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Sentence Examples As a rule, an etheromaniac is never cured except by the impossibility of satisfying his passion. In 1845 Wantzel, continuing his researches into equations, gave a new proof of the impossibility of solving all algebraic equations by radicals. Aware of all the falsity and all the impossibility of the situation, he still kept on applauding! A simple-minded fellow, he does not realize the impossibility of winning her over romantically. This broad spectrum of ideas made the initial articulation of a collection development policy for the Conservation Library an impossibility. By positing indivisible bodies, the atomists were also thought to be answering Zeno's paradoxes about the impossibility of motion. So, you know, to sneak someone onto a cruise ship, that would be almost an impossibility. This relativism is central to the impossibility of finding an uncontentious definition of terrorism. While he seemed to have an unpracticed grace, the chap was still clumsy to almost a point of impossibility. This was a neat bit of satire, making the impossibility of the situation immediately obvious. Can negative ninnies like my mother, who raise their families in dark, sneering realms of impossibility, be taught to embrace the possible? It may be, in fact, the impossibility of omnicompetence that makes democracy the only viable choice for a system of governance. This is an impossibility that manifests itself first and foremost as a stylistic occlusion. In fact, the impossibility of answering the question is his very reason for asking it. He knew from his own experience the near impossibility of forging a new life after prison. The key concern in Jones's work is the aching desire to know the self and the ultimate impossibility of self-knowledge. The sheer impossibility of summarising Oracle Night is in fact a mark of the book's strength. This room should destroy the magic of the work, yet it juxtaposes the basis and the result, and heightens the sense of impossibility. The other thing that sticks in my mind is the vague sense of the overwhelming impossibility of the task. The first is that the interpreter has placed the idea of objective truth into the realm of impossibility. Show More Sentences One of my themes is the possibility or impossibility of connection with others. It was at this moment of insanity that the sheer impossibility of the situation came to him. The Museum of Unworkable Devices explores the interface between hope and physical impossibility. It seems likely that this was no mere oversight on his part, but in fact a logical impossibility. The impossibility of reform became apparent only two years after his election. Another personnel problem is the near impossibility of firing poor performers. The impossibility of bringing this tale to the big screen would daunt any sane filmmaker. My objections regarding the mathematical impossibility of such an outcome were always readily ignored. We're too cowardly to actually commit insurrection, and its impossibility becomes a grimly mocking reminder of our impotence. Archer picks her up from the train station, and they talk in the carriage about the impossibility of their love. The current intifada has shown the impossibility of sustaining the occupation. The lack of communication between Mr. N.T. and Ms. B.T. has made co-parenting an impossibility. Perpetual pushing and assurance put a difficulty out of countenance, and make a seeming impossibility give way. The bookies rated their chances at 250-1 and that made it as near as dammit a statistical impossibility. It may seem fanciful to some observers, who note the impossibility of projecting growth beyond the near-term, but widely used growth models often take a longer view. How do you explain the apparent impossibility of your words? It stunned me, that night, just the sheer impossibility of it all. The magnificent ambition is fundamentally reliant upon the indelible impossibility of its fulfillment. Orthodox people certainly can deeply appreciate the Rhodes conclusions regarding the impossibility of ordaining women to the priesthood and episcopacy. It was sad for epistemologists, Hume and others, to have to acquiesce in the impossibility of strictly deriving the science of the external world from sensory evidence. Show More Sentences He maintains that Heisenberg's indeterminacy principle should not be regarded as expressing the impossibility of making measurements of unlimited precision. The smartest book ever written about the impossibility of direct communication. But Huckabee is an impossibility because he and Romney don't like each other. The main reasons were the relief of the end of the war and also the impossibility to fathom the disaster. While Justice Stephen Breyer dismissed this as an impossibility, other justices were not reassured. If we look at this argument closely, we perceive that what is at stake in her argument is precisely the impossibility of metalanguage in the revolutionary process. It's that love that keeps the dancer working to bend the body toward perfection and at the same time recognizing the impossibility of achieving it. The disadvantages are the impossibility of playing some chords and the need to be neat-fingered when playing trills on two notes which share a string. She has stated the impossibility of bringing the presence of the parents into the present moment, the powerlessness of art to deliver such a presence. The obvious impossibility of this task only adds to its fascination. One is tough enough to overcome, but both is a near impossibility. The great apparent problem with this new ideology is its impossibility. Could this be the answer to the continuing search for the home of one's dreams, and the sheer impossibility of being able to afford to buy a property in this city? The homosocial paradigm of the fraternity of officers, however, produces a new impossibility, for its same-sex society cannot reproduce, cannot generate a future. Finally, God's absence, reflected in his impossibility to offer neither reprimand nor comfort, is mirrored in a simulation of authorial impotence. It is an absolute impossibility in this society to reversely sexually objectify heterosexual men, just as it is impossible for a poor person of color to be a racist. Hume famously noted the impossibility of the mercantilists' goal of a constant positive balance of trade. The impossibility of the physical presence of the monarch was replaced by viceroys, the post of viceroy the direct representation of the monarch. If there be any one point insisted on throughout my works more frequently than another, that one point is the impossibility of Equality. For such propositions unimaginability looks like a function of a kind of conceptual impossibility. Show More Sentences In any multicriterial setting, absolute perfection is simply an impossibility. Sadly, trying to initiate this kind of high profile, bi-partisan initiative today would be a near impossibility. Finally, it shows that the same reasoning supports rescissory remedies for contractual mistake, frustration, or impossibility. In the face of the impossibility of the Castilian institutions to take care of the New World affairs, other new institutions were created. The radar may try to unify the targets, reporting the target at an incorrect height, or eliminating it on the basis of jitter or a physical impossibility. But the impossibility of raising revenue then triggered the French Revolution, with the revolutionaries demanding confiscatory taxes and impositions on the wealthy elite. Universal disarmament was a practical impossibility, Crowe warned. But it had been equally proved that the subjugation of the State to the Church, the supremacy, political as well as ecclesiastical, of the Kirk, was an impossibility. The irony of such Pyrrhonic echoes is that we can discern behind the modish posture the impossibility of Hamlet's ever really being able fully to adopt the skeptic's stance. However, due to the impossibility of moving or erecting the giant parts of that monuments, they have been left unfinished in Yangshan Quarry, where they remain to this day. He also comes up with an ingenious transcendental argument against trivialism, based upon the idea of the impossibility of accepting trivialism by any conscious being like us. Examples from Classical Literature For what the first sentence seemed to give was next thing to an impossibility. Finally, a capitular government in missionary countries was a physical impossibility, and would disrupt the whole Order. When L. was eight years old choreiform movements of the right arm began to appear, and soon rendered writing an impossibility. The more we argued the impossibility of supplying him, the more was he urgent and imperative for the sanative mineral. There is error and discrepance in the schemes of the orthoepists, which shows the impossibility of carrying them into effect. I had heard from more than one disgruntled reporter that it was an impossibility. The impossibility of preaching in Asia could therefore hardly have been the reason for passing through south Galatia. But as all distinct ideas are separable, it is evident there can be no impossibility of that kind. For a Zamboulan dancer to blush would be an impossibility, but a smolder of anger mingled with the fear in Zabibi's dilated eyes. For all that, it's a sheer impossibility that you should guess who put a sprag in the wheel of Hilton's chariot. What angered him above all was the impossibility of it all, the illogicality, the unthinkableness of it. She had seen from the first the inappropriateness, the impossibility, of the whole proposition. Are you wiser than he, inasmuch as you perceive impossibility where he has failed to discover it? But he had an infatuate haughtiness as to the impossibility of his retreating, and as to his right to dictate your course. To-day, even more than yesterday, I feel the absolute impossibility of depicting in music the sugar-plum Fairy. The lancinating pain of doubt passed away, and she remained thinking of the impossibility of bearing any longer with the life. The tiresome habit of enumerating a woman's charms, either briefly or at length, is happily an impossibility in the tanka. In such circumstances a long ball is an impossibility, and a straight one a matter of exceeding doubt. And thereof had they also great marvel, that some of them thought it was an impossibility. But Weismann's argument rests not merely upon any difficulty or impossibility of the transmissibility of acquired characteristics. Show More Sentences We infer the voluntariness of the servants of the Patriarchs from the impossibility of their being held against their wills. We infer the voluntariness of the servants of the Patriarchs from the impossibility of their having been held against their wills. Splendid as is the scene between her and Savonarola, the vraisemblance is spoilt by this impossibility of condition. There was no impossibility there, no doubt even, or the peradventure of one. To Epimethus this seemed an impossibility, but to Prometheus nothing was impossible. At all events, Hepzibah had fully satisfied herself of the impossibility of ever becoming wonted to this peevishly obstreperous little bell. With respect to the requirements of art, a probable impossibility is to be preferred toga thing improbable and yet possible. Character is centrality, the impossibility of being displaced or overset. For me to formulate the query which I really wished to put was a simple impossibility. They seemed to realize the impossibility of touching TAR without being defiled. Success presented itself as an impossibility, and the hope of it as a wild hallucination. It is usually supposed that a tortoiseshell Tom is an impossibility. I did not, at least I tried not to expect such an impossibility. That impossibility is precisely the almost universal expectation. Vanstone's condition rendered any such interview as the lawyer desired a total impossibility. Monsieur would wish to see my camp, and witness for himself our numbers, and the impossibility of his resisting them with success? But purchasers were slow in coming, and while he waited for them Ethan learned the impossibility of transplanting her. I will observe, in parenthesis, that Heine says that a true autobiography is almost an impossibility, and that man is bound to lie about himself. His eagerness to humble Eck made him believe an impossibility. The first scenario is the impossibility of recognizing copyrights in technical standards given the inexistence of originality and creativity. Show More Sentences There are some men to whom getting up at the proper time is an utter impossibility. Do I set my mind to analyse the abominable impossibility which, nevertheless, confronts me as an undeniable fact? They are built of enormous blocks of carborundum, and the task of entering the city seemed, to my escort of green warriors, an impossibility. A dead State is a solecism, a contradiction in terms, an impossibility. What the oriental fabric in The Giaour weaves together is thus precisely the irreducible otherness of the other representable only in the impossibility of its representation. Then recollecting the impossibility of outstripping the furious speed of an alarmed bison, he felt for his arms, determined to make head against the countless drove. But then the impossibility of the thing obtruded itself upon me. He represented to them the impossibility that two such considerable clans could move about the country without leaving trails by which they might be traced. His child-like imagination pictured wonderful creatures within, and the very impossibility of forcing entrance added a thousandfold to his desire to do so. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of impossibility? Words that rhyme with impossibility What is the plural of impossibility? What is the adverb for impossibility? What is the adjective for impossibility? What is the noun for impossibility? Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words impossibilities impossibilism impositions imposition imposingly imposing impossible impossibly impost imposter imposters impostor 13-letter Words Starting With i im imp impo impos imposs impossi impossib impossibi impossibil impossibili