0 something that is impossible to do, or the state of being impossible: --
1 something that is not possible: --
What you’re asking for is an impossibility.
This book is important because it reminds us that wilderness protection requires timely and visionary action before it becomes a political and material impossibility.
The whole issue needs be approached in a practical, positive spirit, considering spelling reform as an international opportunity, not an international impossibility.
But if he illustrates the impossibility of objective historical inquiry, then the loss to historiography is the gain of political thought.
Needless to say, this idea of a reception-politics has its own problems : on one set of assumptions, indeed, it amounts to a dangerous impossibility.
The impossibility of satisfying desire, of filling the lack, of having the ideal beloved, is the fatality to which the empirical self is doomed.
The writing of 1848-52 'knows' the impossibility of its ambition to find an audience, to be properly heard.
The evident character of intuitive knowledge contrasts with the impossibility of passing this knowledge on or of explaining it.
She is referring to the impossibility of their future lives together; they enjoy thinking about it, but know that it won't work.
