Adjective : an insurmountable obstacle. From Dictionary.com.
I like tables of loud, insurmountably awkward physics majors, I think. From Wordnik.com. [meggie816 Diary Entry] Reference
I find the limited field of view in first person games to be insurmountably jarring. From Wordnik.com. [Is The First-Person The Most-Person?] Reference
When I am 40, that gender/generation/culture gap is going to seem insurmountably huge. From Wordnik.com. [Why Don’t More Women Ride? « PubliCola] Reference
(Of course, all of this is good for PETA because furs suddenly seem insurmountably heavy and hot.). From Wordnik.com. [Marilyn M. Machlowitz: Dressing in Layers and Other Fun Facts of Life after Fifty] Reference
Finding myself insurmountably uninspired, I went to the illustration teacher at my art school for advice. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-10-01] Reference
So, as someone who is surely used to lavish praise and grovelling, do you find it insurmountably annoying?. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-06-18] Reference
No need to repeat the numbers that really matter: he's still insurmountably ahead in delegates and popular votes. From Wordnik.com. [Wolfson: I'm Not Sure That Joe Andrew Is "Actually From Indiana"] Reference
They combined surface travel, where that was possible, with short hops into the air to cross insurmountably rough terrain. From Wordnik.com. [Dark Piper]
Everything I can think of that would make a difference, is so vague, so insurmountably large, that I never know where to start. From Wordnik.com. [Alas, a blog » 2007 » January] Reference
For a moment, a long moment, even the idea of breathing seems insurmountably difficult, too hard, too painful even to contemplate. From Wordnik.com. [The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection]
I reached out to the author of a wonderful book about teenagers who overcame what seemed like insurmountably abominable upbringings. From Wordnik.com. [Tizz the Season] Reference
Homer is the boundary which is insurmountably opposed to our further retrospection, and Homer is already the beginning of perfection in Greek letters. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 2, August, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
It is worth noting that the armed struggle was conducted in circumstances which were never easy, and which at times seemed almost insurmountably difficult. From Wordnik.com. [African National Congress Statement to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission] Reference
While I suppose that I can imagine finding a case convincing enough to impose the death penalty, my threshold requirement for proof would be almost insurmountably high. From Wordnik.com. ["In Left Blogistan, where Ann is often derided and mocked as a conservative partisan, there will surely be howls today."] Reference
Whenever I've been out with anyone within spitting distance of my own age, it feels as totally, instinctively and insurmountably 'wrong' as most women feel when they're going out with someone much much older. From Wordnik.com. [The Sex Factor] Reference
For my own part, I do not think that the people of England have deserved to be, without trial, stigmatised as insurmountably prejudiced against anything which can be proved to be good either for themselves or for others. From Wordnik.com. [Representative Government] Reference
But no one, not a Spiritualist, we should suppose, can demand of us that we should accept profound mysteries with our eyes tight shut, and our hands fast closed, and with every avenue to our reasoning faculties insurmountably barred. From Wordnik.com. [Preliminary Report of the Commission Appointed by the University of Pennsylvania to Investigate Modern Spiritualism In Accordance with the Request of the Late Henry Seybert] Reference
He knew that he was in an almost insurmountably difficult position. From Wordnik.com. [A Dutch Boy Fifty Years After] Reference
An insurmountably huge number of pyjama bottoms (where do they all come from??). From Wordnik.com. [Irish Blogs] Reference
But their ignorance stands most wofully, and in some cases insurmountably, in their way. From Wordnik.com. [A North-Side View of Slavery. The Refugee: or the Narratives of Fugitive Slaves in Canada. Related by Themselves, with an Account of the History and Condition of the Colored Population of Upper Canada] Reference
In his 47 years of life, the American designer has accomplished insurmountably great things. From Wordnik.com. [ShowHype - Top Entertainment News, Videos, and Blogs] Reference
Neither of them connected any definite idea with the number; it merely meant the insurmountably great. From Wordnik.com. [Pelle the Conqueror — Volume 01] Reference
Keshk, however, fell down the moment we were handed the menus: the variety of dishes on offer is insurmountably dull. From Wordnik.com. [Independent.ie - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference
I am insurmountably relieved that I have not personally experienced this issue with my machine, however, my close friend has. From Wordnik.com. [Discussions: Message List - root] Reference
What's so mysterious and insurmountably difficult of knowing the oil and gas that prevents any one of calibre from understanding it?. From Wordnik.com. [SARA - Southeast Asian RSS Aggregator] Reference
Pierre refused without the least difficulty or effort, and was afterwards surprised how simple and easy had been what used to appear so insurmountably difficult. From Wordnik.com. [War and Peace] Reference
The Great Filter is the idea that there is some single, almost insurmountably improbable barrier on the path to the stars that explains why we've never seen any sign of alien life. From Wordnik.com. [The Daily Galaxy: Great Discoveries Channel] Reference
At early age, the pain, inexplicable punishment, criticism, humiliation and insurmountably difficult theorems are stressful but you are not quite conscious to identify them as stress!. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
"We believe the auto shutdowns will be an insurmountably negative driving force for the manufacturing sector at the start of 2009," according to economists at Stone & McCarthy Research. From Wordnik.com. [Alanat News] Reference
In this regard, a "Short Sojourn" combined with an "early date" for the birth of Abraham becomes insurmountably problematic, because according to those assumptions, Peleg's birth date was. From Wordnik.com. [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]] Reference
A standing army insurmountably strong even in the late Parliament. From Wordnik.com. [The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 5] Reference
So these lazy immigrants don’t learn English not because they’re lazy, but because the task is almost insurmountably hard. From Wordnik.com. [2009 January « Motivated Grammar] Reference
“The countries of sub-Saharan Africa are generally very poor, and the burden of servicing their foreign debt is often insurmountably heavy. From Wordnik.com. [IMF: INCREASING SDR CAN BENEFIT AFRICA] Reference
It will not be insurmountably difficult, perhaps. From Wordnik.com. [Unforgiven]
First, and most insurmountably, came her parents. From Wordnik.com. [BECOMING • by A P Charman] Reference
Otherwise they would have been almost insurmountably behind Google "in mobile search. From Wordnik.com. [msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines] Reference
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