Literary notes about Inextricable (AI summary)
The term "inextricable" has frequently been employed in literature to evoke a sense of complex entanglement and inherent inseparability. In philosophical and scientific works, authors use it to underscore unsolvable dilemmas or irrationalities—a concept evident in discussions of elusive elements in products [1], irrational numerical expressions [2], or the bewildering mingling of organic complexities [3]. Writers also adopt the term in more evocative, almost tangible depictions: from the vivid portrayals of labyrinths—both physical [4, 5, 6] and metaphorical [7, 8]—to Chaucer-like dilemmas [9, 10] and even the entwining of human relationships that defy easy resolution [11]. This broad usage across genres and languages [12, 13] reinforces "inextricable" as a powerful descriptor of situations where multiple elements are so intertwined that disentanglement appears nearly impossible.
- This element is so inextricable in the products that Mr. Schiller sometimes seems almost to leave it an open question whether there be anything else.
— from Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking by William James - The numbers themselves by which the tones are expressed have inextricable irrationality.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer - Why are not all organic beings blended together in an inextricable chaos?
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection by Charles Darwin - The thousand windings and turnings formed an inextricable labyrinth through the ancient soil.
— from A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne - An indescribable footpath wound through an inextricable labyrinth, sometimes as thorny as a heath, sometimes as miry as a marsh.
— from The History of a Crime by Victor Hugo - On looking at a map of Paris I found, situated in the middle of an inextricable maze of streets, a very small lane called Rue des Lombards.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner - A bewildering, inextricable jungle of delusions, confusions, falsehoods, and absurdities, covering the whole field of Life!
— from On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle - Such hideous inextricable jungle of misworships, misbeliefs, men, made as we are, did actually hold by, and live at home in.
— from On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle - After whatever manner you answer this question, you run into inextricable difficulties.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume - Take, for instance, the following extract:— "Thus we are landed in an inextricable dilemma.
— from Know the Truth: A Critique on the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation by Jesse Henry Jones - To deceive him Is no deceit, but justice, that would break Such an inextricable tie as ours was. DOL.
— from The Alchemist by Ben Jonson - inextricable , très embrouillé; qui ne peut être démêlé.
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann - s'était engagée dans un taillis inextricable.
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann
