inexorable

Here is our Wes, golden child with his long curls spilling down the pillow, inexorably beautiful in death.
Inside a Home Funeral|Melissa Roberts Weidman|February 5, 2013|DAILY BEAST
In the subsequent chapters the narrator is pulled, inexorably, to new depths of disillusionment and wretchedness.
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This sense of design, mysteriously, inexorably, appears in unexpected places.
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To see racism as structural unfairness, by contrast, is to see race and public policy as inexorably intertwined.
Fix Affirmative Action Now|Peter Beinart|July 21, 2010|DAILY BEAST

But it is where the logic of the situation is inexorably leading.
The Only Hope for Mideast Peace|Eric Alterman|March 10, 2010|DAILY BEAST
She was always and finally glad that the door was inexorably sealed upon her secret.
In the Heart of a Fool|William Allen White
They had been dowering her with the grace of Helen, and now she stood before them inexorably bent on trying out.
Old Crow|Alice Brown
For at one time I had as certainly, as inexorably, doomed him as ever I took any resolution in my life.
The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey, Vol. 2|Thomas de Quincey
You could hold it on the tip of a knife; it is inexorably minute.
Woman|Magdeleine Marx
He replies monotonously, inexorably—“My accounts; I must settle my accounts!”
The English Stage|Augustin Filon

British Dictionary definitions for inexorably

inexorable

/ (ɪnˈɛksərəbəl) /

adjective

not able to be moved by entreaty or persuasion

relentless

Derived forms of inexorable

inexorability or inexorableness, nouninexorably, adverb

Word Origin for inexorable

C16: from Latin inexōrābilis, from in- 1 + exōrābilis, from exōrāre to prevail upon, from ōrāre to pray

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