incapable

Example Sentences

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There’s every indication that he is incapable of any such empathy.

From Salon

"The prosecution, in granting immunity to all their witnesses and dismissing all their charges… essentially rendered themselves incapable of achieving justice in this case," he said.

From BBC

A hunting party shoots him — the first hint that this version of The Creature is not merely hard to kill but possibly incapable of dying at all.

From Salon

Advocates for survivors called the distinction harmful, noting that Epstein’s decades-long pattern of coercion and trafficking involved minors who were legally incapable of consent, regardless of age.

From Salon

Eliot would have been incapable of the kind of remark one comes on regularly in Woolf’s diary: “The fact is the lower classes are detestable.”

From The Wall Street Journal