Adjective : an intractable disposition. ,an intractable metal. ,the intractable pain in his leg. From Dictionary.com.
It was progress, but the numbers were still intractably high. From Wordnik.com. [It's Time To Pay Attention To Global Women's Health Care] Reference
The future of our two countries and people are intractably linked. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Her argument rests on my omission of the intractably Protestant King John. From Wordnik.com. ['The One and Only'] Reference
Chunks of the credit markets are intractably seized up -- or, worse, discredited. From Wordnik.com. [SAC's Bad News for Bankers] Reference
I think the intuition on this is intractably caught up with your position on abortion. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » “Should a Parent Be Required To Donate a Kidney to a Child Who Needs a Life-Saving Transplant?”] Reference
The voice that emerged in his account was intractably his own; it was never historical. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Corelli's Mandolin]
Graham Frazer began as intractably as he meant to end, with a bulldog glare at Kincaid. From Wordnik.com. [A Share in Death] Reference
In practice, it's intractably difficult to visualize the side effects of new technological developments. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-05-01] Reference
Naturally, Broder includes a paragraph that seems intractably contradictory to the piece's entire premise. From Wordnik.com. [David Broder: War With Iran Will Save Economy, Obama Presidency] Reference
This entry will become even more intractably boring if I follow the current path of "job topic" so I'll spare ya. From Wordnik.com. [wilberteets Diary Entry] Reference
Nor did I assert at any point that it was "intractably Protestant" — in the manner of Bale's earlier King John. From Wordnik.com. ['The One and Only'] Reference
Improving society is so intractably hard that all efforts to do so should be subject to the most careful scrutiny. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-09-01] Reference
So, what a very big job it seems, to ensure ‘civil rights’ to such a highly, but intractably diverse, workforce!?. From Wordnik.com. [Wonk Room » Momentum Builds For New Civil Rights Act, But Will Congress Be Aggressive Enough?] Reference
Corporations and big government naturally tend to collude as they help entrench each other more intractably in power. From Wordnik.com. ["Shame on you," says Bill Clinton, if you're worried the Hillary campaign is exploiting race.] Reference
Whereas human emotions seem intractably mired in the cave and savanna, human reason has soured and grasped the stars. From Wordnik.com. [Only Spirituality Can Solve The Problems Of The World] Reference
“Really, anybody would think you had met me on business and were just going to commence,” said the lady intractably. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Greenwood Tree] Reference
He still lived when the first ram-ship moved intractably towards the great wooden gate and smashed against it, weakening it. From Wordnik.com. [The Weird of the White Wolf]
(This is how one can produce a beautiful sound on a piano which may seem at first to give a sonority that is intractably ugly.). From Wordnik.com. ['Playing the Piano'] Reference
I thought Cameron was walking a very fine line between two opposing points of view which seem intractably at each other's throats. From Wordnik.com. [The Broken (Nihilist) Society?] Reference
I have transformed the problem from an intractably difficult and possibly quite insoluble conundrum into a mere linguistic puzzle. From Wordnik.com. [Mysterius and Holistic] Reference
While there is some segment that is intractably poor, it's not the majority of the people who find themselves in the lowest bracket. From Wordnik.com. [People are getting fat all over the world... but we have different ideas about why we're getting fat.] Reference
"Anybody who's intractably opposed to us now, they probably were never going to vote for us in the first place," says Obama campaign manager David Plouffe. From Wordnik.com. [Obama May Not Have Fully Contained] Reference
Cameron added that Mbeki's "intractably puzzling" statement and his flirtation with revisionists had shocked almost everyone involved in fighting the pandemic. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
I'm not thrilled with my graying hair, wrinkles, and the extra ten pounds or so that have found their way mostly to my intractably and decidedly un-flat stomach. From Wordnik.com. [Tamar Chansky: Why I Love Twitter (Right Now) More than Facebook] Reference
'No; I won't, I won't!' she said intractably; 'and you shouldn't take me by surprise.'. From Wordnik.com. [A Pair of Blue Eyes] Reference
Cro-Magnon masculinity could represent a company that seems intractably geeky and earnest. From Wordnik.com. [Slate Magazine] Reference
Because his lovely wit was always buried by a media who were intractably determined to cast. From Wordnik.com. [Shakesville] Reference
Among are 591 school districts (and 566 municipalities) are intractably poor, failing schools. From Wordnik.com. [School Information System] Reference
From reading Garland's articles, I can only assume that he is intractably opposed to such a vision. From Wordnik.com. [Irish Blogs] Reference
JadedByPolitics, you are so correct, and I am intractably disgusted by the fact that you are so correct. From Wordnik.com. [RedState] Reference
However, less notably, 2009 will also be known as the year that our wine media intractably changed forever. From Wordnik.com. [Good Grape: A Wine Manifesto] Reference
It is the same regardless of who is in office and is a deep defect in our intractably slow mode of government. From Wordnik.com. [Iain Dale's Diary] Reference
"Really, anybody would think you had met me on business and were just going to commence," said the lady intractably. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Greenwood Tree, or, the Mellstock quire; a rural painting of the Dutch school] Reference
Grell soon finds Sebastian's coat intractably ensnared inside the chainsaw's inner workings, effectively stopping the blade. From Wordnik.com. [AnimeBlogger.net Antenna] Reference
In opposition, Republicans have been intractably opposed reform because they're afraid the Democrats will take credit for it. From Wordnik.com. [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference
Hundreds of people suffer piercings gone wrong, thousands fall out of their mobile homes or have objects intractably lodged in orifices. From Wordnik.com. [naplesnews.com Stories] Reference
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