insupportable

Example Sentences

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But, in the wake of #MeToo, Time’s Up and Rudin’s defenestration, those narratives are looking increasingly insupportable as generational attitudes shift regarding power, accountability and workplace culture.

From Washington Post • Apr. 18, 2021

That would be an unprecedented and insupportable departure from the centuries-old tradition that the U.S.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 9, 2021

“It is my aunts who are being driven by malice and greed to make the vexatious, false, and insupportable allegations which form the basis of their probate lawsuit in New Hampshire,” he said.

From Washington Times • Feb. 7, 2018

The act wasn’t repealed until America’s alliance with the Chinese during World War II made it insupportable.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 2, 2016

He loved mountains, or he had loved the thought of them marching on the edge of stories brought from far away; but now he was borne down by the insupportable weight of Middle-earth.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien