unbearableness
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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At first she seems almost an embodied plot mechanism, but as the book goes on Bishop explores her psychology more and more deeply, following her from the unbearableness of delusion to the unbearableness of recovery.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 21, 2013
What guaranty had they that he would not again, at the first provocation, fall back into his old glum unbearableness?
From The Road to Understanding by Porter, Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman)
But the mother, in the ruthless unbearableness of her pain, wanted something done, anything.
From The Emigrant Trail by Bonner, Geraldine
It is in order not to bore you with my complaints that I write so rarely to you now, for no one has a livelier sense than I of my unbearableness.
From The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters by McKenzie, Aimée G. Leffingwel
In the unnatural unbearableness of her anguish, she lost sight of objects as she passed them, she lost all memory of what she did.
From The Shuttle by Burnett, Frances Hodgson
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