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  • Now her worries about Charles Wallace and her disappointment in her father's human fallibility rose like gorge in her throat.†   (source)
  • Yet because Alex had steadfastly assumed that she was infallible-because she'd been so sure that she could be a fair justice on this case-she'd gotten herself into a catch-22.†   (source)
  • Prakash'd wanted to be infallible, and Professorji'd acted pompous.†   (source)
  • Remove a government's facade of infallibility, and you remove its people's faith.†   (source)
  • It's infallible.†   (source)
  • The nature walk and Outdoor Period-Costume Sing-Song have been rescheduled for the day after tomorrow, as we are assured by our own infallible Professor Johnny Running Dog of a break in the weather at that time.†   (source)
  • This country was fallible.†   (source)
  • This was the body: fallible, subject to malady.†   (source)
  • In the play it was touted as an infallible cure-all.†   (source)
  • I learned the other reason they waited for a thunderstorm to play when Jasper, trying to avoid Edward's infallible fielding, hit a ground ball toward Carlisle.†   (source)
  • He was seventy-two when he died, trim, strong, easygoing, seemingly infallible, and though he was my stepfather, I always thought of him as Daddy.†   (source)
  • Perhaps he wants to make some point about male sexual inadequacy or the fallibility of desire.†   (source)
  • Some find it difficult to admit the Radch might be fallible, or that its power might have limits.†   (source)
  • I recoiled and might have fled from Lestat, my sanity thoroughly shattered, had not he sensed with an infallible instinct what was happening.†   (source)
  • My boyfriend and I were using a diaphragm, but I knew it was fallible.†   (source)
  • Clara realized that that was why none of her infallible methods of divining had worked.†   (source)
  • I have an infallible instinct for drama.†   (source)
  • He did not even ask his new clients any questions, because all he had to do was look at the whites of their eyes to know what their problem was, and he would write page after page of uncontrolled love, following the infallible formula of writing as he thought about Fermina Daza and nothing but Fermina Daza.†   (source)
  • In an emergency, the girl could also act as an infallible guard if one of the Varden, like Eragon or Saphira, had to be protected.†   (source)
  • But it's fallible.†   (source)
  • You're not infallible," Jessica said.†   (source)
  • The Pope is infallible, God created the world in six days.†   (source)
  • Skinny Delivery Boy, Mr. Spicer is not infallible.†   (source)
  • She distrusted the world and was more argumentative and always ready for combat; if I was too willing to defer to adults and assume they knew what they were doing, she was just the opposite, quite willing to think of them as fallible.†   (source)
  • He had survived as a Ranger because he was quick to respond to what he had actually found, not because his planning was infallible.†   (source)
  • Repeating its cause, what could have been done to prevent the misery from taking hold, and M'Dear's infallibility.†   (source)
  • All I'm trying to say is that I'm not infallible.'†   (source)
  • Clever, but not infallible.†   (source)
  • "Powder and artillery are the most efficacious, sure and infallible conciliatory measures we can adopt," Adams wrote privately.†   (source)
  • According to the Weather Channel, it should have stopped by now, but despite the wonders of modern technology and forecasting, weather predictions are still fallible.†   (source)
  • Your choices will be harder and you are not infallible.†   (source)
  • His hands began doing their infallible trick.†   (source)
  • For years scientific truth had been beyond the possibility of a doubt; the logic of science was infallible, and if the scientists were sometimes mistaken, this was assumed to be only from their mistaking its rules.†   (source)
  • Carlos' strength is in his far-reaching sources of information-infallible information.†   (source)
  • Even the trees were not as infallible a guide as they might have hoped, for there were wooded islands in the lake, and wide areas ashore where no trees grew.†   (source)
  • Human fallibility is always a part of war, and the price for it is always high.†   (source)
  • Up until the Santa Anita Handicap the redhead had been basking in the attention, boasting of his horse's infallibility, and entertaining the reporters with his quick wit.†   (source)
  • Oh, are "hollow tooth" methods, classic and novel, some nearly infallible—Prof saw to it that Wyoh and myself were equipped.†   (source)
  • They don't know that that dream is the infallible proof of mediocrity.†   (source)
  • We are human and fallible, we Shadowhunters.†   (source)
  • However, these conjectures are vague and fallible.†   (source)
  • He, too, now believed in my infallibility, so we set the deadline for these accomplishments less than a year away, when, it had been decided, Doodle could start school.†   (source)
  • In the 1960s, to be liberal was one infallible way for a Southern boy to attract the attention of his family and friends.†   (source)
  • He was also known as Brahma the Infallible.†   (source)
  • The first was a completely reliable oral contraceptive: the 3econd was an equally infallible method-as certain as fingerprinting, and based on a very detailed analysis of the blood— of identifying the father of any child.†   (source)
  • Totally, infallibly, inevitably account for Me?†   (source)
  • Everyone is worried only about proving himself in practical matters, and as for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of their infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore the truth.†   (source)
  • BOTARD: [to DUDARD] I hold the key to all these happenings, an infallible system of interpretation.†   (source)
  • I tasted, and it was perfect-swimming with oysters from my reef and flecks of golden pork, redolent with leaves of bay and basil and rosemary, with the glass of island wine tossed in at the last: it has been my infallible recipe.†   (source)
  • She has an infallible memory.
  • No doctor is infallible.
  • The truth was, that a superstition of his had failed, here, which he and all his comrades had always looked upon as infallible.   (source)
  • That is an infallible sign.   (source)
  • I am a human being, and a very fallible one.†   (source)
  • Your other protection is human, and therefore fallible, whatever her arcane powers may be.†   (source)
  • But it would not do to remind Tyrell that his favorite son was fallible.†   (source)
  • They will not assume infallibility as they judge the fallible opinions of others.†   (source)
  • They will not assume infallibility as they judge the fallible opinions of others.†   (source)
  • Its narrator is more fallible, more consistently clueless, than any narrator you're ever likely to meet in all of fiction; at the same time he's completely believable and therefore pathetic.†   (source)
  • They wanted to allow time for me to fall on my face andshow that the former prisoner hailed as a savior was a highly fallible man who had lost touch with the present situation.†   (source)
  • Once I had succeeded in teaching Doodle to walk, I began to believe in my own infallibility, and I prepared a terrific development program for him, unknown to Mama and Daddy, of course.†   (source)
  • As containing the true doctrine of popular infallibility, from which it would be heretical to depart in one single point?†   (source)
  • Accept the fact that you are not omniscient, but playing a zombie will not give you omniscience-that your mind is fallible, but becoming mindless will not make you infallible-that an error made on your own is safer than ten truths accepted on faith, because the first leaves you the means to correct it, but the second destroys your capacity to distinguish truth from error.†   (source)
  • She felt great distress for the President, she said, but then "he ought not have infallibility demanded of him."†   (source)
  • They feel bound in honor and personal infallibility to defeat a plan that is contrary to their beliefs.†   (source)
  • The convention was fallible.†   (source)
  • =Marvin Minsky once said that when intelligent machines were constructed, they would be just as stubborn and fallible as men on these questions.†   (source)
  • I would have to make sure those human memories were cemented into my infallible vampire mind.†   (source)
  • Your brother seemed to think you infallible, but apparently there was some mistake.†   (source)
  • Maybe, if there were Seekers looking, they would need my infallible eyes.†   (source)
  • Ben had had an infallible sense of direction and a fine nose for water.†   (source)
  • The veto is proper because the legislature won't be infallible.†   (source)
  • At dawn on Monday they brought a woman who recited cauterizing prayers that were infallible for man and beast beside her bed, but Amaranta Ursula's passionate blood was insensible to any artifice that did not come from love.†   (source)
  • By then Florentino Ariza had cut out every advertisement concerning baldness that he found in the newspapers of the Caribbean basin, the ones in which they printed two pictures of the same man, first as bald as a melon and then with more hair than a lion: before and after using the infallible cure.†   (source)
  • Infallible security.†   (source)
  • we'd only heard the night before with an infallible ear and a concentration that made her ghostly as she sat there hour after hour discovering the music the melody, then the bass, and finally bringing it together.†   (source)
  • Infallible instinct....†   (source)
  • The sight amused her, for she found it humorous—and somewhat comforting—to know that Galbatorix's perfect chamber was not quite so perfect after all, and that, despite his pretensions otherwise, he was not omniscient or infallible.†   (source)
  • Maybe that senser was infallible, perhaps the Bugs could not reach us without alerting our listening posts.†   (source)
  • And the missile's infallible flight, the way it sweeps out precise volumes of mathematical space, it's so saintly and sun-tipped, swinging out of its apex to dive to earth, and the way the fireball haloes out above its column of smoke and roar, like some nameless faceless whatever.†   (source)
  • The terminals are equipped with holographic scanners, which decode the binary secret of every item, infallibly.†   (source)
  • For all their speed and skill, neither he nor Murtagh was infallible, and without an easy means to end the fight, it was inevitable that they would make mistakes and that those mistakes would result in injuries.†   (source)
  • My sense of direction may not be infallible, but it is certainly better than yours or that of any other earthbound creature.†   (source)
  • Nobody is infallible,' Colonel Cathcart said sharply, and then continued vaguely, with an afterthought: 'Nobody is indispensable, either.†   (source)
  • Oh, I'm far from infallible.†   (source)
  • And yet no matter how demanding the forging was, Rhunon continued to sing, weaving a fabric of spells within the brightsteel and guiding Eragon's arm with infallible accuracy.†   (source)
  • It was peculiar to seem so infallible in their eyes and yet feel so empty and sad when he thought of himself.†   (source)
  • He was his own sarcophagus, a bold and infallible diplomat who was always berating himself disgustedly for all the chances he had missed and kicking himself regretfully for all the errors he had made.†   (source)
  • Accept the fact that you are not omniscient, but playing a zombie will not give you omniscience-that your mind is fallible, but becoming mindless will not make you infallible-that an error made on your own is safer than ten truths accepted on faith, because the first leaves you the means to correct it, but the second destroys your capacity to distinguish truth from error.†   (source)
  • He suffered "feverous heats by day and sweats by night," an infallible symptom, he was sure, of an approaching collapse.†   (source)
  • ....I have always understood, sir, that the citizens of these States were possessed of a full and entire freedom of opinion upon all subjects civil as well as religious; they have not yet established any infallible criterion of orthodoxy, either in church or state ....and the only political tenet which they could stigmatize with the name of heresy would be that which should attempt to impose an opinion upon their understandings, upon the single principle of authority.†   (source)
  • But the methods used to pick candidates (I don't know them, they are lodged in the Egg) seem almost infallible; only three have ever refused.†   (source)
  • He discovered an infallible formula: choose a town so dismal that the only thing left is study and hard work.†   (source)
  • But they liked him, understood him, by some clear and infallible instinct knew that he was not looking down or milking them of whatever he could get but merely bungling: "N'yas-kah-weh-noh-gah-gweh-goh," he would say at the door, and they would answer in ancient Seneca and not laugh in his face, and when his truck mired up to the axles in some yard set deep in the woods they would take off their shirts and come grunt him and hoist him up to hard ground again, and they'd laugh and they'd slap each other's shoulders and they would shake her hand and, if they were drunk, would kiss her.†   (source)
  • He also had developed an infallible escape mechanism; if it looked as though I was going to involve him in some class activity, Richard would raise his hand and ask to go to the bathroom.†   (source)
  • When it was apparent that most of them had developed an almost infallible expertise in the big twenty, I told them that they were the most advanced scholars in classical music functioning in the elementary schools of Beaufort County.†   (source)
  • So obviously protecting him by their complete obliviousness to his presence, they were singling him out as infallibly as though everyone in the room had stood up and shouted his name to the world.†   (source)
  • It is not conscious; it is far quicker, much more sure, less fallible, than consciousness.†   (source)
  • When you were drunk or when you committed either fornication or adultery you recognized your own personal fallibility of that so mutable substitute for the apostles' creed, the party line.†   (source)
  • No one would ever see in it the cautious, painstaking hand of Erwin Martin, head of the filing department at F & S, of whom Mr. Fitweiler had once said, "Man is fallible but Martin isn't.†   (source)
  • if he had acquiesced to it would not even have been an error and which, since he refused to accept it or be stopped by it, became his doom; —that unsleeping care which must have known that it could permit itself but one mistake; that alertness for measuring and weighing event against eventuality, circumstance against human nature, his own fallible judgment and mortal clay against not only human but natural forces, choosing and discarding, compromising with his dream and his ambition like you must with the horse which you take across country, over timber, which you control only through your ability to keep the animal from realising that actually you cannot, that actually it is the stronger.†   (source)
  • But by far the more important reason for the readjustment of the past is the need to safeguard the infallibility of the Party.†   (source)
  • Yet he ran straight to it, with something of his adopted father's complete faith in an infallibility in events.†   (source)
  • Yes, the body, the face, with the right name and memory, even the correct remembering of what and whom (except myself and was that not but further proof?) it had left behind and returned to: but not the ogre; villain true enough, but a mortal fallible one less to invoke fear than pity: but no ogre; mad true enough, but I told myself; Why should not madness be its own victim also?†   (source)
  • He seems to muse now upon a sort of timeless and beautiful infallibility in his unpredictable frustrations.†   (source)
  • For the secret of rulership is to combine a belief in one's own infallibility with the Power to learn from past mistakes.†   (source)
  • Yet they sensed him somehow and made way; in this too he seemed to be served by certitude, the blind and untroubled faith in the rightness and infallibility of his actions.†   (source)
  • So they waked the dogs and put them into another car and the youth showed them where the man had got out, and they cast the dogs, who charged immediately into the woods and with their apparent infallibility for metal in any form, found the old pistol with its two loaded chambers almost at once.†   (source)
  • Her subsequent actions followed a kind of divination, as if the days and the unsleeping nights during which she had nursed behind that calm mask her fear and fury had turned her psychic along with her natural female infallibility for the spontaneous comprehension of evil.†   (source)
  • O, I know about the infallibility of the Pope.†   (source)
  • The bubble of official infallibility must be pricked.†   (source)
  • There was a hint in it of laughter, but of a laughter more terrible than any sadness—a laughter that was mirthless as the smile of the sphinx, a laughter cold as the frost and partaking of the grimness of infallibility.†   (source)
  • "Papal infallibility," said Mr. Cunningham, "that was the greatest scene in the whole history of the Church."†   (source)
  • He had in three years of practice already become didactic and incredibly married; he had put on weight and infallibility; and he had learned many new things about which to be dull.†   (source)
  • He provided anecdotes about his sergeant, a surly, fanatical soldier, who was caught in the awkward position of dealing with a younger, fallible subordinate, who nevertheless already visited the officer's casino and was destined to be his superior one day.†   (source)
  • Then he resumed: "There they were at it, all the cardinals and bishops and archbishops from all the ends of the earth and these two fighting dog and devil until at last the Pope himself stood up and declared infallibility a dogma of the Church ex cathedra.†   (source)
  • Even here there might be a mistake: human prescriptions were fallible things: Lydgate had said that treatment had hastened death,—why not his own method of treatment?†   (source)
  • It is clear that the irascible miller was a man to interpret any chance-shot that grazed him as an attempt on his own life, and was liable to entanglements in this puzzling world, which, due consideration had to his own infallibility, required the hypothesis of a very active diabolical agency to explain them.†   (source)
  • In 1806 Pfuel had been one of those responsible, for the plan of campaign that ended in Jena and Auerstadt, but he did not see the least proof of the fallibility of his theory in the disasters of that war.†   (source)
  • That it is only the Pope who is infallible, and that this infallibility does not extend to cardinals.†   (source)
  • You are human and fallible.†   (source)
  • was effaced, and society, and the human race, and the universe were, henceforth, summed up in his eyes, in one simple and terrible feature,—thus the penal laws, the thing judged, the force due to legislation, the decrees of the sovereign courts, the magistracy, the government, prevention, repression, official cruelty, wisdom, legal infallibility, the principle of authority, all the dogmas on which rest political and civil security, sovereignty, justice, public truth, all this was rubbish, a shapeless mass, chaos; he himself, Javert, the spy of order, incorruptibility in the service of the police, the bull-dog providence of society, vanquished and hurled to earth; and, erect, at the summi†   (source)
  • But the jury do not enjoy the same character of infallibility in civil cases, according to the practice of the English courts, as they do in criminal cases.†   (source)
  • Next to the merit of infallibility which you appear to possess, I rank that of candidly acknowledging a fault.†   (source)
  • Middleton and Paul, who considered this unlooked-for escape as a species of resurrection, patiently awaited the time the trapper mentioned with renewed confidence in the infallibility of his judgment.†   (source)
  • "Then I can no longer hesitate as to my course," said Lydgate; "but the first thing I must impress on you is that my conclusions are doubly uncertain—uncertain not only because of my fallibility, but because diseases of the heart are eminently difficult to found predictions on.†   (source)
  • Natural strength of the majority in democracies—Most of the American Constitutions have increased this strength by artificial means—How this has been done—Pledged delegates—Moral power of the majority—Opinion as to its infallibility—Respect for its rights, how augmented in the United States.†   (source)
  • There was no reason, then, why the rector's dancing should not be received as part of the fitness of things quite as much as the Squire's, or why, on the other hand, Mr. Macey's official respect should restrain him from subjecting the parson's performance to that criticism with which minds of extraordinary acuteness must necessarily contemplate the doings of their fallible fellow-men.†   (source)
  • The human and fallible should not arrogate a power with which the divine and perfect alone can be safely intrusted.†   (source)
  • To be obliged to confess this to oneself: infallibility is not infallible, there may exist error in the dogma, all has not been said when a code speaks, society is not perfect, authority is complicated with vacillation, a crack is possible in the immutable, judges are but men, the law may err, tribunals may make a mistake!†   (source)
  • In the eyes of many, Benedetto appeared, if not a victim to, at least an instance of, the fallibility of the law.†   (source)
  • Men living at these aristocratic periods are therefore naturally induced to shape their opinions by the superior standard of a person or a class of persons, whilst they are averse to recognize the infallibility of the mass of the people.†   (source)
  • Continual changes are then every instant occurring under the observation of every man: the position of some is rendered worse; and he learns but too well, that no people and no individual, how enlightened soever they may be, can lay claim to infallibility;—the condition of others is improved; whence he infers that man is endowed with an indefinite faculty of improvement.†   (source)
  • In the discharge of this trust, I will only say that I have, with good intentions, contributed towards the organization and administration of the government the best exertions of which a very fallible judgment was capable.†   (source)
  • My pamphlet by some means falling into the hands of one Lyons, a surgeon, author of a book entitled "The Infallibility of Human Judgment," it occasioned an acquaintance between us.†   (source)
  • Big Brother is infallible and all-powerful.†   (source)
  • She revealed an unexpected and infallible instinct for intrigue.†   (source)
  • It is also an infallible means of discovering that which he wishes to hide.†   (source)
  • It wasn't infallible, but it made mistakes such as I could bear.†   (source)
  • She was the trusted, accurate, infallible bookkeeper of a grocery store.†   (source)
  • Billy knew he had been infallible before that, and now he was capable of failure.†   (source)
  • The herd, infallible in its banded instinct, knew at once that a stranger had been thrust into it, and it was merciless at the hunt.†   (source)
  • I would tell her that if I were to see an angel I would accept that as infallible evidence that there was a God and would serve Him unhesitatingly; she wouldsurely understand an attitude of that sort.†   (source)
  • In spiritual matters there is a simple, infallible test: everything that proceeds from the ego is evil; everything that proceeds from love for others is good.†   (source)
  • It was her instinct to go, an instinct like the swallows for the south, the artichokes for the sun, turning her infallibly to the human race, making her nest in its heart.†   (source)
  • But Mrs. Renling wasn't infallible, and had already made one mistake, that of thinking it was Thea rather than Esther Fenchel I was in love with.†   (source)
  • They act their parts infallibly, and almost before they open their lips I know what they are going to say, and wait the divine moment when they speak the word that must have been written.†   (source)
  • Actually this newspaper very soon came to devote its columns to advertisements of new, 'infallible' antidotes against plague.†   (source)
  • It didn't take much, as it was pleasing to Mrs. Renling's pride to think she had guessed, quick and infallible, what was bothering me.†   (source)
  • Why, thinking, remembering—remark that I do not say, hoping—; to become once more for a period without boundaries or location in time, mindless and irrational companion and inmate of a body which, even after four years, with a sort of dismal and incorruptible fidelity which is incredibly admirable to me, is still immersed and obliviously bemused in recollections of old peace and contentment the very names of whose scents and sounds I do not know that I remember; which ignores even the presence and threat of a torn arm or leg as though through some secretly incurred and infallible promise and conviction of immortality.†   (source)
  • Helen was married in the month of June—a month sacred, it is said, to Hymen, but used so often for nuptials that the god's blessing is probably not infallible.†   (source)
  • Oceanic society rests ultimately on the belief that Big Brother is omnipotent and that the Party is infallible.†   (source)
  • What he had really meant to say to me, as I sensed infallibly and right off, was that I couldn't be hurt enough by the fate of other people.†   (source)
  • But since in reality Big Brother is not omnipotent and the party is not infallible, there is need for an unwearying, moment-to-moment flexibility in the treatment of facts.†   (source)
  • She had even (an infallible mark of good reputation) been picked out to work in Pornosec, the sub-section of the Fiction Department which turned out cheap pornography for distribution among the proles.†   (source)
  • This is A method well conceived—the magnet flown, Infallibly the iron will pursue: Then quick!†   (source)
  • The plainsman loomed now in Tom's sight big and strong, implacable and infallible.†   (source)
  • It was an infallible weapon to employ, if the right opportunity presented.†   (source)
  • "Yes, because when the Pope speaks ex cathedra," Mr. Fogarty explained, "he is infallible."†   (source)
  • I was a good Christian; born and bred in the bosom of the infallible Presbyterian Church.†   (source)
  • When he did happen to do so, his shooting was something so infallible as to inspire terror.†   (source)
  • What he had foretold so exactly must infallibly come to pass.†   (source)
  • I warmed the ale and made the toast on the usual infallible principles.†   (source)
  • Yeobright, if he had the least curiosity, would infallibly discover her name.†   (source)
  • Nothing less than a repetition of that infallible remedy will relieve his feelings.†   (source)
  • When a man's of that infallible mould what does it matter to him what one feels?†   (source)
  • Her words were oracles to him, her smallest actions marked by an infallible grace and wisdom.†   (source)
  • In his infallible wake, though; but follow that wake, that's all.†   (source)
  • It is mentioned as an infallible ointment by Hoffman, Mead, and I think the Abbe Fontana.†   (source)
  • the two compasses pointed East, and the Pequod was as infallibly going West.†   (source)
  • I am the servant of an infallible Master.†   (source)
  • The woman feels and speaks with the tender instinct of the heart, which is infallible.†   (source)
  • I saw his fallibilities: I comprehended them.†   (source)
  • "Well, my dear viscount," said Monte Cristo, "I have an infallible remedy to propose to you."†   (source)
  • His grandfather never departed from his infallible diagnosis: "In love!†   (source)
  • It was very tiring and slow work, yet I did visibly gain ground; and as we drew near the Cape of the Woods, though I saw I must infallibly miss that point, I had still made some hundred yards of easting.†   (source)
  • Every patient had to reckon with it as the infallible indication of his chances of being cured; the number of months or years someone would have to stay here could easily be determined from it—beginning with just dropping by for six months all the way up to a "life sentence," which all too often meant very little in terms of actual time spent.†   (source)
  • I, for my part, from the nature of my life, advanced infallibly in one direction and in one direction only.†   (source)
  • For he doubted all progress of the intellect and the emotions, and he doubted, most of all, the superiority of divine mankind to the cheerful dogs, the infallibly graceful cats, the unmoral and unagitated and irreligious horses, the superbly adventuring seagulls.†   (source)
  • Give these people the most perfect political constitution and the soundest political program that benevolent omniscience can devise for them, and they will interpret it into mere fashionable folly or canting charity as infallibly as a savage converts the philosophical theology of a Scotch missionary into crude African idolatry.†   (source)
  • I hesitated at first, to promise, but on thinking of the state of her mother's health, and how the knowledge of such a thing would fret her, and think too, of how such a story might become distorted, nay, infallibly would, in case it should leak out, I thought it wiser to do so.†   (source)
  • The truth was, that a superstition of his had failed, here, which he and all his comrades had always looked upon as infallible.†   (source)
  • For in the end, after a supreme crisis of hesitation, my uncle would utter, infallibly, the words: "A quarter past two," which the servant would echo with amazement, but without disputing them: "A quarter past two!†   (source)
  • Whenever you do, you say that Physician Vilbert is the only proprietor of those celebrated pills that infallibly cure all disorders of the alimentary system, as well as asthma and shortness of breath.†   (source)
  • I reflected acutely that the sense of such differences, such superiorities of quality, always, on the part of the majority—which could include even stupid, sordid headmasters—turn infallibly to the vindictive.†   (source)
  • Nevertheless her inquiry, "How's Clarissa?" was known by women infallibly, to be a signal from a well-wisher, from an almost silent companion, whose utterances (half a dozen perhaps in the course of a lifetime) signified recognition of some feminine comradeship which went beneath masculine lunch parties and united Lady Bruton and Mrs. Dalloway, who seldom met, and appeared when they did meet indifferent and even hostile, in a singular bond.†   (source)
  • Things are quite bad enough for us, all men of the world, and who have been in many tight places in our time, but it is no place for a woman, and if she had remained in touch with the affair, it would in time infallibly have wrecked her.†   (source)
  • In one of them—quite a recent note—the young woman said that she had received his considerate letter, and that it was honourable and generous of him to say he would not come to see her oftener than she desired (the school being such an awkward place for callers, and because of her strong wish that her engagement to him should not be known, which it would infallibly be if he visited her often).†   (source)
  • Are we agreed that Life is a force which has made innumerable experiments in organizing itself; that the mammoth and the man, the mouse and the megatherium, the flies and the fleas and the Fathers of the Church, are all more or less successful attempts to build up that raw force into higher and higher individuals, the ideal individual being omnipotent, omniscient, infallible, and withal completely, unilludedly self-conscious: in short, a god?†   (source)
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