Literary notes about Inescapable (AI summary)
In literature, "inescapable" is used to stress the overwhelming force of destiny and circumstance, framing certain events or qualities as unavoidable. It underlines the predetermined nature of everything from fate and death ([1], [2]) to duty and moral obligation ([3], [4]), and it often heightens the tension between human agency and the inexorable flow of events ([5], [6]). The word can evoke both existential despair and the stark reality of nature's or society's indifferent laws, suggesting that some aspects of life—whether abstract or palpably real—cannot be eluded ([7], [8]).
- No one was spared because of tender years, beauty, dignity, or strength: one inescapable death awaited them all.
— from The Deeds of God Through the Franks by Abbot of Nogent-sous-Coucy Guibert - This life cometh to an end with physical death, which is a God-ordained and inescapable reality.
— from Gems of Divine Mysteries by Bahá'u'lláh - To promote knowledge is thus an inescapable duty imposed on every one of the friends of God.
— from Selections from the Writings of `Abdu'l-Bahá by `Abdu'l-Bahá - There is an inescapable personal responsibility for the development of character, of industry, of thrift, and of self-control.
— from State of the Union Addresses by Calvin Coolidge - It was a big room, bare of floor and, save for the inescapable flowery calendar, bare of walls.
— from Friendship Village Love Stories by Zona Gale - Our inescapable destiny was making us plunge so rashly into this mystery!
— from Astounding Stories, April, 1931 by Various - The superstitions relating to death cannot be expelled from the uneducated mind, which realizes too well that the event itself is inescapable.
— from Byways in British Archaeology by Walter Johnson - We feel the grip of fate, as in the ancient Greek tragedies, the inescapable calamity that approaches with swift, silent pace.
— from The Supernatural in Modern English Fiction by Dorothy Scarborough
