Irreparability

The irreparability of the past: once at a performance of Albert ❋ Unknown (2003)

She could not express the piercing irreparability of the injury. ❋ Various (N/A)

He thought it time to put between "folly" and him the irreparability of his categorical resolution. ❋ Various (N/A)

In a very little time the poor fellow came back quite out of breath, with deeper marks of disappointment in his looks than could arise from the simple irreparability of the fragment. ❋ Unknown (1917)

And what Jesus Christ declared, Christians and infidels do not dispute: the irreparability of shame is, of all the revelations of the Gospel, the only one which the proprietary world has understood. ❋ Unknown (1888)

That mechanical expectation of those who will come no more is something terrible, but when even that ceases, we know the irreparability of our loss, and begin to realize how much of ourselves they have taken with them. ❋ William Dean Howells (1878)

For if you do, you may be crushed by its revelations of deliberate state-ending destruction and a policy of cultural cleansing; by your shared responsibility for this human and national calamity; and, despite the near irreparability of what has been accomplished, by the massive reparations needed now and for the next fifty years to begin to counter the consequences of genocide. ❋ Unknown (2010)

This passage in the second chapter is mirrored quite precisely by one from the penultimate chapter, when Bloom sadly contemplates "the irreparability of the past [and] the imprevidibility of the future" in abandoning the idea of Stephen as a surrogate son. ❋ Unknown (2010)

... because SCO is now bankrupt and so cannot pay (or at least has not paid) the damages Judge Kimball awarded, the irreparability of Novell's injury is "virtually self - evident." ❋ [email protected] (2010)

"In a very little time the poor fellow came back quite out of breath, with deeper marks of disappointment in his looks than would arise from the simple irreparability of the payment. ❋ Alfred Guy Kingan L'Estrange (1873)