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
He is not one of those men who are hurried by the mere emotion and unbearableness of grief, into a fresh emotion of love.
From Delia Blanchflower by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.
But the mother, in the ruthless unbearableness of her pain, wanted something done, anything.
From The Emigrant Trail by Bonner, Geraldine
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)
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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