How To Use Unbearable In A Sentence
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The pain is as unbearable as it was a year ago.
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Then you start to tuck into your breakfast but have to give in after two or three mouthfuls because the pain of chewing and then swallowing the food becomes unbearable.
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He falls into a stupor, into utter oblivion of the world about him, becomes in turn excited and confused, his senses begin to functionate in a fallacious manner, and he thus succeeds in shutting out from consciousness, for the time being at least, the entire unbearable situation.
Studies in Forensic Psychiatry
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In the pictures his pride and pleasure are almost unbearable to look at.
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During the first twenty minutes or so, I wasn't sure I would make it through the entire movie -- it was, I thought, similar in style to a kind of movie I find unbearable: a style based on long handheld shots, a soundtrack that contains little or no music and lots of environmental sounds characters breathing, eating, walking, and a general attitude that seems to fetishize "artlessness", though offers little to replace the art it so disdains.
4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days
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The uncertainty is unbearable!
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It was impossible to hear anything over the deafening crashing of the desks or the unbearable exploding of the hallways.
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A musty aroma of hunter's stew filled her nostrils, and the sour smell of soggy, rotten straw was almost unbearable all of a sudden.
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They claim attacks - often referred to as "beastings" - were unbearable.
Undefined
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The shrill whine and unbearable thunder of falling bombs dug in under my skin and stayed there.
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War has made life almost unbearable for the civilians remaining in the capital.
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The sole saving grace of the film is Jemaine Clement (of Flight of the Conchords fame) as Ronald Chevalier, a pompous author of bad sci-fi novels who is ironically the only character to not reach unbearable levels of annoyingness.
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The sentimentality, which at times reaches unbearable levels, is saccharine and cloying.
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Traveling with a nursing child can ratchet up the anxiety to unbearable levels.
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So much goes unsaid: and for some the agony of what's unsaid is almost unbearable.
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The pain was unbearable but the overriding emotion was a fear of dying.
The Sun
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The searing heat of the day was almost unbearable.
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The loneliness I feel is unbearable.
The Sun
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Under current law, euthanasia is restricted to terminal patients suffering unbearable pain with no hope of improvement, and who request to die when they are of sound mind.
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It was mid summer by now and the weather could be unbearable at times, the sweltering heat making you break out in a sweat.
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The patient was seized with unbearable pains
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The verbal and sometimes physical abuse that the guards have to take can be unbearable.
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I got sick, as I so often had at times of unbearable tension, which delayed our departure for a month.
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To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable. Erich Fromm
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Poor funding and underpaid animal keepers make the conditions for some of the animals almost unbearable.
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Lisa suffers from fits of sudden rage and unbearable fatigue.
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As a portrait in music of a family's struggle to come to terms with loss, it is at once compelling and almost unbearable.
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Too bad you've done yourselves in in your quest for the unbearable sunshine of a burdenless mind.
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Wait for the tension to become unbearable, noticing the meaningful glances in the hallways, and then wait for him to kiss you.
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Being debarred from the deck by incessant showers of spray, sleet, and snow, and the cold of mid-winter being unbearable in the dark, damp saloon, I went to bed at four for the first two days.
The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither
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Once this has been established as a pattern, being without our particular crutch in a period of stress can feel unbearable.
Healthy By Nature
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All I remember of childbirth was the unbearable pain and the relief when it was all over.
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All windows are open to air the rooms and with only shutters to keep out little intruders the level of noise is unbearable.
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As a portrait in music of a family's struggle to come to terms with loss, it is at once compelling and almost unbearable.
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When I first saw them, I found those few moments of newsreel almost unbearable.
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He wanted to be a good security guard and look after her but the situation became unbearable.
The Sun
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But at my age the hangovers have become unbearable.
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Health hazards arise since full protective clothing is unbearable in a tropical climate, even if the poor farmers could afford it.
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Do they worry about the unbearable lightness of being?
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The surgery improved her condition, but also left her with unbearable itchiness and sweating.
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The noise is unbearable, the air is unbreathable, it takes 8 hours to get to the track, 10 hours to get home, it's 135 degrees in the shade (not that there is any), and you can't see a dang-fool thing.
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The disproportion between his new self-perception and his actual social status as an ordinary businessman and later as a derided cult leader was unbearable.
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His suffering at her hands would have been unbearable had he not so richly deserved it for his crass stupidity and snobbishness.
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From hurricanes to floods to unbearable heat, 2005 was one for the record weather books.
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Even several people I know who generally share his world view told me they found his strutting pomposity almost unbearable this year.
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At exactly twelve minutes past two by my wristwatch the unbearable feeling of tension collapsed, and I knew it was over.
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Today's lifestyle police would have us believe that it is unbearable because of these two diversions.
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The extremes can be unbearable, as well, so I'm sure a more temperate climate might be prefered by a number of people.
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Oliver speculated that sometimes when people who are driven to succeed are placed under unbearable stress and can't bring themselves to quit, they do something that forces them to quit.
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She expects that there will come a time when her continuing existence will become unbearable.
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The headaches before her periods were unbearable and almost made her scream.
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The situation for Japanese film-makers in the mid-1940s had deteriorated to unbearable levels.
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When his choking became unbearable, our nurse administered a drug to help him relax.
Christianity Today
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Watching from above, Her Majesty the Queen would have understood Dalton's unbearable sense of loss.
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The pain was so unbearable that he was writhing in agony.
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People, children, have some ingenious ways of coping with the impossible and the unbearable.
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She then had the unbearable task of turning off her husband's ventilator.
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With the heat rising from the kitchen into her room it must have been unbearable in the height of summer.
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Kirk saw her grimace slightly—an expression of unbearable pain in a Vulcan—as she leaned into the force field, trying to push her way through.
DARK VICTORY
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I am airsick, and when I asked a medic for airsickness pills he gave them to me, I took them, and then I became so sleepy it was unbearable.
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The pain was unbearable but the overriding emotion was a fear of dying.
The Sun
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Maybe no bad thing if you remember the unbearable behaviour of London city boys in the mid-Eighties.
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Despite the world-shaking blasts of weaponry as the Americans try to root out the snipers, this is also a contest of wills in which the tension rises to a level that seems unbearable, and then rises again.
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I wouldn't be sitting there acting like I'm in unbearable pain.
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Breaden and Godfrey were suffering agonies from "sandy blight," a sort of ophthalmia, which is made almost unbearable by the clouds of flies, the heat, the glare, and the dust.
Spinifex and Sand
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When the unbearable heat drove us at mid-day to seek shelter, he took us to his beehouse in the very heart of the forest.
A Sportsman's Sketches
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The heat had suddenly become unbearable; he thought he might suffocate at any moment.
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At this thought an unbearable sense of shame possessed him.
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Only that mighty mass of clouds called Arjuna, aided by Krishna like unto a powerful wind, with celestial weapon representing its fierce lightning, the white steeds, the rows of white cranes coursing underneath and the unbearable Gandiva, the rainbow ahead, is capable of extinguishing the blazing flame represented by Karna by means of its arrowy showers let off with unflagging steadiness.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Vana Parva, Part 1
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Day in day out, through the night there was hollering and shouting, it was almost unbearable.
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She never thought she would be able to come to terms with the unbearable grief.
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I got sick, as I so often had at times of unbearable tension, which delayed our departure for a month.
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When we hit, the pain was so unbearable that I wanted to die.
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Last night on the evening air a faint whiff of garbage floated down the street making the heat even more unbearable.
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But at my age the hangovers have become unbearable.
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I could not care less about buying the stuff Starbucks is peddling, be it edible, drinkable or hearable … everything is unbearable
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I've been given gabapentin and painkillers but the pain is unbearable.
The Sun
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The unbearable weight of expectation and the sheer guilt of costing so much money.
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It is dark and damp and the smell is unbearable.
The Sun
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My countrymen, in such a situation, a wrong decision can lead to unbearable losses.
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The searing heat of the day was almost unbearable.
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An unbearable sadness grips my heart that I can't shake.
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It is the same dream that will comfort us when times get tough, when the valley is deep, when the road is long, when the burden is heavy, when the strain is unbearable, when the hills are un-climbable, when the rivers are un-crossable, when problems are unsolvable.
Byron Williams: THE DREAM LIVES ON
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I have seen what a laugh can do. It can transform almost unbearable tears into something bearable, even hopeful. Bob Hope
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Then something almost unbearable happens.
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This is an unbearable situation for the police.
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For a man of honour, a guilty conscience must be a dreadful, perhaps unbearable burden.
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The loss of the girl/boyfriend, for example, may well be an overwhelming and unbearable narcissistic injury.
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In successfully arguing Cunningham's case for asylum, Weinberg also said Jamaica's sodomy laws banning sex between men and "dancehall" music - whose lyrics often advocate violence against gays - made life for Cunningham unbearable.
Undefined
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All I remember of childbirth was the unbearable pain and the relief when it was all over.
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She expects that there will come a time when her continuing existence will become unbearable.
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Holding within their billowed masses the healing punishments of the rain, chaliced beakers of golden flame, lightnings instant and unbearable as the face of God -- dissolving into a crystal nothing, reborn from the viewless caverns of air -- here let us erect one enraptured altar to the bright mountains of the sky!
Shandygaff
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You realize that swimming without fins has become unbearable.
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The world seemed suddenly profane, meaningless and, therefore, unbearable.
Buddha
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We are keeping busy but there are times when life feels unbearable.
The Sun
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Wiltshire, 12 days ago claiming the attacks - often referred to as "beastings" - were unbearable.
IcCoventry
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By the end of the vignette, when the bombs are placed and we are waiting for detonation, the tension is almost unbearable.
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What makes it really unbearable is lifts that have no facility for closing the doors when they no longer need to be open.
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But this job is unbearable and is really driving me crazy.
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Others find that direct light of any sort causes no difficulty, but sunlight through windows is unbearable.
M.E. and You - a self-help plan
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Without the buffer of the trees, the noise from the highway would be unbearable.
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While she was stationary they stayed dammed up inside her, causing unbearable pressure around the heart.
MR GOLIGHTLY'S HOLIDAY
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Her woebegone eyes spoke of unbearable suffering.
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The heat and stench of the converted barn was suddenly unbearable.
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I hated the limelight and found it unbearable.
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With each breath, the roughness became a little fuller, a little more unbearable.
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So much goes unsaid: and for some the agony of what's unsaid is almost unbearable.
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The opposite - i.e. a short delicate man and a tall corpulent woman - is unbearable both for the couple and for others, because it is banned by the internal images and needs of middle-class society.
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He's been unbearable since he won that prize.
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In that moment he rises above his stupid gianthood, and earnestly warns the Son of Light that all his power and eminence of priesthood, godhood, and kingship must stand or fall with the unbearable cold greatness of the incorruptible law-giver.
The Perfect Wagnerite, Commentary on the Ring
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I have seen what a laugh can do. It can transform almost unbearable tears into something bearable, even hopeful. Bob Hope
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The pain was so unbearable that he was writhing in agony.
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One more day cooped up indoors would have been unbearable.
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Despite high doses of intravenous morphine and ketamine, the pain was unbearable.
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Pip found the phoney war unbearable.
DOVES OF WAR: Four Women of Spain
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If the other side had won the boasting and bragging would have been unbearable.
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Though Leia Organa was grateful to Dash for his help, she nonetheless found the Corellian's smug attitude unbearable.
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Every second that passed he felt a greater and more unbearable desire to possess this small, slender body.
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War has made life almost unbearable for the civilians remaining in the capital.
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Eventually, foreign demands on Fort Knox for dollar conversion into gold, coupled with a growing U.S. trade deficit, resulted in unbearable pressures on the system's integrity.
Free Markets, Foreign Exchange and the International Monetary Market
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That he committed suicide in 1989, an unknown, unrecognised old man, only to have his work finally ‘discovered’ in 1990, is almost unbearable.
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That back of mine, he wrote John Morris in June 1953, continues to hurt and the third professor to examine him found that I had a displaced disk in my vertebrae which inflamed the so-called sciatic nerve and the pain was and is unbearable.
The Great Escape
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When his choking became unbearable, our nurse administered a drug to help him relax.
Christianity Today
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The verbal and sometimes physical abuse that the guards have to take can be unbearable.
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Assuming that it's only a great disaster such as flood or famine that makes one's burden unbearable is just not always true.
Living the Dream
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The families suffered a night of unbearable suspense before the disturbed earth was revealed as nothing more than two badger setts.
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Without protection of the sails against a merciless sun, it became unbearable on deck.
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It is unbearable to plan for my brother to give me away, to tell the florist that we do not need a boutonniere for my father, and to tell the DJ that there will be no father-daughter dance.
Ahmadinejad, Let My Father Go!
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Things have become unbearable and the character has chosen to act.
Christianity Today
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It's also possible that the appeal of smoky rock bars filled with booze and sexual possibilities might be an unbearable temptation.
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The unbearable note of flippant jeering, which is underneath almost all modern utterance.
The Plumed Serpent
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When the process of healing from the fire became near unbearable and my marriage had ended, I ‘chanced’ upon a colouring book of mandalic images.
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Under the blazing logs, which filled the hut with an almost unbearable heat, an ashcake was buried beneath a little gravelike mound of ashes.
The Battle Ground
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Forced to lie on a concrete floor with only a thin layer of straw underneath him, he was in almost unbearable pain.
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I was only a kid but I remember the tension being unbearable in the replay.
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And if the pain was still unbearable, he took more oxycodone.
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His arrogance made him absolutely unbearable!
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At night he would lie sleepless on his cot, suffering an almost unbearable frustration.
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It's crowded at the best of times but today it was unbearable.
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All I remember of childbirth was the unbearable pain and the relief when it was all over.
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Inevitable disappointments, large or small, become unbearable under such circumstances, corrosively souring even the joys of the 'good life'.
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Forty-four tunes ranging from the early jazz stompers, showboat classics and fragile swing numbers to her mournful - almost unbearable - masterpiece Strange Fruit.
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He spent many years under a microscope a lot of people would find unbearable in a country that loves its sporting heroes.
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The multitudinous facets of Christmas, that season of hope but also that season of unbearable loneliness for so many of New York's internal exiles, are captured memorably here in Didion's painfully accurate prose.
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About five years ago, she developed unbearable pain in her knee joints and has been bedridden since then.
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Whenever the smoke of the grill became unbearable I would stand in the car park with a lime and lemonade, or sometimes a shandy, and she would look up from her book and smile.
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My heart was simultaneously full of exquisite joy and unbearable sadness.
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Phillip remained alone with his sister's body for an unbearable stretch of time.
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Her daring novel speaks volumes about the power of the imagination to transform an unbearable reality.
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It was an unbearable scene to see truckloads of human bodies being carried out.
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Feeling one of his ribs break, the excruciating pain became too unbearable for Fred to take.
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The acoustics of an empty garage or any interior location intensifies the decibels to an unbearable level.
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Our 10 foot high surrounding hedge is in blossom, and the thought of losing that is just unbearable.
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Monstrous, contorted shapes -- those Monterey cypresses look like creatures born underground, who, at the price of almost unbearable torture, have torn through the earth's crust, thrusting and twisting themselves airward.
The Native Son
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Maybe I can prevent the excruciating pain and unbearable suffering from others in my generation.
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The air was stuffy and there was an unbearable stench of blood and putrefaction.
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Then when summer finally arrives, we blast the air conditioning and nag about how muggy and unbearable the weather is.
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His daughter, having been made to strip naked in a scene so well written as to be almost unbearable, recites a poem.
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A cradle, to wrap myself in him on nights when the ache is unbearable and I feel as if I will bleed him.
BAPTISM • by Uzma Imran
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The man who is injured is equally peckish abdomen, and then heard call a voice, unbearable furious, criticize openly.
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The categorical imperative supports active euthanasia since no one would willfully universalize a rule which condemns people to unbearable pain before death.
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The cost of living is becoming unbearable for retired people in our part of the world .
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Away from the Diplomacy board, France is my favourite country - the best, most beautiful and most civilized country in the world, whither I shall undoubtedly be forced to flee when life in England finally becomes unbearable.
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The atmosphere seemed stifling, the sweet, sickly smell in the air was unbearable.
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Spring marks the beginning of an unbearable season for many with allergies, as pollen from anemophilous trees such as oak, elm, maple, alder, birch and juniper fill the air.
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Then I heaped the bedclothes on her and in the darkness the silence was unbearable.
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Campaigners say the men were victims of the unbearable strain of conflict in appalling conditions.
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It is called the cowage, or cow-itch, on account of the seed pods being covered with short brittle hairs, the points of which are finely serrated, causing an unbearable itching when applied to the skin, which is relieved by rubbing the part with oil.
Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture
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Health hazards arise since full protective clothing is unbearable in a tropical climate, even if the poor farmers could afford it.
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They are the people who know that if things become too unbearable next week they can act.
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Tommy stopped crying and the only thing that broke the unbearable silence of the place was the front door shutting loudly behind me.
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I guess that’s what we get for complaining about the impact on polar bears and the like for so long … This only increases the absolute necessity to develop monitoring capability and decision-making tools to illustrate the impact climate change will have on the individual farmer, water-front property owner, fisherman, bird-spotter, and community likely to take a hit when neighboring communities go under water/become unbearable due to lack of water.
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Then, a flight of 24 hours, arduous at the best of times, becomes an unbearable ordeal.
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Both players found the heat unbearable but nevertheless played to the bitter end.
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I could see the room beginning to spin as though I had had a dreadful shock or a moment of unbearable fear.
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Portia de Rossi has penned 'Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain, ' an unflinching and bravely honest account of her battle with eating disorders and dealing with her sexuality.
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Her hairstyles, clothes and voice are unbearable.
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Her pain was unbearable and she would phone me in agony.
The Sun
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Her hairstyles, clothes and voice are unbearable.
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Telling people to go waste their money on a Bible with the promise of gold-paved streets if they cooporate, and threatening those that don't with eternal and unbearable burning in lonely darkness is ridiculous.
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The figure looked unbearable uncomfortable as he shoved his hands in his pockets.
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It is dark and damp and the smell is unbearable.
The Sun
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The heat in the factory was unbearable.
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It's a bit like scratching an unbearable itch: a completely satisfying activity, but joyless at the same time.
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His current iteration is a fast-talking, well-meaning, but la rgely unbearable mechanic.
The blue-collar RPG experience
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The old law could sentence a woman to an unbearable marriage for life, but this is now all changing.
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Clinton supporters need to end this for her, it would be the most humane thing to do ... same as if you hit a deer that was dying and in unbearable pain.
D-Day in West Virginia
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Mithi to get American technology to purify water time it is due to the unbearable stench being emitted from it which is a cause for concern to the residents of Mumbai: Mumbai's babudom is to be blamed for the road caving in at Kalachowkie on Monday.
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The riders have been blamed for creating unbearable amounts of noise, ripping up grass, creating mudbaths on public land and even nearly mowing down residents out walking their dogs.
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The friction between my skin and the service weapon concealed at my waist became more and more unbearable, but I knew I was being targeted.
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his endless recounting of the incident eventually became unbearable
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This execution by lethal injection is unbearable because it is absurd and absurd because it is unbearable.
Bernard-Henri Lévy: And to Think That We Still Have to Argue Against the Death Penalty
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The pain is unbearable and the injury has got worse.
Times, Sunday Times
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She saves this film from slipping to unbearable tedium, investing every frame with the right hues, the right nuances, in her portrayal of a lawyer helping Devgan win the custody of the child!
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If it sounds unbearable, then my deft skill at description remains tip top.
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Privates Andre Treble and Andrew Jones, both aged 22, fled Buckley Barracks near Hullavington, this month saying the attacks - often referred to as 'beastings' - were unbearable.
Undefined
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It requires massive effort for victims to narrate with dry-eyed clarity the devastating impact of the bomb; for some it is an impossible, or unbearable, contradiction.
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The ‘mock ‘attempts of suicide may be a similar form of fantasy, where the loved ones are visioned as standing around the hospital bed and they are finally able to realize how unbearable the pain of life was for us.’
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The successes of someone so different from them are just unbearable to these jealousy-consumed haters.
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The roar of the crowd reaches a crescendo and the afternoon heat gets unbearable.
