Sentence examples for would seem unthinkable from inspiring English sources
Today, a return to providing that service without charge would seem unthinkable.
It was all kicked off with the kind of lavish party that would seem unthinkable in the current context.
"Bastards" functions like Ms. Denis's childhood nightmare, conjuring situations that would seem unthinkable, except that they recall passages from Faulkner and Sophocles, as well as the nightly news.
These strikes were almost certainly commissioned and supported by Pakistan's military and intelligence services; it would seem unthinkable for the Obama Administration to act unilaterally with drones just when Pakistan was at last doing what it had long urged.
The ordinary citizen has witnessed outrageous acts of violence that would seem unthinkable to the rest of the world.
Doors are being opened by authors and producers who are willing to go after a project like this, which years ago, would seem unthinkable due to a lack of a large audience and resources.
By the same token, it would seem almost unthinkable that any of these potential covert targets for the Ukrainian military would be in Crimea.
Even a few years ago, it would have seemed unthinkable that HIV would become treatable to the point that it couldn't be transmitted even through unprotected sex.
Half a century ago, in the weeks between the bloody beating of civil rights marchers by Alabama state troopers on Selma's Edmund Pettus Bridge and the six days of looting, arson and death in Watts, it would have seemed unthinkable that people then living would see an African American as president of the United States, or as a mayor or police chief in a city like Baltimore.
In 1985, when Freddie Mercury and Queen reigned over Live Aid, it would have seemed unthinkable that within just six years the great showman would be dead, never mind that in 2015 two of his bandmates would tour with an American Idol talent show runner-up performing the old songs.
A strong symbol that a decade ago would have seemed unthinkable.
