Literary notes about invariable (AI summary)
In literary works the adjective "invariable" is often deployed to emphasize a quality of steadfastness or unchangeability. It may describe a person's fixed habits or customs, as when a character’s favorite pursuit or routine is highlighted as unalterable ([1],[2],[3]). Equally, it is used to define established rules or natural laws, underscoring their consistency and universality, as seen in discussions of social codes or scientific principles ([4],[5],[6]). In other contexts, authors invoke the term to evoke an unyielding character or natural order that persists regardless of circumstance ([7],[8],[9]). Thus, "invariable" brings a sense of permanence and certitude to both character portrayal and thematic exposition.
- Her invariable and favorite pursuit, when they met, consisted in making fun of him.
— from Anna Karenina by graf Leo Tolstoy - Nina had just been supping with her lover, who had left her at ten o’clock, according to his invariable custom.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova - * At half-past four his cousin made the tea, according to their invariable custom.
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. Wells - They are uniform, universal in the group, imperative, and invariable.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. Burgess and Robert Ezra Park - The great Chosroes Noushirwan sent the code of Artaxerxes to all his satraps, as the invariable rule of their conduct.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon - In the payment of such a note, gold would appear to be more invariable in its value than silver.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith - The invariable hour for the first hermitage meal was twelve noon.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda - Time, the continual vicissitude of circumstances, and the invariable inopportunity of death, render it impossible.
— from The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne - I may remark that reality, although it is governed by invariable law, has at times a resemblance to falsehood.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
