That some failing within him created the terrible pressure boiling in his heart and mind whenever he faced the intolerable thought of a hradani champion.

Mrs. Klein must come to terms not only with her son's death, but also with what for her is an intolerable thought - that she had nothing to do with it.

("It is an intolerable thought," he writes, "a full life without you.")

The idea of psychological repression was developed in 1915 as an automatic defensive mechanism based on Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic model in which people subconsciously push unpleasant or intolerable thoughts and feelings into their unconscious.

It was an intolerable thought.

There is another intolerable and unjustified thought, which the revolution wants to profit now: the senseless fear of the black race.

And that is an intolerable thought, even if we forget recruitment needs from normal space to S-space.

And that, my friend, is an intolerable thought.

The thought, long intolerable, was now just bearable.

But that was an intolerable thought, and not to be allowed.