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The accountants have spent a lot of money on irrecoverable legal costs.
The political inference was that if all gender differentiation was historically contingent it could be consigned to a remote, irrecoverable past.
It often meant irrecoverable debts and an immediate labour shortage.
Historical memory of it was lost and proved irrecoverable even when actively sought.
I would characterize this attitude as elegiac, expressing a feeling of irrecoverable loss with respect to the past.
Whatever debate there may be about the source of this rupture, all concur that the ancient world is irrecoverable.
In the 1990s, the dominant perception among middle and lower classes is that of an irrecoverable gap between rich and the poor.
It was a life, in other words, lived wholly in the private sphere, its values and triumphs - ' ingenuity ', companionship, physical appearance, and deportment - personal, transitory, and largely irrecoverable.
After all, radio is inert, instantaneous and irrecoverable.
