unreckonable
Example Sentences
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Feckless lamentation, yes, but also a poetic form for an unreckonable history.
From The New Yorker • Nov. 26, 2018
Jerichow, Mecklenburg, is Johnson’s answer to Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County: a setting, both mythic and mundane, for interlocking novels that aspire to a historical reckoning but finally find history unreckonable.
From The New Yorker • Nov. 26, 2018
The mind blanks at this sheer volume of commentary generated with every elapsing second, this unreckonable tonnage of weigh-ins.
From The New Yorker • Jun. 17, 2015
He knew Mary as well—nay, better than he knew his own unreckonable self.
From Australia Felix by Richardson, Henry Handel
The most ordinary wish, that was written down with wearisome recurrence, was, of course, for wealth, wealth, wealth, in sums from a few shillings up to unreckonable thousands.
From The Intelligence Office (From "Mosses from an Old Manse") by Hawthorne, Nathaniel
