intolerableness

And then it occurs to one that this is brilliant, that Waugh has rescued his tale from squalor and intolerableness in order to instruct us.

If I Could Have a Conversation about It: Vile Bodies « Unknowing 2010

Such is the endlessness, yea, the intolerableness of all earthly effort.

Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

Yet the whole intolerableness of the practice will center in the rule for exclusion of pupils from these examinations because of school failure.

The High School Failures A Study of the School Records of Pupils Failing in Academic or Commercial High School Subjects Francis P. Obrien

All the burden of the day -- the heat, the languor, the scorching thirst of the fields, the brazen blue of the sky, the stillness as of a suspended breath which wrapt the town -- all these things had passed into the intolerableness of his desire.

Virginia Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow 1909

The intolerableness of this moral condition poisons the beauty which continues to be felt.

The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory George Santayana 1907

Mozart feels the intolerableness of his position and protests against it on every opportunity; he is conscious of his worth and intellectual superiority.

Mozart The Man and the Artist as Revealed in his own Words Kerst, Friedrich 1905

As Franklin the day before had felt, so he now felt, the intolerableness of his woe; and, as with Franklin, the waves closed over his head.

Franklin Kane Anne Douglas Sedgwick 1904

She proposed to do this closing at the first moment of sheer intolerableness, and that moment seemed well reached when she entered Creeper Cottage and realized what the attic, the kitchen, and the pump really meant.

The Princess Priscilla's Fortnight Elizabeth von Arnim 1903

Conceive the intolerableness, if you are at all sensitive, of being watched by eyes so sharp and prying, so eager to note the least change of expression and to use the conclusions drawn for personal ends that nothing, absolutely nothing, escapes them.

The Princess Priscilla's Fortnight Elizabeth von Arnim 1903

Of the grotesqueness of our own Shakespeare I need hardly speak, nor of its intolerableness to his French critics; nor of that of Æschylus and

Dante: "The Central Man of All the World" A Course of Lectures Delivered Before the Student Body of the New York State College for Teachers, Albany, 1919, 1920 1902