| She then carries this view into her interactions with her students, whom she regards as incorrigible and unteachable. |
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| The only properly basic propositions are those that are self-evident or incorrigible or evident to the senses. |
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| The usual plan is to hit town and grill the nearest toothless old codger or incorrigible oddball. |
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| All the while, a hapless Maggie sits in the drivers' seat, helpless to stop the incorrigible bug from exercising its mighty will. |
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| This is due to the government's incorrigible tendency to downplay the costs and exaggerate the benefits of the deal. |
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| We see the main character's transformation from innocent, Hello-Kitty kid to corrupted, drug-using, sex-having, shoplifting incorrigible. |
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| There are incurable diseases in medicine, incorrigible vices in the ministry, insoluble cases in law. |
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| Cities are complex and demand innovative representational procedures capable of conveying their incorrigible plurality. |
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| I was driving to work this morning when I heard the incorrigible duo on the morning radio talk show. |
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| The most compelling portrait in the book is that of Sukanya's grandmother, Ragini Devi, dancer, scholar, and incorrigible rebel. |
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| A petite woman with penetrating hazel eyes and trimly cut white hair, Douglas has an incorrigible intensity and buoyant sense of humor. |
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| Besides, Robinson was supposed to have been one of the most incorrigible skirt-chasers of his time. |
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| Is it about the fundamentally deluded nature of human existence, or its perverse, incorrigible optimism? |
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| I mean, you've celebrated your second-year anniversary, and you've got this little guy, who I hear is an incorrigible flirt. |
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| And the biggest problem of all is that we humans are incorrigible theorizers. |
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| The endless repetition of incorrigible and isolated individuality is the statement and each time he makes it he makes it afresh. |
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| His Franz was an incorrigible flirt, but not completely empty-headed or cold-hearted. |
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| These are, of course, the sour thoughts of a crabbed and incorrigible old cynic. |
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| It is their incorrigible pettishness and ignominious attitude towards their voters that makes the whole nation suffer. |
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| But after this pile-up of patter, the best he can do is to accept that the poor creature is incorrigible. |
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| Parliament needs a few incorrigible bruisers like the tough, improbably piano-playing, shadow chancellor. |
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| However, now pushing 60, a twilight-years philosophy is creeping into the Lemmster's previously incorrigible worldview, with takes on death and environmentalism. |
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| It was sometimes objected that sensation statements are incorrigible whereas statements about brains are corrigible. |
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| Whether they were incorrigible procrastinators or were consumed with professional jealousy, the truth may never be known. |
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| She is an incorrigible communicant, and with some others she has opened the doors of the world of cinema to Max Chaoul. |
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| The mission began in the Bronx's Melrose neighborhood with an educational program for youths considered unteachable and incorrigible. |
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| They see that we are incorrigible and we are corruptible and they write us all off. |
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| Lü had shown her true colours as an extremist and incorrigible agitator for the independence of Taiwan. |
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| One is that Russia's rulers will as anyone in their position would—use the occasion to remind the world of their foes' incorrigible wickedness. |
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| Boys in the incorrigible category could be confined for an indefinite period of not less than two years. |
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| The despotic governments of Nigeria and Burma are persistent and incorrigible violators of human rights. |
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| There are incorrigible elements in the media and it would be a waste of resources trying to gain their confidence. |
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| We have to fix it in order to get out of their heads the thought process that we are incorrigible. |
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| Despite his nebbishy demeanor, the Senate majority leader is an incorrigible junkyard dog. |
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| No one wins when the political field is populated exclusively by the incorrigible right and the bemused left. |
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| Beset by financial troubles, he remained an incorrigible optimist. |
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| And Anthony Hopkins as Noah's hammy 969-year-old grandpa, Methuselah, who was apparently an incorrigible berry addict. |
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| The incorrigible nanny provided the majority of the laughs throughout with her classroom scene and exercise routines the most humorous of the panto. |
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| It may appear as an epidemic, as a hereditary complaint, or as an obstinate and incorrigible disease again and again recurring. |
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| Now, Bildad, I am sorry to say, had the reputation of being an incorrigible old hunks, and in his sea-going days, a bitter, hard task-master. |
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| Before every Ashes series, the same warnings come from some incorrigible larrikin. |
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| In the early version of his History of Britain, begun in 1649, Milton was already writing off the members of the Long Parliament as incorrigible. |
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| For a student of such a serious subject as literature that lad is the most incorrigible flibberty-gibbet. |
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| Gordon Brown may have his grumpy, Granita moments, but as a strategist he is an incorrigible optimist. |
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| Is there a parallel to what we're talking about here, where it's not politically correct to say this person is incorrigible or we simply can't help this person? |
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| A Dubois revisited and still incorrigible. |
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| He may be victim of an incorrigible cronyism, and his overdue attempt to reform Britain's welfare state has left many rough edges, some of them inexcusable. |
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| Only Mmampe, Smit and Maria, as the original and incorrigible indulgers, find the whole episode hilarious. |
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| Linda Ironside describes herself as an incorrigible optimist and this part of her personality comes through strongly from the early days of her diagnosis while teaching in China to the present. |
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| Certainly it will happen that some malicious spirits, incorrigible dreamers and unsociable natures, will not accommodate themselves to any known form of government. |
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| If even Mr Pronk, who I know as an incorrigible go-getter and optimist, no longer sees a chance for the peace process, then it is really time for us to sound the alarm. |
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| Many of you know that I have followed my mentor James Grant in being an incorrigible optimist: 'where many others see darkness, I see humanity heading-or at least zigzagging-towards a brighter future. |
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| Because they were all incorrigible optimists. |
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| Cameron's cravenness knows no bounds, Clegg is terrified of bringing down the coalition and precipitating an early election that would wipe out his party, and Fleet Street, even after all this, is an incorrigible place. |
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| Travestying himself in an omnipresent character, cooking up unbelievable adventures for himself in surrealistic decors, the incorrigible little man keeps laughing at himself. |
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| Another example of brutal disregard of the most common promptings of nature, is that of a refractious son who was so incorrigible that his father condemned him to death. |
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| He is always the class clown and his teachers say he is incorrigible. |
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