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unable to be resisted or avoided; inescapable

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Ineluctably, collective-socialist ideals seem to lead to one or another form of the Gulag.

—p.130 B.B. (128) by George Steiner
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an ineluctably conditioned part of a pop-dominated culture

—p.52 Fictional Futures and the Conspicuously Young (37) by David Foster Wallace
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by constructing an attempt to establish presence, deconstruction exposes an ineluctable, ineffaceable element of absence that undermines the ideal of presence

—p.98 Postmodernist Metafiction: John Barth (88) by Allard Pieter den Dulk
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In so far as the periphery contains the overwhelming majority of the world’s population, nationalism became an ineluctable phenomenon in world history

—p.116 The Nation-State: Persistence or Transcendence? (108) by Gregory Elliott, Razmig Keucheyan
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organized fame and remembrance lead ineluctably to nothingness

—p.100 Part Two (85) by Theodor W. Adorno
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Theory of the Novel belongs to the small circle of masterpieces—Baudelaire’s tableaux, Flaubert’s novels, Manet’s paintings, Ibsen’s plays, or, indeed, Weber’s last lectures—where the rules of bourgeois existence are at once ineluctable and bankrupt

—p.41 Meaningless Necessities (39) missing author
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What they shared was a certainty that change, a revolution, was necessary, and ineluctable. They were in a new city, in eruption, on Red Monday. The old law was dying, the new not yet decided.

—p.50 February: Joyful Tears (39) by China Miéville
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How prosaic to relate this experience, these importunate, irrevocable, ineluctable facts!

—p.244 1941–1950: Early Life in New York, and Different Ways of Writing (5) by Patricia Highsmith
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Before its ineluctable drive, the sadistic spite at its victims for their ‘weakness’ can be disavowed.

—p.44 On Social Saidsm (17) by China Miéville
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the ineluctable rightness of our love

—p.95 by Tabitha Lasley
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Today's belief in ineluctable certainty is the true innovation-killer of our age.

—p.320 Innovation Starvation (313) by Neal Stephenson
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equivocation slowly but ineluctably begins to take root

—p.24 River of No Return (16) by Jason Linkins
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From moment to moment, television has an ineluctable way of making connections, sometimes surprising and sometimes not surprising at all.

—p.107 Chapter 4: Letter to Bono (95) by Richard Dienst
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the ineluctably negative movement of criticism

—p.20 by Terry Eagleton
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Our daily operations pull us ineluctably away

—p.9 Second Thoughts (9) by Sven Birkerts
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Isn’t a genuine meaning one which we feel ourselves running up against, one which can resist or rebuff us, one which bears in on us with a certain ineluctability?

—p.67 The eclipse of meaning (56) by Terry Eagleton
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This point is all the more important as Marx speaks here of necessity and even of ineluctable necessity.

—p.95 Time and Progress: Another Philosophy of History? (80) by Étienne Balibar
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the script of the ineluctable set for all eternity

—p.135 Domination, Liberation (105) by Frédéric Lordon
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ineluctable conjunctions of the present and the past

—p.83 The Ledger (67) by n+1
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