Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or condition of being irretrievable; incapability of recovery or reparation.
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Examples
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In our awareness of the irretrievability of such periods, or even moments, we know that the golden glow that suffuses our regard for them comes from our sense of absolute loss.
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I sought to limit its effect through insight into the irretrievability--not the contingent biographical but the necessary social irretrievability--of the past.
A stroll through Walter Benjamin's Berlin - Part 1 (Introduction) 2006
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But there are other paths open to musicians if they are preoccupied with the irretrievability of experience.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas TOM TASHIRO 1968
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But with the contemporary meaning, the loss of a ring may be accompanied by feelings of "sadness, guilt and of the irretrievability of the object," said
NYT > Home Page By ERIC V. COPAGE 2011
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In our awareness of the irretrievability of such periods, or even moments, we know that the golden glow that suffuses our regard for them comes from our sense of absolute loss.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Peter Frank 2010
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They talk about residual risks, patents on life (or bio-patents) and the release and irretrievability of man-made organisms.
Free Internet Press 2009
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The physical changes to the city seemed to emphasize the irretrievability of their youth outside of autobiographical anecdotes.
Torontoist 2009
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Though he saw better films - in his opinion, of course - "standing in line at midnight for The Host in a torrential downpour with lighting crashing around us was an atmospheric high point of the festival" for Hamaca Paraguaya is "easily among the most intensely beautiful and moving films I've seen all week," while Still Life "is a profound, multi-layered dramatic examination of the irretrievability of the past."
GreenCine Daily 2009
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They talk about residual risks, patents on life (or bio-patents) and the release and irretrievability of manmade organisms.
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Instead, they are going to throw the organizer's incredibly precious, sleep-deprived time down a bottomless abyss of irretrievability.
The Bilerico Project 2008
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