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incontrovertible
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  • choked up and sniffing a bit and there was more and it seemed to involve arson and bloodshed and something to do with a power saw but by that point I wasn't hearing a word because I'd gotten the string untied and streetlights and watery rain reflections were rolling over the surface of my painting, my goldfinch, which—I knew incontrovertibly, without a doubt, before even turning to look at the verso—was real.†   (source)
  • But how did it go from potential to real, incontrovertible, irrevocable?†   (source)
  • Yet the facts are incontrovertible.†   (source)
  • We couldn't use it even if you came back with incontrovertible proof that it was Wennerström who strangled the girl.†   (source)
  • They would need incontrovertible evidence.†   (source)
  • And now he knew, incontrovertibly.†   (source)
  • Every priest knew that what we were taught in seminary had a Catholic spin put on it—yet there was an incontrovertible truth behind it.†   (source)
  • I had a man in jail with almost incontrovertible evidence against him.†   (source)
  • They claim they have incontrovertible evidence that Svensson has an antivirus in his possession.†   (source)
  • While my lengthy observations of your childish bickering were incontrovertibly fascinating, I was quite hoping you could help me with a piece of unfinished business.†   (source)
  • I saw no advantage in calling witnesses to try to disprove something that was incontrovertible.†   (source)
  • Over and over, he returned to the same impossible, incontrovertible fact: he was the leader of the Varden.†   (source)
  • I have an absolute incontrovertible belief that you are good.†   (source)
  • It therefore must have seemed a safe bet, to the politicians-cum-scientists who had employed me, that a research study of wolf—caribou relationships in the Barrens would uncover incontrovertible proof with which to damn the wolf wherever he might be found, and provide a more than sufficient excuse for the adoption of a general campaign for his extirpation.†   (source)
  • Most liars are tripped up either because they forget what they have told or because the lie is suddenly faced with an incontrovertible truth.†   (source)
  • It hung, incontrovertible as a flat-iron, between the thumb and first finger of the man's left hand.†   (source)
  • And no doubt the children, in their disturbed and guilty state, were almost ready to believe this; he had been remote enough to be anything and, anyway, the shock of the incontrovertible, that it was really our father lying up there in that casket, prepared the mind for anything.†   (source)
  • He would have liked to blurt out the truth in one overwhelming, incontrovertible statement; but the truth was not like that.†   (source)
  • While the United States has presented incontrovertible evidence to each of the other five parties including Pyongyang, skepticism about U.S. evidence has been expressed publicly by the other parties, most notably Beijing.   (source)
  • Marley just might have gotten away with it had I not found incontrovertible evidence of his guilt when I went on poop patrol the next morning.†   (source)
  • We have incontrovertible evidence, as well as a confession from the unit's director.†   (source)
  • Although his data were incontrovertible, the astronomer was severely punished for implying that God had placed mankind somewhere other than at the center of His universe.†   (source)
  • The ladies smiled approvingly, for his lightest utterance was regarded as incontrovertible truth.†   (source)
  • emptied, it, had not come out and taken the basket up with that air which had nothing whatever of furtiveness in it nor even defiance, who doubtless tasted the food, criticised its quality or cooking, chewed and swallowed it and felt it digest yet still clung to that delusion, that calm incorrigible insistence that that which all incontrovertible evidence tells her is so does not exist, as women can; —that same self deluding which declined to admit that the liquidation of the store had left her something, that she had been left anything but a complete pauper, who would not accept the actual money from the sale of the store from judge Benbow yet would accept the money's value (and after†   (source)
  • And with the same success: as though his presence alone compelled that house to accept and retain human life; as though houses actually possess a sentience, a personality and character acquired not from the people who breathe or have breathed in them so much as rather inherent in the wood and brick or begotten upon the wood and brick by the man or men who conceived and built them—in this one an incontrovertible affirmation for emptiness, desertion; an insurmountable resistance to occupancy save when sanctioned and protected by the ruthless and the strong.†   (source)
  • Incontrovertible facts prove this assertion.†   (source)
  • The validity of ecclesiastical science— which can be summarized in Saint Augustine's statement: 'I believe, that I may understand'—is absolutely incontrovertible.†   (source)
  • But again, amidst the incontrovertible facts just recorded, one more, equally significant, rose up to confront the family; and this was, that the eldest daughter, Alexandra, had imperceptibly arrived at her twenty-fifth birthday.†   (source)
  • It required no effort of imagination for Hans Castorp to share in the tenor's ecstasy and gratitude, but as he sat there with folded hands, staring at the little black louvers, from between whose slats this all burst forth, ultimately what he felt, understood, and relished was the victorious ideality of music, of art, of human emotions, their sublime and incontrovertible ability to gloss over the crude horrors of reality.†   (source)
  • Whereupon Naphta felt obliged to offer cold, caustic proof—and his proof was almost blindingly incontrovertible—that the Church was the embodiment of the religious, ascetic ideal, and at her core not even remotely an advocate or supporter of forces whose concern was to maintain themselves: worldly education and civil authority, for instance; rather, from time immemorial the Church had inscribed radical overthrow upon her banner—destruction, root and branch.†   (source)
  • In short, it was a good plan, indeed incontrovertible; and if there seemed to be something uncanny and frivolous, sinister and mad about it, that was due simply to the skewed fanaticism with which the erstwhile artist pursued and advocated his one and only economic plan—which he evidently did not take seriously enough to make even the least attempt to put into action.†   (source)
  • He had said nothing; but his head had looked so incontrovertibly imposing, the play of features and gestures had been so definitive, compelling.†   (source)
  • In short, to bring the matter at once to a point, it was incontrovertibly evident that somebody had taken the shop and fixtures of the long-retired and forgotten Mr. Pyncheon, and was about to renew the enterprise of that departed worthy, with a different set of customers.†   (source)
  • It proved, incontrovertibly, the disastrous effects of machinery and division of labour; the concentration of capital and land in a few hands; overproduction and crises; it pointed out the inevitable ruin of the petty bourgeois and peasant, the misery of the proletariat, the anarchy in production, the crying inequalities in the distribution of wealth, the industrial war of extermination between nations, the dissolution of old moral bonds, of the old family relations, of the old nationalities.†   (source)
  • These incontrovertible figures had been the occupation of every moment of his leisure since he had lost his money, and were destined to afford him consolation to the end of his days.†   (source)
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