What is "unapproachable"

Usage examples of "unapproachable".

It was his lady of the lake, his enchantress of the ruined castle, divided from him by a barrier which, at a few yards below, he could almost overleap, yet unapproachable but by a circuit perhaps of many hours.

With those three extraordinary characters, worthy of esteem and respect for their moral qualities, their honesty, their reputation, and their age, as well as for their noble birth, I spent my days in a very pleasant manner: although, in their thirst for knowledge, they often kept me hard at work for ten hours running, all four of us being locked up together in a room, and unapproachable to everybody, even to friends or relatives.

The degree of circulation given to the fluids, both inside and outside of the vessels, and of energy imparted to the organs and parts operated upon by the manipulator, is also unapproachable by the application of manual power.

But there is yet another way to this knowledge: Admiring the world of sense as we look out upon its vastness and beauty and the order of its eternal march, thinking of the gods within it, seen and hidden, and the celestial spirits and all the life of animal and plant, let us mount to its archetype, to the yet more authentic sphere: there we are to contemplate all things as members of the Intellectual--eternal in their own right, vested with a self-springing consciousness and life--and, presiding over all these, the unsoiled Intelligence and the unapproachable wisdom.

The bodyguards were changed regularly, but they all had the same flat, faceless, unapproachable expression, close-cropped bullet head, and massive shoulders.

The essential point was that our literary broadcasts were aimed at the Indian university students, a small and hostile audience, unapproachable by anything that could be described as British propaganda.

As beautiful as he found herher black locks and blue eyes igniting some very uncomfortable flames of imaginationthe images were always somehow hollow, colorless at heart, lacking the amber-and-rose glow such daydreams had possessed when Carline had been a distant, unapproachable, and unknown figure.

Elizabeth, tearful and broken, had headed directly for the comfort of her Mother, both assum'd into a silent unapproachable cloud of mourning, the boys being left each to his own way of soldiering on, the Enemy who'd so unanswerably insulted them at their Backs now some where, and in and out of their sleep George got busier than he had to be with one Scheme and another, pulling Greenstone out of the Dyke under Cockfield Fell, carving and fitting together stalks of Humlock for another of his Gas-pipe Schemes, re-designing the Spur-gearing or the Pump-seals out at the Workings.

The few True Believers were unapproachable in any ordinary sense--those from whom Coren could extract information were, by definition, untrustworthy.

Below, on the bosom of the water, were a couple of shy and unapproachable black swans.

To all the worlds Sanctity stands forever upon the Terran horizon, perceiv­able yet remote, holy and unapproachable, fully accessible only to its chosen ones: the Hierophants, the servitors, the acolytes.

The most exciting questions are often unapproachable by experiment, because the effects you are trying to observe are just too small, below the level of sensitivity of the equipment you are using, or irreproducible because you can't control all the variables.

They let him pull their long ears and rub their noses, but the mustangs standing around were unapproachable.

But, quite apart from the objectionableness of falsifying a most extraordinary true story, any such trite devices would spoil, to my mind, the peculiar effect of this dark world, with its livid green illumination and its drifting Watchers of the Living, which, unseen and unapproachable to us, is yet lying all about us.

Somehow the act of orienting on his needs had made those needs unapproachable.