She compliments the book's "breathlessly paced, inexorable march toward an inevitable ending". The period from the late 1880s was one of steady and inexorable decline. He feels the inexorable progress of his neuro-syphilitic madness leading towards complete breakdown. There is an inexorable progression towards the mass-produced nationwide product of standardised quality. The id obeys the inexorable pleasure. The intent was to infect and cause a "slow, inexorable death". He believed in progress as one of the inexorable laws of history. Anjou himself concentrated his French troops in the south, unable to staunch Parma's inexorable advance. The battleship continued her inexorable roll to port. As digital cable expanded nationwide, MTV2 continued its own inexorable growth. Much of the music is taken up with a kind of inexorable, limping march. Cannon were now an inexorable part of English warfare. I cannot have done this,' says my Pride, and remains inexorable.