Inexorably

The threat was inexorably close.

Anybody who once proclaimed violence to be his method, must inexorably choose lie as his principle.

"Sometimes it seems, Tom, that we're the only reasonable people over here." "You're right, Mary. However sad it is, we're surrounded by idiots alone, and their ring is inexorably tightening."

The horse-drawn buggy trundled along the narrow lane inexorably, forcing me to step to one side.

We watched as the storm clouds advanced inexorably closer to us.

One of his best stories was "Barney Oldfield's Race for a Life" (1914), of which there survives only an amusing still, showing poor Mabel Normand chained to the rails by two toughs, the moustached villain threatening her with a sledge-hammer, and an awful sense of that inexorably approaching express!

The strange group of villagers shuffled inexorably forward.

While it remains a burden assiduously avoided, it is not unexpected, and thus not beyond a measure of control. Which has led you, inexorably, here.

Later, they all felt guilty about having laughed, especially when it looked as if she might not be able to walk again. But she did, eventually—implacably, inexorably—with a slight limp, perhaps, although this was barely noticeable, not noticeable at all, really, unless you knew the story, unless you were watching for it.

The fact that the juggernaut of Indian English rolls inexorably on, largely unconcerned by the academic arguments taking place about it, is in itself an indicator of an endonormative force in the variety, and this can be traced historically.