Both take up a position at once unanswerable and intolerable.
The conservative theory would really be quite sweeping and unanswerable if it were not for this one fact.
In proposing his subject Crabbe seems to make an unanswerable apology with a composure that is almost sweet.
Is there no hope that journalism will ever take again these graces of unanswerable argument?
Jim was left helpless with an unanswerable riddle on his mind.
Then he would make a renewed appeal to me beginning by an unanswerable plea, “if you wish to please me,” and imploring me not to join in discussions concerning any one.
In vain my husband assured me, in response to my unanswerable appeal, asking him why he had not kept them himself, that it was hardly his idea of hospitality.
I inwardly blessed him for the great reply and engaged its unanswerable argument for my next Sabbath's sermon.
The blood they shared together, speaking a kindred language, had turned King's evidence at last, and its unanswerable testimony leaped from face and eye.
It was filled with arguments, reasons, persuasions, and unanswerable logic.
His comprehensive report made to this and other conventions was an unanswerable argument in favor of the right of a Legislature to confer this vote on women and eventually it was widely recognized.
Mrs. Robins, as always, made an unanswerable argument for giving women wage earners the protection of the ballot.
Gifford Pinchot made a logical and unanswerable demand for the enfranchisement of women because of the nation's great need for their votes.
I never saw that great woman, Mary Wollstonecraft, but I have read her eloquent and unanswerable arguments in behalf of the liberty of womankind.
Miss Clay went to Washington and lobbied for it with all the prestige of her family back of her and with all her commanding ability, supporting it by unanswerable argument.
It defeats what I consider to be the unanswerable advantage of the Anthony Amendment, whose ratification by the required three-fourths of the States will force the remaining one-fourth into line.
How simple and unanswerablethat petition of justice!
No further proof was required by the Committee on Patents, in the Senate, and your right to a renewal was fully established by an able and unanswerable report of that Committee, accompanied by a bill for a renewal.
They presented to him an unanswerable argument, as they supposed, against the doctrine, questioning as to whose wife she should be in the resurrection, who has had seven husbands in this life.
The following references are absolutely unanswerable by the critics, viz.
The evidence thus obtained would proveunanswerable arguments in favor of the plan proposed.
It has been said that "History is philosophy teaching by example," and, if such instruction is well considered, none can fail to see therein an unanswerable argument against excessive severity in this matter.
Christian life is anunanswerable argument in favour of Christ.
This in itself is an unanswerable argument in favour of personal work for the young.
I will not say how far I disagree with this sentiment, but I know that a French philosopher will be an unanswerable authority with you; and so I will take shelter even under the battery of an enemy.
In that one maxim is concentrated whatever is noble in morality, sublime in religion, or unanswerable in truth.
Supposing this to be the case, how has it happened, it may be asked, that the argument of the necessitarian has appeared so conclusive to himself, as well as unanswerable to others?
On this unanswerable proposition I take my stand, and here commences my argument.
I say confidently on unanswerable grounds of justice, because nothing can render the rules of justice in such a case less obligatory upon the Government than upon a private individual.
Though this consideration is not unimportant, yet I do not dwell upon it, because it is so entirely subordinate to that derived from the positive obligation of the Great Landholder onunanswerable grounds of justice.
From the point of view of practical politics, however, there was one unanswerableargument against this plan.
It was in vain that his advocates and friends pleaded his learned and unanswerable confutation of all atheistical opinions, and particularly of the system of Spinosa, in his discourse of the distinction between soul and body.
There were, however, many sound and unanswerable arguments for the admission of the new State, just such as had influenced Jefferson in purchasing the Louisiana territory: Texas was contiguous, her territory and resources immense.
Hayne was eloquently defending States' rights, and his argument was unanswerable if his premise was admitted, that, as had been theretofore conceded, the Constitution was a compact between the States.
Then comes the unanswerable question which cut so deep, and struck their consciences so hard that they could answer nothing, only sit and scowl at Him with a murderous light gleaming in their eyes.
Edson: "Its concise, simple and unanswerable style won thousands to the cause.
Washington, writing to Joseph Reed in the same month that it was published, acknowledged its "sound doctrine and unanswerable reasoning," and declared for separation.
The most terrible of motives, the most unanswerable of retorts--Because.
In the remote event of this unanswerable argument failing to move him, she would appeal to his honor as a man not to hold her, a woman, to so unfair a bargain.
On the one hand was this heart-breaking waiting while watching one's little hoard diminish from day to day and always the terrifying and unanswerable question: What is to be done when it is exhausted?
To be true in his ideas, unanswerable in his syllogisms, and just in his aspirations was not enough for him.
