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The electrocution in the prolog gives the subsequent action some of the grim inevitableness of last season's The Last Mile.

From Time Magazine Archive

Hardy's lovers have to submit to this: "Thus the sad autumn afternoon waned, while the waterfall hissed sarcastically of the inevitableness of the unpleasant."

From The Critical Game by Macy, John Albert

A classic permanence, a classic simplicity and inevitableness?

From Sinister Street, vol. 1 by MacKenzie, Compton

Gone was all her pride, all her icy reserve, even jealousy had vanished before the awful inevitableness of his dishonour and his death.

From The Tangled Skein by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness

As with the physical, so with the ethical; all religions teach the inevitableness of punishment and reward, with which deeds are necessarily and indissolubly connected.

From A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution by Williams, C. M.