Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In an intractable manner; uncontrollably; unmanageably.
Wiktionary
- adv. In an intractable manner; uncontrollably; unmanageably.
WordNet 3.0
- adv. in an intractable manner
Examples
“I was depressed for more than twenty-five years — intractably so, despite good meds and excellent shrinkage.”
“There are two sides seemingly intractably opposed on how we should reduce our national debt.”
The Huffington Post: Larry Hirsch: Why Dems Should Go Left On Debt Committee
“I hope they'll come away from this book with a deeper understanding that we're all a lot more the same than we are different; that our humanity intractably binds us, and that there's no getting out of it.”
“We can endlessly rehearse the causes of industrial decline in Britain blaming the investors, the workforce and the entrepreneurs, but mostly it is near-sighted politicians and, ironically, those who believe intractably in free-market capitalism who have destroyed industry.”
The Guardian: Letters: Britain's economy and the German model
“And yet before it had seemed so intractably complex.”
“So, what a very big job it seems, to ensure ‘civil rights’ to such a highly, but intractably diverse, workforce!?”
Wonk Room » Momentum Builds For New Civil Rights Act, But Will Congress Be Aggressive Enough?
“From there on what was "good for black people" and what was actually "good cinema" became intractably conflated.”
“And yet, we still desperately call out for a peace that continues to intractably elude us.”
The Huffington Post: Heather McCloskey Beck: Creativity: A Pathway to Peace
“Observed sufficiently closely, shorelines were almost intractably irregular, with a small-scale jaggedness that defied any simple depiction or measurement.”
The Washington Post: Benoit Mandelbrot, pioneer in fractal geometry, dies at 85
“Naturally, Broder includes a paragraph that seems intractably contradictory to the piece's entire premise:”
The Huffington Post: David Broder: War With Iran Will Save Economy, Obama Presidency
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