0 used for describing differences or divisions between people that are so big they will never be made smaller:
The reason an eighteenth-century audience would have enjoyed those ' ' repulsive' ' goings-on is that for them the split between character and performer was self-evident and unbridgeable.
Now a theory that implies unbridgeable mental differences should only be accepted as a last resort, if there is no other explanation available.
But the gap between knowing and doing remained for the most part unbridgeable.
This then implies unbridgeable ethnic differences and a conflict or struggle between civilizations.
The model assumes an unbridgeable divide between the figurative language and the reality, and the impossiblity of literal reference.
Obviously the singing of polyphony created an unbridgeable gap between 'heart and voice'.
It seemed the gap was unbridgeable.
Rousseau's other efforts at healing the breech between self and society, through education and love, ran into unbridgeable contradictions.
