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  • adjective Not performable; that cannot be performed.

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un- +‎ performable

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Examples

  • Musically, Die Soldaten was called unperformable often during its early years, one critic saying it had taken the twelve-tone “atonal” style to its outer limits.

    DesignerBlog Will 2008

  • Musically, Die Soldaten was called unperformable often during its early years, one critic saying it had taken the twelve-tone “atonal” style to its outer limits.

    Archive 2008-07-01 Will 2008

  • Performances were few and far between for a while until musicians and singers learned how to perform the “unperformable” opera Franz Schubert’s Symphony #9 and Bartok’s “Bluebeard’s Castle” were also called unperformable when first presented to the Vienna Philharmonic and the Hungarian State Opera respectively.

    DesignerBlog Will 2008

  • Performances were few and far between for a while until musicians and singers learned how to perform the “unperformable” opera Franz Schubert’s Symphony #9 and Bartok’s “Bluebeard’s Castle” were also called unperformable when first presented to the Vienna Philharmonic and the Hungarian State Opera respectively.

    Archive 2008-07-01 Will 2008

  • "I really wonder, as an unperformable thought experiment, whether if the MAMMOTH book had included a token one or two writers of color or female gender, if these writers would have returned their paychecks or even spoken out when the current controversy arose."

    TOC: The Mammoth Book of Mindblowing SF edited by Mike Ashley 2009

  • I really wonder, as an unperformable thought experiment, whether if the MAMMOTH book had included a token one or two writers of color or female gender, if these writers would have returned their paychecks or even spoken out when the current controversy arose.

    TOC: The Mammoth Book of Mindblowing SF edited by Mike Ashley 2009

  • I really wonder, as an unperformable thought experiment, whether if the MAMMOTH book had included a token one or two writers of color or female gender, if these writers would have returned their paychecks or even spoken out when the current controversy arose.

    TOC: The Mammoth Book of Mindblowing SF edited by Mike Ashley 2009

  • I saw a version years ago which made me think the play was a closet drama, to be read not performed, perhaps unperformable.

    Sexist split infinitive Jes 2009

  • Anthony Tommasini likes it "a miraculous realization of an opera once deemed unperformable".

    Compare and Contrast 10 Lisa Hirsch 2008

  • Anthony Tommasini likes it "a miraculous realization of an opera once deemed unperformable".

    Archive 2008-07-01 Lisa Hirsch 2008

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