Irredeemability

"The court is quite willing to accept that a 17-year-old who pulls the trigger on a firearm can demonstrate sufficient depravity and irredeemability to be denied reentry into society, but insists that a 17-year-old who rapes an 8-year-old and leaves her for dead does not," Thomas wrote. ❋ Unknown (2010)

After 9/11, language about the evils of American culture and the irredeemability of non-believers took on a much more sinister cast. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The Screenhead Ten Scale gives this short, slick, sharp schlockfest of a shocker a five out of ten for doing a relatively unimportant job without screwing it up to the point of irredeemability. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The paper men say that the crisis is due to failure to issue more paper at the proper moment, and the hard-money men ascribe it to the irredeemability of what is already issued; and each side chuckles over the convulsion as a startling confirmation of its views, and goes about calling attention to it almost gleefully. ❋ Edwin Lawrence Godkin (1866)

In all cases of time or number, we must consider whether the larger comprehends the lesser, as in a question to what day a postponement shall be, the number of a committee, amount of a fine, term of an imprisonment, term of irredeemability of a loan, or the terminus in quem in any other case. ❋ Unknown (1853)

Justice Thomas criticizes the majority for imposing "an exacting constraint on democratic sentencing choices based on … such an untestable philosophical conclusion": "that a 17-year-old who pulls the trigger on a firearm can demonstrate sufficient depravity and irredeemability to be denied reentry into society, but … a 17-year-old who rapes an 8 - year-old and leaves her for dead does not." ❋ Unknown (2010)