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irremediable
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  • How could he participate in something as irremediably filthy as Haitian politics?†  (source)
  • On top of the overloaded, badly balanced, but mechanically sound Bedford, Mortenson swayed with the twenty-foot pile of school supplies, yawning irremediably close to the ravine's edge every time the truck shimmied over a mound of loose rockfall.†  (source)
  • He was afraid of saying something irremediably cruel.†  (source)
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  • And because we'd both been hurt so badly, so early on, in violent and irremediable ways that most people didn't, and couldn't, understand, wasn't it a bit ...precarious?†  (source)
    irremediable = not capable of being fixed
  • On the other hand, he said, "These men are irremediably lost.†  (source)
    irremediably = in a manner not capable of being remedied
  • And that too, his nothing, is as irremediable as your all.†  (source)
    irremediable = not capable of being fixed
  • But, above all, I set between them, far more distinctly than the mere distance in miles and yards and inches which separated one from the other, the distance that there was between the two parts of my brain in which I used to think of them, one of those distances of the mind which time serves only to lengthen, which separate things irremediably from one another, keeping them for ever upon different planes.†  (source)
    irremediably = in a manner not capable of being remedied
  • It is after men have given in to the irremediable, after they have despaired of relief and ceased to think even a half-hour ahead, that the dangers of humbled and gentle weariness begin.†  (source)
    irremediable = not capable of being fixed
  • A lady—who had fed herself from childhood with the shadowy food of aristocratic reminiscences, and whose religion it was that a lady's hand soils itself irremediably by doing aught for bread,—this born lady, after sixty years of narrowing means, is fain to step down from her pedestal of imaginary rank.†  (source)
    irremediably = in a manner not capable of being remedied
  • Was it because even on the verge of committing an irremediable wrong she could weep at the consequence of an act which she felt powerless to avoid?†  (source)
    irremediable = not capable of being fixed
  • Philip had only lived fourteen years, but those years had, most of them, been steeped in the sense of a lot irremediably hard.†  (source)
    irremediably = in a manner not capable of being remedied
  • Accordingly she now shook her head in a certain, positive and yet affectionate way, which by now Clyde had come to know spelled defeat—the most painful and irremediable defeat that had yet come to him in connection with all this.†  (source)
    irremediable = not capable of being fixed
  • A wet day was the expression of irremediable grief at her weakness in the mind of some vague ethical being whom she could not class definitely as the God of her childhood, and could not comprehend as any other.†  (source)
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