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Impasse   /ɪmpˈæs/  /ˈɪmpˌæs/   Listen
noun
Impasse  n.  An impassable road or way; a blind alley; cul-de-sac; fig., a position or predicament affording no escape. "The issue from the present impasse will, in all probability, proceed from below, not from above."






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"Impasse" Quotes from Famous Books



... in an IMPASSE. I'm not eligible for his post and I shouldn't want it if I were. To my mind marriage is only conceivable with a barbarian or a millionaire. From the sordid atmosphere of English conjugality upon an income of anything less than an assured 5,000 pounds a year, good ...
— Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land • Rosa Praed

... came to an impasse. The gulch between the two spurs terminated in a rock wall that fell almost sheer ...
— The Yukon Trail - A Tale of the North • William MacLeod Raine

... plunged by all the inexplicable delays in carrying out the terms of the convention. From every one who comes in contact with them I gather the same impression, that unless the Gordian knot is cut and a way is quickly found out of the present impasse, the most serious results are to be apprehended, as numbers of prisoners here—and the case can be no better in other countries—are ...
— The Better Germany in War Time - Being some Facts towards Fellowship • Harold Picton

... the secretary's civilian aide had reached an impasse on the question of policy even before the country entered the war. And though the use of black troops in World War I was not entirely satisfactory even to its defenders,[2-12] there appeared to be no time now, in ...
— Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965 • Morris J. MacGregor Jr.

... five hundred yards away a country-boat was anchored in midstream; and a jet of smoke drifting away from its bows in the still morning air showed me whence the delicate attention had come. Was ever a respectable gentleman in such an impasse? The treacherous sand slope allowed no escape from a spot which I had visited most involuntarily, and a promenade on the river frontage was the signal for a bombardment from some insane native in a boat. I'm afraid that I lost my temper very ...
— The Works of Rudyard Kipling One Volume Edition • Rudyard Kipling


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