inexpugnable

The approach is burlesque, but “there is no mistaking the real heartbreak and waste that are Hage’s material,” our reviewer John Williams writes, “or his outrage at the most costly, terrible and seemingly inexpugnable qualities of humanity.”

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.

Its lofty embattled walls, its bold, projecting, rounded towers that pierce the sky, strike the imagination and promise inexpugnable strength.

Reille described them as inexpugnable — impregnable.

That might have been true, but on June 18, it was the Hanoverians who were inexpugnable.