.
Times, Sunday Times
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The documentary obviously wanted to know why he did it, but for a while it looked as if the question would be unanswerable.
Times, Sunday Times
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Why City have not embraced this competition is one of football's great unanswerable questions.
The Sun
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The unanswerable question is why.
Times, Sunday Times
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What he would have done in life had he not found his niche in show business is the great unanswerable question.
Tommy Cooper: Always Leave Them Laughing
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She paced around her bedroom waiting for answers to questions which were unanswerable.
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So they can escape the righteousness of God, which they have provoked, they regard not their unanswerableness unto his holiness, whereby they are polluted.
Pneumatologia
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I cudgelled my wits for some other objection, and hit on one that seemed unanswerable.
THE NUMBERS
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Therefore all questions posed about entities outside the universe are ultimately unanswerable, though proposed answers vary in their plausibility.
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With his current superb form, he presents an unanswerable case for selection in the team.
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It is surely an unanswerable case that the future status and governance of the organisation - of any organisation - should be determined precisely by how it conducts itself.
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If God chargeth his very angels with folly, that is, an unanswerableness unto his infinite holiness and wisdom, -- what can poor mortal men expect, that dwell in houses of clay, that are crushed before the moth?
The Sermons of John Owen
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Why City have not embraced this competition is one of football's great unanswerable questions.
The Sun
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Thus, while the episode operates as a scene of instruction for the eponymous protagonist, the particular and necessarily stable sense of things on which Knightley’s instructions are predicated, is ultimately insufficient in dispelling a “social density that is unsortable, unexplainable, and [...] unanswerable to any discursive formation.”
Introduction to the Forum on the Box Hill
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To be of such authority that your verdict on every subject under heaven is absolute and final is without doubt to be in a proud position, but, like all proud positions, it bristles with pitfalls and drawbacks to the weak-kneed; and most of my conversations with the babies end in a sudden change of subject made necessary by the tendency of their remarks and the unanswerableness of their arguments.
The Solitary Summer
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Planudes may have invented some few fables, or have inserted some that were current in his day; but there is an abundance of unanswerable internal evidence to prove that he had an acquaintance with the veritable fables of Aesop, although the versions he had access to were probably corrupt, as contained in the various translations and disquisitional exercises of the rhetoricians and philosophers.
Fables
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People can be left feeling rejected, isolated and always having to deal with the unanswerable question of why.
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In a sense people are seeking, looking for answers to life's seemingly unanswerable questions.
Dictionary of Mind, Body and Spirit
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It is an unanswerable question without one crucial piece of information.
Times, Sunday Times
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The case for acting on the basis of good intelligence to discover and prevent terrorism is obviously unanswerable.
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He even considered the possibility of converting his uncle, and spent the Sunday evening before term began in framing inexpugnable arguments to be preceded by unanswerable questions; but always when he was on the point of speaking he was deterred by the lifelessness of his uncle.
The Altar Steps
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Because no attempts were made to re-interview informants, we are left with questions that are either unanswerable or the answers to which can only be deduced from other informants' replies.
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The knockout blows came from finding'the unanswerable question '.
Times, Sunday Times
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The documentary obviously wanted to know why he did it, but for a while it looked as if the question would be unanswerable.
Times, Sunday Times
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The case for mandatory reporting seems unanswerable.
Times, Sunday Times
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After drinking too much wine, and finding it a little difficult to type, the dizzy blonde returns to ponder the biggest, most unanswerable question of all, in every situation.
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What he would have done in life had he not found his niche in show business is the great unanswerable question.
Tommy Cooper: Always Leave Them Laughing
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He's getting great bumps over his eyes, and learning to ask the most unanswerable questions.
Little Women
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There are one or two in the know who think me "venturesome" but, after all, is not "nothing venture nothing win" an unanswerable retort?
Gallipoli Diary, Volume I
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I'm going to ask Dick the unanswerable show business question, what works?
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Why don't you spend more time writing what you're supposed to be writing, and less time making up unanswerable questions that make us look like we don't know what we're talking about?
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These questions are not unanswerable.
Warfare in the Twentieth Century
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Yet, in our view, such problems are answerable whereas the scientific evidence for an old Earth and old universe seems unanswerable.
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It is an unanswerable question without one crucial piece of information.
Times, Sunday Times
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They spoke of the masque that night, and one man dispraised it with cutting phrases that seemed unanswerable.
Wildfire
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Although the initial horror has passed, the news cycle-with its insatiable appetite, continues to demand to be fed with more stories, more coverage, more answers to unanswerable questions.
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The third question is unanswerable because the small print has not yet been published.
Times, Sunday Times
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The question, though, that I m asking, is not so much how these crimes are handled - it s more the unanswerable question of why are these crimes happening?
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Or, to speak more strictly, the insane explanation, if not conclusive, is at least unanswerable; this may be observed specially in the two or three commonest kinds of madness.
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I see religion as only a way of asking unanswerable questions, of sharing the joy of a community of quest, and solacing one another in our ignorance.
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They would ask their mother unanswerable questions.
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In economic terms the need to reduce inflation is unanswerable.
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He's getting great bumps over his eyes, and learning to ask the most unanswerable questions.
Little Women
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Thus, while the episode operates as a scene of instruction for the eponymous protagonist, the particular and necessarily stable sense of things on which Knightley’s instructions are predicated, is ultimately insufficient in dispelling a “social density that is unsortable, unexplainable, and [...] unanswerable to any discursive formation.”
Introduction to the Forum on the Box Hill
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The GMPTE will continue to press what it sees as an unanswerable economic case that the Metrolink extension provides the best solution.
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I would venture to suggest, that for many families, the notebooks they clutch in their sweaty hands are often more like prayer books that help them search for answers to the often unanswerable questions they face.
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In economic terms the need to reduce inflation is unanswerable.
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Having just returned from Iceland - a country which sits on top of the site where the two tectonic plates of Europe and America meet - I feel I have confronted evidence which makes the case for global warming virtually unanswerable.
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The political argument for restraint is straightforward and, it seems to me, unanswerable.
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The only person who could feasibly answer such unanswerable questions would be an actual dead author.
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She is not in thrall to any overarching theory, so the questions she asks remain cogent, real and often unanswerable.
Times, Sunday Times
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None of these questions is unanswerable.
Times, Sunday Times
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Second is the unanswerable question of which Romans made and consumed comedy.
Smithsonian Mag
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She is not in thrall to any overarching theory, so the questions she asks remain cogent, real and often unanswerable.
Times, Sunday Times
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an unanswerable argument
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The more our media toes the ANC party line and offers no investigation or resistance, the more we are left with a true one-party state, unquestioned, unchallenged and unanswerable to its people.
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But its final gesture is insinuating and unanswerable.
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The Crown's case here that they would be in an impossible position if they had to prove both dishonesty and carelessness seems to me unanswerable.
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And so we're going to be faced with all these unanswerable questions, and maybe we won't learn some of the lessons.
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In economic terms the need to reduce inflation is unanswerable.
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Ikey recognized the unanswerableness of the argument.
Apron-Strings
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It is the unanswerable question.
Times, Sunday Times
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But yet, notwithstanding all this, Solomon himself, in his prayer at the dedication of that house, 1 Kings viii. 27, seems to intimate that there was some check upon his spirit, considering the unanswerableness of the house to the great majesty of God.
The Sermons of John Owen
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By contrast, the exhibition puts forward an unanswerable case for collaborative scholarship and public ownership.
The Times Literary Supplement
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The case is unanswerable, though the politics are horrid.
Times, Sunday Times
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So, in short, the things that (IMO) made Firefly bad sci fi were: too much sex, not balancing sex with other aspects of human relationships, failure to address the classic problems of the genre (such as FTL travel and terraforming), too much preachiness (for gay rights and for a "naturalistic" worldview, ie atheism), and clumsy treatment of the role of religion in human interactions and the big unanswerable questions.
June 2007
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Thus the claim by Guinness for repayment is unanswerable.
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They would ask their mother unanswerable questions.
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Of course I made it clever and brilliant and all that, with my little unanswerable slings at the state and my social paradoxes, and withal made it concrete enough to dissatisfy the average citizen.
Local Color
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Second is the unanswerable question of which Romans made and consumed comedy.
Smithsonian Mag
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But that is unknowable, the unanswerable question.
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The knockout blows came from finding'the unanswerable question '.
Times, Sunday Times
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Whether or not that makes him less of a French writer may be an unanswerable question.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Someone has got to answer the unanswerable question.
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I struggle to accept that she is gone and ask unanswerable questions such as: why her?
Times, Sunday Times
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Dalyell's arguments for immediate recall of parliament seem to me to be unanswerable.
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His arguments against the nefarious war were unanswered and unanswerable.
Red Coats and Rebels - the war for America 1770-1781
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I feel far more comfortable concluding a sermon with an inspired call to arms than with an unanswered and perhaps unanswerable question.
Christianity Today
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Up until now, “Why would anyone want to own all three films in the Matrix trilogy?” has been one of those unanswerable questions like “what happens to you after you die?” best puzzled over by absinth-sotted philosophers.
Matrix Trilogy comes in neat toy Nebuchadnezzar | My[confined]Space
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I could not even defend myself, because the charge of racism and racial insensitivity is ultimately unanswerable.
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The lingering, large question is whether Giffords will be able and wanting to return to her work as a third-term congresswoman, and when, but her doctors say that question is unanswerable, for now.
First photos of Gabrielle Giffords released
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They need not accept as unknowable and unanswerable the mystery that entered their lives, almost destroyed them, and turned their worlds upside down.
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MP] assumes its points of contention - some valid, some invalid - are under its terms and conditions unanswerable and unassailable.
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Likewise, wherever you study, there's always the unanswerable question of whether it would have been better done somewhere else.
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But ask them we must, for the human barbarian seeks explanations & meaning for what is inexplicable & unanswerable in the terms our puny brain can understand.
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It perhaps remains an unanswerable question since disciplines of knowledge and their institutional base are infinitely varied and certainly without straightforward, linear pathways.
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The unanswered questions may be unanswerable, but the attempt should be made.
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The knockout blows came from finding'the unanswerable question '.
Times, Sunday Times
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The case is unanswerable, though the politics are horrid.
Times, Sunday Times
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I think he just thought that was an unanswerable, unarguable position - as indeed it is.
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If - I have to use that word again, since the messages remain mixed - this is indeed what happens, it really will be an unanswerable demonstration that the game is up for worthwhile reform under Labour.
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I struggle to accept that she is gone and ask unanswerable questions such as: why her?
Times, Sunday Times
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The only unanswerable anti-war argument was the generally conservative, Little England case that it is no longer in Britain's interests to tag along behind the United States.
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This celebration conveys its own hypnotic delight, inviting us to suspend unanswerable questions about its ultimate purpose.
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Some have described him as a maverick, a colourful figure who rails against the evil of over-centralised administration and unanswerable power.
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The unanswerableness of Mr. Ryan's words, and the implacable certainty which forced itself into every heart, that he spoke but the truth, did not, however, make the company less inclined to oppose the utilitarian view he took of the tragedy.
Muslin
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To manifest the inconsistency of such a procedure, and the unanswerableness of it to the infinite wisdom of God (though the Scriptures expressly deliver it in innumerable places, as hath been shown), is that which by Mr Goodwin is in this discourse attempted.
The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed
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These questions are not unanswerable.
Warfare in the Twentieth Century
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It is the unanswerable question.
Times, Sunday Times
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And even as you hear yourself ask, ‘Who is the fairest’, you realise that you have invited in so many other unanswerable questions.
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But the death penalty is kept off the statute books by the one unanswerable and non-politically partisan argument against it.
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As it turned out, about six of the questions were unanswerable, unless you wanted to boil down your various views to a yea or nay.
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To borrow Emma's prophetic statement, "[Frank's] gallantry is really unanswerable" (III. vii, 333), and in the aftermath of Box Hill no account surfaces that can explain fully his motives or his part in the flirtation.
Unanswerable Gallantry and Thick-Headed Nonsense: Rereading Box Hill
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The unanswerable question is why.
Times, Sunday Times
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Whether or not that makes him less of a French writer may be an unanswerable question.
The Times Literary Supplement
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The closet things, the dominant pattern are usually unanswerable.
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By contrast, the exhibition puts forward an unanswerable case for collaborative scholarship and public ownership.
The Times Literary Supplement
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None of these questions is unanswerable.
Times, Sunday Times
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I feel far more comfortable concluding a sermon with an inspired call to arms than with an unanswered and perhaps unanswerable question.
Christianity Today
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We cannot evade Philosophy by immoderately pleading our human frailty and the sharpness of pain: Philosophy is merely constrained to have recourse to her unanswerable counterplea: ‘Living in necessity is bad: but at least there is no necessity that you should go on doing so.’
Evil is Good « So Many Books
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His arguments against the nefarious war were unanswered and unanswerable.
Red Coats and Rebels - the war for America 1770-1781
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The case is surely unanswerable.
Times, Sunday Times
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The case is surely unanswerable.
Times, Sunday Times
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In a sense people are seeking, looking for answers to life's seemingly unanswerable questions.
Dictionary of Mind, Body and Spirit
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To free us from this miscarriage also, this unanswerableness unto the mind of God in his present dispensation, we may consider, --
The Sermons of John Owen
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In economic terms the need to reduce inflation is unanswerable.