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  • She had been in the Tuileries in the middle of winter for the launching of the collection by Worth, the indisputable tyrant of haute couture, and the only thing she got was a case of bronchitis that kept her in bed for five days.†   (source)
  • Because that moment was so racially infused (my revulsion at what my school friend wanted: very blue eyes in a very black skin; the harm she was doing to my concept of the beautiful), the struggle was for writing that was indisputably black.†   (source)
  • This was indisputable evidence, said the government, that Allah would surely see to it that Iran won the war and, as a bonus, would snuff out the demonic Munafaquin.†   (source)
  • Part of their ease came from the fact that it was the boy who led—indisputably—and the girl who followed; but it also came, more profoundly, from the fact that the girl was, in no sense, appalled by the boy and did not for an instant hesitate to answer his rudest erotic quiver with her own.†   (source)
  • It was indisputable—and in fact I did not dispute—that I was technically guilty of both charges.†   (source)
  • In the good bathroom there was one shower stall that indisputably had the best water pressure.†   (source)
  • Four days in, and already, indisputably: loving.†   (source)
  • Our dia's words were indisputable in our family.†   (source)
  • On the branches of a Christmas tree, hung like ornaments, were photos of an indisputably contented family.†   (source)
  • They talked matter-of-factly about the challenges and rewards of college, the presumption being that going to college was an indisputably good idea.†   (source)
  • That's indisputable.†   (source)
  • I'd be indisputably the leading campus figure.†   (source)
  • William Howe's ability and courage were indisputable.†   (source)
  • … All right, I've heard the same rumors you have, probably from the same or much better sources, that the Jackal was killed here or executed there, but no one-repeat no one-has come forward with indisputable proof.†   (source)
  • The demand was indisputably huge.†   (source)
  • As the intricacy of his plan unfolded, it became indisputably clear where he had been for the ten days he'd been away.†   (source)
  • That seems to me to be an indisputable fact, because we got the Industrial Efficiency Award of Globe Magazine last year.†   (source)
  • Whatever the disagreements between the political scientists and the linguists, one statistic is indisputable.†   (source)
  • Regardless of what he might want to think about the Desert Dwellers, one thing was indisputable: They had rejected the ways of Elyon.†   (source)
  • During speeches to the Corps, the indisputable power of his own rhetoric would affect him so viscerally that he would dance along a thin, precarious edge of control in constant danger of plunging headlong into much darker and more radical passions.†   (source)
  • But it appears the abolitionists will have to present something that was neither seen nor heard in the circuit court proceedings, something very different and indisputable in the eyes of the law, to change the course of this case.†   (source)
  • And that puts me indisputably in control.†   (source)
  • Ludovico had assumed the expression of a pointer in a bird sanctuary, because, for him, wealth was an indisputable sign of evil.†   (source)
  • "You have grown into a man in the shadow of a dwarf of indisputable character," Drizzt scolded.†   (source)
  • The Weasel's assertion was, then, indisputably correct.†   (source)
  • From every side the external world pressed in on him, dense, indisputable, tangible as a forest.†   (source)
  • Only one conclusion is indisputable: something hideous is stalking Seattle.†   (source)
  • In an instant, his senses would be rewarded by the indisputable evidence of the baker's mastery.†   (source)
  • The Count frowned at the indisputability of this point of view.†   (source)
  • The alien creature in the glass was indisputably beautiful, every bit as beautiful as Alice or Esme.†   (source)
  • But when the blackness greeted him with its indisputable presence, he wanted nothing more.†   (source)
  • We are only defending what we deem our indisputable rights.†   (source)
  • But I would like to remind you of one indisputable fact, Mr. McLean.†   (source)
  • The two cases were covering indisputably different legal territory.†   (source)
  • An Ivy League credential, an indisputable American prize.†   (source)
  • Admittedly, the historical record contained indisputable evidence that secret wisdom had been passed down through the ages, apparently having come out of the Mystery Schools in early Egypt.†   (source)
  • Hanging from their hooks, still shining from the previous night's scrubbing, they seemed to suggest an indisputable sense of possibility.†   (source)
  • In the months after the 1923 congress, her beauty became so indisputable, her heart so tender, her demeanor so kind, that Mishka had no choice but to barricade himself behind a stack of books at the old Imperial Library in St. Petersburg.†   (source)
  • The Count nodded gravely to acknowledge the indisputable likelihood of children in the schoolhouse; then, as he dipped his own spoon into the scoop of strawberry, he noted that he had enjoyed school very much.†   (source)
  • A tall woman in her mid-twenties with arched eyebrows and auburn hair, she was indisputably striking.†   (source)
  • After five days of investigations, Figuerola had given him a number of indisputable indications that something was rotten within SIS.†   (source)
  • But besides this they have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible divine right to the most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge, I mean of the characters and conduct of their rulers.†   (source)
  • Drizzt seemed able to weigh every move he ever made in the scales of high adventure and indisputable morals.†   (source)
  • Normally, this was enough to push everything away, at least temporarily, the sudden and indisputable closeness that made all other distance irrelevant.†   (source)
  • They ate and drank and talked and laughed together, and lay naked on their narrow bed in the darkness, near the open windows through which an occasional limp breeze came, and tasted each other's lips and caressed each other in spite of the heat, and made great plans for their indisputable tomorrow.†   (source)
  • From then on Willy boasted that he had saved Eva's life—an indisputable fact which she herself admitted and for which she cursed him every day for thirty-seven years thereafter and would have cursed him for the rest of her life except by then she was already ninety years old and forgot things.†   (source)
  • I had always wanted to be brave and strove desperately to hide the indisputable fact that I was a coward.†   (source)
  • He feared that he and the drow were taking on too much, that the drow's plan was too outrageous, but he was starting to accept one indisputable fact: He would follow Drizzt into any adventure, no matter how improbable their chances of surviving.†   (source)
  • What's indisputable is that she was up there five minutes or more, feeling faint, crying and waving her hands, sighing, "Oh Jesus, Oh Jesus," over and over, while Long's deputies held her up.†   (source)
  • She thought of herself as his strength; in a world of shadows, the indisputable reality to which he could always repair.†   (source)
  • The simple, indisputable rules of this theory were so distinctly present in Antonina Alexandrovna's mind that she imagined hearing them repeated by some secret voice coming from outside with the chirruping of sparrows and the cries of playing children.†   (source)
  • Ugly talk for a doctor and a gentleman (perhaps even an aristocrat), although he was visibly, indisputably drunk, which might help explain such coarseness.†   (source)
  • First, there are certain indisputable facts.†   (source)
  • If he had written dispassionately about women, had used indisputable proofs to establish his argument and had shown no trace of wishing that the result should be one thing rather than another, one would not have been angry either.†   (source)
  • And Conway could not repress a feeling that was always his in the presence of any superb and indisputable competence.†   (source)
  • …tale, not to see the sister because he had not once thought of her: he had merely listened about her: but thinking So at last I shall see him, whom it seems I was bred up never to expect to see, whom I had even learned to live without, thinking maybe how he would walk into the house and see the man who made him and then he would know; there would be that flash, that instant of indisputable recognition between them and he would know for sure and forever—thinking maybe That's all I want.†   (source)
  • But you now see that the Irresistible and the Indisputable are the two weapons which the very nature of His scheme forbids Him to use.†   (source)
  • The students nodded, emphatically agreeing with a statement which upwards of sixty-two thousand repetitions in the dark had made them accept, not merely as true, but as axiomatic, self-evident, utterly indisputable.†   (source)
  • What was the spirit in her, the essential thing, by which, had you found a crumpled glove in the corner of a sofa, you would have known it, from its twisted finger, hers indisputably?†   (source)
  • I had been foolish to ask my professor to furnish me with 'indisputable proofs' of this or that in his argument about women.†   (source)
  • Remarkable boots they were too, Lily thought, looking down at them: sculptured; colossal; like everything that Mr. Ramsay wore, from his frayed tie to his half-buttoned waistcoat, his own indisputably.†   (source)
  • It sounded so indisputable that K. gave no answer at all.†   (source)
  • All about me was the indisputable evidence that he had found the natural line of development.†   (source)
  • "One thing is indisputable," said Bunting, drawing up a chair next to that of Cuss.†   (source)
  • Mr. Weston's own happiness was indisputable.†   (source)
  • The demand was plain, and the right of it indisputable.†   (source)
  • Grigory knew, too, that he had an indisputable influence over his master.†   (source)
  • That Emma was his object appeared indisputable.†   (source)
  • The red body of the wretched little beast was rent to pieces, many of the ribs stripped white, and the backbone indisputably gnawed.†   (source)
  • I've done enough for it to give me the indisputable right to lay it, if I choose, for an everlasting rest in the dust-bin of progress, amongst all the sweepings and, figuratively speaking, all the dead cats of civilization.†   (source)
  • I've just come from Lycurgus—your room at Mrs. Peyton's—and I have in my possession your trunk and this Miss Alden's letters to you—indisputable proof that you did know this girl, that you courted and seduced her last winter, and that since then—this spring—when she became pregnant on your account, you induced her first to go home and then later to go away with you on this trip in order, as you told her, to marry her.†   (source)
  • The invigorating influences of this excess of oxygen upon the Martians indisputably did much to counterbalance the increased weight of their bodies.†   (source)
  • …the marble walls, bounded from the ceiling of lavender-bordered milky tiles, while the lords of the city, the barons of insurance and law and fertilizers and motor tires, laid down the law for Zenith; announced that the day was warm-indeed, indisputably of spring; that wages were too high and the interest on mortgages too low; that Babe Ruth, the eminent player of baseball, was a noble man; and that "those two nuts at the Climax Vaudeville Theater this week certainly are a slick pair…†   (source)
  • In a legal view the apparent victim of the tragedy was he who had sought to victimize a man blameless; and the indisputable deed of the latter, navally regarded, constituted the most heinous of military crimes.†   (source)
  • She reminded him that he had always liked Newport in his bachelor days, and as this was indisputable he could only profess that he was sure he was going to like it better than ever now that they were to be there together.†   (source)
  • It seemed to him that the Epanchins were not having a party at all; that these people must have been here always, and that he himself was one of them—returned among them after a long absence, but one of them, naturally and indisputably.†   (source)
  • In a word, Joachim was onto his cousin's tricks, he had accidentally eavesdropped on an act of betrayal, much like the one Hans Castorp had committed on the evening of Mardi Gras—a new treachery, exacerbated by the indisputable fact that it had become a habit with him.†   (source)
  • Yet the voice was indisputable.†   (source)
  • There was a "bourgeoisiosity" of life, whose monumental genius was indisputable, a philistine majesty, which one might well consider worthy of respect, as long as one realized that as it stood there in all its dignity, legs astraddle, hands at its back, chest thrust forward, it was the incarnation of irreligiosity.†   (source)
  • These creatures of mine seemed strange and uncanny to you so soon as you began to observe them; but to me, just after I make them, they seem to be indisputably human beings.†   (source)
  • …second breakfast, leading inevitably to a promenade down to Platz, whereupon Hans Castorp tied his uncle up again—tied him up, there was no other word for it—and left him lying there under an autumn sun in a lounge chair whose comfort was quite indisputable, indeed laudable, just as he himself lay there until the vibrating gong called them back into the society of patients' for their midday meal, which turned out to be first-class, tip-top, and so lavish that the ensuing rest cure was…†   (source)
  • The anatomical fact of this labyrinth is indisputable; and that the supposition founded upon it is reasonable and true, seems the more cogent to me, when I consider the otherwise inexplicable obstinacy of that leviathan in HAVING HIS SPOUTINGS OUT, as the fishermen phrase it.†   (source)
  • A door opened, and I stood in the compartment where Captain Nemo, indisputably a world–class engineer, had set up his locomotive equipment.†   (source)
  • 'I suppose his information to be correct and his discovery, among Mr Casby's loose papers, indisputable; but, without it, I should hardly have supposed this to be a likely place.'†   (source)
  • …give me leave to excuse any little irregularity there may be in such a connection; not altogether for preserving my life, for my own idea was that it never was in much danger, but certainly for saving me 4,000 piastres, which, being translated, means neither more nor less than 24,000 livres of our money—a sum at which, most assuredly, I should never have been estimated in France, proving most indisputably," added Albert with a laugh, "that no prophet is honored in his own country."†   (source)
  • Question (number five hundred and seventeen thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine): If I understand you, these forms of practice indisputably occasion delay?†   (source)
  • I don't know why it should be a crack thing to be a brewer; but it is indisputable that while you cannot possibly be genteel and bake, you may be as genteel as never was and brew.†   (source)
  • As Mr Shepherd perceived that this connexion of the Crofts did them no service with Sir Walter, he mentioned it no more; returning, with all his zeal, to dwell on the circumstances more indisputably in their favour; their age, and number, and fortune; the high idea they had formed of Kellynch Hall, and extreme solicitude for the advantage of renting it; making it appear as if they ranked nothing beyond the happiness of being the tenants of Sir Walter Elliot: an extraordinary taste,…†   (source)
  • That the executive head of a nation should be a person of lofty character and extraordinary ability, was manifest and indisputable; that none but the Deity could select that head unerringly, was also manifest and indisputable; that the Deity ought to make that selection, then, was likewise manifest and indisputable; consequently, that He does make it, as claimed, was an unavoidable deduction.†   (source)
  • If any part of the dinner was a failure, there were fifty indisputably good reasons for it; and it was the fault undeniably of fifty other people, whom Dinah berated with unsparing zeal.†   (source)
  • In this memorandum two indisputable items figured up over three hundred francs,—one for the doctor, the other for the apothecary who had attended and physicked Eponine and Azelma through two long illnesses.†   (source)
  • That instinctive sense of right which appeared to shield her from the commission of wrong, and even cast a mantle of moral loveliness and truth around her character, could not penetrate abstrusities, or trace the nice affinities between cause and effect, beyond their more obvious and indisputable connection, though she seldom failed to see all the latter, and to defer to all their just consequences.†   (source)
  • Julia's looks were an evidence of the fact that made it indisputable; and after the first starts and exclamations, not a word was spoken for half a minute: each with an altered countenance was looking at some other, and almost each was feeling it a stroke the most unwelcome, most ill-timed, most appalling!†   (source)
  • It was an advance, and as such, perhaps, some ladies of indisputable correctness and gentility will condemn the action as immodest; but, you see, poor dear Rebecca had all this work to do for herself.†   (source)
  • For all their indisputable intelligence, men take this farce as something serious, and that is their tragedy.†   (source)
  • Volumnia further makes a merit of not having "closed an eye"—as if she had twenty or thirty—though it is hard to reconcile this statement with her having most indisputably opened two within five minutes.†   (source)
  • Jobbery was suspected by the malicious; perhaps because it was indisputable that if the adherence of the immortal Enemy of Mankind could have been secured by a job, the Barnacles would have jobbed him—for the good of the country, for the good of the country.†   (source)
  • An indisputable event, my gallant Ned.†   (source)
  • Some of their finds were singular; among others, the skeleton of an ourang-outan, who had disappeared from the Jardin des Plantes in 1800, a disappearance probably connected with the famous and indisputable apparition of the devil in the Rue des Bernardins, in the last year of the eighteenth century.†   (source)
  • They agreed that the weather was of high promise; and Clennam kept the talk in that safe direction until it had become easy again, when he gently diverted it to Henry Gowan and his quick sense and agreeable qualities when he was delicately dealt With; he likewise dwelt on the indisputable affection he entertained for his wife.†   (source)
  • Their opportunity of acquaintance in the house of Mr. Pratt was a foundation for the rest, at once indisputable and alarming; and Edward's visit near Plymouth, his melancholy state of mind, his dissatisfaction at his own prospects, his uncertain behaviour towards herself, the intimate knowledge of the Miss Steeles as to Norland and their family connections, which had often surprised her, the picture, the letter, the ring, formed altogether such a body of evidence, as overcame every…†   (source)
  • That was indisputable.†   (source)
  • A course that lay between undue clemency and excessive rigour: the dispensation in a heterogeneous society of arbitrary classes, incessantly rearranged in terms of greater and lesser social inequality, of unbiassed homogeneous indisputable justice, tempered with mitigants of the widest possible latitude but exactable to the uttermost farthing with confiscation of estate, real and personal, to the crown.†   (source)
  • …turgidity in neap and spring tides: its subsidence after devastation: its sterility in the circumpolar icecaps, arctic and antarctic: its climatic and commercial significance: its preponderance of 3 to 1 over the dry land of the globe: its indisputable hegemony extending in square leagues over all the region below the subequatorial tropic of Capricorn: the multisecular stability of its primeval basin: its luteofulvous bed: its capacity to dissolve and hold in solution all soluble…†   (source)
  • Yet, said I, if God has made all this he must be the Ruler of them all, and what is relating thereto; for certainly the Power that makes, must indisputably have a power to guide and direct them.†   (source)
  • This alone demonstrates the impolicy of inserting a fundamental provision in the Constitution which would make the State systems a standard for the national government in the article under consideration, and the danger of encumbering the government with any constitutional provisions the propriety of which is not indisputable.†   (source)
  • For there is not one of them that begins his ratiocination from the Definitions, or Explications of the names they are to use; which is a method that hath been used onely in Geometry; whose Conclusions have thereby been made indisputable.†   (source)
  • One morning, Sir, very early, there came five or six canoes of Indians on shore, indisputably upon their old custom of devouring their prisoners.†   (source)
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