Sentence examples for impossibility of telling from inspiring English sources

The telegraphic nature of the book derives partly from the impossibility of telling the stories of all the major Motown artists in a single musical.

Along with these characters - what they knew, the history they carried - also came, instantly, a knowledge of the impossibility of telling their story.

Psychiatrists say the kind of fighting seen in the recent retaking of Falluja -- spooky urban settings with unlimited hiding places; the impossibility of telling Iraqi friend from Iraqi foe; the knowledge that every stretch of road may conceal an explosive device -- is tailored to produce the adrenaline-gone-haywire reactions that leave lasting emotional scars.

In its successes and failures, The Underground Is Massive is a book that becomes most enjoyable after accepting the impossibility of telling the story of a movement so inexhaustible, without being exhausting.

She collected snails, liking their portable hiding place and the impossibility of telling which was male and which was female.

Mutual misapprehension, fear, mistrust, the near-impossibility of telling reality from illusion – the features of that time make it the perfect setting for a novel that is about espionage but also about isolation and obsessive love.

Everyone who has seriously written of this history has grappled, futilely, with this knot: the impossibility of its telling.

"Each of these spaces is impossible to photograph either because of the law, or the impossibility of access," Bridle tells The Creators Project.

"That was a project that lived for so short a time and such a long time ago that I would look at that as an impossibility," Fillion told HitFix of the franchise's chances of revival.

When one tries to consider that literary gem, one mainly has a feeling that something has gone wrong (one immediately wants to respond, "No, it wasn't"), and the source of that feeling seems to be the metaphysical impossibility of the story being told.

I never ever considered the impossibility of the story I was told this by my parents, and I guess, on some level, I didn't want to question it.