Jonathan Lethem told me that when he first read "The Gift," he pictured its author as a kind of inapproachable seer, either long dead or soaring so high in the intellectual stratosphere as to be unreachable. From Wordnik.com. [RVABlogs] Reference
It's a lot of fun being totally inapproachable though. From Wordnik.com. [mesocyclone Diary Entry] Reference
The salespeople are all frozen in their ironed suits and are very quiet and inapproachable. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-06-01] Reference
Had he the swiftness of the lion or tiger, his haunts would be inapproachable by man, and he would be a far more terrible assailant than either. From Wordnik.com. [Seven and Nine years Among the Camanches and Apaches An Autobiography] Reference
The thunder mutters -- growls -- rolls -- peals forth -- in grand ear-breaking crashes, that appear to shake the dense sky overhead; but still, whenever the electric coruscations light up the sable darkness, I can see Min's face, apparently ever before me, ever inviting me on, ever inapproachable!. From Wordnik.com. [She and I, Volume 2 A Love Story. A Life History.] Reference
Besides all these contradictions, he is solitary, unknown, inapproachable. From Wordnik.com. [Secret of the Woods] Reference
He is seemingly inapproachable, mostly because he is impossibly pale, rich and beautiful. From Wordnik.com. [LAist] Reference
We don't see these because they're tightly wrapped within a tiny radius that is inapproachable at normal energies. From Wordnik.com. [Ars Technica] Reference
The Seminoles were located in the peninsula of Florida, a region of fens, swamps, and creeks almost inapproachable. From Wordnik.com. [General Scott]
I would abstain even from touching her hand if I could place her on some inapproachable height where nobody could come near her. From Wordnik.com. [Without Dogma] Reference
If you hear that he is bold and fearless, that is true; and if you are told that he is shy and wary and inapproachable, that is also true. From Wordnik.com. [Wilderness Ways] Reference
Was she not something like these pure, distant snowy pinnacles, inapproachable and repellent, with icy-cold breath which petrified all lips that drew too near to them?. From Wordnik.com. [Cobwebs and Cables] Reference
Coleridge was aware that Voltaire, in common with every Frenchman until the present generation, held it as a point of faith that the French drama was inapproachable in excellence. From Wordnik.com. [The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2] Reference
The main canals, here proposed, would, in the first place, furnish excellent smooth water navigation, for both travel and transportation, between points which are now entirely separated, and inapproachable each to the other. From Wordnik.com. [Agricultural, Geological, and Descriptive Sketches of Lower North Carolina, and the Similar Adjacent Lands] Reference
You want to be the Jordan of swimming: towering and inapproachable in the pool, and a relaxed, smiling cigar-smoker out of it, surrounded by women as you play craps with money that Cuba Gooding Jr. gave you for the privilege of wearing your underwear. From Wordnik.com. [Gawker] Reference
"But look at Mont Pilatte now," resumed Mr. Marshall, - "with that crown of light on its brow; - does it not give you the feeling of something inapproachable - not literally but spiritually, - something pure, glorious, infinite - something that shames us mortals into insignificance?". From Wordnik.com. [Daisy in the Field] Reference
This is because, quite frankly, the 60s marked a high point in the evolution of American society as a whole and set an inapproachable standard across so many aspects of our culture -- music, art, political activism, even the act of defiance itself -- and it did this despite being one of the most turbulent periods in our nation's history. From Wordnik.com. [Deus Ex Malcontent] Reference
Scarcely at intervals of a half-mile is this powerful artery of the quarter where the traffic is most important, the movement most active, dotted with bridges; and these, in ruins at one end six months of the year and inapproachable the remaining six at the other, give horses a pretext for plunging into the water, to the great surprise of preoccupied mortals in carriages dozing tranquilly or philosophizing on the progress of the century. From Wordnik.com. [An Eagle Flight A Filipino Novel Adapted from Noli Me Tangere] Reference
Connecticut; so I do not see that it is really at all inapproachable or awful. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 30, April, 1860] Reference
I think people are learning that “gourmet cooking” doesn’t have to be difficult, inapproachable, and complicated, and relearning the romance of ingredients that’s come with the organic produce movement”. From Wordnik.com. [Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Food-centered fiction vs adding recipes for local color] Reference
I think people are learning that “gourmet cooking” doesn’t have to be difficult, inapproachable, and complicated, and relearning the romance of ingredients that’s come with the organic produce movement …. From Wordnik.com. [Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Food-centered fiction vs adding recipes for local color] Reference
"But look at Mont Pilatte now," resumed Mr. Marshall, – "with that crown of light on its brow; – does it not give you the feeling of something inapproachable – not literally but spiritually, – something pure, glorious, infinite – something that shames us mortals into insignificance?". From Wordnik.com. [Daisy in the Field] Reference
He frankly admitted his inability to determine what this force was, but by observations and calculations made with the greatest care, he ascertained that its action upon matter was proportional to its mass directly, and to the square of its distance inversely; and, with the requisite data and the principles of pure geometry, he demonstrated that this mysterious force -- utterly inapproachable by human conception in its mystery -- not only governs and controls the movements of all the mighty masses of matter rolling in space, but transmits its influence -- not successively, but instantly and without diminution -- to the smallest conceivable molecule on the outlying boundaries of the universe. From Wordnik.com. [Life: Its True Genesis] Reference
Ask the one who dwells in inapproachable light. From Wordnik.com. [October 2005] Reference
There is no more reason why the source of the Nile should not be found than that of the Connecticut; so I do not see that it is really at all inapproachable or awful. ". From Wordnik.com. [Found and Lost] Reference
The boy, Wesley Buford, who was sixteen and one of the few from the South Carolina Home Guard who hadn’t been killed or captured at Kennesaw Mountain, had the same quiet anger toward the officer as the other men, not only for the quivering in the backs of his thighs and the dead piece of biscuit in his mouth, but because the very fact of a man’s birth could guarantee him a horse, a saber, an English sidearm, and an inapproachable distance and command over other men’s lives, even in the last few weeks of a country’s defeat. From Wordnik.com. [The Convict and Other Stories] Reference
Diruf sat inapproachable at his desk. From Wordnik.com. [Gänsemännchen. English] Reference
"I never saw such an inapproachable creature!". From Wordnik.com. [The Minister's Charge] Reference
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