Scenes of Palestinians and other Muslims celebrating this week's horrors may seem an unendurable provocation, but America must take care in the coming days that it does not create more would-be martyrs than, through military action, it can destroy.
Since then, the pressure on Mr Rafsanjani and his family has become unendurable, with an arrest warrant for one son (in London), his daughter subjected to a public bullying by pro-regime militants, and a concert of media abuse aimed at trashing his record.It is possible that the anathemisation of Mr Rafsanjani will have an unintended effect.
But colleagues were grateful for his vivid wit, because without it his brilliance would have been unendurable.
In all this he appeared to act more like an aggressive papal nuncio than a compliant appointee of the royal supreme governor of the church, and Charles I's purring complaisance in Laud's activities was unendurable to most of his subjects.
Her screaming on "Don't Worry Kyoko" – about the daughter she was trying to get back from her first husband – is, more or less, unendurable.
But the pain in her head and, now, her eyes was unendurable.
They were speaking in what sounded like German about something very serious, but also occasionally funny, and frightening and unendurable, judging by Tovah's face, which every so often froze like the faces of women in silent movies.
He hadn't quite gotten this before now, how it wasn't just the matter of riding out the cravings for a Substance: everything unendurable was in the head, was the head not Abiding in the Present but hopping the wall and doing a recon and then returning with unendurable news".
"The Black Cat" is essentially a horror movie of Europe's own Lost Generation — about the dead souls of those who survived the unendurable slaughter and the dead souls of those who survived in the bad faith of comfort at home.
A sequence in which a Jordanian who may provide access to bin Laden approaches an American military installation is drawn out to a level of almost unendurable suspense.
As he draws out his moves to unendurable lengths, the stranger appears to enter into a feverish combat with himself: From one pause to the next our friend's behavior became ever more bizarre.
