unreckonable
Example Sentences
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Feckless lamentation, yes, but also a poetic form for an unreckonable history.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 26, 2018
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
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
And that he might hold up his head with the best of them, she endowed him on the spot with an unreckonable amount of wealth.
From Short Stories of Various Types by Laura F. Freck
Here, when it was calm, we went ashore, but found no man, only an unreckonable number of pigeons.
From 1492 by Mary Johnston