unreckonable

Example Sentences

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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

Feckless lamentation, yes, but also a poetic form for an unreckonable history.

From The New Yorker

The mind blanks at this sheer volume of commentary generated with every elapsing second, this unreckonable tonnage of weigh-ins.

From The New Yorker

What right had she to say that the world-mind was in error and she normal—she and the unreckonable Madame Nestor?...

From Project Gutenberg

The strangeness of it all persistently imposed upon her mind, but was unreckonable, compared to the thought that Quentin Charter would not have called for her, had he been able to come.

From Project Gutenberg