Sentence examples for quite unthinkable from inspiring English sources

No recording of his wife's voice exists, and it would have been quite unthinkable for her to give an interview.

So your lasting contribution to American politics may be something quite unthinkable a year ago: its first black president.

But it's quite unthinkable that any private company would want to fund nuclear in Australia due to the huge start-up cost.

What comes over quite unaffectedly in the concert hall, in the opera house today, only 50 years ago was quite unthinkable.

"France's constitution was approved by referendum, and it is quite unthinkable that the constitution [succeeding] it should not be adopted in the same way," said the pro-sovereignty MP Philippe de Villiers, echoing the Communist leader Marie-Georges Buffet, for whom a referendum is "morally and democratically the only acceptable solution".

It is difficult to say whether Charles's obsessive fascination with the past is born of a yearning for the certainties of feudalism, where he would have topped the tree and the idea of a few peasants demanding to know how he disposed of their tithes would be quite unthinkable.

It should almost go without saying that such a story would have been quite literally unthinkable before the social upheaval of that time engulfed America.

What was until quite recently unthinkable has happened: a play for years considered one of Shakespeare's lousier offerings has become, well, flavour of the month: there's already been a fine staging earlier this year at the Tobacco Factory in Bristol, and Bailey's production looks set to be a big popular success.

Although the chorus of the sailors and village girls at the start of the third part of the Flying Dutchman is not so overtly erotic, the sailors are getting drunker and louder and more passionate by the minute: is an orgy quite so unthinkable?

"While there's no market for regrowing human heads," says Frank, "wouldn't it be great if we could repair spinal cords, damaged hearts, damaged kidneys, hands and any other organs we might lose?" The flatworm studies imply this might not be quite as unthinkable as once thought.

The idea of a present-day politician or monarch employing someone to mock them is unthinkable – quite the opposite: capitalism, theocracy, PR, spin and political correctness require everything to be upbeat, unsubtle and humourless.