unreckonable
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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Feckless lamentation, yes, but also a poetic form for an unreckonable history.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 26, 2018
Jerichow, Mecklenburg, is Johnson’s answer to Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County: a setting, both mythic and mundane, for interlocking novels that aspire to a historical reckoning but finally find history unreckonable.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 26, 2018
The mind blanks at this sheer volume of commentary generated with every elapsing second, this unreckonable tonnage of weigh-ins.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 17, 2015
He could see the unreckonable element of chance functioning largely in a man's life.
From Burned Bridges by Bertrand W. Sinclair
She could not visualize him the jealous, outraged husband, breathing the conventional anathema, but there were elements unreckonable in that room.
From Big Timber A Story of the Northwest by Bertrand W. Sinclair
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