inexorableness
Example Sentences
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He remembered the inexorableness of the past; he remembered that blood-guiltiness, which sheep never feel, is worse to men than death.
From Four Psalms XXIII. XXXVI. LII. CXXI. Interpreted for practical use by Sir George Adam Smith
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 House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
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 A History of English Literature by Robert Huntington Fletcher
One of the most melancholy phenomena of Chinese life is the suddenness, the spontaneity, the inexorableness with which natural affection and all kindly relations under certain conditions seem absolutely to wither up.
From Village Life in China A Study in Sociology by Arthur H. Smith
The inexorableness of Dante is nowhere more dreadful than in the eighth Canto of the Inferno.
From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by John Addington Symonds
