This fine word also comes from Sam Harris's book, The End of Faith;
Ineluctable (in-i-LUHK-tuh-buhl) [Latin inluctbilis : in, not + luctbilis, penetrable]
adj.
incapable of being evaded; inescapable.
Usage: At the heart of every totalitarian enterprise, one sees outlandish dogmas, poorly arranged, but working ineluctably like gears in some ludicrous instrument of death.
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