Sentence examples for unthinkable concept from inspiring English sources
Our species will not survive unless we can find a way to come to terms with that unthinkable concept, a steady state economy, as advocated by Herman Daly and Robert D. Feinman.
In this spiritually advanced past, "slave rape" was unthinkable as a concept, because the slave's right of consent was unthinkable (the same goes for marital rape).
A movement against noise pollution has led to an unprecedented ordinance, a 10 p.m. curfew on amplified sound -- a concept once unthinkable in a city known for its late-night, sometimes all-night, weddings, concerts and religious celebrations.
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Another problem is that Hollywood storytellers will have to adjust to an audience that has those Sept. 11 images in their heads, changing the national concept of what is unthinkable.
And that happened when secularism was a somewhat sacred concept whose critique was unthinkable.
The commercials showed concepts that seemed almost unthinkable at the time -- a look at what possibilities the future might hold -- while the narrator asked questions like, "Have you ever borrowed a book from thousands of miles away?..
Ethiopia also imports about 10m litres of wine a year to serve a growing middle class, a concept that would have been unthinkable to viewers of the images of helplessness and starvation that spurred Band Aid in 1984.
Many of the hundreds of people that pass through our centres are artists, and many of their works now incorporate images and concepts from the Talmud, something unthinkable 20 years ago.
The philosopher Peter Singer described it as "a concept so desirable in its consequences that it is unthinkable to give up, and so shaky on its foundations that it can scarcely be supported".
■ Think the unthinkable in the provision of our essential services and start to research the concept of educational enterprise zones built around the clusters of our most deprived communities.
