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    insuperable


    1. The feeling of being so tiny in the face if an insuperable, large, evil dark made her bent her head and hide her face in her hands


    2. I had no longer any instinctive impulse toward sex relations with her, and this alone would have been an insuperable barrier to concealment of my feelings


    3. But it is an insuperable difficulty that the word "regeneration� is never once used in this sense in the New Testament


    4. Would her Jim ever forgive her, he who was so punctilious in courtesy, so mild-mannered, so complete a gentleman? He might forgive, but could he ever forget? Wouldn't those marines stand up between them, so many insuperable obstacles to happy confidence, for the rest of their lives? Lady Conderley of Upswich, wife of the present and mother of the future lord, rudely doubting her husband's words, and inviting him to go and tell them to the marines


    5. This “kindles” the man’s sexual desire even more, intensifying his insane craving for this woman and his insuperable passion for sexual intercourse with her as soon as possible


    6. That is why they, but not the NUU-VVU-Configuration focused by You, perceive themselves in much more favorable (trouble-free) situations for your creativity, while you have to reap the fruits of your own, yet insuperable, egoism, weak character and ignorance


    7. Yes, we see each other, observe each other, but cannot understand (I don’t mean the language barrier) due to enormous and insuperable difference in SFUURMM-Forms or levels of development


    8. painted her and created a picture of insuperable beauty and grace


    9. The speaking of the serpent is one of those difficulties which appear insuperable on a superficial view; like the speaking of Balaam’s ass, and the entrance of the demons into the swine; but which vanish under a more correct appreciation of the powers that underlie the phenomena, and of the moral ends subserved by permitted deviations from law


    10. It is held by large numbers to form an insuperable objection to the Scriptural doctrine, that it comes professing to be a supernatural and thaumaturgic revelation

    11. The servants of Don Vicente carried away his body, and Roque returned to his comrades, and so ended the love of Claudia Jeronima; but what wonder, when it was the insuperable and cruel might of jealousy that wove the web of her sad story?


    12. And if people tell you of insuperable difficulties, if they tell you of the swing and spin of spanned boats, don't you believe them


    13. But since I had no hope of studying these zoophytes in the seaports of the Levant, from which we were separated by the insuperable Isthmus of Suez, I had to be content with observing them in the waters of the Red Sea


    14. In this manner, rocks, precipices and difficulties were surmounted in an incredibly short space, that at another time, and under other circumstances, would have been deemed almost insuperable


    15. The part of mother presented to her no insuperable difficulties and for twenty-five years she had kept house shrewdly for her husband


    16. The fact that he had made her an offer, and she had refused him, had placed an insuperable barrier between her and him


    17. But that was because of the difficulty in getting those supplies forward from Five Forks, not because the problem in getting them as far as Five Forks in the first place remained insuperable


    18. subject, and I confess I see no insuperable objection to his being a clergyman, as things go


    19. The defects for which a cure was desired were of two kinds: On the one hand the necessity for paying nonassenting bondholders had developed into a dilemma; because unduly low “upset,” or minimum, foreclosure-sale prices were being frowned on by the courts, whereas payment of a fair price involved often an insuperable problem of finding the cash


    20. But the difficulty of precisely quantifying these matters does not negate their importance nor is it insuperable

    21. Apart from this insuperable antipathy to her, Princess Mary was agitated just then because on the Rostovs’ being announced, the old prince had shouted that he did not wish to see them, that Princess Mary might do so if she chose, but they were not to be admitted to him


    22. “I am in a condition to prove my allegation: an insuperable impediment to this marriage exists


    23. I do not think that even he could now hope to succeed with one of her stamp, and therefore I hope we may find no insuperable difficulty


    24. Nor can I see any insuperable difficulty in further believing it possible that the membrane-connected fingers and fore-arm of the Galeopithecus might have been greatly lengthened by natural selection; and this, as far as the organs of flight are concerned, would have converted the animal into a bat


    25. Reason tells me, that if numerous gradations from a simple and imperfect eye to one complex and perfect can be shown to exist, each grade being useful to its possessor, as is certainly the case; if further, the eye ever varies and the variations be inherited, as is likewise certainly the case; and if such variations should be useful to any animal under changing conditions of life, then the difficulty of believing that a perfect and complex eye could be formed by natural selection, though insuperable by our imagination, should not be considered as subversive of the theory


    26. I will not here enter on these several cases, but will confine myself to one special difficulty, which at first appeared to me insuperable, and actually fatal to the whole theory


    27. This difficulty, though appearing insuperable, is lessened, or, as I believe, disappears, when it is remembered that selection may be applied to the family, as well as to the individual, and may thus gain the desired end


    28. But insuperable difficulties, as it seems to me, prevent us from coming to any just conclusion on this head


    29. If the teleosteans had really appeared suddenly in the northern hemisphere at the commencement of the chalk formation, the fact would have been highly remarkable; but it would not have formed an insuperable difficulty, unless it could likewise have been shown that at the same period the species were suddenly and simultaneously developed in other quarters of the world


    30. It is not an insuperable difficulty that Foraminifera have not, as insisted on by Dr

    31. In these chapters I have endeavoured to show that if we make due allowance for our ignorance of the full effects of changes of climate and of the level of the land, which have certainly occurred within the recent period, and of other changes which have probably occurred—if we remember how ignorant we are with respect to the many curious means of occasional transport—if we bear in mind, and this is a very important consideration, how often a species may have ranged continuously over a wide area, and then have become extinct in the intermediate tracts—the difficulty is not insuperable in believing that all the individuals of the same species, wherever found, are descended from common parents


    32. If the difficulties be not insuperable in admitting that in the long course of time all the individuals of the same species, and likewise of the several species belonging to the same genus, have proceeded from some one source; then all the grand leading facts of geographical distribution are explicable on the theory of migration, together with subsequent modification and the multiplication of new forms


    33. Only with such a view of the matter will all the obstacles to the dissemination of the schools be obviated, though they have seemed insuperable


    34. All that seems so unimportant, and yet in these seemingly unimportant acts, in our aloofness from them, in our readiness to point out, according to our strength, the irrationality of what is obviously irrational,—in this does our great, invincible power consist, the power which composes that insuperable force which forms the real, actual, public opinion, which, moving itself, moves the whole of humanity


    35. There is no more insuperable barrier at the present time to the progress of humanity, and to the establishment of a system that shall be in harmony with its present conception of life, than this erroneous argument


    36. Apart from this insuperable antipathy to her, Princess Mary was agitated just then because on the Rostóvs’ being announced, the old prince had shouted that he did not wish to see them, that Princess Mary might do so if she chose, but they were not to be admitted to him


    37. These articles, from that time to this, have remained unaltered, and carried the Territories through difficulties, almost insuperable, to prosperity


    38. Try and start a solid business scheme, in which you can calculate results in black and white, and the difficulties and discouragements will be almost insuperable


    39. The argument is as specious as it is plausible; it is liable to many, and in my opinion, to insuperable objections


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    Synonyms for "insuperable"

    insuperable insurmountable unconquerable dogged resolute impassable

    "insuperable" definitions

    impossible to surmount


    incapable of being surmounted or excelled