Sentence examples for almost insupportable from inspiring English sources

Gibson spoke lightly enough, but at the time this home run was an almost insupportable blow to his pride.

Though John "accepted the domestic sacrifice as the price, albeit a high one, that must be paid to earn a permanent place of prominence in American history," Mr. Ellis writes, Abigail found the separations almost insupportable.

The contradictions from which America suffers are rapidly becoming psychological contradictions which are almost insupportable — if they should shift back to economic contradictions and economic depression which is far from impossible that will not mean that the process was a simple dialectic whose breath moved only through the circuits of productive relations.

When Henry Brougham visited in 1799 he noted that "the air is infected by a stench almost insupportable – a compound of rotten fish, filth of all sorts and stinking seafowl".

Contrary to the majority's insupportable assertion, almost all authors, including academies, want to maximize financial gain from sales of their work.

Yet what is so insupportable about human digestive waste?

You look at the cityscape and see us tottering about in our insupportable hosiery.

He cares about the popular but insupportable idea that a cataclysm is unlikely to happen simply because it has not happened before.

That was the message handed down by CNN as it retracted its "insupportable" story about American servicemen using nerve gas in Laos in 1970.

Ben is still the heroic black man, whose presence has provoked all sorts of insupportable speculation about racial themes in the film.

To most of us these statements may sound, at best, insupportable or, at worst, crazy.