In this and several parallel strands, the novel explores the deep, perhaps unbridgeable, differences, and the perhaps superficial sympathies, between military Germans and rural French.

A Rotarian neighbor who fears falling real-estate prices if the black family moves in, for instance, paints a picture of unbridgeable racial difference by politely asking the maid if she skis.

Obama will be wise to govern in ways that leave those unbridgeable differences alone, and instead direct the power of government to improving people's lives in both places.

There one saw at a flash the unbridgeable difference between men like Winsett and the others--Archer's kind.

The Soviet offer was important because it provided a way to defer the Star Wars issue, on which the two sides may have unbridgeable differences.

The increasing equalization of professors and workshop instructors and unbridgeable differences made it impossible "for art to develop freely, without purpose and with no connection to architecture at the Bauhaus."

In 1824, Comte left Saint-Simon, again because of unbridgeable differences.

The story of Ruth illuminates for me the unbridgeable difference, rather than the similarity, between her situation and mine.

That is the true unbridgeable difference between us that makes us not the same, but aliens.

The outbreak of violence here illustrated the seemingly unbridgeable differences between American forces and Mr. Sadr, a 30-year-old cleric who has built a large following in Iraq's downtrodden neighborhoods.