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unsatisfiable

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Adj.1.unsatisfiable - not capable of being satisfied; "he knew the trap of unsatisfiable longing"
insatiable, insatiate, unsatiable - impossible to satisfy; "an insatiate appetite"; "an insatiable demand for old buildings to restore"; "his passion for work was unsatiable"
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And it sets up demands that are largely unsatisfiable because issues of motivation are inherently ambiguous and because the curiosity that fuels the demands is partly prurient.
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This is precisely the task that Valcke embarks on in his thorough volume, which presents the image of a restless, tireless, and unsatisfiable Pico.
Pic de la Mirandole: Un itineraire philosophique by Borghesi, Francesco / Renaissance Quarterly
Arnold suggests that 'desire', a decidedly Shelleyan condition, is both 'unspeakable' and potentially unsatisfiable.
'The burden of ourselves': Arnold as a post-Romantic poet by O'Neill, Michael / Yearbook of English Studies
 
 
 
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