Sentence examples for is quite intolerable from inspiring English sources

My favourite part when there's a battle with bullets whizzing everywhere, cannonballs smashing into tents, soldiers running in all directions and suddenly the scarecrow calmly stops, reaches into a bush, lifts out a nest containing a terrified robin and says, "This is quite intolerable… Madam, I offer my apologies on behalf of the regiment.

It was quite intolerable that it then took 47 days from maturity for the proceeds to reach my account.

If you're dealing with a large enough sample size, this is a challenging if manageable conundrum, but, Miller warns, "if you are trying to say something about a single individual in a particular moment in time" — whether, for example, he or she is lying — "I think those reliability numbers are quite intolerable".

The first, and almost the most important, point he makes is that everyday life is quite literally intolerable if there is nothing else and no other way to live.

If the laogai were merely a means of putting to work convicted criminals'like the chain gangs of the past'it might not be quite so intolerable.

This is quite acceptable as mislabeling G6PD-deficient neonates as normal is intolerable whereas mislabeling G6PD-normal neonates as deficient is tolerable [ 65].

"What's happened in Sarcelles is intolerable: attacking a synagogue or a kosher grocery, is quite simply anti-Semitism, racism," the prime minister said.

He's quite right to find that intolerable, but the solution is not to abuse individuals or their motivations, whatever they might be.

We were told the outbreak of war in March 1999 with Nato was the Serbian government's fault, yet Lord Gilbert, the UK defence minister, admitted "the terms put to Miloševic at Rambouillet [the international conference preceding the war] were absolutely intolerable … it was quite deliberate".

"She is like a sergeant major, quite intolerable.

"I think Peter was finding the fan pressure quite intolerable.