How To Use Unendurable In A Sentence

  • Further, he developed an elaborate theory of both positive and negative conditioned responses, which appear in varying patterns when a dog is subjected to unendurable stress ( "trans-marginally stimulated"). The Most Interesting Blog Comment I've Ever Read, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
  • That's right, Burns, take off my last summer coat," he added, still in a whisper to me as the Burns parent struggled out of the unendurable gift garment and thus gave a signal that whipped off every coat on the left side of the walk in the twinkling of an eye, to the evident distress of the tightly girted and uncomfortable but more formal feminine members of the Settlement contingent. The Heart's Kingdom
  • There is nothing new about England's social, economic and cultural decay, but the spectacle has of late become so unedifying as to be almost unendurable.
  • Only sensation survived: being deafened by the rooster, yet finding silence unendurable.
  • But "perlite" or not, there can be no question of the astounding stupidity of the West Indian rank and file, a stupidity amusing if you are in an amusable mood, unendurable if you neglect to pack your patience among your bag of supplies in the morning. Zone Policeman 88; a close range study of the Panama canal and its workers
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  • We went skimming along a quarter of a mile behind them, and when we had followed them an hour and a half and was getting pretty discouraged, and was thirsty clean to unendurableness, Tom says: Tom Sawyer Abroad
  • In Japan, retirement has become a risky business for many wives, who are finding the stress of their husband's presence at home unendurable.
  • Let's also retire the standard politician's lament that we are placing an unendurable debt burden ‘on our children and our children's children.’
  • But "perlite" or not, there can be no question of the astounding stupidity of the West Indian rank and file, a stupidity amusing if you are in an amusable mood, unendurable if you neglect to pack your patience among your bag of supplies in the morning. Zone Policeman 88; a close range study of the Panama canal and its workers
  • I told him that if he felt that life had become unendurable I could not, as his friend, ask him to go on enduring it.
  • In the nature of things, the art was attacked by flies and maggots, and the stench is reported to have been unendurable.
  • He devotes an almost unendurable amount of space to Bogarde's antecedents, family and childhood.
  • Jobless after he went home, the unendurable idleness led him back to his old ‘friends,’ with whom he first took drugs.
  • That whole ethic seems suddenly unendurable because we see that they are only in it for themselves and they don't mind who they crush on their way to dominance, whether it is an actress who has had the courage to fight for privacy or the greatest public service broadcaster in the world. Over more than three decades, no one dared question the perversion of politics by and for Rupert Murdoch | Henry Porter
  • Such losses can seem to be unendurable because we cannot let go of what we have lost.
  • Perhaps if I wait I could persuade myself out of it and live the unendurable existence. THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
  • It was probably a subtle subconscious realization of the unpleasantness, even the unendurableness, of perfection in the domestic companionship that caused the obvious misprint in the following extract from a Scotch editorial concerning the new divorce legislation: Jokes For All Occasions Selected and Edited by One of America's Foremost Public Speakers
  • The movie eventually crescendos into nearly unendurable hysteria.
  • It wastes Jenna Elfman, a TV star whose fluttery nuttiness can be adorable in the right vehicle and unendurable in the wrong one. Beyond the top 10: The other premieres
  • Both involve the use of unendurable physical pain to coerce the victim into talking – that is to say, both are the use of torture to coerce confessions. Matthew Yglesias » If Marc Thiessen Doesn’t Want to be Compared to the Spanish Inquisition, He Should Stop Advocating Torture Techniques Used in the Spanish Inquisition
  • She couldn't sit up or move, and the pain was unendurable.
  • And it represented the sense among so many military families that their sacrifices - even the unendurable loss of a beloved family member - were not and are not in vain.
  • In hot weather, the smell was unendurable, forcing members of Parliament right next to the river, to find a solution.
  • Yes, the tourist hordes can be almost unendurable, and yes, the canals can whiff a bit.
  • In the bringing of unendurable emotional pain into language and human dialogue, a deadened sense of being is reborn. Robert D. Stolorow: Losing and Regaining My Sense of Being
  • Let his suffering be remembered as an example to us all on how to endure personal struggles we may think to be unendurable.
  • He wept inside for the pain that she was feeling, for having just found her father and to have him taken so cruelly from her was something that was nearly unendurable.
  • It has placed an almost unendurable strain on their marriage.
  • Victory in World War I depended, in large part, on the greater ability to endure the nearly unendurable and thereby delay defeat. The Bitter End
  • All of them were sensitive men who must have found the horrors of war almost unendurable.
  • It has placed an almost unendurable strain on their marriage.
  • Jobless after he went home, the unendurable idleness led him back to his old "friends," with whom he first took drugs.
  • THE federal government says "push factors" such as unendurable turmoil back home are behind this surge of asylum-seekers. WN.com - Articles related to Tamil Tigers join race for asylum
  • What she found unendurable were the sleepless nights.
  • It was unendurable that the furry limb would be thrown away into an incinerator. ON CATS
  • Their exactions at last became unendurable, and a long struggle broke out between them and the burghers, which resulted in what is known as the enfranchisement of the towns. General History for Colleges and High Schools
  • Those people who need others to confirm their sense of existence fear solitude and find nature's indifference to human beings unendurable.
  • I think these are the great existential questions, the basis of all that makes life hard, complicated and, from time to time, unendurable. Suffering and Enlightenment « Tales from the Reading Room
  • Once the switch is thrown, an unseen power will attack his nervous system and he knows the pain will be unendurable. SKORPION'S DEATH
  • All men recognize the right of revolution; that is, the right to refuse allegiance to and to resist, the government, when its tyranny or its inefficiency are great and unendurable.
  • It was to explain 'humanity in extremis, pushed to the unendurable'. Times, Sunday Times
  • Of late, one would have said that this unendurableness of boredom (which she had formerly assured me she never felt in her first youth) caused her less pain, like headaches and nervous asthmas, which lose their strength as one grows older; and the fear of being bored would doubtless have entirely abandoned Mme Verdurin owing to lack of bores, if she had not in some measure replaced them by other recruits amongst the old “faithfuls”. Time Regained
  • It was unendurable that the furry limb would be thrown away into an incinerator. ON CATS
  • Jobless after he went home, the unendurable idleness led him back to his old ‘friends,’ with whom he first took drugs.
  • I can see that this job will push me to unendurable new intellectual heights.
  • His gaze is by turns encouraging, enigmatic, unendurable.
  • At times the silent cottage became unendurable, and Saxon would throw a shawl about her head and walk out the Oakland Mole, or cross the railroad yards and the marshes to Sandy Beach where CHAPTER XV

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