Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In an irreconcilable manner; so as to preclude reconciliation.
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- adverb In an
irreconcilable manner; so as topreclude reconciliation .
Etymologies
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PS – I am totally and irreconcilably a died-in-the-wool Democrat.
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The film was a memorable study of the sort of schism to which any doctrinaire society is prone – apparently trivial, irreconcilably rancorous.
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Drafted in the mid-1970s, the Carter administration signed Protocol 1, but President Ronald Reagan, after years of interagency review, concluded that it is "fundamentally and irreconcilably flawed," because it contains provisions that would "undermine humanitarian law and endanger civilians in war."
Obama Embraces 'Transnational' Law Douglas J. Feith 2011
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Deconstruction involves the close reading of texts in order to demonstrate that, rather than being a unified whole, any given text has irreconcilably contradictory meanings
Wikipedia on Derrida and deconstruction, Foucault and structuralism, postmodernism and discourse 2009
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It attempted to fuse together two irreconcilably polarized social spheres into a single integrated national (public/private) social identity (manifesting Anderson's concept of the imagined community).
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He had the reputation of being hasty, rash, wildly generous to friends, irreconcilably bitter against enemies.
His Disposition 2010
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Such violence-oriented intolerance, which in the West has become the public image of Islam, seems irreconcilably at odds with the moderate feminism of the pray-in group.
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But I may believe that we are all too irreconcilably different—and too irredeemably imperfect—to hope for any real purpose in looking to their lives for patterns that I might be able to recapitulate in my own.
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It is on this point that Bourdieu and Kant seem irreconcilably at odds: whereas Kant conceives of the plurality of subjects on an equal footing, as it were,
Contention and Contestation: Aesthetic Culture in Kant and Bourdieu 2008
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But in that his candidacy could irreconcilably split the Christianists from the Greed Wing of the Republican Party -- the Norquist/Club for Growth a-holes who would rather see bridges collapse than pay an extra couple thou in taxes, and loathe Huckabee for his dissenting view on that question -- I wish him nothing but the best.
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