Example sentences for: unbearable

How can you use “unbearable” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Generally speaking, it takes art away from the theory people, from the academics with their 10-pound books and their unbearable jargon, and allows real life to come shining through.

  • The divorcing Amy is marginally more believable as a woman whose life has taken a scary new turn than the unflappable single Syd ever was--Amy gets flustered; she doesn't know what to wear; her clothes don't seem designed to show off an improbably sculpted body, as Syd's do; she has no pat reasons for having left her husband; her mom, played by Tyne Daly, is pitch-perfect as the smart, confident older woman who quashes her daughter (she's a more compelling character than Syd's father, a wan veterinarian who can do no wrong); and Amy's own daughter--well, Amy's daughter is unbearable, a stereotypical know-it-all TV tyke.

  • And none provides more fodder for melancholy middle-aged comedy, from the heavyweight musings of Milan Kundera in The Unbearable Lightness of Being to the fluffy screwball machinations of Forces of Nature . In the latter, currently the most popular movie in the country, the filmmakers strain to bring together free spirit Sandra Bullock and affianced fuddy-duddy Ben Affleck.

  • The Unbearable Being of Whiteness

  • But the New York Times ' Christopher Lehmann-Haupt describes the book as classic Kundera--skeptical of modernity, unpredictable, and reminiscent of his masterpiece, The Unbearable Lightness of Being .


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