Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or character of being intolerable.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare The quality of being intolerable; intolerableness.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The state of being
intolerable ;intolerableness .
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Labels: electronic media (benefits and necessity of switching off), journalism (prurience), television (intolerability of)
Archive 2009-09-01 2009
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Labels: electronic media (benefits and necessity of switching off), journalism (prurience), television (intolerability of) 1 comments: tristan said ... well done! mine went to the scrap yard in 1995
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Consumer Reports has long tagged those medications as problematic, given their many and serious side effects see below; the expense of the newer drugs, which are not typically available in generic versions; and the likelihood that patients will stop using them because of their intolerability.
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Consumer Reports has long tagged those medications as problematic, given their many and serious side effects (see below); the expense of the newer drugs, which are not typically available in generic versions; and the likelihood that patients will stop using them because of their intolerability.
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Seventy-five years ago in August 1932, the German doctor Erwin Schliephake published scientific data in the German Medical Weekly about radio transmitter-induced “microwave” or “radio wave sickness” with the following symptoms: severe tiredness and fatigue during the day, fitful sleep in the night, headaches to the point of intolerability, and high susceptibility to infection.
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Friction in weltanschauungen causes people their relationship to erode to the point of intolerability.
Endgame: Bandwidth 2006
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In a case where two propositions are diametrically opposite, the mind believes that which is least incomprehensible; — it is easier to suppose that the universe has existed from all eternity than to conceive a being beyond its limits capable of creating it: if the mind sinks beneath the weight of one, is it an alleviation to increase the intolerability of the burthen?
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But the intolerability of the thing, sir, is that Ralph Stackpole should steal my guest's horse, sir!
Nick of the Woods Robert M. Bird
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If I were to measure my deserts by people's remembrance of me, I should be a prodigy of intolerability.
The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete John Forster 1844
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Then some event sparks the collective consciousness and the intolerability of the situation becomes apparent to all.
Forbes.com: News 2011
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