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At first she seems almost an embodied plot mechanism, but as the book goes on Bishop explores her psychology more and more deeply, following her from the unbearableness of delusion to the unbearableness of recovery.

From The Guardian • Jan. 21, 2013

Their wildness and unbearableness soon make all the bad stuff in them deadly.

From Human, All-Too-Human, Part II by Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm

It is in order not to bore you with my complaints that I write so rarely to you now, for no one has a livelier sense than I of my unbearableness.

From The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters by McKenzie, Aimée G. Leffingwel

But the mother, in the ruthless unbearableness of her pain, wanted something done, anything.

From The Emigrant Trail by Bonner, Geraldine

In the unnatural unbearableness of her anguish, she lost sight of objects as she passed them, she lost all memory of what she did.

From The Shuttle by Burnett, Frances Hodgson