insupportable

QUOTATION: To a reasonable creature, that alone is insupportable which is unreasonable; but everything reasonable may be supported.

Quotations Epictetus. A.D. c. 50-c. 138. 1919

To a reasonable creature, that alone is insupportable which is unreasonable; but everything reasonable may be supported.

Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature John Bartlett 1862

She called him "insupportable:" she railed at him for a "dévot:" she did not love, but she wanted to marry, that she might bind him to her interest.

Villette Charlotte Bront�� 1835

“It is my duty,” says Sir Charles Bell, “to visit certain wards of the hospital where there is no patient admitted but with that complaint which most fills the imagination with the idea of insupportable pain and certain death.

Uncollected Prose 2006

In the original divorce petition Bullock said the marriage had become "insupportable" due to "discord or conflict of personalities that destroys the legitimate ends of the marriage relationship".

Musicrooms.net 2010

"It is my duty," says Sir Charles Bell, "to visit certain wards of the hospital where there is no patient admitted but with that complaint which most fills the imagination with the idea of insupportable pain and certain death.

Uncollected Prose 1832

This is insupportable in an economy of tight financial restraint.

Backers of NHS shake-up turn against Andrew Lansley's plans 2012

Instead the authors attempt to downplay the hazards of mercury, a highly potent neurotoxin itself linked to developmental disorders, and they make the preposterous, insupportable assertion that reducing any air pollution from power plants will "do nothing" to reduce health threats.

EPA Is On to Something on Mercury 2011

I like how the court thinks; I am increasingly of the opinion that the multifactor confusion test, though it has its weaknesses, is superior to the rigid and ultimately insupportable falsity/misleadingness distinction.

Archive 2009-06-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2009

Nobody would start from here – an ill-designed single currency interacting with an insupportable burden of private debt created by oversized, undercapitalised banks.

There is only one alternative to the euro's survival: catastrophe 2011