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  • If the prospect of several million German Jews showing up uninvited and unrefusable in Paris would have motivated France to mobilize against Hitler when he reoccupied the Rhineland, the world would have been better off.

    Matthew Yglesias » Climate Migration 2010

  • If the prospect of several million German Jews showing up uninvited and unrefusable in Paris would have motivated France to mobilize against Hitler when he reoccupied the Rhineland, the world would have been better off.

    Matthew Yglesias » Climate Migration 2010

  • No disrespect to Kuqi is intended, and nor could Newcastle's owner seriously have been expected to turn down an unrefusable and quite possibly unrepeatable offer for his centre-forward.

    London pride may be all Chelsea can salvage | Paul Wilson 2011

  • But there are certain “unrefusable facts” about life, which cannot be demoted to the status of fictions without terrible costs:The reality of the physical world, the inevitability of death, the social nature of man, the irrevocability of historical events and changes—these are facts that we cannot possibly not know, though we can argue infinitely about their significance and how we ought to understand them.

    Literature Against Itself 2009

  • An apologist for realism, Graff holds that reality presents man with certain “unrefusable facts,” which in a phrase borrowed from Henry James he “cannot possibly not know, sooner or later, in one way or another.”

    Archive 2009-08-01 2009

  • The new theory, though, “pretends that no such unrefusable facts exist.”

    Literature Against Itself 2009

  • But there are certain “unrefusable facts” about life, which cannot be demoted to the status of fictions without terrible costs:The reality of the physical world, the inevitability of death, the social nature of man, the irrevocability of historical events and changes—these are facts that we cannot possibly not know, though we can argue infinitely about their significance and how we ought to understand them.

    Archive 2009-08-01 2009

  • The new theory, though, “pretends that no such unrefusable facts exist.”

    Archive 2009-08-01 2009

  • An apologist for realism, Graff holds that reality presents man with certain “unrefusable facts,” which in a phrase borrowed from Henry James he “cannot possibly not know, sooner or later, in one way or another.”

    The desire machines 2009

  • John Fiore (the guy who died on the toilet in THE SOPRANOS) produced the film and stars as Johnny Slade, a faded middle-of-the-road singer who finds his career unexpectedly jump-started when he accepts an unrefusable offer from a club owner (Vincent Curatola, THE SOPRANOS' Johnny Sack) to headline.

    Archive 2007-06-17 2007

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