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  • Like a killer forest fire, like cancer under a microscope, any battle or bombing raid or artillery barrage has the aesthetic purity of absolute moral indifference-a powerful, implacable beauty-and a true war story will tell the truth about this, though the truth is ugly.†   (source)
  • I sensed the trees' implacable resistance, their mistrust of outsiders.†   (source)
  • He is many things dangerous and devious, cunning and deadly, a good friend and an implacable enemy but he comes from an age when a man's word was indeed precious.†   (source)
  • Clary heard the implacability in her mother's tone and realized she was serious.†   (source)
  • "And you're a Re'lar," he said implacably.†   (source)
  • But he was an implacable protagonist in that life.†   (source)
  • The implacable part of him recorded this as an interesting emotional datum and fed it into computation.†   (source)
  • Victoria had always seemed like a force of nature to me — like a hurricane moving toward the coast in a straight line — unavoidable, implacable, but predictable.†   (source)
  • The sea wind drove snowflakes steadily inland, hurling them against the fragrant trees, and the snow began to settle on the highest branches with a gentle implacability.†   (source)
  • Fear must have made her as implacable as her husband, because at some point that night, at her insistence, he tied a rope to the generator and threw it overboard as a second anchor.†   (source)
  • She felt an implacable hatred and clenched her teeth.†   (source)
  • Even during his confrontations with Durza, he had never encountered such implacable determination and ruthlessness.†   (source)
  • What she lacked in vocal power and, at the moment, in skill, she compensated for by a quality so mysteriously and implacably egocentric that no one has ever been able to name it.†   (source)
  • He fixes his eyes upon me, his face implacable.†   (source)
  • Not years of silence and implacable hatred.†   (source)
  • It seemed to emerge out of the stillness of an implacable force brooding on an inscrutable intention.†   (source)
  • It may seem like an immovable, implacable place.†   (source)
  • Her voice was soft but implacable.†   (source)
  • She displayed the implacable optimism, the will to go on that was transferred to Franklin, even through these dark days of hurt.†   (source)
  • Glass's generally implacable face twitched, and he almost smiled at her.†   (source)
  • Reality seemed blurred to her, as if the same implacable sun that erased all colors had also deformed the world around her, transforming even people into silent shadows.†   (source)
  • Colonel Cathcart had nursed an implacable grudge against Major Major for a long time.†   (source)
  • Why make a treaty with such an implacable enemy?†   (source)
  • Should we not succeed …. we shall be considered as their most implacable enemies, an eternal separation will follow, and the grandeur of the British empire pass away.†   (source)
  • He was silver haired, implacably eyed and dressed in a dark suit and ruthlessly knotted old-fashioned tie.†   (source)
  • And then the thunder returned, distant but implacable.†   (source)
  • My father, stern, implacable, kept on coming nearer; still no one would move to help her.†   (source)
  • The creatures stared implacably at the tattoo and at his face with fire-opal eyes.†   (source)
  • Taggart turned, startled by the unprecedented phenomenon of an implacable anger in Eddie's voice.†   (source)
  • Two orderlies from the guardroom brought a stretcher and we strapped Poteete to it, kicking and screaming and delirious now In his screams, all the demons and the implacable cruelty of the Institute were contained in their purest, most essential form.†   (source)
  • The Bulgarians did not try hard to prevent it, but when a prisoner, as often was the case, was returned after a few days' starvation in the cold rain, they grew implacably angry and shot him in the head.†   (source)
  • "If Meade is there," Longstreet said implacably, "it is because he wants you to attack him."†   (source)
  • What's more, France was an unabashed supporter of many of Israel's most implacable foes.†   (source)
  • His voice had no conspicuous actor's mannerisms, but it was rather excessively vibrant; it "carried" implacably when he had no interest in controlling it.†   (source)
  • He had forgotten the implacable law of scarcity.†   (source)
  • A couple of years ago I was seated in an auditorium in Detroit where Reverend Cleage was explaining to a conference of priests that what they called "black separatists" were in reality men who recognized the implacability of a white-imposed separation.†   (source)
  • With implacable firmness, the great hands covered the lens turret and forced him to lower the camera.†   (source)
  • Power, omniscience, implacable malice, attributes of what they'd thought to be a historical principle, a Zeitgeist, are carried over to the now human enemy.†   (source)
  • He was not only unamused, his eyes flashed warfare; he glowered at me with implacable mistrust, and for an instant I could have sworn I saw in those shining pupils the freak, the redneck, the alien he knew me to be.†   (source)
  • The hopes and fears, a calm and implacable voice continued within him; he spoke quietly: Of all the years.†   (source)
  • All were touched, yes, by his message; but stunned, too, by its impact—for Lucius Lamar of Mississippi was appealing in the name of the South's most implacable enemy, the Radical140 Republican who had helped make the Reconstruction Period a black nightmare the South never could forget: Charles Sumner of Massachusetts.†   (source)
  • He still looks like an East Indian queen, implacable, divine, and full of snakes.†   (source)
  • (Laughingly, but implacably, he takes up the chain and lowers it over moRE's head) Readier to be friends, I trust, than he was to be Chancellor.†   (source)
  • Virgin continents, raw wildernesses, fecund jungles, killing deserts, frozen tundras, and implacable mountains lay just beyond the city gates, and the human race was again going out where the street lights do not shine, out where there was no friendly cop on the corner nor indeed a corner, out where there were no well-hung, tender steaks, no boneless hams, no packaged, processed foods suitable for delicate minds and pampered bodies.†   (source)
  • He stared at the reflection: the heavy shoulders, narrow flanks, long corded legs… the sleek head with wide eyes, chiseled nose, small sensitive mouth scarred by implacability.†   (source)
  • And then, as well as being the focus of the district, and the source of her father's drunkenness, the store was the powerful, implacable place that sent in bills at the end of the month.†   (source)
  • No, a deeper voice responded implacably.†   (source)
  • Alec's voice as he interrupted his mother was firm, implacable, and not unkind.†   (source)
  • I wondered after I saw you in the Bone City if your hatred for me was implacable.†   (source)
  • If they were real, he thought, they were as cruel and implacable as winter.†   (source)
  • He had been horrified at the bruises, at Danny's soft and implacable disconnection.†   (source)
  • But Paul's voice went on at that implacable pace, dragging her with it.†   (source)
  • The return, implacable in its illogic: The goddess never dies.†   (source)
  • In his diary Adams had grieved that his best friend in the world had become his implacable enemy.†   (source)
  • Malicious, grudging, vindictive, implacable.†   (source)
  • Redbeard had been slain by Artos the Implacable, Lord Willam's younger brother.†   (source)
  • It's always lovely to hear your voice," Roarke said implacably.†   (source)
  • The links were cold and hard against his flesh, the iron implacable.†   (source)
  • From then on they put her under an implacable watch.†   (source)
  • Badenbrink was an implacable colleague in whom Gullberg had implicit trust.†   (source)
  • They worked with expressions of wooden horror on their faces, trying to place implacable calls.†   (source)
  • Ser Lyn will remain my implacable enemy.†   (source)
  • The ironmen will prove a more implacable enemy, I promise you.†   (source)
  • 'The static, the enemy of change, is the enemy of life, and therefore our implacable enemy.†   (source)
  • You shouldn't have eaten that pa ^te´, dearie," the dresser said implacably.†   (source)
  • Your ideal had an implacable enemy, which your code of morality was designed to destroy.†   (source)
  • This man is implacable, she realized once again.†   (source)
  • Jill had that implacable, prove-it-to-me resistance.†   (source)
  • Let's us pray," Momma said softly, implacably.†   (source)
  • She set about on a disguised but implacable vigilance.†   (source)
  • I think of his implacable anger when Marcus nearly killed me.†   (source)
  • Since that day, the wildlings beyond the Wall had known no foe more implacable.†   (source)
  • Pig rose to attention and faced them with a rigid, implacable courage.†   (source)
  • Niedermann hated her, and she responded with an equally implacable hatred towards him.†   (source)
  • But all agree that they were implacable in their hatred for all enemies of the Holy Faith.†   (source)
  • There was no sparkle of life in his face, no hint of amusement; the face had become implacable.†   (source)
  • "Then stay awake," Griff had replied, implacable.†   (source)
  • His glance had changed; it was watchful, unmoving, implacably perceptive.†   (source)
  • Everything occurred in cycles, fanged and implacable cycles.†   (source)
  • Go on, girl, he whispered, as the student, facing her implacable ill will, sighed and wept.†   (source)
  • He could forget the insidious, the invisible, the implacable enemy, but not forever.†   (source)
  • He said nothing, watching her implacable back.†   (source)
  • I wait for the day to unroll, for the earth to turn, according to the round face of the implacable clock.†   (source)
  • He summoned all his reserves of strength to overcome the vertigo of her implacable scrutiny, until she released it with childish unconcern as if she were tossing it into the trash.†   (source)
  • The rest—like the salt water around them, which swallowed the snow without any effort, remaining what it was implacably— was out of their hands, beyond.†   (source)
  • She awakens as if from a nightmare, but it is no nightmare: the space being's face is close to hers, his cold tentacles hold her in an implacable grip; he is gazing at her with unprecedented longing and desire, with sheer naked need.†   (source)
  • And he was just beginning to relax, just beginning to realize that the door must be unlocked and he could go, when the years-damp, bloated, fish-smelling hands closed softly around his throat and he was turned implacably around to stare into that dead and purple face.†   (source)
  • He had been with Lord Tywin when King's Landing fell, a new-made knight of seventeen years, even then distinguished by his size and his implacable ferocity.†   (source)
  • On the morning Carl Heine died—September 16—the sheriff was in the midst of an inventory at his office and had engaged the services of the new court stenographer, Mrs. Eleanor Dokes (who now sat primly below the judge's bench recording everything with silent implacability), as an aide in this annual county-mandated endeavor.†   (source)
  • Dany had not noticed Quaithe in the crowd, yet there she stood, eyes wet and shiny behind the implacable red lacquer mask.†   (source)
  • Implacable stares met his own.†   (source)
  • The Varden have destroyed your Urgal army with the help of a rival Dragon Rider, who you know was educated-at least in part-by one of your most dangerous and implacable foes, Brom.†   (source)
  • A failing out doesn't preclude a later rapprochement, his mind retorted with a kind of grave and implacable calm.†   (source)
  • He tried to frighten it, tried to turn it away, but the creature was alien and implacable and seemed not to notice his efforts.†   (source)
  • Their father had been as relentless and implacable as a glacier, where Cersei was all wildfire, especially when thwarted.†   (source)
  • It was almost impossible to believe, and as she sat on the couch, she couldn't reconcile everything she'd just learned—her horror at Brian's confession and the obvious guilt he was suffering …. her anger and revulsion at the fact that he'd hidden the truth, set against the implacable knowledge that she would always love her brother ….†   (source)
  • This Eragon was powerful and implacable…… This Eragon could slay the Ra'zac and their mounts and help him to rescue Katrina.†   (source)
  • "Both books are about a Russian peasant, around the turn of the century," he said, in what was, for his implacably matter-of-fact voice, a rather narrative tone.†   (source)
  • Knowing that Arya's and Saphira's lives were in peril stripped Eragon of every emotion, save that of implacable determination.†   (source)
  • She looked out and Cujo stared implacably back at her, his body seemingly split in two by the silver crack running through the window.†   (source)
  • He is humane, generous and open, warm in his friendly attachments, though perhaps rather implacable to those he thinks his enemies.†   (source)
  • His long-suffering secretary, the implacable Madame Treville, occupied an orderly desk in the anteroom, and at the opposite end of a narrow hall was the office of Rousseau's deputy, Christian Bouchard.†   (source)
  • "We won't do it all in a day," Max said, ignoring Umbra's implacable stare and rising to dismiss the rest.†   (source)
  • Ida professed herself very struck by the change in Eric —she meant by this that she disapproved of surprises and that Eric had surprised her—and the implacable, unaccountable Puritan in her disapproved of his new and astonishing affair.†   (source)
  • Moreover, after his initial outburst, his anger seemed to vanish, and he displayed only a cool, implacable determination.†   (source)
  • And surely she knew that if Awer—any Awer—could not be convinced, it would be her implacable enemy.†   (source)
  • Az Sweldn rak Anhuin, for example-whom Galbatorix and the Forsworn had nearly obliterated during their uprising-had declared themselves Eragon's blood enemies during his visit to the city of Tarnag and, in every action of theirs at the clanmeet, had demonstrated their implacable hatred of Eragon, Saphira, and all things to do with dragons and those who rode them.†   (source)
  • I stifled a cry and felt the first implacable surge of the cadre as they surrounded me, each man screaming as he came, each man with his own obscenity and his own demands, with his own questions, his own needs and appeasements.†   (source)
  • In matters of life and death, her mind told her implacably, the right time only comes around once — once and then it's gone.†   (source)
  • We are their faithful servants, and they our masters cruel and implacable: the three-faced god—the hunters of men, the eaters of flesh, and the drinkers of blood.†   (source)
  • The only one who had not lost for a single minute the awareness that she was alive and rotting in her wormhole was the implacable and aging Amaranta.†   (source)
  • On the contrary—they were hackers and consequently implacable adversaries of those idiots who created viruses whose sole purpose was to sabotage the Net and crash computers.†   (source)
  • Lyanna and Brandon, Lord Rickard Stark their father, Lord Edwyle his father, Lord Willam and his brother Artos the Implacable, Lord Donnor and Lord Beron and Lord Rodwell, one-eyed Lord Jonnel, Lord Barth and Lord Brandon and Lord Cregan who had fought the Dragonknight.†   (source)
  • Lord Rickard's face was implacable.†   (source)
  • The principal one was that she had met implacable resistance from management to her proposal that managers and owners should reduce their salaries and bonuses.†   (source)
  • Hosteen was a bull, slow to anger but implacable once roused, and by repute the fiercest fighter of Lord Walder's get.†   (source)
  • I was very wrong, and the lesson made me understand why the Greeks employed mysterious oracles, humans with dazzling and miraculous powers, to divine the complex signals and messages given off by an implacable and bewildering universe.†   (source)
  • With the secret and implacable labor of a small ant she predisposed the women of the village against the flightiness of their husbands, who were already preparing for the move.†   (source)
  • He got up, he stood, hands in pockets, his face in the light-and she saw him smile with the easy, effortless, implacable amusement of certainty.†   (source)
  • But his sedentary life, which accentuated his cheekbones and concentrated the sparkle of his eyes, did not increase his weight or alter the parsimony of his character, but, on the contrary, it hardened on his lips the straight line of solitary meditation and implacable decision.†   (source)
  • Figuerola went implacably on.†   (source)
  • He waited without sleeping, listening to the aroused crickets in the endless hours of early morning and the implacable telling of time by the curlews, more and more convinced that he had been deceived.†   (source)
  • He had thought of himself as ruthless, but he knew that he could not match this level, naked, implacable look, dead to all feeling but justice.†   (source)
  • Then he knew that in some inexplicable way she was to blame for his brother's flight and the consequent disappearance of his mother, and he harassed her with a silent and implacable hostility in such a way that the woman did not return to the house.†   (source)
  • Everything I had ever wanted, she thought-looking away from the figure of a man with sun-colored hair and implacable eyes.†   (source)
  • During the afternoon, while the children were having their nap, Aureliano Segundo sat on the porch and Fernanda pursued him even there, provoking him, tormenting him, hovering about him with her implacable horsefly buzzing, saying that, of course, while there was nothing to eat except stones, her husband was sitting there like a sultan of Persia, watching it rain, because that was all he was, a slob, a sponge, a good-for-nothing, softer than cotton batting, used to living off women and…†   (source)
  • You'll have to hear about it," said Galt; it was that ruthless tone, peculiarly his, which sounded implacable by being simple, devoid of any emotional value, save the quality of respect for facts.†   (source)
  • So absorbing was the attention required by the delicacy of his artistry that in a short time he had aged more than during all the years of the war, and his position had twisted his spine and the close work had used up his eyesight, but the implacable concentration awarded him with a peace of the spirit.†   (source)
  • From the screen, the face of John Galt was looking at the nation, the face without pain or fear or guilt, implacable by virtue of serenity, invulnerable by virtue of self-esteem.†   (source)
  • After searching for it uselessly in the taste of earth, in, the perfumed letters from Pietro Crespi, in the tempestuous bed of her husband, she had found peace in that house where memories materialized through the strength of implacable evocation and walked like human beings through the cloistered rooms, Leaning back in her wicker rocking chair, looking at Colonel Aureliano Buendia as if he were the one who looked like a ghost out of the past, Rebeca was not even upset by the news that…†   (source)
  • Mr. Galt," he asked, noticing that Galt was looking off at the distance beyond the window and that his eyes were suddenly implacable, "what's the matter?†   (source)
  • "Ladies and gentlemen," said a voice that came from the radio receiver-a man's clear, calm, implacable voice, the kind of voice that had not been heard on the airwaves for years-"Mr.†   (source)
  • She tried to think; but the music remained on the edge of her mind and she kept hearing it, in full chords, like the implacable steps of something that could not be stopped…… She shook her head angrily, jerked her hat off and lighted a cigarette.†   (source)
  • But the face had no expression; it had not changed once while speaking; it looked as if the man had lost the capacity to feel long ago, and what remained of him were only features that seemed implacable and dead.†   (source)
  • Wiping out the rest, filling her consciousness, leaving no room for words, no time for wonder, as a glaring answer to the questions she had not begun to ask, stood two pictures: Ellis Wyatt's implacable figure in front of her desk, saying, "It is now in your power to destroy me; I may have to go; but if I go, I'll make sure that I take all the rest of you along with me"and the circling violence of Ellis Wyatt's body when he flung a glass to shatter against the wall.†   (source)
  • …let it hurt you so much…… She kept seeing the face of Hank Rearden, as he had stood at the window of his office, watching a crane move against the sky with a load of green-blue rail…… Don't let it hurt him like this —was the plea in her mind, addressed to no one-don't let him hear of it, don't let him know…… Then she saw another face, a face with unflinching green eyes, saying to her, in a voice made implacable by the quality of respect for facts: "You'll have to hear about it….†   (source)
  • Dagny heard a cold, implacable voice saying somewhere within her: Remember it-remember it well-it is not often that one can see pure evil-look at it-remember-and some day you'll find the words to name its essence…… She heard it through the screaming of other voices that cried in helpless violence: It's nothing-I've heard it before —I'm hearing it everywhere-it's nothing but the same old tripewhy can't I stand it?†   (source)
  • She had been aware of Galt's face, she had been seeing, in the shape of his mouth, in the planes of his cheeks, the crackup of that implacable serenity which had always been his, but he still retained it in his look of acknowledging the breach, of admitting that this moment was too much even for him.†   (source)
  • He wore a gray suit, he had pale blue eyes and blond hair; it was not the colors that made his figure seem icily implacable, it was the fact that the suit had an expensive simplicity seldom flaunted these days, that it belonged in the sternly luxurious office of a rich corporation, that his bearing came from a civilized era and clashed with the place around him.†   (source)
  • "The first one to come," said Bill Brent implacably, "will be Number 236, the fast freight from San Francisco, which is due at Winston at seven-eighteen A.M." He added, "That's the Diesel closest to us at this moment.†   (source)
  • His face with its expression that might be solicitude still-and at the same time, meditation, amusement, sleepiness, or implacability when the whole was seen at such close quarters with the black circles, the shell rims, around the eyes-was directed for a round moment on Eugene.†   (source)
  • Yet even this automaton was made of flesh, as you or I; he was brought up a Christian, nearly became a Catholic priest; twinges of conscience, even of remorse, attack him from time to time like the onset of some bizarre disease, and it is this frailty, the human response that stirs within the implacable and obedient robot, that helps make his memoirs so fascinating, so terrifying and educative.†   (source)
  • It was not the implacable blue dome that arched over the farm, enclosing it in cycle of unalterable seasons; it was a soft flower-blue, and she felt, in her exaltation, that she could run off the pavement into the blue substance and float there, at ease and peaceful at last.†   (source)
  • Here body and mind were subservient to the slow movement of the seasons; she had never in her life watched an implacable sky for signs of rain, as she did now, standing on the veranda, and screwing up her eyes at the great massed white clouds, like blocks of glittering crystal quartz sailing through the blue.†   (source)
  • No ribbon falsified her blameless and implacable headgear; on her woolen head there was only the barest minimum of oil.†   (source)
  • I heard myself groan, clearly audible above the harangue, and it occurred to me that this dreadful assault on Sophie had weirdly identical resonances to those of the fracas in which I had first glimpsed him acting out his implacable enmity, the scenes distinguished one from the other mainly by the tone of voice—fortissimo that evening weeks ago, now singularly level and restrained but no less sinister.†   (source)
  • In slippers and dragon-blazoned shantung robe—his implacable gray eyes shadowed and softened by the indistinct lighting and horn-rimmed glasses, cottony hair like a halo—he appeared fragile; a deception.†   (source)
  • He felt suddenly the futility of opposing an implacable, an inexorable desire.†   (source)
  • The implacable shovel bit through the coals scattering them before it.†   (source)
  • It was just cold, implacable, like written or printed words.†   (source)
  • Only Mammy's implacable face forced her to it.†   (source)
  • The calm face, the sharp cheekbones, the implacable mouth.†   (source)
  • No'm" — an implacable monosyllable, mournful, unrevealing as the night.†   (source)
  • She was not ugly: her face was simply permeated with the implacable dullness of the Mid-Westerner.†   (source)
  • (He adds with a final implacable jeer) You know her, Larry!†   (source)
  • I'm harboring a fiend!" the implacable voice raged.†   (source)
  • From here they are no more than specks, implacable, patient, portentous.†   (source)
  • He fell back, beaten, weeping, before that implacable gesture.†   (source)
  • "When that day comes," Professor Dunn implacably continued, "remember what I told you.†   (source)
  • Faster. leaning forward on this seat too—the small furious grim implacable woman not much larger than a child.†   (source)
  • Madden was implacable.†   (source)
  • They did not seem to be individual men, but part of a huge, implacable, elemental design toward which hate was futile.†   (source)
  • Like our rivers, our land: opaque, slow, violent; shaping and creating the Me of man in its implacable and brooding image.†   (source)
  • The train is going pretty fast now, but its effort seems to be through a stubborn cloying density of air as though an eel tried to swim in syrup, or the effort seems to be against an increasing and implacable magnetism of earth.†   (source)
  • The apartment faces an alley and is entered by a fire escape, a structure whose name is a touch of accidental poetic truth, for all of these huge buildings are always burning with the slow and implacable fires of human desperation.†   (source)
  • From the woodpile through the rest of the afternoon the boy watched them, the rug spread flat in the dust beside the bubbling wash-pot, the two sisters stooping over it with that profound and lethargic reluctance, while the father stood over them in turn, implacable and grim, driving them though never raising his voice again.†   (source)
  • HOPE—(implacably) No!†   (source)
  • For plague is the flail of God and the world His threshing-floor, and implacably He will thresh out His harvest until the wheat is separated from the chaff.†   (source)
  • This problem of a loophole obsesses me; I am always wondering if there have been cases of condemned prisoners' escaping from the implacable machinery of justice at the last moment, breaking through the police cordon, vanishing in the nick of time before the guillotine falls.†   (source)
  • If the play were a comedy she became the very abstraction of wit, and (as was more likely) it was a drama of wronged ladies and implacable hates, the stage fairly smoldered with her emotion.†   (source)
  • In whirling confusion my thoughts hum in my brain—I hear the warning voice of my mother, I see the Russians with the flowing beards leaning against the wire fence, I have a bright picture of a canteen with stools, of a cinema in Valenciennes; tormented, terrified, in my imagination I see the grey, implacable muzzle of a rifle which moves noiselessly before me whichever way I try to turn my head.†   (source)
  • There were the floating, pale-grey clouds; and the immitigable tree; the implacable tree with its greaved silver bark.†   (source)
  • …this peace and dignity rendering even the barns and stable and cribs which belong to it impervious to the puny flames he might contrive … this, the peace and joy, ebbing for an instant as he looked again at the stiff black back, the stiff and implacable limp of the figure which was not dwarfed by the house, for the reason that it had never looked big anywhere and which now, against the serene columned backdrop, had more than ever that impervious quality of something cut ruthlessly from…†   (source)
  • She knew because she sensed in him something strong, unyielding, implacable—all the qualities she had looked for in Ashley and never found.†   (source)
  • I walked anxiously beside her, looking at her tired old white face, the wrinkles that lined her neck, the deep, waiting black eyes, and the frail body, and I knew more than she thought I knew about the meaning of religion, the hunger of the human heart for that which is not and can never be, the thirst of the human spirit to conquer and transcend the implacable limitations of human life.†   (source)
  • He was going fast too, silent, with the delicate swiftness of an apparition, the implacable undeviation of Juggernaut or Fate.†   (source)
  • "No, no," she whispered, a tense fierce hissing of words filled with that same curious terrified yet implacable determination, as though it were not she who had to go and find out but she only the helpless agent of someone or something else who must know "Hitch the horse here.†   (source)
  • Her face has drained of color, of its full, hearty blood, and she sits quite still, hearing and feeling the implacable and immemorial earth, but without fear or alarm.†   (source)
  • He almost lifted, carried, her up the steps, supporting her from behind by both elbows as you lift a child; he could feel something fierce and implacable and dynamic driving down the thin rigid arms and into his palms and up his own arms; lying in the Massachusetts bed he remembered how he thought, knew, said suddenly to himself, 'Why, she's not afraid at all.†   (source)
  • But not the women of the Old Guard, and the women were the implacable and inflexible power behind the social throne.†   (source)
  • The implacable voice was like a goad.†   (source)
  • He saw her for the first time, without surprise, having apparently materialised out of thin air, motionless, with that diamondsurfaced tranquillity which invested her with a respectability as implacable and calm as the white lifted glove of a policeman, not a hair out of place.†   (source)
  • …the Haiti-born daughter of the French sugar planter and the woman who Sutpen's first father-in-law had told him was a Spaniard (the slight dowdy woman with untidy gray-streaked raven hair coarse as a horse's tail, with parchment-colored skin and implacable pouched black eyes which alone showed no age because they showed no forgetting, whom Shreve and Quentin had likewise invented and which was likewise probably true enough) told them nothing because she did not need to because she had…†   (source)
  • These women, so swift to kindness, so tender to the sorrowing, so untiring in times of stress, could be as implacable as furies to any renegade who broke one small law of their unwritten code.†   (source)
  • The hate that enveloped the Bullock regime enveloped her too, a hate that had little fire and fury in it but much cold implacability.†   (source)
  • …youth had already established (even if not affirmed) herself as the town's and the county's poetess laureate by issuing to the stern and meagre subscription list of the county newspaper poems, ode eulogy and epitaph, out of some bitter and implacable reserve of undefeat; and these from a woman whose family's martial background as both town and county knew consisted of the father who, a conscientious objector on religious grounds, had starved to death in the attic of his own house,…†   (source)
  • All this he was prepared for—it was the weather of his mother's nature (she was as fond of him as of any of them, he thought), and the hostility of Helen and Luke was something implacable, unconscious, fundamental, that grew out of the structure of their lives.†   (source)
  • Yet even then the music has still a quality stern and implacable, deliberate and without passion so much as immolation, pleading, asking, for not love, not life, forbidding it to others, demanding in sonorous tones death as though death were the boon, like all Protestant music.†   (source)
  • She began to follow almost as soon as he passed her, as if that implacable urgency which had carried her husband away had returned like a cloak on the shoulders of the boy and had been passed from him in turn to her.†   (source)
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