Sentence examples for is as unthinkable from inspiring English sources

A world without it is as unthinkable as a world without arthouse cinema or alternative music.

"In the professional sumo world," Gadd said, "women in sumo is as unthinkable as a rabbi sponsoring a pork farm".

MIchael Bywater Brewing a cup of coffee For some of us, getting to work without at least one shot of caffeine is as unthinkable as turning up without clothes on.

"For many expat Scots and Scots-Americans, the notion of Burns Supper without haggis is as unthinkable as Thanksgiving without turkey," Mr. Kelly wrote in a report from Washington that revealed aficionados would have to make do with ersatz versions of the Scottish national dish or even — horror of horrors — vegetarian ones.

Dark material is a hallmark of Mitchell's productions, as if she wants to lead us to the ghastly depths of human behaviour and force us to understand it: the idea of her directing a comedy is as unthinkable as her directing a Broadway show.

In a blue-collar land where welfare is a dirty word and leaving these green foothills and ancestral graves is as unthinkable as a rocket-ship ride to another world, the Union Yarn Mill in Jacksonville has, for 95 years, offered the workers not only a living but an anchor.

It should be as unthinkable as rape and murder.

Now that's as unthinkable as not having a shower.

Not to rebuild the minaret would be as unthinkable as to not to have rebuilt St Mark's campanile in Venice after its collapse in 1902.

Labour has held on to governing power in Wales, where to lose would once have been as unthinkable as in Scotland.

But that would be as unthinkable as Europeans plunging into total war over the killing of an archduke by a citizen of not-quite-sovereign Serbia.