And sometimes, all too rarely, it came down to a single person it was simply unthinkable to fail.

Tarantulas are simply unthinkable, and I can't eat lobster, crab, or anything of that sort.

One case was simply unthinkable: a mother drowned her five children.

As to gunners or engineers, whose heads are kept cool on a diet of mathematics, it is simply unthinkable.

For many, the country has become ungovernable and the future is simply unthinkable.

Someone will come and rescue you; anything else is simply unthinkable, Dying in one's summer house?

It spoke as if disagreeing was not simply unthinkable but impossible.

In some African languages, the same word means both "music" and "dance", because to have one without the other is simply unthinkable.

Are changes such as means-testing child benefit and state pensions simply unthinkable?

It was simply unthinkable that this could happen to him.