1 And Bilibin unwrinkled his temple, feeling that the dilemma was insoluble.
2 It was too dreadful to be under the burden of these insoluble problems, so he abandoned himself to any distraction in order to forget them.
3 In the morning, on an empty stomach, all the old questions appeared as insoluble and terrible as ever, and Pierre hastily picked up a book, and if anyone came to see him he was glad.
4 She was tormented by the insoluble question whether she loved Anatole or Prince Andrew.
5 This problem seemed to the ancients insoluble.
6 A modern branch of mathematics having achieved the art of dealing with the infinitely small can now yield solutions in other more complex problems of motion which used to appear insoluble.
7 The diplomatists think that their disagreements are the cause of this fresh pressure of natural forces; they anticipate war between their sovereigns; the position seems to them insoluble.
8 And so for history, the insoluble mystery presented by the incompatibility of free will and inevitability does not exist as it does for theology, ethics, and philosophy.
9 There was no solution, but that universal solution which life gives to all questions, even the most complex and insoluble.
10 The one mystery of death, still unsolved, had scarcely passed before his eyes, when another mystery had arisen, as insoluble, urging him to love and to life.
11 The animals found the problem insoluble; in any case, they had little time for speculating on such things now.
12 That seemed the simplest solution of the otherwise insoluble.
13 They were called criminals, and the outraged law, like the bursting shells, had come to them, an insoluble mystery from over the sea.
14 These formed so many insoluble problems.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE LARK'S MEADOW