implacable
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Webb creates an implacable sense of doom that continually builds toward the last scene, with a deadly cadence and a final staircase suggesting the gallows.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
Described in the French press as a headstrong woman who is generous to friends but implacable to her enemies, Garcia says the case against her is circumstantial.
From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2026
Supreme Court historically used Asian Americans’ supposedly implacable foreignness to justify greater, institutionally enforced apartness.
From Slate ● May 26, 2026
“The real evils in war,” St. Augustine once wrote, are “love of violence, revengeful cruelty, fierce and implacable enmity, wild resistance, and the lust of power.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 16, 2025
The cook stood there like a shrivelled bootlace, tight-lipped, implacable, disapproving.
From "Matilda" by Roald Dahl
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