The word
"inconceivable" means that something is so hard to imagine or understand that it seems impossible.
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When you consider that there are around 300 billion stars in just the Milky Way, and billions of galaxies in the universe, and thus an
almost inconceivable number of planets in the universe, it's easy to see why many scientists believe alien life to be a near certainty.
As much as 100 clean terawatts, compared to today's dirty 15TW, is not
inconceivable for the 22nd century.
«It is relatively easy to grow an entire plant from a small cutting, something that seems
inconceivable in humans.
Degrading a country
founded inconceivable times before the USA and obtuse refusal to recognize China's, SE Asia's, unspoken works influence speaks, nor screams actually, of your downfall.
I was so sure of my materialist truths that the whole idea of a spiritual reality wasn't
just inconceivable.
Great bosses challenge their employees to accomplish things that seem
inconceivable at first.
Along with the additional gauntlet audiences had been willing to show on the forge, it's a ways
from inconceivable to be expecting those unresolved questions not to play into the name.
We must remedy these ills now because by the end of the decade the retirement of the first of the baby boomers will make such gigantic demands on the national purse that any new outlays will seem
utterly inconceivable.
There we find plausibility structures
so inconceivable from our Western stand - point that we would be inclined to regard them as extraterrestrial creations were it not for the fact that Jesus Christ is also their theme and burden.
«It seems almost
inconceivable now that Emoji were a country - specific feature, as they're such a big part of modern communication, and become headline marketing features for new iOS releases,» he said.
That will eventually spawn
inconceivable numbers of Boltzmann brains, far outnumbering every human who has ever, or will ever, live.
As Hearts and Minds director Peter Davis writes, «Pouncey has wrought an almost
inconceivable amount of beauty from pain, loss, and war, and I think he has been able to do this because every page is imbued with the love story at the heart of his astonishing novel.»
With an almost
inconceivable level of access to his subjects, embedded filmmaker Matthew Heineman captures the on - the - ground activities of two vigilante groups that rose up to combat the Knights Templar, a drug cartel based in the Mexican state of Michoacán and notorious for acts of medieval atrocity and terror.
The unconscious experience of each contributed to the unconscious experience of others in such a way that the group or tribe constituted a unit of psychic life
quite inconceivable for axial man.
A final consequence of Kierkegaard's view is that it becomes
inconceivable how God can share in the actual processes of human experience.
Artists rent huge studios in different areas all over the city,
something inconceivable in other European capital cities.
But if this schedule sounds
absolutely inconceivable at your school, don't dismay — King has been building up to this for some 20 years.
Despite this
virtually inconceivable vastness, to say that our universe is all there is in reality may be another example of our limited imagination due to our fleeting lives, tiny scale and desperate ignorance.
At once soft - spoken and effusive, the artist expresses quiet surprise at his rising success, which was
nearly inconceivable just a few years ago.
While this scenario
sounds inconceivable outside of the bizarro world, it's exactly the kind of transformation those who followed the Mercedes - Benz G - Class» evolution have witnessed.
The scenes run the gamut from skillful (a ghost story told by one of the townsmen) to cringeworthy (Ivy shouting in the woods about love — a scene that the director
thought inconceivable to cut) to short and unimportant (Adrien Brody's character defacing decorations).
And is it
completely inconceivable that atheistic worldview, one in which God (no longer understood simply as an engineer) opens up the universe to an ever new future, could provide a fertile setting for understanding evolution?
Although it was clear that Michigan State would cover the 8.5 - point spread, the 86 % of bettors taking the Spartans moneyline (closed +262) looked to be out of luck — until something
inconceivable happened.
I've written more on the sticky issues raised as ever - improving testing methods allow scientists to detect things at
once inconceivable levels.
Until the Moscow Patriarchate is willing to concede basic religious freedom to Russia's indigenous Catholics and Protestants — which is
inconceivable until today's top metropolitans and archbishops retire — hopes for serious steps toward reunion are likely doomed to disappointment.
It is not
even inconceivable, according to Bergson, for the whole of a person's past to be thrust into the immediate awareness of the present.
This is the new of the new page in history, the new of the new epoch — created out of the old, surely, but materializing as one of an inconceivably broad range of
inconceivable possibilities.
Working together, they are uncovering information about Exeter's past that would have been
inconceivable only decades ago.
An immensely brilliant operator, exhibiting marvelous dexterity, proceeding with almost
inconceivable speed, his boorish arrogance became as famous as his accomplishments in the surgical room.
When the Campbell family moves to upstate Connecticut, they soon learn that their charming Victorian home has a disturbing history: not only was the house a transformed funeral parlor where
inconceivable acts occurred, but the owner's clairvoyant son Jonah served as a demonic messenger, providing a gateway for spiritual entities to crossover.
Without such visible and tangible monuments to the future, existence as a people would
become inconceivable to many Jews.
Using the same techniques being applied in medicine and forensics, Pääbo's team is filling in the fossil record in
formerly inconceivable ways.
The Trump administration has signaled a willingness to pull funds from sanctuary cities, so it's not
wholly inconceivable that its patience could run out with sanctuary churches as well.
Princess Peach's voice has been stolen by the cackling Cackletta and her loud - mouthed minion Fawful, who you soon discover plan to use that pure voice to gain
inconceivable power.
A footnote in the Gray and Vogel paper says that they conducted the same research substituting EBIT for EBITDA and found «nearly identical results,» which is perhaps a little surprising but not
inconceivable because they are so similar.