uncontrollability

Example Sentences

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Neither uncontrollability nor foreseeability necessarily map onto any statistical estimation of actual risk, yet their emotional pull guided participants’ judgments.

From Slate • Jun. 24, 2016

Dr. Sacks said he was “publicly roasted” by medical professionals who, in his view, “felt threatened by notions of uncontrollability and unpredictability that reflected on their own power and reflected on the power of science.”

From Washington Post • Aug. 30, 2015

Jared once called it an “emotional thriller,” and I think that’s right: the reader should, in part, experience the same terrifying unpredictability and uncontrollability of life, the helplessness of life, as Jude does.*

From Slate • Mar. 5, 2015

The dialogue deftly threads domestic chitchat and Big Themes: the detachment of the artist, the terrifying uncontrollability of life.

From Time Magazine Archive

Kerr, as he signaled to her with every lineament of his enlivened face, his interest, his defiance, his uncontrollability, was not the man of her imaginary conversations.

From The Coast of Chance by Underwood, Clarence F.