All 6 Uses of
inevitable
in
Childhood's End
- There was the inevitable pause as Pieter looked disapprovingly at the thermostat, for it was a standing joke that the Secretary-General liked living in an icebox.†
Chpt 2inevitable = certain to happen
- The inevitable— reaction that had given early twenty-first-century negroes a slight sense of superiority had already passed away.†
Chpt 8
- It was almost inevitable that George, as a leading member of the artistic hierarchy, should be one of the reception committee.
Chpt 17 *
- Let us say that you might have become a telepathic cancer, a malignant mentality which in its inevitable dissolution would have poisoned other and greater minds.†
Chpt 20
- Yet it was fitting: it had the sublime inevitability of a great work of art.†
Chpt 23inevitability = certainty that something will happen
- The arrangement has some advantages: besides, no-one of intelligence resents the inevitable.†
Chpt 23inevitable = certain to happen
Definition:
certain to happen (even if one tried to prevent it)