unreckonable
Example Sentences
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Jerichow, Mecklenburg, is Johnson’s answer to Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County: a setting, both mythic and mundane, for interlocking novels that aspire to a historical reckoning but finally find history unreckonable.
From The New Yorker • Nov. 26, 2018
Feckless lamentation, yes, but also a poetic form for an unreckonable history.
From The New Yorker • Nov. 26, 2018
The mind blanks at this sheer volume of commentary generated with every elapsing second, this unreckonable tonnage of weigh-ins.
From The New Yorker • Jun. 17, 2015
The unreckonable element of chance would still operate to make you do this or that.
From The Hidden Places by Sinclair, Bertrand W.
The most ordinary wish, that was written down with wearisome recurrence, was, of course, for wealth, wealth, wealth, in sums from a few shillings up to unreckonable thousands.
From The Intelligence Office (From "Mosses from an Old Manse") by Hawthorne, Nathaniel