He wanted theinevitability put down in recognizable form.
The illusion ofinevitability springs from Tolstoy's all-encircling comprehension of events, from his justice to each character and from his extraordinary physical vividness.
The first half of the book is a finely sustained development of a vividly remembered scene, the second half has the inevitability of a moral idea pursued to its romantic end rather than the inevitability of life.
There are men who maintain that the love for peace and the inevitability of war form a hideous contradiction, and that such is the fate of man.
The invincibility of its Legions, or the perception of that prowess, and the inevitability of retribution were among the most significant factors.
The major shortcoming is the assumption of the inevitability of reprisals and the capacity to take punitive action.
I cannot recall a single author of either of the four great countries who, treating of the inevitability of war, does not bewail the falling away of his own country from the military ideal, or, at least, the tendency so to fall away.
And the conditions affecting conduct are so complex and so easily varied that it is small wonder there is lacking in this instance that sense of inevitability present when one is dealing with physical processes.
Yet even more significant is the inevitability of the doom of the Rutherfords as embodied in the wisdom of Mary, John's wife.
Alas, the inevitability that the ideal should be besmirched and desecrated when it comes in contact with sordid reality!
If these peoples were, at this time, to receive full independence, the present inevitability of a pan-Asiatic war on a grand scale would be replaced only by the inevitability of a pan-Asiatic war by detail.
She did not see the inevitability of those lines and the fatality of those paths and she did not wish to feel the pressure of the phantom hands that rose about her.
She was filled only with a great expectancy, a waiting for the inevitabilityof life.
Yet there has been all the while a certain sublime inevitability in it--over and above those general reactions in favour of a simplifying and softening mutisme that increase with my increasing age and infirmity.
These things, as I write them, make me almost feel that I do push before you the inevitability of my silence.
It is the postponement of the inevitable that leads to the inevitability of postponement as a strategy of survival.
To them it looked like an ancient natural phenomenon, a force of nature, an inevitability and hence their cynicism.
And when the learned Mr. Hinze, whom you also know, wanted to prove the inevitability of religious faith and the inadequacy of all science, he always asked the pathetic question: What is consciousness?
If they were still floating on a dispersed cloud of smoke they would soon be seeking to inhale more to keep themselves high until the inevitability of sleep would make them founder.
Shakespeare has doubtless convinced you of the inevitability of their mating.
Looking at the traditions of their environment and at the enforced intimacy of their vagabondage, one sees the inevitability of this linking of their fortunes.
She could not believe that she had taken a lover out of boredom and discontent with herself, so she was forced to a mystical conviction of the inevitability of her act.
She said it wasn't so much him as the inevitability of him.
The recital of the conditions prevailing possessed a conviction that suggested the inevitability of Doom, Vita realized.
The silent moments slipped away with the inevitability which no human power can stay.
But worst of all was that when I was ploughing or sowing, and a few peasants stood and watched how I did it, I no longer felt the inevitability and necessity of the work and it seemed to me that I was trifling my time away.
Among them I also felt like a dray-horse, more and more imbued with the necessity and inevitability of what I was doing, and this made my life easier, and saved me from doubt.
Just how the struggle would begin was uncertain; but its inevitability was as assured as its magnitude.
Something there was in it of the calm inevitability of fate.
Yet even he was slow to appreciate the inevitability of secession.
I remember how Biology came to me with a sense of crystal precision and inevitability in those days.
Faith in the logical inevitability of good had changed to certainty: it seemed to her, now, that faith was only an old coward afraid to face fact.
