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Lady Gregory's home fed Yeats's "almost Confucian sense of ceremony," the sense which most clearly convinced him of the predestined, degraded damnableness of democratic art and society.

From Time Magazine Archive

But as soon as he began to identify himself with his hero it was all up with Faust's utter damnableness: a young poet does not plan to send his own soul to perdition.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 01 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. by Francke, Kuno

They preach, or should preach, the blessings of poverty, and the curse, nay, the damnableness, of wealth.

From Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) by Foote, G. W. (George William)

And then he complained of the damnableness of a needle-sown palate.

From The Recipe for Diamonds by Hyne, Charles John Cutcliffe Wright

It's the great consolation for all the damnableness of the human existence.

From December Love by Hichens, Robert Smythe