All 10 Uses of
inevitable
in
This Side of Paradise
- He dressed well, was particularly neat in appearance, and derived his name from the fact that his hair was inevitably worn short, soaked in water or tonic, parted in the middle, and slicked back as the current of fashion dictated.†
Chpt 1.1inevitably = with certainty that it will happen
- A voice from somewhere called the inevitable formula, "Stick out your head!" below an unseen window.†
Chpt 1.2inevitable = certain to happen
- What a wonderful song, she thought—everything was wonderful to-night, most of all this romantic scene in the den, with their hands clinging and the inevitable looming charmingly close.†
Chpt 1.2
- When Amory was by himself his thoughts zigzagged inevitably to the picture of that red mouth yawning incongruously in the white face, but with a determined effort he piled present excitement upon the memory of it and shut it coldly away from his mind.†
Chpt 1.2inevitably = with certainty that it will happen
- There was such an air of "you and I" about Mr. McDowell that Amory very nearly pushed him out of the open window when he said this....Next February his mother would wonder why he didn't make a club and increase his allowance...simple little nut.... Through the smoke and the air of solemn, dense earnestness that filled the room would come the inevitable helpless cry: "I don't get it!†
Chpt 1.3inevitable = certain to happen
- I am afraid that I gave you too much assurance of your inevitable safety, and you must remember that I did that through faith in your springs of effort; not in the silly conviction that you will arrive without struggle.†
Chpt 1.3
- But strange things are prepared even in the dead of night, and the unusual, which lurks least in the cafe, home of the prosaic and inevitable, was preparing to spoil for him the waning romance of Broadway.†
Chpt 1.3
- He knew she dressed very well, had always the best of everything in the house, and was inevitably waited upon by the head floor-walker at the very least.†
Chpt 1.4inevitably = with certainty that it will happen
- Slowly and inevitably, yet with a sudden surge at the last, while Amory talked and dreamed, war rolled swiftly up the beach
Chpt 1.4 *inevitably = with certainty that it would happen
- ** A LITTLE INTERLUDE Amory wandered slowly up the avenue and thought of the night as inevitably his—the pageantry and carnival of rich dusk and dim streets ...it seemed that he had closed the book of fading harmonies at last and stepped into the sensuous vibrant walks of life.†
Chpt 2.1inevitably = with certainty that it will happen
Definition:
certain to happen (even if one tried to prevent it)