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Yet the whole intolerableness of the practice will center in the rule for exclusion of pupils from these examinations because of school failure.

From The High School Failures A Study of the School Records of Pupils Failing in Academic or Commercial High School Subjects by Obrien, Francis P.

And there too, as I think invariably in English, the poet shows his feeling of the intolerableness of continued double rhyme by making the odd verses rhyme plump and with single sound.

From The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) by Saintsbury, George

The intolerableness of this moral condition poisons the beauty which continues to be felt.

From The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory by Santayana, George

As Franklin the day before had felt, so he now felt, the intolerableness of his woe; and, as with Franklin, the waves closed over his head.

From Franklin Kane by Sedgwick, Anne Douglas

Mozart feels the intolerableness of his position and protests against it on every opportunity; he is conscious of his worth and intellectual superiority.

From Mozart: the man and the artist, as revealed in his own words by Kerst, Friedrich