unreckonable
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 Sinclair, Bertrand W.
What right had she to say that the world-mind was in error and she normal—she and the unreckonable Madame Nestor?...
From She Buildeth Her House by Comfort, William Wistar