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
She could not visualize him the jealous, outraged husband, breathing the conventional anathema, but there were elements unreckonable in that room.
From Big Timber A Story of the Northwest by Sinclair, Bertrand W.
And that he might hold up his head with the best of them, she endowed him on the spot with an unreckonable amount of wealth.
From Short Stories of Various Types by Freck, Laura F.