It has no mandate to return to a now irrecoverable past of blind isolationism, narrow prejudice, obedience to this or that hidden pressure or influence, the whole McKellar brand of .
When Kirsten Flagstad in 1935 made her Metropolitan Opera debut in Wagner's Die Walkuere, the audience cheered and the press groped for comparisons with "the irrecoverable.
He is much better when he avoids his fuzzy cosmic fumbling and sticks to camera-eye reporting on jazz joints, brothels and the irrecoverable sights and sounds of New Orleans .
David Mellor in BBC News Mr Mellor, a former Conservative MP and fellow Chelsea fan, said: "I think he is in an irrecoverable position where effectively the stroke has destroyed his brain. Tony is a strong chap and his heart continues to beat manfully, but I fear...
John Magnier in This is London C4 pundit John McCririck said: "It seems irrecoverable for Kieren Fallon as he will miss all the Classic trials and the French and Irish Guineas, on top of which he is facing a court hearing in Britain."
Neil Kinnock in guardian.co.uk Kinnock mentioned the innumnerable efforts made from within the trade union movement to find a compromise agreement, "to rescue the miners from what was clearly, after the first few months, going to be an irrecoverable disaster".