un-get-at-able

If they burned the money, ate it, and squished it, they'd lose a lot of their audience by presenting them with an un-get-at-able existential quandary instead of engaging them in art whose presentation they might be more comfortable engaging back.

Ming Holden: The Message Is Simple: Buy More Stuff 2009

She thought of the big fragrant package that had been sent out as a gift, and was lying fifty miles away but un-get-at-able, and felt far from saintly as she resorted to the infusion of old leaves.

Mary Slessor of Calabar: Pioneer Missionary W. P. Livingstone

Vann in particular was much in the good books of General Allenby, the Corps Commander, for his splendid work, though he was once the cause of his very nearly spoiling an immaculate pair of breeches when showing him with much glee a particularly un-get-at-able loophole plate in a very muddy trench.

The Sherwood Foresters in the Great War 1914 - 1919 History of the 1/8th Battalion W. C. C. Weetman

She lay in a most un-get-at-able position at the further end of the hold, stowed in so confined and narrow a space that it was impossible to think of fitting the parts together there.

Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 3 Charles Herbert Sylvester

The black fly darts at you quietly, settles down on an un-get-at-able spot, and sucks your blood.

Le Petit Nord or, Annals of a Labrador Harbour Katie Spalding 1911

That subtle, un-get-at-able power -- the Ally, that is so irresistible, so certain in its work, depending for results upon words with double meanings, suggestive nods, tricks of expression, sly winks and meaning smiles -- while giving its victims no opportunity for defense, never leaves them in doubt as to the object of its attack.

The Calling of Dan Matthews Harold Bell Wright 1908

It was horrible to have to sit and look at a problem without the least idea of how to solve it; or to find that the dates and facts which ought to have been at their finger-ends had departed to distant and un-get-at-able realms of their memory.

A Patriotic Schoolgirl Angela Brazil 1907

Bosambo was evidently un-get-at-able, and the most alarming rumour of all was that which came from Sierra Leone and was to the effect that Bosambo had embarked for England with the expressed intention of seeking an interview with a very high personage indeed.

Bones Being Further Adventures in Mr. Commissioner Sanders' Country Edgar Wallace 1903

She lay in a most un-get-at-able position at the further end of the hold, stowed in so confined and narrow a space, that it was impossible to think of fitting the parts together there.

Swiss Family Robinson 1882

I had never even _wished_ to do so, any more than one wishes to handle the moon or stars or any other un-get-at-able objects.

Grandmother Dear A Book for Boys and Girls Mrs. Molesworth 1880