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Shakespeare's tragic hero is called upon to face the unfaceable.

From Time Magazine Archive

So he dropped the coins back into his pocket, dolefully, one by one, and took the deep breath of a man schooling himself to face the unfaceable.

From Phantom Wires A Novel by Brown, Arthur William

Mike, old boy," said Hermann, "we've got to face the unfaceable, and believe that the incredible is possible.

From Michael by Benson, E. F. (Edward Frederic)