unsatisfiable

Example Sentences

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There is no degree to which you can control your daughter’s future to your own satisfaction, because the desire to control is unsatisfiable.

From Slate • Sep. 8, 2020

America’s midlife crisis has been realized in the flesh in the decaying Woodland mall: these men and women have been overwhelmed by an inherently unsatisfiable longing for freedom.

From The Guardian • Aug. 2, 2017

We probably all subscribe to inconsistent or unsatisfiable collections of statements and hence are at times hypocritical—sometimes knowingly so, sometimes not.

From Slate • Nov. 17, 2015

Now it has become this complicated psychological puzzle: Argentina needs him, he needs Argentina and the debts seem unsatisfiable.

From New York Times • Jun. 5, 2014

Recognizing the unsatisfiable longings of my Scotch Highland instincts, he threw out some hints concerning Bloody Cañon, and advised me to explore it.

From The Mountains of California by Muir, John