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inextricable
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  • Indeed, the corporate culture of McDonald's seems inextricably linked to that of the Disney empire, sharing a reverence for sleek machinery, electronics, and automation.†   (source)
  • No amount of effort could have stopped that, because our points of view—the way we perceive things—are inextricably linked to our beliefs.†   (source)
  • Two creatures inextricably bound, blood formed in the marrow of one running in the veins of the other, their union permanent.†   (source)
  • I would hate to believe they are inextricably linked.†   (source)
  • Her powers are inextricably linked to it; her magic brought it to towering life, its life force keeps her strong.†   (source)
  • Walter vehemently disagreed, suggesting that the Indians, Coloureds, and Africans were inextricably bound together.†   (source)
  • Adam, Bree, and the monster were inextricable friends.†   (source)
  • Caroline Gill, who had held her hand through the rippling contractions, whose blue eyes and steady gaze were inextricably connected for Norah to that wild and snowy night, had simply disappeared—a mystery, that, and a scandal.†   (source)
  • I, too, said a silent goodbye, to a place that had changed me forever—and the place that, more than any graveyard, would forever contain the memory, and the mystery, of my grandfather… They were linked inextricably, he and that island, and I wondered, now that both were gone, if I would ever really understand what had happened to me: what I had become; was becoming.†   (source)
  • From my mother I had learned that man is of the earth, that his clay feet are part of the ground that nourishes him, and that it is this inextricable mixture that gives man his measure of safety and security.†   (source)
  • ;necessity, weight, and value are three concepts inextricably bound: only necessity is heavy, and only what is heavy has value.†   (source)
  • She studied the strange profile of her colleague, her unhandsome but beautiful friend of so many years who had allowed his fate to become so inextricably tangled with hers.†   (source)
  • …and the doubting members of other districts, that we rejected wealth as corrupt and intrinsically degrading; if other minorities loved the country despite their grievances, I would assure the committee that we, immune to such absurdly human and mixed reactions, hated it absolutely; and, greatest contradiction of all, when they denounced the American scene as corrupt and degenerate, I was to say that we, though snarled inextricably within its veins and sinews, were miraculously healthy.†   (source)
  • All three—mother, daughter and horse—were inextricably connected in pain.†   (source)
  • With some Angelenos, those two emotions were as inextricably entwined as the viscera of inoperable Siamese twins.†   (source)
  • The two are now bound inextricably.†   (source)
  • This child would tie her to that past and future as inextricably as it was now tied to her every heartbeat.†   (source)
  • He had never been taught to understand that the manner in which he obtained this job, and the frame-up, were inextricable parts of a single whole.†   (source)
  • Her child came between us, a symbol of both what divided us and what had brought us inextricably together.†   (source)
  • In this case I believe one may be inextricably connected to the others.†   (source)
  • But the grenade was inextricably lodged in the typewriter, and the typewriter held tight to Orfeo.†   (source)
  • Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?†   (source)
  • Like the Arabs and Jews of Palestine, Gabriel and Navot were inextricably bound.†   (source)
  • Thereupon the roles were again reversed, and the female began to pursue the male, who led her on a wild scrabble up, over, down, and back across the esker until finally both wolves lost their footing on the steep slope and went skidding down it inextricably locked together.†   (source)
  • Peace of mind is not a simple matter of pursuing one's own pleasure; rather, it is inextricably linked to the attitudes of other human beings, to what they want, to what they expect.†   (source)
  • It was now a thing of mingled bereavement and anxiety, inextricable and bewilderingly intense.†   (source)
  • The smell was overpowering, unspeakable, violent, and the old lady's moaning was wound inextricably into the smell.†   (source)
  • The stones were indeed scattered, and mixed inextricably with those of other workers: but when we had collected what we reckoned to be our pile no one raised any objections.†   (source)
  • As he started up the car, he recognized in the smell of exhausted, body-warm air in the streets, in which the flow of drink was an inextricable part, the signal that the New Orleans evening was just beginning.†   (source)
  • Is organized religion too inextricably bound to the status quo to save our nation and the world?   (source)
    inextricably = impossible to disentangle (separate)
  • Aroma and memory are somehow inextricably linked.†   (source)
  • Yet his fate and hers were inextricably linked, because only she could ever lead him to his younger daughter.†   (source)
  • "When you say they're bound inextricably," Alec said, leaning forward, "does that mean— I mean, Jace hates Sebastian.†   (source)
  • I have often wondered what might have dwelt in Professor Bieganski's thoughts had he lived to know that the fate of his daughter but especially his grandchildren was ancillary to, yet inextricably bound up with, the accomplishment of the dream he shared with his National Socialist idols: the liquidation of the Jews.†   (source)
  • This until then had been inextricably associated with literacy.†   (source)
  • He was mired to his neck, inextricably, in complication.†   (source)
  • In his mind the smell of it was inextricably mixed up with fornication.†   (source)
  • Nobody was the better for it, since both sides always suffered, yet everybody was inextricable.†   (source)
  • The title women and fiction might mean, and you may have meant it to mean, women and what they are like, or it might mean women and the fiction that they write; or it might mean women and the fiction that is written about them, or it might mean that somehow all three are inextricably mixed together and you want me to consider them in that light.†   (source)
  • It is confused more than any other, as though in the now peaceful throes of a more recent, a more inextricable, compositeness.†   (source)
  • Any unexpected noise or sharp word set him to trembling, for in his mind noises and harsh words were inextricably mixed with Yankees and he was more afraid of Yankees than of Prissy's hants.†   (source)
  • …meltings from cold candles on the marble: the two flat heavy vaulted slabs, the other three headstones leaning a little awry, with here and there a carved letter or even an entire word momentary and legible in the faint light which the raindrops brought particle by particle into the gloom and released; now the two dogs came in, drifted in like smoke, their hair close-plastered with damp, and curled down in one indistinguishable and apparently inextricable ball for warmth.†   (source)
  • In the secret parts of his peculiar brain, those unhappy and inextricable tangles which he felt at the roots, the boy was disabled by something which we cannot explain.†   (source)
  • The arrangements, apart from the swan and the flowers, consisted of a steward already inextricably trapped in the corner behind an improvised bar, and another steward, tray in hand, in comparative freedom.†   (source)
  • …that the defendant has committed one of the darkest crimes in our memory" for if we can encompass the life of this man and find out what has happened to him, if we can understand how subtly and yet strongly his life and fate are linked to ours"if we can do this, perhaps we shall find the key to our future, that rare vantage point upon which every man and woman in this nation can stand and view how inextricably our hopes and fears of today create the exultation and doom of tomorrow.†   (source)
  • Chairs and cupboards loomed behind so that though each was separate they seemed inextricably involved.†   (source)
  • What was left of him, rotted beneath what was left of the nightshirt, had become inextricable from the bed in which he lay; and upon him and upon the pillow beside him lay that even coating of the patient and biding dust.†   (source)
  • What device for becoming, like waters poured into one jar, inextricably the same, one with the object one adored?†   (source)
  • The cloves and saccharine, themselves disgusting enough in their sickly way, could not disguise the flat oily smell; and what was worst of all was that the smell of gin, which dwelt with him night and day, was inextricably mixed up in his mind with the smell of those.†   (source)
  • And, since the surrender, Rhett's name had been inextricably linked with Yankees, Republicans and Scallawags.†   (source)
  • …this particular one above all others. maybe leaning there in that solitude between panting smoke and engines and almost touching the answer, aware of the jigsaw puzzle picture integers of it waiting, almost lurking, just beyond his reach, inextricable, jumbled, and unrecognisable yet on the point of falling into pattern which would reveal to him at once, like a flash of light, the meaning of his whole life, past—the Haiti, the childhood, the lawyer, the woman who was his mother.†   (source)
  • The result is, they mix up towns, rivers, palaces in one inextricable whirl.†   (source)
  • But Selden was inextricably involved in their fate.†   (source)
  • Its thousands of windings formed an inextricable labyrinth through the primeval mass.†   (source)
  • He felt the good and bad within himself inextricably mingled and overlapping.†   (source)
  • The edges of the hollow road were encumbered with horses and riders, inextricably heaped up.†   (source)
  • O, God! release me from this dreadful, inextricable position!" he suddenly began to pray.†   (source)
  • The insurrection had made of the centre of Paris a sort of inextricable, tortuous, colossal citadel.†   (source)
  • It was an inextricable mess of things decent in themselves but that human folly made look like the spoils of thieving.†   (source)
  • Time is the element of narration, just as it is the element of life—is inextricably bound up with it, as bodies are in space.†   (source)
  • Life seemed an inextricable confusion.†   (source)
  • In the meantime, in so far as his home ties went, the irritations and the depressions which were almost inextricably involved with membership in the Griffiths family were not different from what they had ever been.†   (source)
  • Indeed, apart from the nature of the investigation which my friend had on hand, there was something in his masterly grasp of a situation, and his keen, incisive reasoning, which made it a pleasure to me to study his system of work, and to follow the quick, subtle methods by which he disentangled the most inextricable mysteries.†   (source)
  • …bound to give judgment, to utter his own and her social condemnation in precisely the terms which the inhabitant of Combray most hostile to him and his daughter would have employed; he saw himself and her in 'low,' in the very 'lowest water,' inextricably stranded; and his manners had of late been tinged with that humility, that respect for persons who ranked above him and to whom he must now look up (however far beneath him they might hitherto have been), that tendency to search for…†   (source)
  • ; he could smell the heated iron of the barber whom he used to have in to singe his hair while Loredan went to fetch the little working girl; could feel the torrents of rain which fell so often that spring, the ice-cold homeward drive in his victoria, by moonlight; all the network of mental habits, of seasonable impressions, of sensory reactions, which had extended over a series of weeks its uniform meshes, by which his body now found itself inextricably held.†   (source)
  • But the fact that it struck deeper, that it was inextricably wound up with inherited habits of thought and feeling, made it as impossible to restore to growth as a deep-rooted plant torn from its bed.†   (source)
  • …from the bottom of his clothes-box, put on the light waistcoat patterned all over with sprigs of an elegant flower uniting the beauties of both rose and lily without the defects of either, and used all the hair-oil he possessed upon his usually dry, sandy, and inextricably curly hair, till he had deepened it to a splendidly novel colour, between that of guano and Roman cement, making it stick to his head like mace round a nutmeg, or wet seaweed round a boulder after the ebb.†   (source)
  • They ran to and fro; they crowded together: some sobbed, some stumbled: the confusion was inextricable.†   (source)
  • Some sprained shoulders, wrists, and ankles; livid contusions; wrenched harpoons and lances; inextricable intricacies of rope; shattered oars and planks; all these were there; but no fatal or even serious ill seemed to have befallen any one.†   (source)
  • This feeble and most sensitive of spirits could do neither, yet continually did one thing or another, which intertwined, in the same inextricable knot, the agony of heaven-defying guilt and vain repentance.†   (source)
  • These familiar flowers, these well-remembered bird-notes, this sky, with its fitful brightness, these furrowed and grassy fields, each with a sort of personality given to it by the capricious hedgerows,—such things as these are the mother-tongue of our imagination, the language that is laden with all the subtle, inextricable associations the fleeting hours of our childhood left behind them.†   (source)
  • From a bird's-eye view, these three burgs, the City, the Town, and the University, each presented to the eye an inextricable skein of eccentrically tangled streets.†   (source)
  • And yet he had an exquisite sense of beauty; and as beauty was often inextricably associated with the above displeasing conditions, as he wished, above all, to be just and dispassionate, and as he was, furthermore, extremely devoted to "culture," he could not bring himself to decide that Europe was utterly bad.†   (source)
  • A marvellous deal of style their factor put on, with his servants and coach-and-six; so much so that the concern soon landed in inextricable bankruptcy.†   (source)
  • I began to run wildly, hurrying through the inextricable maze, still descending, still running through the substance of the earth's thick crust, a struggling denizen of geological 'faults,' crying, shouting, yelling, soon bruised by contact with the jagged rock, falling and rising again bleeding, trying to drink the blood which covered my face, and even waiting for some rock to shatter my skull against.†   (source)
  • One could no more find one's bearings in the sewer than one could understand one's position in the city; above the unintelligible, below the inextricable; beneath the confusion of tongues there reigned the confusion of caverns; Daedalus backed up Babel.†   (source)
  • On the outside, the front of the barricade, composed of piles of paving-stones and casks bound together by beams and planks, which were entangled in the wheels of Anceau's dray and of the overturned omnibus, had a bristling and inextricable aspect.†   (source)
  • How was he to get out? should he find an issue? should he find it in time? would that colossal subterranean sponge with its stone cavities, allow itself to be penetrated and pierced? should he there encounter some unexpected knot in the darkness? should he arrive at the inextricable and the impassable? would Marius die there of hemorrhage and he of hunger? should they end by both getting lost, and by furnishing two skeletons in a nook of that night?†   (source)
  • Not to mention its catacombs, which are a separate cellar, not to mention the inextricable trellis-work of gas pipes, without reckoning the vast tubular system for the distribution of fresh water which ends in the pillar fountains, the sewers alone form a tremendous, shadowy net-work under the two banks; a labyrinth which has its slope for its guiding thread.†   (source)
  • Now I was alone, next to a sleeping stranger with whom my life was inextricably linked, adrift in a place filled with unseen threat.†   (source)
  • Inextricable lands! the clutch'd together! the passionate ones!†   (source)
  • The blood in their arteries is inordinately various and inextricably mixed, but yet not mixed enough to run a clear stream.†   (source)
  • God made thee perfect, not immutable; And good he made thee, but to persevere He left it in thy power; ordained thy will By nature free, not over-ruled by fate Inextricable, or strict necessity: Our voluntary service he requires, Not our necessitated; such with him Finds no acceptance, nor can find; for how Can hearts, not free, be tried whether they serve Willing or no, who will but what they must By destiny, and can no other choose?†   (source)
  • Straightway it will come to pass that she will fix her eyes upon the knight and he his upon her, and each will seem to the other something more divine than human, and, without knowing how or why they will be taken and entangled in the inextricable toils of love, and sorely distressed in their hearts not to see any way of making their pains and sufferings known by speech.†   (source)
  • This therefore brought me to a resolution, whatever came of it, to lay open my whole case; but which way to do it, or to whom, was an inextricable difficulty, and took me many months to resolve.†   (source)
  • …attentively, and having done so, said to Sancho, "There is no reason why the devil should carry thee off, Sancho, either righteous or believing—and what thou meanest by that I know not; the face of the Distressed One is that of the majordomo, but for all that the majordomo is not the Distressed One; for his being so would involve a mighty contradiction; but this is not the time for going into questions of the sort, which would be involving ourselves in an inextricable labyrinth.†   (source)
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