Naomi Klein

I think there has been this really bad habit of environmentalists being insufferably smug, where they are sort of saying, 'This is the issue that beats all other issues,' or, 'Your issue doesn't matter because nothing matters if the earth is fried.

Canadian Journalist

Jane Pauley

I was an unusually private person - in a way, kind of insufferably so. I think I thought the celebrity thing when it happened was a temporary phenomenon, and I was above it.

American Journalist

Ian Hacking

The public debate about evolution itself, as opposed to whether to teach it, is something else. It is boring, demeaning, and insufferably dull.

Canadian Philosopher

Emphasizes an extreme level of a negative trait, often used to criticize.

Negative Intensity

Usually an exaggeration, not meant to be taken literally, to express strong feelings.

Hyperbolic Tone

Expresses a personal reaction to something others might not find as extreme.

Subjective Experience

 or people who become outraged, you know, just because the word is said, of being overprincipled, politically correct or, as I just read a couple of weeks ago in The New York Times, "insufferably woke." Right?

Why it's so hard to talk...

 Pip insufferably burns his hands, Mrs. Joe brings Pip up by hand." Are there patterns in your answers?

Insufferably