That is patently impossible and the big lie at the heart of what today is called "affirmative action."

Such paradox was patently impossible - but the situation could be extremely delicate.

And anything further he might have said on the subject would have made that patently impossible.

When night fell and the use of a sun mirror was patently impossible, Borden moved on the highway toward what had been the white spot.

What they, through Liu, were asking was patently impossible.

These great artists had never produced so many works; it was patently impossible for them to have done so.

It was patently impossible that a husband would not know his wife's religion.

If the data they present to the brain are patently impossible, then the subject has a classic problem.

This, even if the rest were true, which it isn't, is patently impossible, say the doubters.

I lay back down, but it was patently impossible to go back to sleep.