inevitableness

Example Sentences

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The electrocution in the prolog gives the subsequent action some of the grim inevitableness of last season's The Last Mile.

From Time Magazine Archive

The last man was aboard; the gangway was hauled up; the screw pounded the water; the ship began to glide away from the dock with slow, sickening inevitableness.

From Sinister Street, vol. 1 by MacKenzie, Compton

They express the usual commonplaces: the inevitableness of death, and the worth of endeavour.

From Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromartie, Knight by Willcock, John

The questions filtered through her mind with the inevitableness of sands in an hour-glass.

From Leerie by Sawyer, Ruth

It should have the characteristic of apparent inevitableness, and in expression be ample, yet reticent....

From English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History by Alden, Raymond MacDonald