inexpungible

Because he understood how easy it was to pursue a passion for justice and revolution using obscene measures, Glucksmann could understand the totalitarian temptation as responding to a deep, inexpungible need in human nature for a master, a guide.

In his most recent novel, A Family Madness, Keneally returns to the inexpungible memories of World War II, this time from the point of view of collaborators in the murder of Jews.