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The al-Qaida brand is irremediably tarnished.
Instead Littell simply gives us a monster talking at monstrous length about his monstrous deeds, encouraging us to write off Nazis as cartoonish madmen... Aue's own remarks tend to be insufferably pompous ("Doctor, I suffer from only one disease, sexually transmissible and irremediably fatal: life"), while those of associates tend to devolve into raw, anti-Semitic rants.
The exiles who fled the Generalissimo's dictatorship after the civil war believed, and persuaded most non-Spaniards, that anyone who lived under Franco was irremediably tainted by his regime.
More important than these relatively minor territorial losses was the realization throughout Europe that Spain's pretensions to hegemony had definitely and irremediably failed.
With Accabadora (2009; the title is a Sardinian word meaning "she who terminates"), Michela Murgia winner of the Campiello Prize touched on a controversial issue in contemporary Italy; in telling the story of Bonaria Urrai, an old woman who takes the lives of the irremediably ill, Murgia posed the question of whether individuals should have the right to decide when to die.
Two, it is infested, silently but irremediably , by drugs, whether in the perilous economy of meth-cooking ("crank") or in the casual transactions of daily routine ("here's a doobie for your walk home", says a neighbour to Ree).
Groups that have an apocalyptic outlook — that believe "an irremediably corrupt world must be purged to make way for a utopian future," that celebrate violence as a means of achieving those aims — could be especially drawn to nuclear weapons, Potter and Ackerman found.
So it's especially disappointing that a new recording of the work by Keith Jarrett (on ECM) is so irremediably problematic.
But here was an interloper, so irremediably dirt!
You are eleven years old, the age that our essences begin revealing themselves, irremediably , to us and to the world.
What he means isn't just that that real-life case was a bad one but that it drew irremediably bad publicity in the media; he's worried about appearances.
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The adverb "irremediably " functions to modify verbs, adjectives, or other adverbs, indicating that an action, state, or quality is beyond remedy or correction. Ludwig provides examples showing it intensifies the impossibility of reversing a condition.
Expression frequency: Very common
