0 something that cannot be guessed or calculated because it is completely unknown: --
There are all sorts of variables, not to say downright imponderables, in that paragraph.
But we are dealing here with imponderable factors, upon which honest and well-informed people may hold two, or more than two, opinions.
We are aware that overbooking will never be reduced to zero by the airlines, because that is how they manage imponderables.
I suggest that imponderables, like propaganda, are even more weighty in peace.
Possibly, but imponderables were not intended to mean only moral support.
But if we funk the issue and do nothing until the imponderables resolve themselves, we shall not have a ship.
One of the great difficulties is the series of imponderable motives which we have to deal with in this situation.
In the course of these transfers, affective imponderables get lost; and these not only supplement insufficient objective qualifications, but, in practice, they alone cause sufficient ones to be acted upon.
