All 7 Uses of
consequence
in
All the Pretty Horses
- In an ideal world the gossip of the idle would be of no consequence.
Chpt 2 (definition 1) *consequence = importance
- But I have seen the consequences in the real world and they can be very grave indeed.
Chpt 2 (definition 2) *consequences = results
- They can be consequences of a gravity not excluding bloodshed.
Chpt 2 (definition 2)
- In the end it was all of no consequence of course.
Chpt 2 (definition 1)consequence = importance
- As if the complexities of this piece of business dragged after it every sort of consequence.
Chpt 3 (definition 2)consequence = result
- He claimed that the responsibility for a decision could never be abandoned to a blind agency but could only be relegated to human decisions more and more remote from their consequences.
Chpt 4 (definition 2)consequences = results
- To a boy this would have been an event of consequence.
Chpt 4 (definition 1)consequence = importance
Definitions:
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(1) (consequence as in: of little consequence) importance or relevance
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(2) (consequence as in: a direct consequence of) a result of something (often an undesired side effect)