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  • But what I am saying is that it is these sorts of instances which over time come to symbolize an irrefutable fact; namely that one has had the privilege of practising one's profession at the very fulcrum of great affairs.†   (source)
  • Tobias's testimony is irrefutable this way.†   (source)
  • This irrefutable truth seemed to suggest that the reason scientists cannot detect Quality in objects is because Quality is all they detect.†   (source)
  • His figure, especially the neck and shoulders, communicated the impression of irrefutable physical strength and of precise, even imperial bearing.†   (source)
  • But the evidence was irrefutable: the long and brutal spike in crime was moving in the opposite direction, and it wouldn't stop until the crime rate had fallen back to the levels of forty years earlier.†   (source)
  • The supposition that Remedios the Beauty Possessed powers of death was then borne out by four irrefutable events.†   (source)
  • In the morning, we'd wake to irrefutable proof of Morn's undying love—Dad, snoozing on the couch, under a blanket.†   (source)
  • It was something they had always known, but nevertheless, to have it stated in such irrefutable terms had increased the sense of closeness they shared.†   (source)
  • And as I found in Pakistan, Mortenson's Central Asia Institute does, irrefutably, have the results.†   (source)
  • "Your logic is irrefutable, although its foundation isn't sound."†   (source)
  • Thanks to a photograph that showed the three of them around a table with a misty, winged ectoplasm flying overhead, which some unbelievers attributed to a stain from the developer and others to a simple photographic trick, they were the only people who possessed irrefutable proof that souls can take on physical form.†   (source)
  • The test for you is irrefutable.†   (source)
  • Accompanying the report, a recording from Sword of Nathtas—the gun that an ancillary segment saw, irrefutably, but that according to Sword of Nathtas's other sensors just didn't exist.†   (source)
  • It was crippling enough that they even permitted David to stay around; he had tried to explain the potential damage to Alex, but Conklin had an irrefutable reply: We can't stop him.†   (source)
  • But why did you not go to the police when you have such …. irrefutable evidence?†   (source)
  • There are no absolutes-as Dr. Pritchett has proved irrefutably.†   (source)
  • Yet as the irrefutable and sapient Tisroc has said it is very grievous to be constrained to keep our hands off such a dainty dish as Narnia.†   (source)
  • The pact is bound in Old Magic—signed in Bram's own blood and utterly irrefutable.†   (source)
  • But it was our first indication of the strength, the formidable, irrefutable strength that comes from solidarity.†   (source)
  • Herewith lies irrefutable proof of ghosts among us, of life after death!†   (source)
  • I wanted to explain myself, smartly, irrefutably.†   (source)
  • With the irrefutable logic of a man conditioned to follow orders, the Union colonel in charge tells Lee's courier that he does not have the authority to halt the attack.†   (source)
  • The vital importance played by the wolf in preserving rather than in destroying the caribou seemed irrefutable to me, although I was by no means sure it would appear in the same light to my employers.†   (source)
  • Never before, this has been seen so clearly; never before, this has been presented so irrefutably; truly, the heart of every Brahman has to beat stronger with love, once he has seen the world through your teachings perfectly connected, without gaps, clear as a crystal, not depending on chance, not depending on gods.†   (source)
  • What's irrefutable is that she's done exactly what he said.†   (source)
  • "The conclusions of this phase are irrefutable," cried the lecturer.†   (source)
  • Max saw what the giant saw and it was irrefutable.†   (source)
  • I've given you the facts as we've learned them; they're irrefutable and Abbott cannot deny them.†   (source)
  • The methods she used were irrefutable.†   (source)
  • My inside information is irrefutable.†   (source)
  • Finally, in the first quarter of the nineteenth century, and almost at the same time, a Hungarian and a Russian…Bolyai and Lobachevski…established irrefutably that a proof of Euclid's fifth postulate is impossible.†   (source)
  • The results were conclusive and irrefutable, with the potential to transform skeptics into believers and affect global consciousness on a massive scale.†   (source)
  • He needed a little time to convince her about such a strange expedient, but when he finally did so by means of proofs that seemed irrefutable, the only promise that Fernanda demanded from him was that he should not be surprised by death in hisconcubine's bed.†   (source)
  • But his identification papers gave irrefutable proof that the sad, blue corpse was Jean de Satigny, who had not died of fever in the golden dunes of a child's nightmare, but of a simple stroke as he crossed the street in his old age.†   (source)
  • Give the benefit of the doubt to those who seek to know; but treat as potential killers those specimens of insolent depravity who make demands upon you, announcing that they have and seek no reasons, proclaiming, as a license, that they 'just feel if —or those who reject an irrefutable argument by saying: 'It's only logic' which means: 'It's only reality.'†   (source)
  • 9 BILL PAYERS on PARADE Crunching leaves with her high-heeled boots, Bernadine Dohrn arrives at an irrefutable confirmation of middle age: the visiting of a child for parents weekend.†   (source)
  • Many Charlestonians far preferred even whales to cadets, and the annual Salute to the Baleen was the Corps's recognition of this irrefutable truth.†   (source)
  • At other times the most vocal experts suddenly agree en masse that the old wisdom was wrong and that the new wisdom is, for a little while at least, irrefutably right.†   (source)
  • He remembers reading this and thinking then, like now, how his attraction to math has always sprung from its conclusiveness, the way you could, on your own, get to a lone, irrefutable answersomething no one could take away-and how this series stuff is something else, how it's all about just getting close.†   (source)
  • …the stack of photographs: Rosa the Beautiful beside a faded swing; my mother, with Pedro Tercero Garcia at the age of four, feeding corn to the chickens in the courtyard of Tres Marias; my grandfather when he was young and stood six feet tall, irrefutable proof that Ferula's curse came true and that his body shrank in the same proportions as his soul; my uncles Jaime and Nicolas, one dark, somber, gigantic, and vulnerable, the other lean, graceful, volatile, and smiling; also Nana and…†   (source)
  • There's nothing more despicable than a man who's turned, but in order for a man to turn, there has to be irrefutable proof that he was yours to begin with.†   (source)
  • Fragments with fingerprints that irrefutably identified the sniper as an Occidental recruit from Medusa itself.†   (source)
  • The black mass of Ross's wrongdoing emerged slowly and irrefutably.†   (source)
  • The bold and truly epoch-making writings of the psychoanalysts are indispensable to the student of mythology; for, whatever may be thought of the detailed and sometimes contradictory interpretations of specific cases and problems, Freud, Jung, and their followers have demonstrated irrefutably that the logic, the heroes, and the deeds of myth survive into modern times.†   (source)
  • M. Othon, the magistrate, assured Dr. Rieux that he had found the preacher's arguments "absolutely irrefutable.†   (source)
  • Everyone understands that this illogical reply is an irrefutable demonstration of freedom.†   (source)
  • The supposed fortune of the count had dwindled to a mere nothing, although he had given almost irrefutable evidence of its existence to Lizabetha Prokofievna and Prince S. Besides this, before they had been married half a year, the count and his friend the priest managed to bring about a quarrel between Aglaya and her family, so that it was now several months since they had seen her.†   (source)
  • On winter's mornings such as this, when he was very tired and everything dragged itself lethargically through his head, this belief of his seemed irrefutable.†   (source)
  • Some one mentioned that a famous cabaret star was at the next table, so Amory rose and, approaching gallantly, introduced himself…. this involved him in an argument, first with her escort and then with the headwaiter—Amory's attitude being a lofty and exaggerated courtesy…. he consented, after being confronted with irrefutable logic, to being led back to his own table.†   (source)
  • Oh, be very sure that no such mistaken judgment based on any local or religious or moral theory of conduct or bias, because of presumed irrefutable evidence, is permitted to prejudice you, so that without meaning to, and with the best and highest-minded intentions, you yourselves see a crime, or the intention to commit a crime, when no such crime or any such intention ever truly or legally existed or lodged in the mind or acts of this defendant.†   (source)
  • It brought back former states of revulsion and formed them in one whole irrefutable and damning judgment that seemed to blot out the vaguely dawning and growing happy susceptibilities.†   (source)
  • The peasant is irrefutable.†   (source)
  • The genuine realist, if he is an unbeliever, will always find strength and ability to disbelieve in the miraculous, and if he is confronted with a miracle as an irrefutable fact he would rather disbelieve his own senses than admit the fact.†   (source)
  • I should like to make a chain of evidence such as twice two are four, it ought to be a direct, irrefutable proof!†   (source)
  • What troubles me and makes me indignant is that of all the mass of facts heaped up by the prosecution against the prisoner, there is not a single one certain and irrefutable.†   (source)
  • And do you suppose, from the character of our legal system, that they will accept, or that they are in a position to accept, this fact—resting simply on a psychological impossibility—as irrefutable and conclusively breaking down the circumstantial evidence for the prosecution?†   (source)
  • The theory seems irrefutable just because the act of transference of the people's will cannot be verified, for it never occurred.†   (source)
  • This unshakable, irrefutable consciousness of freedom, uncontrolled by experiment or argument, recognized by all thinkers and felt by everyone without exception, this consciousness without which no conception of man is possible constitutes the other side of the question.†   (source)
  • I will tell you the tale of my wanderings and of the 'Herculean' labours, as I may call them, which I endured only to find at last the oracle irrefutable.†   (source)
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