| For Dickens, history has both an inexorability and an arbitrariness. |
| Tansini's approach is the antithesis of Parry's, replacing measured inexorability with a sequence of flurried, furtive conversations that hurtle into the stuff of nightmare. |
| The camera's frequent slow dollies backwards, from a small detail to the wider scene, echo the plot's revelations and the inexorability of fate. |
| Death, its inexorability, and our fear of it render us as helpless as when we were toddlers. |
| The irreversibility and inexorability of the passage of time is borne in on human beings by the fact of death. |
| But the inexorability of Moore's Law means that genomic scanning will be a fact of life and a profoundly useful one within a decade or less. |
