And there I read, "If we could see ourselves as we really are, life would be insupportable".
But it may be that it is what keeps him going, that life in Kidderminster in a womanless house (Mrs D jumped ship five years ago) would be insupportable but for the poughkeepsies, Pendragon Nine and yrrghyskyx, the curiously vowel-free Armanian language.
The cynicism of Dyer's story would be insupportable if it were not savagely funny, and if there were not Mann's closeted idealism to play off.
The familiar phrase, apocryphally attributed to "Star Trek," encapsulates David Toomey's study of the search for species flourishing in places where life was thought to be insupportable.
The downtown site for the arena would favor Wynn... Certainly, any public perception that Goodman is weak would be insupportable to this man.
Without sex, life would be insupportable, but without self-willed changes of identity, shifting, theatrical improvisation, life would be impossible as well.
The situation in the UK (as in Italy) continues to be insupportable, yet somewhat like "serfs", we've seemed resigned to suffering it, as if no serious alternative existed.
Thomas Mann's denouncement of Strauss as a "Hitlerian composer" (Strauss signed an anti-Thomas Mann manifesto in early 1933) resonated strongly with many people, for whom any celebration of his life would be insupportable.
When that happens, I begin to think that Luhrmann is on to something, that there may be a future in the ludicrous, insupportable genre.
But it is important to note that Ms. Trotter was chosen to testify by the committee's Republican members, who will have a big say on what, if anything, Congress does on guns; and that her appearance before the committee was to give voice to the premise, however insupportable and dangerous it may be, that guns make women and children safer — and the more powerful the guns the better.
