unadaptable

Example Sentences

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"I thought they were unadaptable," Reid says frankly of her books, which she first published anonymously online, disguised as fan fiction.

From BBC • Jan. 17, 2026

But I doubt others will mind this version’s deviations from a text that studio executives considered to be unadaptable for many years.

From Salon • Mar. 21, 2024

It’s an absurdist portrait of America on the verge of self-destruction adapted from a novel considered unadaptable.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 28, 2022

So maybe its backers simply need to keep reminding people how Frank Herbert’s novel was considered unadaptable ... and Jon Spaihts, Eric Roth and Villeneuve did it.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 9, 2022

Their young limbs would kick against its restrictions and the changing moods of adolescence would turn and twist in vain within the iron bars of its unadaptable routine.

From Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 by Power, Eileen