How To Use Extricable In A Sentence

  • In the midst of this inextricable mass of plants and sea weed, I noticed some charming pink halcyons and actiniae, with their long tentacles trailing after them, and medusae, green, red, and blue. Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
  • Seaweed of strange varieties, and of every fantastic shape and texture, the round balls of fibrous grass, like gigantic thistledowns, which scurry before the light breeze, as though endued with life, the white oval shells of the cuttle-fish, and the shapeless hideous masses of dead _medusæ_, all lie about in extricable confusion on the sandy shores of the East Coast. In Court and Kampong Being Tales and Sketches of Native Life in the Malay Peninsula
  • In so doing, the church would seem to have vouchsafed the gospel's inextricable relationship to the First Testament.
  • She depicted the inextricable relationship between the stories used to recover the values of the past and the entrepreneur - a relationship that challenged her belief in the transcendence of art.
  • Interestingly, a counter-taboo has emerged as, for the US liberal, it has become inextricable from the abhorrence through which that conservative misogyny is itself judged as morally obscene. On Profanity: 3
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  • Although law and literary culture are seen as inextricable and thus seemingly preclusive of Native American ceremony, our essay suggests a rationale and approaches for exploring, in a classroom, the theme of Native American ceremony in its relation to law. Archive 2008-12-01
  • Considering, however, that perseverance would only involve us in extricable difficulties, and that it would also be useless to risk the horses, since we had gained a distance to which the bullocks could not have been brought I intimated my intention of giving up the further pursuit of the river, though it was with extreme reluctance that I did so. A Source Book of Australian History
  • To this ought to be added the large expenses of the various departments of Negro affairs before 1865; but these are hardly extricable from war expenditures, nor can we estimate with any accuracy the contributions of benevolent societies during all these years. The Freedmen's Bureau
  • -- For my own part, whenever I attempt to frame a simple idea of time, abstracted from the succession of ideas in my mind, which flows uniformly and is participated by all beings, I am lost and embrangled in inextricable difficulties. A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge
  • Objective To explore an approach of CT rendering and mechanical analysis for rib fracture that was inextricable on X-ray film in legal medical practice.
  • The leadership's consistent flirting with disaster – whether it is famine, the ill-fated foray into supposed electoral politics in 2005, or the misadventures in Somalia – provides a clear image of a ruling party holding a nation in an extricable iron grip. When Doves Cry: US-backed Ethiopian regime imprisons opposition
  • In the case of King Arthur, legend and truth are often inextricable.
  • The individual, the community, the land are inextricable in the process of creating history.
  • I had lost sight of the idea that the appearance of Jesus, or any great avatar, is a singular event in history, inextricable from the fabric of that time and place, and is carried forward in people's minds in ways that transcend the flesh and blood of any one person, no matter how divinely inspired they may have been," said Strickland. Steven and Michael Meloan: Can the Commingling of Science and Spirituality be Transformative?
  • Some things of this nature, especially such as relate unto chronological computations, I acknowledge are attended with great and apparently inextricable difficulties; but the skill and knowledge mentioned will guide humble and modest inquirers into so sufficient a satisfaction in general, and as unto all things which are really useful, that they shall have no temptation to question the verity of what in particular they cannot assoil. Pneumatologia
  • What's missing are the historical contexts of our mixing of cultures and technologies, and how inextricable they have always been from relations of power.
  • Knowledge and economic power have become inextricable.
  • Taking its title from a Pablo Neruda poem, the album's relationship to poetry is inextricable.
  • In the case of King Arthur, legend and truth are often inextricable.
  • an inextricable knot
  • Interpretation and attribution are also inextricable in relation to the theme of the painting.
  • In order that the organisable material can shape itself as a sheet of gauze and describe the inextricable labyrinth of the nervuration, there must be something better and more wonderful than a mould. Social Life in the Insect World
  • The commercial conflicts of interest between rigorous science and advertising claims or editorials that oversell a medicine or treatment demonstrate yet another aspect of the inextricable mix of science with the social world.
  • And of course the three aren't entirely extricable from one another, either.
  • In the Middle Ages, philosophy and theology were inextricable.
  • Sometimes I get into seemingly inextricable trouble.
  • What emerges clearly from the situation in the airline industry is the inextricable link between the economic issues facing working people and the necessity for a new political perspective and a new political movement.
  • Each nationality is inextricable from its religious identity.
  • MY family has been Christian for several centuries, living peacefully in a society in which various forms of religious worship are an inextricable dimension if not the very foundation of most lives.
  • When the collective whole is intolerable and evil, the individual is an inextricable part of the mixture - by virtue of having added his capabilities and talents.
  • The challenge for the poet, of course, is to rethink these pressures, through poems and a poetics that reassess the potency of the dominant lyric mode, and go beyond a simplistic view of the political as extricable from art, or art as totally subsumed by politics. YOU ARE HERE by MABI DAVID
  • How does one understand why people like Mrs. H do not attribute or link their low self-esteem directly to racism despite the inextricable relationship between the two?
  • From a logistical perspective, there has always been an inextricable relationship between events at sea and those on land.
  • The man has often shown an ability to get himself out of apparently inextricable situations and get his point across.
  • But most normal politicians don't make a life's work out of analyzing the inextricable link between personal freedom and a society's overall health.
  • In a 1999 version of Ellen Pau's work, mobility is a quality whose scope is restricted by its inextricable cyclicality.
  • But always inextricable from the new, and the occasional political and social tragedies that come part of the package. » Toronto’s new-old is the new beautiful • Spacing Toronto • understanding the urban landscape
  • Since such an important aspect of everyday living must have theological implications, Loyola college decided that the inextricable link between God and eating was to be explored.
  • It is about the inextricable relationship between freedom and truth.
  • Listening to these draggings and concussions, I thought me of the haunt from which they came; an isle full of metallic ravines and gulches, sunk bottomlessly into the hearts of splintered mountains, and covered for many miles with inextricable thickets. The Piazza Tales
  • Gernsback’s scientifiction is inextricable from that mode of pulp fiction; it exists within that mode. The Great Debate
  • Further, it must have at its core belief, an awareness of the inextricable relationship between social justice and health equity.
  • No one has put together, or, to adopt a more expressive phrase, heaped together such enormous paragraphs; no one has linked clause on clause, parenthesis on parenthesis, epexegesis on exegesis, in such a bewildering concatenation of inextricable entanglement. A History of Elizabethan Literature
  • In the Middle Ages, philosophy and theology were inextricable.
  • More important, she highlights the inextricable relationship of the conditions of reciprocity to the meaning of one's subjectivity.
  • It is the inseparable and inextricable nature of the bond between the skeleton and death which ensures that human bones are often perceived in a supernatural light that passes beyond common sense.
  • When they meet in an individual, the two are inextricable.
  • And there was his own inextricable mixture of fact with fantasy. OUTCAST
  • In the case of King Arthur, legend and truth are often inextricable.
  • Negro affairs before 1865; but these are hardly extricable from war expenditures, nor can we estimate with any accuracy the contributions of benevolent societies during all these years. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue
  • Implicit in this exchange is the intimate connection of race with nationality that is inextricable from the history of the evolving concept of race.
  • It is a quote recounted in interviews elsewhere and the seemingly effortless success feels an extricable part of the brand itself.
  • In the case of King Arthur, legend and truth are often inextricable.
  • Art and history fuse in inextricable magic.
  • The king's ministers and the false prophets who misled him. sunk in ... mire -- proverbial for, Thou art involved by "thy friends '" counsels in inextricable difficulties. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
  • Déjà un nombre considérable de tranches s'étaient succédé dans l'estomac complaisant de ce nouveau Gargantua, quand on vint lui annoncer que la cavalerie de Henri IV, emportée par sa folle audace, s'était engagée dans un taillis inextricable. French Conversation and Composition
  • Insofar as the two halves are extricable, Tiersen's contribution is more compelling.
  • The subjective experience of the human mind has been marginalised and the inextricable mutual dependence of body and mind within a unique individual ignored.
  • For the US conservative it is also inextricable from the abhorrence through which any “overly” strong woman is judged as a moral transgressor, in a vilely reactionary misogyny. Archive 2009-01-01
  • The eggs of the bronze-winged jacana have a rich brownish-bronze background, on which black lines are scribbled in inextricable confusion, so that the egg looks as though Arabic texts had been scrawled over it. A Bird Calendar for Northern India
  • Then, somewhat more alarmingly, there is the hunger for a voluntarist transcendence of the limitations of history, the fantasy of escaping from the inextricable complications and complexities of the past into some pure state of agency.
  • The steady drift extricable from them by rules founded upon the science of probabilities is presumed to be solar motion visually transferred to them in proportions varying with their remoteness in space, and their situations on the sphere. Scientific American Supplement, No. 829, November 21, 1891
  • Interestingly, a counter-taboo has emerged as, for the US liberal, it has become inextricable from the abhorrence through which that conservative misogyny is itself judged as morally obscene. Archive 2009-01-01
  • inextricable unity
  • This hesitancy only perpetuates the problem: The longer authorities delay the process, the more engrained behemoth financial institutions become; the more engrained they become, the less extricable they are. Richard Fisher, Top Fed Official: Too Big To Fail Lives On, Only Way Out Is To Shrink Megabanks
  • Rather it is that these terms have become inextricable from the abhorrence or disdain in which the moral dicta defining the object as abject is articulated. On Profanity: 3
  • This could have been solved in a couple of years; but the absence of textbooks rendered the matter inextricable, especially when this policy was linked to a xenophobic dimension.
  • But the inextricable pull of politics, which is almost like a vein in the family tree, ultimately worked on both of them.
  • From the viewpoint of the cinephile, the sense of difference is inextricable from the sensation of discovery; the strangeness, the seeming lack of ties to our own familiarities, contributes to the impact.
  • It is the moral maze which is the most inextricable and confusing.
  • The total and violent destruction of this woman is seen as the only way out of an inextricable situation.
  • And that in itself becomes the great terrible mystery of the film - the monstrous enigma that propels the townspeople towards some inexplicable, and therefore, inextricable, oblivion.
  • Following Zizek, Takemoto suggests that what MD presents is not an exposed ‘reality’ but a ‘grey fog’ of competing, incommensurable realities, from which desire and will are never extricable.
  • (And Medicare is a quite different issue inextricable from the entire problem of our screwed-up health care system.) Matthew Yglesias » Alice Rivlin: “Now Is An Excellent Time To Fix Social Security And Medicare”
  • They radiate heat, they absorb gases, and exhale uncombined gases and watery vapor, and consequently act upon the chemical constitution and hygrometrical condition of the air, their roots penetrate the earth to greater depths than is commonly supposed, and form an inextricable labyrinth of filaments which bind the soil together and prevent its erosion by water. Earth as Modified by Human Action, The~ Chapter 02 (historical)
  • Who, after a great disaster, has not looked back with wonder at his inconceivable obtuseness of understanding, that could not perceive the many minute threads with which fate weaves the inextricable net of our destinies, until he is inmeshed completely in it? The Last Man
  • For my own part, whenever I attempt to frame a simple idea of time, abstracted from the succession of ideas in my mind, which flows uniformly and is participated by all beings, I am lost and embrangled in inextricable difficulties. A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge, by George Berkeley
  • Discounting the history of philosophy courses, which of course are going to deal with ethics and metaphysics, the memorable classes I had at NYU were with folks like Frances Kamm (ethics), Derek Parfit (ethics and metaphysics), Peter Unger (ethics and metaphysics), and Paul Boghossian (epistemology, but not fully extricable from metaphysics). Reports of the Death of Metaphysics Greatly Exaggerated
  • It is impossible, however, to split the duties in that manner without getting into inextricable confusion.
  • Surprise was expressed when a year passed and I had written practically nothing, though I had examined a large quantity of paper, then in almost inextricable confusion.
  • As a curial is a gentleman and a government magistrate, the punishment is just enough; but why should Cassiodorus (certainly not King Dietrich) finish a short letter by a long dissertation on volcanoes in general, and Stromboli in particular, insisting on the wonder that the rocks, though continually burnt, are continually renewed by 'the inextricable potency of nature;' and only returning to Jovinus to inform him that he will henceforth follow the example of a salamander, which always lives in fire, 'being so contracted by natural cold, that it is tempered by burning flame. Roman and the Teuton

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