Sentence examples for basically unthinkable from inspiring English sources
My clients could sense that to me death was basically unthinkable, and they shied away from this hole in my sales pitch.
"The idea of screening with a view of preventing those kinds of incidents is basically unthinkable," said Dr. Steven E. Hyman, director of the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research at the Broad Institute of Harvard and M.I.T. "You would fail.
One of the reasons that the Court in Dred Scott denied that blacks could be citizens was precisely that Chief Justice Taney recognized that citizens could carry guns, and it was basically unthinkable that blacks could do so.
To understand how long overdue comprehensive immigration reform is, consider this: The last time the United States passed comprehensive immigration legislation, Republicans played a leading role in crafting the bill, the Berlin Wall had yet to fall, the U.S. had sided with Saddam Hussein in the Iran-Iraq War and the legalization of gay marriage was basically unthinkable.
With the president of the United States basically justifying neo-Nazism, it seems unthinkable that we will ever see a day when there is a serious push to blow up Rushmore and other monuments like it.
He missed a 2 1/2-foot par putt at the 11th hole, basically a lapse in concentration -- an unthinkable slip-up in a major, let alone the Masters.
October 2 2015 The survival of jazz, and many other American musical genres, would be unthinkable without the visionary promoter George Wein, the man who basically put the modern music festival on the map.
"It's unthinkable today".
