Sentence examples for considered it unthinkable from inspiring English sources
On the wireless, the critic Ivor Brown considered it unthinkable that, as a colonel's daughter, Alison Porter would have remained in such an "unspeakably squalid" setting.
When Mr. Yeltsin began his second term in office four years ago, most people would have considered it unthinkable that any head of Russia's long-feared espionage apparatus would be freely elected president in the year 2000.
After the shooting down of MH17 Cameron declared that he would consider it unthinkable to sell a warship to Russia, as France is planning to do.
"There will surely be some members on the fence about this legislation, but consider it unthinkable that we would return to alcohol prohibition," he said.
In order to broaden our understanding of cannibalism, which he says vacillates between "the sensationalistic shit" and academic studies, Schutt examined the animal kingdom and applied what he learned to examples of cannibalism among humans, as well as the Western taboos that have led us to consider it unthinkable.
To do that unroped over the treacherous crevasses of the Western Cwm was considered unthinkable, but it was possible on the less-crevassed northern approach through Tibet; by the late 1970s Tibet was again becoming an option.
It is still considered politically unthinkable just to introduce straight-up, polluter-pays punitive measures – particularly in the US".
"Why is a person as nice/successful/intelligent as you still single?" is an unremarkable conversational gambit, whereas the analogous why-are-you-still-married would be considered unthinkable -- and unthinkably rude.
A few short years ago it was considered unthinkable for politicians to support civil unions for gay Americans.
It was once considered unthinkable: the notion of a museum selling off parts of its collection to pay the bills.
