Sentence examples for intolerable weight from inspiring English sources

This was a darkness so complete that it toyed with the senses, a darkness that pressed with its own great density, smothering, strangling, crushing, pushing down with an unfathomable intolerable weight.

"The beauteous figure of Zenobia was confined by fetters of gold; a slave supported the gold chain which encircled her neck, and she almost fainted under the intolerable weight of jewels," he writes.

But her management company said she was forced by the IPC to wear a new boot cover over the new prosthetic, resulting in "unnecessary weight" and "intolerable pain".

The IPC wanted her to wear a new boot cover over the prosthetic, but Mills said that requirement resulted in "unnecessary weight" and "intolerable pain" on her limb.

Intolerance is intolerable.

Intolerable singer Ricky Martin has thrown his weight behind Mexico's bid for World Cup glory.

(Surely we had enough of speechmaking; surely there was a saturation point beyond which no further word could add its weight to the almost intolerable burden of the conscientious mind).

At the moment when they come across him in the play he is staggering under the weight of a burden intolerable to one of his temperament.... Of all this, Guildenstern and Rosencrantz realise nothing.

A large astronomical mirror presents many problems to the optical engineer, mainly because even a distortion of a few microns of the mirror under its own weight will cause an intolerable blurring of the image.

By 1856 the weight of the petticoats became intolerable, and the cage crinoline was invented.

By mid-century, however, some leading figures had begun to view the chaotic multiplicity of competing systems of atomic weights and molecular formulas as intolerable.