| And complete with mannequins in Stetson hats, the gumba-gumba record player and the inescapable bar atmosphere, the shebeen comes alive. |
| While the setting evoked an escapist fantasy, the conversation dwelt obsessively on the harsh, inescapable realities of the moment. |
| Rising mental illness seems an inescapable consequence of the kind of rapid, disruptive change driven by market capitalism. |
| Instead, evil becomes abstract and inescapable, defiant of natural law and irreducible to a single bad person or wrong action. |
| Together they constitute an unhackneyed commentary on a creative force who contrived to remain both forbidding and inescapable. |
| What noun sums up the inescapable bore who buttonholes you to make a pitch or unload on you an interminable tale of woe? |
