Both Uses of
implacable
in
Black Boy
- I walked anxiously beside her, looking at her tired old white face, the wrinkles that lined her neck, the deep, waiting black eyes, and the frail body, and I knew more than she thought I knew about the meaning of religion, the hunger of the human heart for that which is not and can never be, the thirst of the human spirit to conquer and transcend the implacable limitations of human life.†
Chpt 1.4implacable = unyielding
- They did not seem to be individual men, but part of a huge, implacable, elemental design toward which hate was futile.†
Chpt 1.10 *
Definition:
unyielding -- often in remaining angry