inexpugnable

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But there is no mistaking the real heartbreak and waste that are Hage’s material, or his outrage at the most costly, terrible and seemingly inexpugnable qualities of humanity.

From New York Times • Aug. 7, 2019

For even as "appearance" it has a definite and inexpugnable character of its own which cannot be destroyed by subsumption under the "standpoint of the whole," "the absolute good," the "over-individual values."

From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Bode, Boyd H.

This, then, is the inexpugnable objection to the ethical instruction of children: the end which should be sought is performance, not knowledge, and we cannot by supplying the latter induce the former.

From The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education by Palmer, Alice Freeman

As a rule,"—he glanced around at his fellow-topers—"I pride myself that in head and legs I am inexpugnable.

From Lady Good-for-Nothing by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

It would indeed be strange and lamentable if the divorce between feeling and conviction—to adopt a popular classification—was not simply incidental to change, but was also an inexpugnable part of fundamental aspects of human life.

From Determinism or Free-Will? by Cohen, Chapman