Sentence examples for is an unthinkable from inspiring English sources

To withhold this information from readers is an unthinkable violation of the fundamental contract between a newspaper and its audience.

Many have said this is just a precaution; the default is an unthinkable event that will not happen.

In Jamaica, cunnilingus is an unthinkable taboo, riotously ridiculed in dancehall lyrics and mocked by men who boast, "Mi nah bow down" (I don't go down).

He is doing so, seemingly, because pushing inflation temporarily above an arbitrary target is an unthinkable prospect, even though doing so would almost certainly, by his own convincing argument, have a huge impact on America's enormously costly unemployment problem.

The clinic -- a volunteer network of some 120 massage therapists, acupuncturists, social workers and homeopathy specialists in the Bay Area -- provides free alternative medicine treatments and other services to women for whom even a massage is an unthinkable, unaffordable luxury.

If the president and his allies operate on the principle that failure to raise the debt ceiling is an unthinkable outcome, to be avoided at all cost, then they have ceded all power to those willing to bring that outcome about.

This was an unthinkable, a testicle-withering sum.

It would have been an unthinkable act a generation earlier.

Relegation was an unthinkable financial nightmare for Lowe.

"For our generation this was an unthinkable luxury," the visitor recalled.

That was an unthinkable sum until Mr. Madoff's $17 billion fraud came to light.