having no alternative

Example Sentences

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Opening with a brilliantly alienated first line – “The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new” – Murphy puzzled a lot of reviewers, was praised by Dylan Thomas, and sold badly.

From The Guardian • Jul. 28, 2019

Beckett tried out "The sun shone, as only the sun can, on nothing new", working through various alternatives before ending up with: "The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new."

From The Guardian • Jun. 4, 2013

Still, having no alternative, I went ahead and sat beside Jerome.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

Here the old gentleman disembarked, and invited us to do so likewise, which, having no alternative, and being nearly starved, we did without hesitation -- taking our rifles with us, however.

From Allan Quatermain by Haggard, Henry Rider

I should then be compelled to make restitution, having no alternative other than my own destruction: thus I cannot escape from contributing towards the evil.

From Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil by Huggard, E.M.