Sentence examples for close to unbearable from inspiring English sources

(Except when it isn't: Jackie Hoffman, mugging and shticking, is close to unbearable.

I am aware that the temperature in the living room is growing close to unbearable.

It's a comedy that doesn't make you laugh, and at times it is close to unbearable; some people like it so much that they can't watch it.

Eventually, I unearthed a story that helped me to understand what the thing was, but the fact of his death was close to unbearable.

Fabio was at least twice the age of the season's oldest contestant and watching the young girls feign (at best) enthusiasm and (at worst) horniness throughout the shoot was close to unbearable".

The second half roared on towards its conclusion, the tension close to unbearable, when he announced that he would have to nip out once more as his earlier exit had clearly been the reason for Jô's goal.

In a movie of less self-confidence, less rhapsodic euphoria, these notes of evasion and self-pity would be unbearable, and they come close to being unbearable as it is.

Some of the subplots dither and come close to being unbearable, and the message — those who befriend Michael are transformed for the better — pure cornpone.

In some cases not choosing the trod foot may bring us all closer to that unbearable amputation.

The presentations in "Remembering 9/11" remind us that while we were all witnesses, some witnessed more, or more particularly, than others, accumulating documents that, if not quite artworks, bring us closer to the unbearable reality of the events.

As in Robbe-Grillet, the mystery lies not within the crime but within the detective: while Minami moves steadily closer to the unbearable revelations at the book's denouement, the narrative mirrors his disintegration, splintering into the various Tourette's-like repetitions, the slightly out-of-phase allusions that have dotted it.