I would have been completely brainwashed by this lopsided and racist view of the world if it weren't for my father. He was a deep thinker and an irrepressible problem solver. He was a Black Socrates, asking why and then spoiling ready-made replies.
It is an irrepressible conflict between opposing and enduring forces.
Imagination. . . is the irrepressible revolutionist.
Love - bittersweet, irrepressible - loosens my limbs and I tremble.
The critic's hankering to be law-giver rather than servant of literature is irrepressible.
Don't listen to other people's advice unless it is rooted in irrepressible enthusiasm (e. g. , "Be afraid but do it anyway"), or about the importance of being a good colleague.
Be a dynamo of irrepressible joy!
The appetite for power is old and irrepressible in humankind, and in its action almost always destructive.
Some distance away is a white azalea bush which stuns me with its stately beauty. ____ This is pristine natural beauty. it is irrepressible, seeks no reward, and is without goal, a beauty derived neither from symbolism nor metaphor and needing neither analogies nor associations.
A lot of girls who turn into something remarkable start off as irrepressible, confident and a handful.
The irrepressible conflict propounded by abolitionism has produced now its legitimate fruits - disunion.
Irrepressible curiosity vied with an instinctive fear.
Our family was on the lunatic fringe. My mother was always completely irrepressible. My father made crowd noises into a microphone.
