inexorability

"It's so chilling," she says, "the inexorability in how Vivienne's vision becomes a reality and the fact that in the beginning many members of the Lyons family think she's great.

"It's so chilling," she says, "the inexorability in how Vivienne's vision becomes a reality and the fact that, in the beginning, many members of the Lyons family think she's great.

'It's so chilling, the inexorability in how Vivienne's vision becomes a reality, and the fact that, in the beginning, many members of the Lyons family think she's great.' The first event to shape their lives, though, is closer to home.

Hawthorne was most able to affirm the warmth and strength of the heart, and so to create a sense not merely of life's inexorability and sordidness, but of its possibilities of beauty and grandeur" (351).

In Blazevic-Krietzman's work, history overtakes her plots and protagonists with urgency and inexorability, while she uses elements of the historical genre to question global politics before and after the fall of the Berlin Wall.

She weaves a tantalizing narrative with such prose of exactitude, of grace-notes precision, with a delicacy that remains beholden to the story's inexorability. The rhythmic, steadily looping cadence of inevitability wraps around, within, and through the lives of the two sisters, Lali and Pilar, and the man they get to share, Arturo.

Such a theme of not disaggregating poverty and HIV/AIDS from institutional racism is reinforced when the dying Zulu-boy himself highlights the inexorability of the pernicious limitations of institutional racism in the democratic South Africa by opening his statement with the allegorical Afrikaans word thus, "Ja!

Just like your predecessors -- baby boomers and Generation whatever-letter-of-the-alphabet -- your sell-by date is governed by the inexorability of demographics and, inevitably, there will come a time when these newcomers will turn you into figures of derision.

And after a funereal slow movement magnificent in its dignity, he cajoles us into a scherzo which is as blithe as an intermezzo until it is scarily overtaken by a nightmare of pounding, driving inexorability.

However, since the bulk of the metaphor's rhetorical power lies in the unstoppable physical power of the referent and the tsunami-as-culture's inexorability, it would likely work just fine in most everyday usages.