All 9 Uses of
inevitable
in
Snow Falling on Cedars
- In his liver-colored uniform, black tie, and polished shoes he looked inevitably miscast in life, a man uncomfortable with the accoutrements of his profession, as if he had dressed for a costume party and now wandered about in the disguise.†
Chpt 2
- He simply stood by, like his twenty-four-year-old deputy, thinking the thoughts a man thinks at such a time about the ugly inevitability of death.†
Chpt 2
- Afterward he inevitably felt foolish, however.†
Chpt 4
- Add to the cynicism of a man wounded in war the inevitable cynicism of growing older and the professional cynicism of the journalist.†
Chpt 4
- She would experience harmony of being in the midst of the changes and unrest that life inevitably brings.†
Chpt 7
- It was not so much a matter of deciding as accepting the inevitability of it.
Chpt 8 *inevitability = the certainty that it will happen
- He would still be climbing it in the next and the next, and his suffering inevitably would multiply.†
Chpt 11
- Sergeant Maples acquiesced to the inevitable and did combat with the defendant that afternoon.†
Chpt 19
- The tug-of-war, sack hop, and three-legged races were over, and a languidness had inevitably crept over things, so that here and there grown men slept in the grass with newspapers over their faces.†
Chpt 31
Definition:
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(inevitable) certain to happen (even if one tried to prevent it)