ineffaceable

It’s “good to think with” on a vast range of topics: the chauvinism of a strain of literary criticism, the ineffaceable damage done by families of origin, why we can never again recapture the happiness we felt in old relationships or even fully understand why we were actually there, to say nothing of why we are here now.

"From King David's time to our own, President Trump has now etched his name into the ineffaceable story of Jerusalem," the vice president said in a speech last year at the Israeli Embassy in Washington.

It fell over Elisha like a golden robe, and struck John’s forehead, where Elisha had kissed him, like a seal ineffaceable forever.

The relic, with ghostly, ineffaceable traces of the original handiwork, is in the show.

Describing his acts as “shameful and ineffaceable”, Kim said he feels sorry for his crime and appealed to North Korean authorities to show him mercy by forgiving him.