insupportable

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In “Exit the King,” he confronts the insupportable reality of death with the same madcap delirium of his better known works, such as “The Bald Soprano,” “The Chairs” and “Rhinoceros.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 13, 2026

“That position is insupportable as a matter of precedent and common sense,” he wrote.

From New York Times • Jun. 23, 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

That people who were so vulnerable and needed special care were instead treated as an afterthought is insupportable.

From Washington Post • Sep. 17, 2017

Most people would have termed her a splendid woman of her age: and so she was, no doubt, physically speaking; but then there was an expression of almost insupportable haughtiness in her bearing and countenance.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë