Sentence examples for future was impossible from inspiring English sources

The future was impossible.

And, anyway, there was a civil war raging, and the future was impossible to predict.

At the time, we could barely see 10 minutes ahead of ourselves, so envisioning 10 years into the future was impossible.

The future is impossible to predict".

Without both, the future is impossible.

He would do well to remember that predicting the future is impossible, and stick to getting a clear picture of the past and present.

The central figure in Archer's imagined reality is the Countess Olenska, with whom a future is impossible; but, as R. W. B. Lewis points out in an essay on the novel, Archer's predicament echoes passages in Wharton's autobiography, in which she notes the divergence between the social life she was obliged by her upbringing to conduct, and her secret, passionate creative life.

And thus we get James' conclusion: Determinism says that the actual future is necessary and any other future is impossible.

Thus, probable explanations and prognoses about the future are impossible and critical rationalism cannot be a valid guiding principle for exposing the future in a scientific way.

So we can know a priori that if the chances are as we think they are, the undermining future is impossible, and we should assign no credence in the undermining future conditional on the chances being as they are.

One says that an event cannot begin to have any effect before it has occurred; another that knowledge of the future is impossible except in certain familiar manners, such as by inference from present facts.