ineffaceable

• “The unforgotten and ineffaceable past strummed the fibres of his throat.”

  CHAPTER VIII

• “How can one at once pretend to fight anti-Semitism with the implied belief that it can be eradicated and then support a state that was created with the justification that anti-Semitism can never be eradicated elsewhere in the world and accepts anti-Semitism as an ineffaceable human phenomenon?”

  The Huffington Post: Sam Sedaei: Is Helen Thomas an Anti-Semite, or Are Her Critics?

• “Thus, if they are to be collectively excused, then it does become a bit harder to persuade others that their own sinful participation is ineffaceable.”

  Newsweek: The Pope’s Denial Problem

• “The book made at the time a powerful and ineffaceable impression upon me, the like of which I never afterwards experienced in any of my philosophical reading.”

  Ernst Mach

• “The cover of the book shows the chiaroscuro photograph, ineffaceable from modern memory, of Wren's masterpiece, St. Paul's, as it was enshrouded by smoke and flame during a Nazi bombing raid.”

  Downhill All the Way

• “New zig – zags sprung into the cruel pattern sometimes, when she saw it through a burst of tears; but beautified or hardened still, always over it and under it and through it, she was fain to look in her solitude, seeing everything with that ineffaceable brand.”

  Little Dorrit

• “Anguish engraves itself in ineffaceable characters on mouth and brow; it passes through us, destroying or relaxing the springs that vibrate to enjoyment, leaving behind in the soul the seeds of a disgust for all things in this world.”

  A Woman of Thirty

• “It was Mrs. Steerforth, who gave me her hand more coldly than of yore, and with an augmentation of her former stateliness of manner, but still, I perceived — and I was touched by it — with an ineffaceable remembrance of my old love for her son.”

  David Copperfield

• “Here stood this aspiring piece of masonry, erected as the most conspicuous and ineffaceable reminder of a man that could be thought of; and yet the whole aspect of the memorial betokened forgetfulness.”

  Two on a Tower

• “Some, it is true, take ineffaceable impressions of character at once.”

  Jacob's Room

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