Katherine Anne Porter

Human life itself may be almost pure chaos, but the work of the artist is to take these handfuls of confusion and disparate things, things that seem to be irreconcilable, and put them together in a frame to give them some kind of shape and meaning.

American Journalist

Owen Jones

The left's mission isn't simply to grant every citizen the basic means of survival, but comfort and prosperity, too, through collective means. Yet the existence of billionaires is irreconcilable with this emancipatory project.

British Journalist

Alice Roberts

Looking in detail at human anatomy, I'm always left with two practically irreconcilable thoughts: our bodies are wonderful, intricate masterpieces; and then - they are cobbled-together, rag-bag, sometimes clunking machines.

English Scientist

Henry Williamson

The slow rhythm of the body, the insistent rhythm of the wit, were they becoming irreconcilable in modern civilisation? The sedentary life, frustration and irritability; work with the body, fatigue - and peace of mind.

English Author

Steve Carell

Relationships shouldn't be disposable. If there's something worth saving - not always the case, some relationships are irreconcilable - but if there is something that you determine is worth saving, then try to do that.

American Actor

Pat Buchanan

As the culture war is about irreconcilable beliefs about God and man, right and wrong, good and evil, and is at root a religious war, it will be with us so long as men are free to act on their beliefs.

Martha Beck

Our culture has created two almost irreconcilable descriptions of a 'good woman.' The first is the individual achiever; the second, the self-sacrificing domestic goddess.

American Author

Rachel Cusk

What I increasingly felt, in marriage and in motherhood, was that to live as a woman and to live as a feminist were two different and possibly irreconcilable things.

Canadian Novelist

Sherlyn Chopra

I shot for 'Kamasutra 3D' for barely 5 days. After which, a series of irreconcilable differences had risen between the makers of the film and myself.

James G. Stavridis

In any insurgency there will be people who are irreconcilable and who pose a clear and present threat to the U.S. and our allies.

American Educator

Use 'irreconcilable' to stress that no compromise or agreement is possible between two sides.

Complete Opposition

'Irreconcilable' implies that a dispute or difference cannot be solved, often used in serious contexts.

Beyond Resolution

Often used to describe the end of relationships where parties can't agree or live together anymore.

Relationship Breakdown

Describes someone firmly sticking to their beliefs or decisions, refusing to consider alternatives.

Stubbornness

Mostly used in political or ideological contexts to describe individuals with firm, unyielding positions.

Political Setting

'Irreconcilable' carries a negative connotation when describing a person; it suggests inflexibility.

Negative Connotation

 or crawl up the chain and behave like a god, it's our choice. Looking back at the sketch, we can see that by changing the position of the man, he can fill the irreconcilable areas of a circle and a square. If geometry is the language the universe is written in, then this sketch seems to say we can exist within all its elements.

Da Vinci's Vitruvian Man...

 I found that any culture has its irreconcilable contradictions. This is a joint effort between me and French artist JR. This is a joint effort between me and French artist JR. I tried to disappear into JR's eye,