inevitableness

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The electrocution in the prolog gives the subsequent action some of the grim inevitableness of last season's The Last Mile.

From Time Magazine Archive

There is a rational, if unconscious, order in the pageantry of images; there is an inevitableness in their succession closely allied to the logical necessity by which one idea follows another in a well-reasoned argument.

From Pot-Boilers by Bell, Clive

There is inevitableness in the conduct on the stage of the creatures of our brains even as with people of real life.

From Dramatic Technique by Baker, George Pierce

But the hero and the author together, with the ingenuity proper to madness and the inevitableness proper to genius, soon begin to disclose the fund of intelligence and ideal passion which underlies this superficial insanity.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. VIII by Various

The last man was aboard; the gangway was hauled up; the screw pounded the water; the ship began to glide away from the dock with slow, sickening inevitableness.

From Sinister Street, vol. 1 by MacKenzie, Compton