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
It is then that one realizes for the first time all the shattering horror of two things: the irrevocability of the past and the feeling of loneliness.
From Reminiscences of Anton Chekhov by I. A. Bunin
