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Literary notes about incredible (AI summary)

In literature, “incredible” functions as a multifaceted term that can express both admiration and disbelief. It is often used to heighten the sense of wonder or to underline the implausibility of a situation, whether emphasizing an almost too-beautiful quality [1] or a remarkable feat achieved against all odds [2, 3]. At times, the word serves as a marker of irony and subtle critique, as when it highlights the absurdity of arguments or events [4, 5]. In other contexts, “incredible” underscores a tension between the expected and the unimaginable, lending a dynamic, sometimes paradoxical, flavor to the narrative [6, 7].
  1. You sweet young lady, you incredible beauty!”
    — from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  2. It is almost incredible how much I managed to put away!
    — from A Doll's House : a play by Henrik Ibsen
  3. On impact, it gave off a metallic sonority, and as incredible as this sounds, it seemed, I swear, to be made of riveted plates.
    — from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne
  4. Suffice it to say that his argumentation in that chapter is so feeble as to seem almost incredible in so generally able a writer.
    — from Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking by William James
  5. War—among other things, a great disturber of science!—Incredible!
    — from The Antichrist by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
  6. It all seems strange, incredible, impossible.
    — from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain
  7. But they can beckon, and the knowledge of this incredible truth comforted him.
    — from Howards End by E. M. Forster

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