irrevocability
Example Sentences
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Then there is the transition, with its ambivalence and complexity: The irrevocability and exhilaration of it — “All I could do was emote,” Sante said of that time.
From New York Times ● Feb. 14, 2024
Instead, his desire for atonement seems to darken his recollections—faced with the irrevocability of his patients’ suffering, he is unable to escape from its shadow.
From The New Yorker ● May 11, 2015
That thought crept into my consciousness, and now I was beginning to have a hollow feeling of irrevocability, of the impossibility of reversing time and fate.
From Salon ● Jan. 28, 2014
Even as I tried to have my father committed, I fretted over the irrevocability of the process.
From New York Times ● Jun. 22, 2012
The girl felt physically sick as she understood the irrevocability of what she had just said, and the way in which her words were construed.
From The Second Latchkey by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson
