incontestably

Mescal’s Stanley is incontestably the leader of his pack, but he’s content to fade chummily into the background — a baseball star who’s happiest when surrounded by his team.

He was, as art historian Éric de Chassey writes in the catalogue, “incontestably one of the best-selling and most respected artists of his time.”

They detracted not only from who he incontestably was—a grandmaster and the United States Champion—but who he believed he was—the strongest player in the world.

He was an incontestably great novelist, but one who also embraced the collaborationist government that sent many French Jews to Nazi death camps during World War II.

A good man trying to resurrect his department’s best traditions, he wants to prove that the new sheriff in town is categorically and incontestably different from the old one.