unanswerable argument

It isn't every day that one floors an opponent with a truly unanswerable argument.

He anticipated the difficulties and furnished unanswerable arguments against himself.

It was an unanswerable argument: Who had a right to give up if Helen did not?

She held her breath but, as she had hoped, that was an unanswerable argument.

Barney hesitated, but obviously the big man's marked limp was an unanswerable argument.

All these were unanswerable arguments, and with the request that accompanied then I had long intended to comply.

The memory of Dispose Carefully's tragic eyes seemed an unanswerable argument.

The simplest and most unanswerable argument is simply to knock the challenger down, breaking his jaw in the process, since no robot could do that.

That was an unanswerable argument.

The brothers' dizzying confrontation boils over in an absorbing second act that gives the play unanswerable arguments and dramatic complexity.

I thought of making it fifteen dollars," and with that unanswerable argument for Jimmy's continued service the buyer sat back and folded his hands.

"Behfel ist behfel," she said, which was an unanswerable argument among the Chosen.

With this in his hands, Cubilano could marshal unanswerable arguments with the Sun-on-Earth.

She did not trouble to deny it, nor did she think good to produce the one unanswerable argument against the merits which Terence admired.

Unanswerable Arguments against the Abolition of the Slave Trade, Bath, 1789, 8vo.

And there are seemingly unanswerable arguments that ... demonstrate that free will is incompatible with indeterminism.

He looked at things straight, as Englishmen of a certain type do, who despise sentiment and whose unanswerable argument is: "Well, it is the right thing to do."

It was a long letter, presenting what seemed to me unanswerable arguments in favor of writing such a narrative and pointing out both its present interest and its future value.

I am aware, too, that even if I did by some chance convince you, there remains the unanswerable argument that you have to sell to librarians and schoolteachers who believe the contrary.

It was an unanswerable argument, and how infuriating it was when Luqman made no attempt to answer it but simply responded by heaping onto Waithers all the tasks that had accumulated in his absence.

The irritated emperor, forthwith, summoned the cardinal to Vienna to intimidate him by means, as he wrote to Kaunitz, "of those vigorous and unanswerable arguments of which you know so well how to make use".

Which, in the opinion of the Taiwanese people, proves that the collection is precisely Where it's supposed to be; and they do have the unanswerable argument that Mao and his wife would most certainly have destroyed it.'

If I have not said much about it before, it was, of course, that the Professor's earnest desire was that no possible rumor of the unanswerable argument which we carried should be allowed to leak out until the moment came when his enemies were to be confuted.

Moreover," continued the queen, with that air of profound conviction that an unanswerable argument inspires, "you have remained king by the consent and authority of our Holy Father the sovereign pontiff, who disposes of the throne as a fief belonging to the Church."

But, on this occasion, up to the moment of putting his lips to the old woman's ear, Mr. Dimmesdale, as the great enemy of souls would have it, could recall no text of Scripture, nor aught else, except a brief, pithy, and, as it then appeared to him, unanswerable argument against the immortality of the human soul.