Sentence examples for intolerable figure from inspiring English sources

This is an intolerable figure.

How, amid so much joyful experience, could life become so intolerable to the one figure who seems to be its master?

Instead, he abstained, claiming he had been put under intolerable pressure by unidentified figures on the fringe of the bidding process.

It is intolerable to think that figures of authority — Lee's lawyer, her publisher, and all those who stand to gain from a sequel to the phenomenally lucrative "Mockingbird" — might be manipulating and exploiting the creator of a work of art that itself is about how an official mendacity abets a system of inequality.

These growth figures project intolerable numbers of cardiac events, amputations, and occurrences of renal failure despite our improved care and diminishing risk.

Intolerance is intolerable.

Unison's general secretary, Dave Prentis, said the figures showed "an intolerable level of attacks on staff".

When she stayed I figured she would be absolutely intolerable this episode.

They are assumed by the authorities — parents, scoutmasters, scouts, and even the state, as embodied in the figure of social services (Tilda Swinton) — to be doing something indecent, immoral, intolerable.

They are assumed by the authorities parents, scoutmasters, scouts, and even the state, as embodied in the figure of social services (Tilda Swinton)—to be doing something indecent, immoral, intolerable.

At least in those cases the sales figures weren't high enough to make the burden of expectation intolerable.