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
The mediumship of prophets, apostles, and ancient scriptures is of unreckonable value, after I have done something for myself.
From The Conquest of Fear by King, Basil
The strangeness of it all persistently imposed upon her mind, but was unreckonable, compared to the thought that Quentin Charter would not have called for her, had he been able to come.
From She Buildeth Her House by Comfort, William Wistar