What is "unbearable"

Usage examples of "unbearable".

I cannot contravene the order of knights errant, about whom I know it is true, not having read anything to the contrary, that they never paid for their lodging or anything else in any inn where they stayed, because whatever welcome they receive is owed to them as their right and privi-lege in return for the unbearable hardships they suffer as they seek adventures by night and by day, in winter and in summer, on foot and on horseback, suffering thirst and hunger, heat and cold, and exposed to all the inclemencies of heaven and all the discomforts on earth.

Suddenly, the smells and sights of the akasa chamber seemed unbearable.

Schumann now, but a Chopin berceuse, whose romanticism he found absolutely unbearable.

He wanted to pour out to her in torrents of self-pity all his unbearable loneliness and despair and warn her never to leave the boric acid or the aspirin in reach of the children or to cross a street against the traffic light.

Pompey Strabo had been a more typical product of his rural origins, had known only one way to deal with wells, cesspits, latrines, rubbish disposal, drainage: when the stink became unbearable, move on.

Then she heard another sound: a choked, grunting, coughing sound that, when she realized what it was, made the pain in her heart well-nigh unbearable.

Lebezyatnikov was also beginning to find his cohabitant and former guardian, Pyotr Pe-trovich, partly unbearable.

But whatever her performance lacked in artistry it made up in noise, her drum and cymbals awaking such a din that existence was unbearable within ten feet of them.

Saddam again began to feel that the pressure was unbearable, especially as the value of the dinar continued to erode in June and July.

Mennus had been clever to enisle him, for he found it all but unbearable.

In that moment he rises above his stupid gianthood, and earnestly warns the Son of Light that all his power and eminence of priesthood, godhood, and kingship must stand or fall with the unbearable cold greatness of the incorruptible law-giver.

The pains were an hour apart to begin with, then every fifteen minutes or so and every ten and so forth until at last it was just one long unbearable century or so of anguish while the thing that seemed to fill me from gullet to goolies, a thing with sharp hooves and needles like a porcupine, was being pried out by some invisible force using a battering ram and a fireplace poker.

Nature had given her a disposition which had become so intensified by indulgence that the cloister was unbearable to her, and I foresaw the hard fights I should have to undergo.

It was work, it was a way to stay inside Inwit, but it was unbearable.

Between that, the Kouros, and the lack of air-conditioning, the room was close to unbearable.