Literary notes about Ineluctable (AI summary)
In literary works the term "ineluctable" is employed to evoke a sense of inevitability and unalterable destiny. Writers use it to articulate forces both external and internal that bind characters to their fate, whether that be the strict decrees of law and nature as noted in [1] and [2], or the overwhelming, existential pressures that shape human experience as seen in [3] and [4]. At times the word imbues mundane settings with a mystical charm, transforming landscapes or personal encounters into encounters with an unavoidable, almost otherworldly destiny, as demonstrated in [5] and [6]. Equally, in modernist passages like those in [7] and [8], "ineluctable" underscores the immutable, often paradoxical forces that govern both physical reality and the inner workings of the human soul.
- For the first time in its history the Court was one voice, speaking through its Chief Justice the ineluctable decrees of the law.
— from John Marshall and the Constitution, a Chronicle of the Supreme Court by Edward Samuel Corwin - The one ineluctable fact in the universe is the incomprehensibility and all-inclusivity of one-ness .
— from The Mystery of Space
A Study of the Hyperspace Movement in the Light of the Evolution of New Psychic Faculties and an Inquiry into the Genesis and Essential Nature of Space by Robert T. Browne - The ineluctable vastness and sadness of life oppress him.
— from Ivory, Apes and Peacocks by James Huneker - The coming of a new day brought a sharper consciousness of ineluctable reality, and with it a sense of the need of action.
— from Summer by Edith Wharton - He had never been in Charleston before, and he reveled in the ineluctable charm of the lovely old town.
— from The Purple Heights by Marie Conway Oemler - The two young creatures, gentle, shy, their souls tinged with melancholy, are drawn towards one another by an ineluctable mutual attraction.
— from Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy by Otto Heller - I throw this ended shadow from me, manshape ineluctable, call it back.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce - H2 anchor [ 3 ] Ineluctable modality of the visible: at least that if no more, thought through my eyes.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce