Insurmountability

But when we reflect that across the road at the centre of the arc of each curve there was a barricade, and cannon placed to rake the' intervals between the different barricades, the difficulties of the ascent, which is very steep, would be increased even to insurmountability.

He dried his eyes. His aunt saw the insurmountability of the difficulty, and they drowned feeling in an affectionate glass of green-orangeade.

The tragedy of a genius towering above its contemporaries does not end with death. The latter merely helps to accentuate more forcibly the insurmountability of inherent contrasts.