Yet enthusiasm is no excuse for the historian going off balance. He should remind the reader that outcomes were neither inevitable nor foreordained, but subject to a thousand changes and chances.
The mode by which the inevitable is reached is effort.
I've never felt influenced by Ernest Hemingway though I suppose there is something inevitable there.
I gain weight and lose it again in inevitable cycles.
It was a lack of system that made the '30s Depression as inevitable as all others previously suffered.
But human nature dictates that there will always be cheaters. That's inevitable. Where there's money involved and glory, there are going to be people that cheat, and there will always be ways to cheat.
It has always been inevitable that, living as a small minority among a Christian majority, some Jews would convert to Christianity.
It is impossible to get anything made or accomplished without stepping on some toes; enemies are inevitable when one is a doer.
Labor is still, and ever will be, the inevitable price set upon everything which is valuable.
And when we used to play and fight in the streets in Brooklyn and I would get hurt or something, my mother would always come out and save me. So that sort of postponed the inevitable about getting a good beating, without having somebody to come and save you.
Bureaucracy is not an obstacle to democracy but an inevitable complement to it.
Age is inevitable. Aging isn't.
We've spent the last few millennia aware that senescence is horrible but knowing nevertheless that it's inevitable. We've had to find some mechanism to put it out of our minds so we can get on with our miserably short lives.
I think it's inevitable that New Zealand will become a republic and that would reflect the reality that New Zealand is a totally sovereign-independent 21st century nation 12,000 miles from the United Kingdom.
Don't program yourself to break down as you age with thoughts that decline is inevitable. Time may be passing for our bodies, but because they house our ageless souls, we never need to see ourselves as old and infirm.
The ruling classes today nourish the conviction that national hatreds and rivalries are inevitable.
I'm obviously very keen on the theater and I think it's inevitable that some of the orchestral and chamber pieces have got dramatic elements which might even suggest an unspecified dramatic plot of some kind or other, even though it's not in my mind at the time.
Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence.
It's always when you think that you've lost a little of the baby weight that someone steps in grabs a handful of a now sans baby soft belly and asks the inevitable 'When are you due?'
Bosses are no more inevitable in state and local governments than dictators are in national governments. They will arise and prosper, nevertheless, if true believers of democracy - citizens devoted to the democratic ideals - do not constantly oppose them.
Failure is inevitable; it happens all the time in a complex economy.
In the Internet age, it is inevitable that corporations and government agencies will have access to detailed information about people's lives.
Most quarrels are inevitable at the time; incredible afterwards.
Adversity tests us from time to time and it is inevitable that this testing continues during life.
The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.
I think diva is an inevitable outcome of the industry, and I don't think it reflects on the person at all. You take a normal human being, and basically, for 24 hours, seven days a week, apart from sleeping, you introduce them to places and things almost every minute that are brand new.
In hindsight it may even seem inevitable that a socialist society will starve when it runs out of capitalists.
Therefore, once U.S. forces leave, it is almost inevitable that an anti-Western, anti-U.S. regime will arise.
Ageing is inevitable, and the idea that we can be eternally youthful is the pitfall of our society.
World War I was not inevitable, as many historians say. It could have been avoided, and it was a diplomatically botched negotiation.
Agressive music can only shock you once. Afterwards its impact declines. It's inevitable.
A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose main enjoyment is winning.
This part of Brazil offered the curious spectacle of a great evil, which has been long suffered to exist and is now advancing, gradually yet surely, to that state which must entail inevitable destruction on the existing Government of the country.
Kafka's inevitable tropism for the allegorical puts him in marked opposition to the realism that dominated the literary world of the first half of the 20th century.
The wealth of south Florida, but even more important, the meaning and significance of south Florida lies in the black muck of the Everglades and the inevitable development of this country to be the great tropic agricultural center of the world.
My own reaction from a distance is that Pol Pot's demise as the leader of the Khmer Rouge was inevitable, and that his own paranoia did him in as much as anything else.
