impossibility

Then there’s the slow, somber poignancy of Hawk’s final aria, in which he recognizes the impossibility of the relationship, and paves the way to betrayal.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026

But beyond the material hardships, many describe a similar feeling: the impossibility of unplugging from their problems.

From Barron's ● Aug. 4, 2026

After that, when the impossibility of recovering anyone else became clear, Al-Zaharnah and others kept hoping international organizations would convince Israel to allow more construction equipment, but to little avail.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026

Without equal citizenship, equal voting rights, and equal opportunity to elect representatives of one’s choice, republican government was an impossibility.

From Slate ● Jun. 3, 2026

“You’ll never make it. It’s impossible. It’s almost a geographical impossibility to get there from here.”

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

As ever, the headline lists of lap times threw up some obvious inconsistencies and impossibilities.

From BBC ● Feb. 24, 2024

The Los Angeles Times investigation concluded that he did not, based on interviews with more than a dozen former Frito-Lay employees, company records and some glaring inconsistencies — nay, impossibilities — in his story.

From New York Times ● Jun. 9, 2023

Each explores forgiveness and the wages of emotional damage, and incorporates those psychological trials into stories fueled in some way by an all-consuming desire to realize one of life's impossibilities: a do-over.

From Salon ● Jun. 23, 2022

A revival of “The Serpent” is close to impossible, but the pursuit of impossibilities can reveal new horizons.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2021

The human psyche was much more flexible than I’d imagined, capable of expanding to contain all sorts of contradictions and seeming impossibilities.

From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs