Grief ought to be a concentration; but for the agnostic its desolation is spread through an unthinkable eternity.
But in that terrific tale of the Passion there is a distinct emotional suggestion that the author of all things (in some unthinkable way) went not only through agony, but through doubt.
As the process continued the interest of each nation in the welfare of its neighbours would become so great as to make international war as unthinkable as a war of Pennsylvania against New York.
Unless Blenham, with all of the guile of him uppermost, knew that that shot fired between the two would send them flying at each other's throats, ending all parley and bringing about unthinkable tragedy.
Mildred, to whom it was unthinkable that any man should not wish to talk to her, merely pitied his shyness and determined to break it down; but Davison's attitude was unbending.
This sounded sincere, but it was unthinkable that she should feel any tenderness for the man, and he must be made to understand.
It's unthinkable that Leonard should drag it down and sell it for what he can gain.
It's unthinkable that we should turn back without trying to locate it.
He suspected Leonard, but it was unthinkable that he should declare his brother-in-law's infamy.
She was aware of him sitting silently there, an unthinkable evil obstruction.
Ursula was superficially thrilled when she found herself out among the common people, in the jumbled place piled with old bedding, heaps of old iron, shabby crockery in pale lots, muffled lots of unthinkable clothing.
Then the unthinkablehigh vibration slackened and became more undulating.
She had further to go, a further, slow exquisite experience to reap, unthinkable subtleties of sensation to know, before she was finished.
The long, shallow red rip seemed torn across his own brain, tearing the surface of his ultimate consciousness, letting through the forever unconscious, unthinkable red ether of the beyond, the obscene beyond.
He saw the yellow flare in her eyes, he knew the unthinkable overweening assumption of primacy in her.
Instinct with unthinkable power was that clamor; the very voice of Force.
In them I read unthinkable calculations, formulas of interwoven universes, arithmetical progressions of armies of stars, pandects of the motions of the suns.
That WAS unthinkable--unthinkable because if so this mechanism was superfluous.
Slowly we moved through endless corridors ofunthinkable beauty; through magnificent apartments, and noble halls.
As a clerk in the family was unthinkable Mrs. Groome had lent him the insurance on one of her burned buildings and he had started a modest exporting and importing house, that being the only business of which he had any knowledge.
Passion was unthinkable to her without love, and when she recalled the mean and sordid devices to which two of her friends were put to meet their lovers she felt nothing but disgust for the whole drama of man and woman.
Unthinkable to have a secret drawer in an old Italian cabinet which had belonged to some Borgia or other, and not exhibit it to one's chosen friends.
It was perfectly obvious that he'd simply been sent up to acquire experience in space for later naval use, and that he'd been placed in command because it was unthinkable that he serve under anyone without official rank and authority.
And the unthinkableweight oppressing him grew less.
She allowed him to take liberties with her which would have beenunthinkable from anybody else.
In fact, the Bensons in her set were simply an unthinkable element.
The title chosen was paradoxical, for while a nun might be a puritan, it was unthinkable that a Puritan should be a nun.
Of all the unthinkable things on this star none are so extreme as the manner in which these people hold conversation.
Of course it is unthinkable that anyone should estimate friendship in that way; friendship that calculates is unworthy the name, and the calculator ought to be doomed to the loneliest kind of life.
Is it because of the common idea that "every man has his price," that it is unthinkable that a sane man would let a fortune that he could claim honestly slip through his fingers?
Jack and Mary and that unthinkable Mr. Pyecroft would decamp, if they had not gone before, and leave the way clear for the easy interchange by Olivetta and herself of their several personalities.
It wasunthinkable that he should spend the winter in the icy wilds, and the summer in portaging canoes over rocky hills and dragging the measuring chain through mosquito haunted bush.
It's unthinkable that your mother and sister should be branded with this taint!
That would be an unthinkable waste of fine material.
Beatrice could not marry a ruined man; it was unthinkable that he should drag her down to the grinding care and drudgery that formed the lot of a broken farmer's wife.
It was unthinkablethat he should know the girl, but she stopped beside him.
It was unthinkable that he should be forced to wait while the fellow went for his sheep, but he saw that Kit was not to be moved and tried to control his anger.
There was but one way of escape, and this a way it was almost unthinkable that he should take.
You may beat me; you may kill me if you like, unthinkable brute that you are.
It was unthinkable that Gloria should hear a lot of talk about why's and how's.
And now, only the extent of one little word stood between her and an unthinkable condition.
He grew nervously restive at the thought; it was unthinkable that she should do work like that.
Yet the astronomer of our century has reached out across this unthinkable void and brought back many a secret which our predecessors thought forever beyond human grasp.
Such figures convey no particular meaning to our blunt senses, but Lord Kelvin has given a tangible illustration that aids the imagination to at least a vague comprehension of the unthinkable smallness of the molecule.
Does it not, we might ask, seem unthinkable that any portion of this universal element should remain suspended in a vacuum without the indwelling presence of a definite personality of which it is the expression?
We must regard it, then, as part of the original revelation of the complex vision, that we are separate personal souls surrounded by an unfathomable mystery whose margins recede into unthinkable remoteness.
But between the soul of a man, in whom love is desperately struggling with malice, and this monstrous being in whom love and malice have arrived at some unthinkable reconciliation, there can be no love.
We cannot interpret the world in terms of what we call "matter" when what we call "matter" has these unthinkable horizons.
The soul is unthinkable without this unfathomable struggle in its inherent being between love and malice or between life and what resists life.
Such a reconciliation would seem to mean nothing less than the swallowing up of the universe in unthinkable nothingness.
Love and malice are unthinkableapart from personality; but personality divorced from the struggle between love and malice is something worse than unthinkable.
If he tried to speak before that was done--he would shame his manhood, he would do that which was unthinkable in a man and a soldier.
And the fourth count in the indictment of Socialism is that it is contradictory to Nature to such a degree as to make its permanence unthinkable because destructive not only of human comfort and happiness but of human life.
It was for her sake he had made the struggle, and now it seemed unthinkable that she should renounce him because he came to her with the dust and stain of it upon him.
After what Overweg had once or twice told him, it was unthinkable that they should fall into Smirnoff's hands.
It was unthinkable that they should sacrifice a scrap of the provisions.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "unthinkable" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
