inexpiable

Example Sentences

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We also move forward through the inevitable media circus and court battle, the abdication of responsibility by everyone except the girl’s mother, who sags beneath the weight of an irrational yet inexpiable guilt.

From New York Times • Mar. 10, 2019

But “Manchester” strikes me as a film about moral rot, about inexpiable crimes of negligence and frivolity.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 24, 2017

Sin, inexpiable: this is not the kind of subject he took on before.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 15, 2016

Sports radio callers suspected the front office of writing off the season as it waited for its younger talent to develop, an inexpiable sin in sports-crazed Boston.

From BusinessWeek • Apr. 24, 2014

No; not when two years ago he had stood hesitating on the edge of the inexpiable, immeasurable folly; the folly that had received, engulfed him now beyond deliverance and return.

From The Divine Fire by Sinclair, May