An unanswerable argument. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
'That is a statement which one may call unanswerable,' said Rollo with a significant line of lip. From Wordnik.com. [The Gold of Chickaree] Reference
Site to ask public and celebrities including Sarah Beeny and Nicky Clarke to help answer its top 10 'unanswerable' queries. From Wordnik.com. [Ask Jeeves marks 10th birthday with 'unanswerable questions' promotion] Reference
It would prevent you from posing these sorts of challenges as if they're some kind of unanswerable obstacle to my position. From Wordnik.com. [What Is Good?] Reference
Just 10 days into the summer visitor season I received my first "unanswerable" question. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Palaniappan Chidambaram said the dossier was "unanswerable," the British newspaper reported. From Wordnik.com. [SAJAforum] Reference
A couple of weeks ago, I made light of the "unanswerable" questions that the visitors often toss at us. From Wordnik.com. Reference
This letter was considered, when it appeared, to be "unanswerable"; but Mr Norton's struggle was not yet over. From Wordnik.com. [English Laws for Women in the Nineteenth Century] Reference
"unanswerable", and in April came to an understanding with him as to. From Wordnik.com. [Webster's Seventh of March Speech and the Secession Movement, 1850] Reference
"unanswerable" case for an inquest into the death of the government weapons inspector in. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference
"unanswerable" that developing countries were facing trade barriers that exacerbate the problem of world hunger. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
All unanswerable questions now, and possibly ever. From Wordnik.com. [Chris Weigant: The Bradley Effect v. The Obama Effect] Reference
Her queries and surmises were utterly unanswerable. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding at the War Front or, The Hunt for the Lost Soldier] Reference
Mrs. Herrick looked steadily at this unanswerable argument. From Wordnik.com. [The Coast of Chance] Reference
A buffoon expression has this advantage, it is unanswerable. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847] Reference
"Your argument is unanswerable, Jacqueline," he said finally. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Rose] Reference
He posed questions, even if he found some to be unanswerable. From Wordnik.com. [Arts Extra: The Prince Of Reportage] Reference
These questions are disorienting and ultimately unanswerable. From Wordnik.com. [Her Cocoon Of Values] Reference
That seemed to be unanswerable, and it quite broke Momsey down. From Wordnik.com. [Nan Sherwood at Pine Camp or, the Old Lumberman's Secret] Reference
Rome herself are filled with the unanswerable proofs that the great. From Wordnik.com. [The Priest, The Woman And The Confessional] Reference
For the moment, so far as I was concerned, the query was unanswerable. From Wordnik.com. [The Beetle] Reference
This was certainly an unanswerable question, and the boys admitted it. From Wordnik.com. [On a Torn-Away World Or, the Captives of the Great Earthquake] Reference
These piles of marble are unanswerable; -- these are the vindications of kings. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845] Reference
He answered back, in the public prints, the unanswerable Good-Old-Way argument. From Wordnik.com. [McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 3, July 1908.] Reference
The question is unanswerable, of course, but that doesn't stop them from trying. From Wordnik.com. [The Elvis Enigma] Reference
In terms of figures, Trott has already made an unanswerable case to remain at No3. From Wordnik.com. [Jonathan Trott and Eoin Morgan have chance to prove their Ashes worth] Reference
"Just because the questions are unanswerable doesn't mean they aren't worth asking.". From Wordnik.com. [A Rethinking of the Gospels] Reference
The glaring injustice of which law Tertullian demonstrates by an unanswerable dilemma. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference
He pushed the thoughts from his mind, the questions unanswered and perhaps unanswerable. From Wordnik.com. [Anything You Can Do ...] Reference
It matters not that it is itself unanswerable; it cannot keep other questions from arising. From Wordnik.com. [The Simple Life] Reference
The unanswered (and perhaps unanswerable) question is just how much difference it all made. From Wordnik.com. [The Day We Stopped The War] Reference
The defense attorney asks me unanswerable questions and I tell the judge they are unanswerable. From Wordnik.com. [Holy Adam and Saint Jason] Reference
His logic was unanswerable, his ridicule fatal; every position taken by him was defended successfully. From Wordnik.com. [Fifty Years of Public Service] Reference
"Don't completely crush us, Papa Sherwood, with your perfectly unanswerable logic," said his wife lightly. From Wordnik.com. [Nan Sherwood at Pine Camp or, the Old Lumberman's Secret] Reference
I offer a final piece of evidence that is perhaps unanswerable: There is no literacy gap between home-schooled boys and girls. From Wordnik.com. [How to Raise Boys Who Read] Reference
And Washington White walked off with his head held very high as though he had made a perfectly unanswerable statement of the case. From Wordnik.com. [On a Torn-Away World Or, the Captives of the Great Earthquake] Reference
This unanswerable question of the darkey's fell flat, for the party just then reached the huge, two-roomed log cabin in which Phineas. From Wordnik.com. [On a Torn-Away World Or, the Captives of the Great Earthquake] Reference
The greatness of his human heart and the breadth and depth of his sympathies are given as the unanswerable proofs of his moral worth. From Wordnik.com. [Laurence Sterne in Germany A Contribution to the Study of the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Eighteenth Century] Reference
Lowell's telescope to resolve, and that what he has seen forms an unanswerable objection to the canal theory and stops all discussion!. From Wordnik.com. [To Mars via The Moon An Astronomical Story] Reference
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