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- adjective Not
showable ; that cannot beshown .
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Examples
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Outside the precincts of torture porn, any movie that forthrightly depicted the rape and butchery of a young girl would be unendurable (and probably unshowable).
Kurt Loder Reviews ‘The Lovely Bones’ » MTV Movies Blog 2009
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But in a democracy full of image and sound, fair use is necessary to prevent the existence of the unspeakable/unshowable.
Archive 2009-03-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2009
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The film was incendiary not merely because it showed the unshowable — that the then – Cold War era could yield a hot war for which England was uniquely unprepared — but because the whole thing was presented in documentary form.
He Saw It Coming 2008
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The film was incendiary not merely because it showed the unshowable — that the then – Cold War era could yield a hot war for which England was uniquely unprepared — but because the whole thing was presented in documentary form.
He Saw It Coming 2008
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But when the film was developed, the pictures proved unshowable: his skin wasn't just sallow, it was waxlike.
Poor Devil 2005
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But when the film was developed, the pictures proved unshowable: his skin wasn't just sallow, it was waxlike.
Poor Devil 2005
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I think he's done almost -- we better get out because he's going to be unshowable.
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I think he's done almost -- we better get out because he's going to be unshowable.
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"The shower scene in colour in 1960 would have just been unshowable," says Mr Brooke.
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"The house was left by Mr. Dykstra in an unshowable state, with raw sewage escaping from the main drain line left undone," wrote Brian Dubois of American Holdings & Land Inc.
Reuters: Top News 2010
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