assailable

The only thing that might be assailable is the process that winds up earning Watson a harsher, more deserving penalty.

Every day, the first minutes of class would be filled by harsh salvos of criticism aimed at Mr. Loring’s round, assailable figure leaning against his lectern.

Midway through the documentary, bruised from a fall and momentarily assailable, Christo stalks out of the frame.

So it’s precisely as a vision of an alternative, and one that had the temerity, at the start, to be successful, to overthrow the un- or not-yet assailable, that October matters.

And, to a great extent, Harris’ Senate career is prospective, the tough decisions ahead of her and not an assailable part of her record.