having no alternative

Example Sentences

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Opening with a brilliantly alienated first line – “The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new” – Murphy puzzled a lot of reviewers, was praised by Dylan Thomas, and sold badly.

From The Guardian • Jul. 28, 2019

Beckett tried out "The sun shone, as only the sun can, on nothing new", working through various alternatives before ending up with: "The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new."

From The Guardian • Jun. 4, 2013

Still, having no alternative, I went ahead and sat beside Jerome.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

I should then be compelled to make restitution, having no alternative other than my own destruction: thus I cannot escape from contributing towards the evil.

From Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil by Huggard, E.M.

Henry and I, having no alternative, were obliged to walk from the station to the pontoon bridge, made, Henry said, in one night.

From In the Courts of Memory, 1858 1875; from Contemporary Letters by Hegermann-Lindencrone, L. de (Lillie de)