insupportable

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In “Exit the King,” he confronts the insupportable reality of death with the same madcap delirium of his better known works, such as “The Bald Soprano,” “The Chairs” and “Rhinoceros.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 13, 2026

For a culture so neurocentric — so brain-bound, as Mr. Clark later called it — this was an insupportable notion, a bridge too far.

From New York Times • Jun. 11, 2021

“It is my aunts who are being driven by malice and greed to make the vexatious, false, and insupportable allegations which form the basis of their probate lawsuit in New Hampshire,” he said.

From Washington Times • Feb. 7, 2018

The act wasn’t repealed until America’s alliance with the Chinese during World War II made it insupportable.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 2, 2016

Most people would have termed her a splendid woman of her age: and so she was, no doubt, physically speaking; but then there was an expression of almost insupportable haughtiness in her bearing and countenance.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë