Adjective : inexorable truth; inexorable justice. ,an inexorable creditor. From Dictionary.com.
The whole thing presented itself to the mind in the light of some huge joke; and yet, behind the joke, lay a curious sense of inexorableness. From Wordnik.com. [Antony Gray,—Gardener] Reference
Thirdly, The inevitableness of these judgments, and the inexorableness of the Lord as to the accomplishment of all the evils denounced, verse. From Wordnik.com. [The Sermons of John Owen] Reference
Grace, in reply, wept and wondered at the request, bemoaned the inexorableness of the law; and was astonished that Lily had not realized the exact similarity of their positions. From Wordnik.com. [The House of Mirth] Reference
They deal with the hard and tragic things in life, the terrible power of ocean and storm, or the inexorableness and dreariness of death, banishment, and the separation of friends. From Wordnik.com. [A History of English Literature] Reference
Whatever perplexity he felt as to the inexorableness of her course—however little he penetrated its motive—she saw that it unmistakably tended to strengthen her hold over him. From Wordnik.com. [The House of Mirth] Reference
Lastly, there is an almost modern sense of the inexorableness of law in the solemn reminder that those who refuse and despise the call of wisdom will be left alone and helpless when their day of trouble comes, i. 22ff. From Wordnik.com. [Introduction to the Old Testament] Reference
Only when life is lived close to the senses, when the intelligence is engaged immediately on what is yielded to man through the body, is the paradox of sadness in created beauty brought home in all its delicacy and inexorableness. From Wordnik.com. [Hilaire Belloc: Defender of the Faith] Reference
It seems to have the quality of inexorableness that duty has. From Wordnik.com. [The World I Live In] Reference
It is not that Gardner has a less stringent sense of fact and of the inexorableness of law than has. From Wordnik.com. [An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant] Reference
"She staggers and falls and falls and plunges," seem to say the facts with the inexorableness of Fate. From Wordnik.com. [Europe—Whither Bound? Being Letters of Travel from the Capitals of Europe in the Year 1921] Reference
Hartmut was given to the father unconditionally, and Falkenried barred the mother's every effort with iron inexorableness. From Wordnik.com. [The Northern Light] Reference
It was always -- punctually, inevitably, with the inexorableness of a mechanical law -- it was always the wrong thing that struck him. From Wordnik.com. [The Eyes] Reference
It was always — punctually, inevitably, with the inexorableness of a mechanical law — it was always the wrong thing that struck him. From Wordnik.com. [The Eyes] Reference
We perceive, therefore, a possible fourth dimensional aspect about time, the inexorableness of whose flow may be a natural part of our present limitations. From Wordnik.com. [Genuine Mediumship or The Invisible Powers] Reference
Grace, in reply, wept and wondered at the request, bemoaned the inexorableness of the law, and was astonished that Lily had not realized the exact similarity of their positions. From Wordnik.com. [House of Mirth] Reference
He looked about the table, and guessed at the inexorableness of his captors from the tone in which, over the asparagus from Florida, they were dealing with Beaufort and his wife. From Wordnik.com. [The Age of Innocence] Reference
Whatever perplexity he felt as to the inexorableness of her course -- however little he penetrated its motive -- she saw that it unmistakably tended to strengthen her hold over him. From Wordnik.com. [House of Mirth] Reference
And there is a degree of persecution, if the persecuting party has the strength and the inexorableness to employ it, that it is perhaps beyond the prowess of human nature to stand up against. From Wordnik.com. [Thoughts on Man: His Nature, Productions, and Discoveries] Reference
In every view I felt my heart ulcerated with a sense of his injustice; and my very soul spurned these pitiful indulgences, at a time that he was grinding me into dust with the inexorableness of his vengeance. From Wordnik.com. [Caleb Williams Or Things as They Are] Reference
The murderers -- there were two -- were shortly afterwards arrested; tried, convicted, and sentenced to death, with a dispatch and inexorableness which -- probably owing to their friendlessness -- was somewhat unusual under the statutes of this State. From Wordnik.com. [The Secrets of the Great City] Reference
The common presuppositions, which exclude everything that is merely personal from the legal controversy, have that character of pure objectivity to which, on its side, the sharpness, the inexorableness, and the absoluteness of the species of struggle correspond. From Wordnik.com. [Introduction to the Science of Sociology] Reference
Like a tepid tide it rose around her, gliding ever higher and higher, folding in its velvety embrace her relaxed and tired body, now submerging her breast and shoulders, now creeping gradually, with soft inexorableness, over her throat to her chin, to her ears, to her mouth. From Wordnik.com. [The Fulness of Life] Reference
That is in part why the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard opened an exhibition in October of agitprop produced by the New York chapter of Act Up between 1987 and 1993, years when AIDS fatalities in the United States climbed, with grim inexorableness, to a 1995 peak of over. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
What manner of creature is this tall, heavy, fierce, and rather truculent-looking man who strides about in the popular imagination with the inexorableness of destiny and whose eyes, brooding on the confusion of human disarrangements, are mystic with the propulsive force of the Universal Will?. From Wordnik.com. [Kitchener, Organizer of Victory]
Most far reaching meant our soldier roles extracted from conflict’s inexorableness – its patent, deathly allegation, to a state we practised every way to not permit a simple thought or taste of it. From Wordnik.com. [M79 Grenades Are 40mm Rounds] Reference
The calendar has the inexorableness of fate. From Wordnik.com. [The Life Radiant] Reference
"He" is purity and compassion and inexorableness. From Wordnik.com. [Preaching and Paganism] Reference
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