Less concerned with the domestically inevitable than with tragic inevitability, Steinbeck had moral messages, not just metaphors in mind.

"It's the tragic inevitability of the whole thing."

There are no heroes or villains, and the events that unfold have a tragic inevitability.

There is simply no real inevitability, tragic or circumstantial, in the separate resolutions of the two interracial couples.

With a final break in his voice and without histrionics, the actor eloquently portends tragic inevitability.

This production, directed by Elijah Moshinsky, tells the tale simply, letting its tragic inevitability speak for itself.

There is a sort of tragic inevitability about the way labor has reached this moral impasse.

Rome's decline came to be viewed with an air of tragic inevitability fraught with resonance.

Yet the overall effect is genuinely entrancing, with a sense of tragic inevitability that gives meaning to the film's maddeningly attenuated rhythms.

Now I saw Kathy Kogut's life take on the shape of tragic inevitability.