What is "irreparable"

Usage examples of "irreparable".

Compared to this irreparable disintegration of the empire, temporary schisms such as the Omayyad Khalifate in Spain, the Fatimid Khalifate in Egypt, and here and there an independent organization of the Kharijites were of little significance.

A race of smiling, foolish giants, lost in the irreparable hebephrenia of their world.

Slowly but surely came the realization that the loss was irreparable, and Pandion made an effort to set his feelings under control.

Injury to her hull need not be an irreparable disaster, with tools and carpenters along.

Utopian world of infinite wonderment: an infinite above collapses into an infinite ahead, and whether that infinite ahead be endless scientific progress or boundless material possessions or political utopianisms as ultimate salvation, they are all fundamentally ways of fussing about in the finite looking for the infinite, and doing irreparable harm to the finite world in the process by placing demands upon it which it could never fulfill.

Some of our highest and ablest men, men of real genius, have during their earliest days laboured under deviations as great as, or even greater than forty-five minutes: and the loss of their precious lives would have been an irreparable injury to the State.

A certain number of errors had been committed, not irreparable in themselves but immediately seized upon by fomentors of trouble for their own advantage.

Until he was awake and his mental performance could be tested and evaluated, there was a chance that he had been reanimated only to live out a life of anguish and frustration, his potential tragically circumscribed by irreparable brain damage.

The whole dreadful history of the villany of Stevens, her irreparable ruin--was now clearly intelligible.

However well that does indeed describe aspects of mythic dissociation, it has precisely nothing to do with one's own transpersonal potentials, vertical potentials that if they aren't actualized are merely projected horizontally into utterly futile schemes to turn this finite world into a Utopian world of infinite wonderment: an infinite above collapses into an infinite ahead, and whether that infinite ahead be endless scientific progress or boundless material possessions or political utopianisms as ultimate salvation, they are all fundamentally ways of fussing about in the finite looking for the infinite, and doing irreparable harm to the finite world in the process by placing demands upon it which it could never fulfill.

Within few hours, and whenever the delay had not caused irreparable damages to its adjustments, it would be on way in a rented car and with a new identity, following a planned itinerary meticulously, and with airplane passages that would take to the authorities to look for a needle in a barn.

As he saw it, Carpenter had ignored repeated warnings from capcoms all around the world about wasting fuel, and this had almost resulted in a disaster, one that might have done irreparable damage to the program.

Adversity revived a sense of moderation and justice, and the insolence of conquest was chastised by the signal defeat and irreparable dispersion of the Heruli, who were seated in the southern provinces of Poland.

What an ominous minute is that in which society draws back and consummates the irreparable abandonment of a sentient being!

The frozen ground slumped under the ceaseless rasp of the wind and the weight of the snowdrifts until it looked like irreparable disconsolation or apathy, an abdication of loam and intended verdancy.