In the preface to her book The Court Jew (1950), Stern-Taeubler charged her fellow Jews in the aftermath of World War II to use the “tragedy and inexorableness of our present experience … to view our past more objectively than before … [because] understand [ing] our road through the centuries can make our destiny easier to bear.” ❋ Unknown (2009)
Only when life is lived close to the senses, when the intelligence is engaged immediately on what is yielded to man through the body, is the paradox of sadness in created beauty brought home in all its delicacy and inexorableness. ❋ Unknown (2007)
And he laughed, as the thought went home; laughed at the irony of fate and its inexorableness; laughed at his own defeat and his nearness to a barred Paradise. ❋ Unknown (2003)
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. ❋ Edith Wharton (1987)
Whatever perplexity he felt as to the inexorableness of her course—however little he penetrated its motive—she saw that it unmistakably tended to strengthen her hold over him. ❋ Edith Wharton (1987)
The inevitableness of the desolation threatened, and the inexorableness of God in the execution of it, verse 1, is the third thing considerable: "Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind could not be toward this people." ❋ 1616-1683 (1968)
Thirdly, The inevitableness of these judgments, and the inexorableness of the Lord as to the accomplishment of all the evils denounced, verse ❋ 1616-1683 (1968)
Wherefore, secondly, Being thus disappointed, by the severity and inexorableness of the law, men generally betake themselves to some other way, that may satisfy them as to those considerations which took them off from their former hopes; and this, for the most part, is by fixing themselves upon some ways of atonement to satisfy God, and helping out the rest with hopes of mercy. ❋ 1616-1683 (1965)
Severe penalties would be wasted on these people, accustomed as they have been to the most violent passions on the part of white men; but a mild inexorableness tells on them, just as it does on any other children. ❋ Various (N/A)
If, on the other hand, he accepted the conditions, a year must elapse before he made that dream known to her; and -- and here lay the meaning of that sense of inexorableness he had experienced -- he could give her no explanation of the extraordinary situation in which he would find himself, a situation truly calculated to create any amount of misunderstanding. ❋ Leslie Moore (N/A)
The whole thing presented itself to the mind in the light of some huge joke; and yet, behind the joke, lay a curious sense of inexorableness. ❋ Leslie Moore (N/A)
And then, in a sudden flash of illumination, he saw precisely wherein that sense of inexorableness lay. ❋ Leslie Moore (N/A)
Lastly, there is an almost modern sense of the inexorableness of law in the solemn reminder that those who refuse and despise the call of wisdom will be left alone and helpless when their day of trouble comes, i. 22ff. ❋ John Edgar McFadyen (N/A)
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. ❋ Robert Huntington Fletcher (N/A)
And Jesus clearly indicates, also, that in the constitution of the soul, and in the inexorableness of moral law, there is a deep remedial agency which is ever active, giving no individual rest until it finds it in God. ❋ Amory H. Bradford (N/A)
"She staggers and falls and falls and plunges," seem to say the facts with the inexorableness of Fate. ❋ Stephen Graham (1929)
The seemingly inexorable [march] of [new technology] ❋ OlderWA (2017)
[Ruby] [possesses] so much [damn] inexorable rizz! ❋ Kwunty (2023)
